Fakir Musafar
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| Born |
Roland Loomis August 10, 1930 Aberdeen, South Dakota |
| Residence | Menlo Park, CA |
| Spouse(s) | Cléo Dubois |
| Website | www.Fakir.org |
Fakir Musafar (born Roland Loomis, August 10, 1930) is a performance artist and early proponent of the modern primitive movement. He has experimented with and taught body modification techniques such as body piercing, tightlacing, scarification, tattooing, and flesh hook suspension. He is involved in the BDSM, kink and fetish communities.
At age four Musafar claimed to have experienced dreams of past lives. He reports having given himself his first body piercing when he was twelve. Based on his viewing of anthropological works he first performed his idea of a flesh hook suspension in 1966 or 1967. As an adult he gave himself the name "Fakir Musafar".
Musafar has documented his experiences in writing about and teaching others "body play". In the early 1990s, Musafar appeared in mainstream media shows like NBC's Faith Daniels Show, CBS's People Are Talking, CNN's Earth Matters and Discovery Channel's (Beyond Bizarre). In 1998 He produced documentary segments for London Weekend Television's Southbank Show and Playboy Television's "Sexcetera". In 2000, 2001 and 2003 he has appeared in documentaries for The Learning Channel (Human Canvas Part I and Part II), TBS, FX Channel and Discovery Channel plus a major appearance in the 2001 documentary film "Modern Tribalism". In 2004 became a spokesperson for the National Geographic Channel's Taboo and has expressed "radical contemporary" views on body rituals on the Travel Channel's "Eye of the Beholder" series hosted by Serena Yang.
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