The ringleader of a body modification cult claimed the break-up of his marriage drove him to perform dozens of mutilations on men and himself, a court heard.

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The ringleader of a mutilations cult was an “arch-manipulator” of vulnerable victims who made nearly £300,000 from uploading ...

In the wake of The Tortured Poets Department's release, fans, haters, and ambivalent listeners alike are now reckoning with ...

You just have to shoot respect rainbows over to Joanna Arnow, whose first feature, The Feeling That the Time for Doing ...

According to one of its writers, Elvis Presley‘s “Love Me” sound masochistic. While the song feels honest, it was supposed to be a joke at first. It was also meant to mimic one of the ...

Asking someone for feedback on why they are no longer our friend can be a deeply masochistic exercise. Sitting across from ...

Johan Creten has a masochistic streak. In the 1980s, when ceramics were looked down on by the art world elite, the ...

A former Marine staff sergeant has been sentenced to 15 years in prison after pleading guilty to charges of distribution and ...

O’Connor admitted in his plea agreement that several of the videos and images of CSAM in his iCloud account depicted infants or toddlers as well as violent, sadistic, or masochistic conduct ...

Bands already spend an inordinate amount of time touring, so when I ask the Chicago indie-rock trio Dehd why they decided to ...

It’s a clever update, not least because the men’s masochistic undertaking — to forego pleasure for the sake of an obscurely defined idea of personal advancement — prefigures the self-optimization ...