PIERCED FORUM - body piercings, tattoo, body modification

Does anyone own copies of these? I've bought copies of #34, 38, 40, 41, 43, 47, and 51. Once I figure out a good way to scan them, I'm planning to post copies. Do you have scans of other issues?

(sample covers I found online)

I don't have any of them, but there are definitely something that needs to be preserved since they represent modification history. As far as I know, there is no place on line that has them all scanned. You'd be doing a good service by adding them here. I've only ever read through a few of the later ones that I encountered in the late 80s, but it would be nice to not only see all the pictures but also read through the articles and see how people then were thinking about it all.

Something that I hadn't realized until recently was how much overlap there was between early queer, leather, bdsm, and body mod culture. Especially interesting considering how much they've become more isolated communities since then.

That's true, although in my case I kind of prefer the heavy modification without all that other stuff. That's part of why the early history is hit and miss for me, but PFIQ at least gave some attention to the ladies with mods, which was always my interest. In any case, definitely a history that has not been well collected and preserved, unfortunately.

I scanned a copy of PFIQ #38. Not really sure where to upload it. 60mb PDF. 48bit color / 400dpi.

I have a few other issues but I can't afford to keep buying issues to scan so unless I get some good deals, I wouldn't expect to scan more than a few additional ones.


Here's the copy page while I try to figure out where to host it. Let me know if you have copies you could loan me to scan, or sell me for a good deal so that I can scan them.

#47 scanned now, too. 116mb, 400dpi, 48-bit color.

Here's what I've scanned so far

thx great job i hope you do more