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American body piercer, photographer and BDSM figure

Roland Loomis (August 10, 1930 – August 1, 2018^[1]), known professionally as Fakir Musafar, was an American performance artist considered to be one of the founders of the modern primitive movement.^[2][3]

Life

Born Roland Loomis, at age 4, he claimed to have experienced dreams of past lives which, along with his anthropological studies, influenced his interests in body modification.^[4][5] He served in the army during the Korean War,^[5] and was first married for a short time in the 1960s.^[5] In 1966 or 1967, he first performed a flesh hook suspension, inspired by his viewing of anthropological works.^[6] In 1977, he gave himself the name Fakir Musafar.^[5]

In the 1985 documentary Dances Sacred and Profane, he was shown walking while wearing a device that pressed many small skewers into his upper body, and hanging fro