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Hooked: Why would Boulder County folks want to hang from hooks piercing their skin? (Video)
Daily Camera Lifestyles ^ | 6-29-2014 | Aimee Heckel

Posted on 06/29/2014 1:53:58 PM PDT by Citizen Zed

The first thing you'd probably ask Lisa Marteau is: Why would people want to hang from hooks pierced through their skin?

The reasons are different for each person who participates in this activity known as body suspension, and the Boulder woman is careful not to make generalizations. She tiptoes around her words. She does not want to misrepresent the community — to further distort society's misconceptions and opinions about this unusual hobby.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailycamera.com ...


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KEYWORDS: celebratediversity; colorado; culturewar; cutting; gaypride; masochism; mentalillness; selfabuse; selfmutilation; sexpositiveagenda; torture
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To: Citizen Zed
Reminds me of the scene in A Man Called Horse:


21 posted on 06/29/2014 2:12:21 PM PDT by TomGuy
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To: Citizen Zed

If you’ve ever lived there (I did) you’d know.

I was three lousy miles from the Larimer County line.

Three lousy miles!

Damndest collection of miscreants ever assembled within a political boundary.

The smell of patchouli still haunts me.

Yet, it was the home of Soldier of Fortune magazine, Paladin Arms, and until recently, the AR15 accessory manufacturer (whose name escapes me).

Go figure.


22 posted on 06/29/2014 2:12:53 PM PDT by x1stcav ("The past is a foreign country: they do things differently there.")
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To: Starstruck
Anyone seen “A Man Called Horse.”?

Yep I did. This part of society's decent into overt paganism.

23 posted on 06/29/2014 2:13:10 PM PDT by tbpiper
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To: Citizen Zed
'It's empowering.'

[slaps forehead] Of course! I should have known that.

24 posted on 06/29/2014 2:13:31 PM PDT by Ken H
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To: Citizen Zed

In Stephen Kings ‘The Stand’ bad was Las Vegas and good was Boulder, Colorado.
Typical King....


25 posted on 06/29/2014 2:15:02 PM PDT by mowowie
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To: madison10

Richard Harris did it once.


26 posted on 06/29/2014 2:15:42 PM PDT by miss marmelstein (Richard Lives Yet!)
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To: Citizen Zed
Celebrate Perversity! Let's not be judgemental.
27 posted on 06/29/2014 2:16:24 PM PDT by windsorknot
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To: Citizen Zed

I’ve ALWAYS wanted to do that....I just didn’t get around to it......oh well!


28 posted on 06/29/2014 2:17:35 PM PDT by terycarl
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To: rarestia

Can we have the name of the politician in case he decide to run for president? Phew.


29 posted on 06/29/2014 2:17:40 PM PDT by miss marmelstein (Richard Lives Yet!)
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To: kingattax

The “primitive” has a strong pull on this generation, as displayed in the relatively recent (and rabid) interest in first, tattoos, then piercings and now this shit. We are a lost generation, a lost society, desperate to have meaning and purpose with no direction as to how to find it or what it is. Maybe if we go backwards (into tribalism and primitivism and earth worship, etc), then we will find it, right?? Frick, go do some volunteer work forgodsakes, get an adrenaline rush helping others or something, geesh!


30 posted on 06/29/2014 2:19:00 PM PDT by hulagirl (Mother Theresa was right)
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To: rarestia

I have no problems with individuals deciding to pursue this form of “getting high”. However, when it becomes a show, when it is more theater, that is when it moves into vanity.

Much like the person who gets a tattoo which I consider unwise. Something small something hidden and that is personal. However, when you get into the realm of tats that cant be covered, face and neck tats, other tribal “body art” that is for show. That also is vanity.


31 posted on 06/29/2014 2:19:23 PM PDT by taxcontrol
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To: Citizen Zed

Some of this may be peer pressure, or just a drive to out-shock their other freinds “outside the community”. I’m going to make some broad assumptions here, I’d be willing to bet the majority of these people are total atheists, agnostics. The Progressive leaning schools have indoctrinated them since kindergarten to fear and ridicule the Bible. They have allowed themselves to become Christian-Phobic, and almost panic whenever religion is seriously and respectfully brought into the discussion. or have adhered themselves into some tributary of religion, one with blood sacrifices like Santeria (Animism). I would be very upset if someone in my family decided to do this over and over again for the thrill.
That means it takes an extraordinary and unnatural event to get them excited about life. I don’t even want to think about the average overweight American trying to do this, because it looked fun on Youtube, only to have the hooks pull out during their swing session. No, No and No.


32 posted on 06/29/2014 2:21:08 PM PDT by lee martell
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To: Citizen Zed

When everyone is the same it takes special effort to stand out


33 posted on 06/29/2014 2:21:18 PM PDT by winodog
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To: TomGuy

At least Harris had some peyote buttons to eat...
This gal is just sick.


34 posted on 06/29/2014 2:21:55 PM PDT by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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To: rarestia
even a politician who was into this

I don't believe you. Whoever heard of a crazy politician?

35 posted on 06/29/2014 2:23:14 PM PDT by Maceman
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To: Citizen Zed
The Okipa ceremony by the Mandan and Lakota tribes.
36 posted on 06/29/2014 2:23:56 PM PDT by Menehune56 ("Let them hate so long as they fear" (Oderint Dum Metuant), Lucius Accius (170 BC - 86 BC))
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To: Citizen Zed

Because Reagan closed the State Mental hospitals?


37 posted on 06/29/2014 2:23:56 PM PDT by philetus (Keep doing what you always do and you'll eventually get what you deserve)
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To: ConservingFreedom

Mentally healthy people to not self-mutilate or torture.


38 posted on 06/29/2014 2:25:30 PM PDT by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: madison10
You're thinking of the Mandan O-Kee-Pa rites, recorded by painter George Catlin in the 1830s.

At least they had religious and practical reasons to undergo this rite (they believed it "made the buffalo come".)

39 posted on 06/29/2014 2:25:40 PM PDT by AnAmericanMother (Ecce Crucem Domini, fugite partes adversae. Vicit Leo de Tribu Iuda, Radix David, Alleluia!)
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To: mountainlion

“Boulder is one of the weirdest places on earth. An excess of drugs for decades has warped the psyche of the whole community.”

Not even CLOSE to San Francisco, though. Not even close. I’ve lived in Boulder County since 1975 and have visited SF multiple times over the decade and stayed overnight their several times with friends, so feel like I have some basis for a comparison.


40 posted on 06/29/2014 2:25:54 PM PDT by catnipman (Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!)
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