Editing Fakir Musafar (section)

== Life ==
[[File:Fakir Musafar.JPG|thumb|Fakir Musafar]]
Born Roland Loomis, he claimed at age 4 to have experienced dreams of [[past lives]] which, along with his anthropological studies, influenced his interests in body modification.<ref>''Voices from the Edge'' (1997), [[David Jay Brown]] & Rebecca McCLen Novick</ref><ref name="autogenerated1">{{cite web|url=http://www.smh.com.au/national/fakir-musafar-passion-for-piercing-tattooing-and-corseting-20180814-p4zxdn.html |title=Fakir Musafar: passion for piercing, tattooing and corseting |date=14 August 2018 |publisher=Smh.com.au |access-date=2020-04-25}}</ref> He served in the army during the [[Korean War]],<ref name="autogenerated1"/> and was first married for a short time in the 1960s.<ref name="autogenerated1"/> In 1966 or 1967, he first performed a [[Suspension (body modification)#Chest|flesh hook suspension]], inspired by his viewing of anthropological works.<ref name=MP>Vale, V. and Andrea Juno (1989) ''[[Modern Primitives (book)|Modern Primitives]]''. RE/Search, San Francisco. {{ISBN|978-0-940642-14-0}}</ref> In 1977, he gave himself the name Fakir Musafar.<ref name="autogenerated1"/>

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 from a tree by hooks in his chest, in his [[cultural appropriation|modified versions]] of other cultures' sacred ceremonies.<ref name="autogenerated1"/> He was an extra ('Man in hotel room') in ''[[Virgin Machine|Die Jungfrauen Maschine]]'' (The Virgin Machine) in 1988,<ref>{{cite web |title=Die Jungfrauen Maschine (1988) |url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0095417/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1 |publisher=imdb.com |access-date=17 August 2018}}</ref> and in 1991, he appeared in ''My Father Is Coming'' as Fakir.<ref>{{cite web |title=My Father Is Coming (1991) |url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0102491/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1 |publisher=imdb.com/ |access-date=22 August 2018}}</ref> He was featured in the 1989 book ''[[Modern Primitives (book)|Modern Primitives]]'',<ref name="autogenerated1"/> which documented, propagated, and became influential in the modern [[body modification]] subcultures.

In 1990, he married Cléo Dubois.<ref name="autogenerated1"/> From 1992 until 1999, he published the magazine ''[[Body Play|Body Play and Modern Primitives Quarterly]]'',<ref name="leathermuseum">{{cite web|title=leatherarchives.org|url=http://www.leatherarchives.org/fakir.html|website=Leather Archive & Museum|access-date=21 June 2015|archive-date=22 June 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150622031606/http://www.leatherarchives.org/fakir.html|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|author=Daniel E. Slotnik |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/13/obituaries/fakir-musafar-whose-body-play-went-to-extremes-dies-at-87.html |title=Fakir Musafar, Whose 'Body Play' Went to Extremes, Dies at 87 - The New York Times |work=[[The New York Times]] |date=13 August 2018 |access-date=2020-04-25}}</ref> which focused on body modification topics such as [[human branding]], [[suspension (body modification)|suspension]], [[contortionism]], binding,<ref>{{cite web|title=Bodyplay.com|url= http://www.bodyplay.com/bodyplay/|website=Body Play Magazine's Website|access-date=21 June 2015}}</ref> and modern piercing culture.<ref>''Body Play'' #4, 1992, "The Unique Piercings of Erik Dakota"</ref> He led "Fakir Intensives" training workshops on these topics in [[San Francisco]].<ref>''Voices from the Edge'' (1997), David Jay Brown & Rebecca McCLen Novick</ref>