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Roland Loomis (August 10, 1930 – August 1, 2018), known professionally as Fakir Musafar, was an American performance artist and early proponent of the modern primitive movement.
He experimented with and taught body modification techniques such as body piercing, tightlacing, scarification, tattooing, and flesh hook suspension. He was involved in the BDSM, kink and fetish communities.
Musafar was featured in Modern Primitives, published by RE/Search, and in Charles Gatewood's full-length documentary Dances Sacred and Profane.
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He also appears in the movie Modify.
Career
Loomis documented his experiences in writing about and teaching others "body play". In the early 1990s, he appeared in mainstream media shows like NBC's Faith Daniels Show, CBS's People Are Talking, CNN's Earth Matters and Discovery Channel's (Beyond Bizarre).
In 1998 He produced documentary segmen