Bodies

'I Want To Be Disabled'

Nicholas Tufnell | Posted 10.02.2013 | UK Lifestyle
Nicholas Tufnell

The medical definition of BIID (Body Integrity Identity Disorder) is a psychological disorder wherein sufferers feel they would be happier living as an amputee. It is typically accompanied by the desire to amputate one or more healthy limbs to achieve that end and can be associated with apotemnophilia, sexual arousal based on the image of one's self as an amputee.

Body Hacking: Arrival of the Grinders

Leo Kent | Posted 25.12.2012 | UK Tech
Leo Kent

The rise of the Maker Movement has shown that people are hacking the physical, as well as the virtual, world. But why stop at hacking objects?

Two Bodies Found In Swollen River After Heavy Rain

PA/The Huffington Post UK | Posted 27.09.2012 | UK

The bodies of two people have been found in a swollen river, police said. A member of the public spotted a woman's body on a sandbank in the River ...

Corpse Stored Like 'Television Sets' In Body Warehouses

PA/Huffington Post UK | Posted 24.06.2012 | UK

The UK's biggest funeral company is launching an inquiry after it was revealed that dead bodies were being stored on top of each other like "televisio...

Dear Wannabe Well-Knowns

Jo Rourke | Posted 18.12.2011 | UK
Jo Rourke

I know you'll have heard in the news about women stripping/posing/glamour modelling their way through university and how this makes them "empowered women". I also believe that in your private moments, unfilled with noise and devoid of delusions, you know this is wrong.