Career
He has experimented with and taught body modification techniques such as body piercing, tightlacing, scarification, tattooing, and flesh hook suspension. He is involved in the BDSM, kink and fetish communities. At age four Musafar claimed to have experienced dreams of past lives.
He reports having given himself his first body piercing when he was twelve.
Based on his viewing of anthropological works he first performed his idea of a flesh hook suspension in 1966 or 1967. As an adult he gave himself the name "Fakir Musafar".
Musafar has documented his experiences in writing about and teaching others "body play". In the early 1990s, Musafar appeared in mainstream media shows like National Broadcasting Company"s Faith Daniels Show, Columbia Broadcasting System"s People Are Talking, Cable News Network"s Earth Matters and Discovery Channel"s (Beyond Bizarre).
In 1998 He produced documentary segments for London Weekend Television"s Southbank Show and Playboy Television"s "Sexcetera".
In 2000, 2001 and 2003 he has appeared in documentaries for The Learning Channel (Human Canvas Participant I and Participant II), Turner Broadcasting System, Forex Channel and Discovery Channel plus a major appearance in the 2001 documentary film "Modern Tribalism". In 2004 became a spokesperson for the National Geographic Channel"s Taboo (television series) and has expressed "radical contemporary" views on body rituals on the Travel Channel"s "Eye of the Beholder" series hosted by Serena Yang. Musafar"s writing and photography appears in Theater Journal, Bizarre magazine (fetish and Master of Science exploration), Skin Two and PFIQ (Piercing Fan International Quarterly).
He has lectured and performed at London"s Institute of Contemporary Arts (Rapture Series, 1995).
Copenhagen"s International Seminar on BODY:Ritual-Manipulation (1995) and Lisbon, Portugal"s Festival Atlantico (1997). His photographic art was recently exhibited at the Fahey/Klein Gallery in Los Los Angeles
Musafar is considered a Master piercer with over 40 years experience in the body arts Musafar is featured in Modern Primitives, published by Revue Economique/Search, and in the full-length documentary Dances Sacred and Profane.
He also appears in the movie Modify and Charles Gatewood"s documentary, Dances Sacred and Profane.