{"id":28,"date":"2016-05-24T15:48:40","date_gmt":"2016-05-24T15:48:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.body-piercing.com\/?p=28"},"modified":"2021-01-18T02:36:19","modified_gmt":"2021-01-18T02:36:19","slug":"doug-malloy-believe-it-or-not","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.body-piercing.com\/blog\/doug-malloy-believe-it-or-not\/","title":{"rendered":"Doug Malloy \u2013 believe it or not\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"

Who would have thought that one of the co-creators of something so torturously dull could be involved in the most exciting and controversial fashion trends to sweep the earth, and which is still growing in popularity and being taken to new extremes? Doug Malloy (also known by his alias Richard Simonton) was one of the founders of the Muzak Corporation.
\nIt turns out that many of the myths attributed to body piercing history and culture lead back to Malloy. If you\u2019ve heard about Roman centurions with pierced nipples upon which to hang their cloaks, then you\u2019ve fallen for one of Malloy\u2019s myths. In fact, many of the details of his own life are similarly shrouded in mystery, but it is certain that he played a bit part in the evolution of body piercing. He was heavily involved in the subculture, specifically the BDSM movement.
\nMalloy\u2019s double life led him in and out of LA\u2019s gay parties, and he was known to have had a variety of genital piercings and nipple piercings. The time at which he had these makes him undoubtedly a pioneer in this field and his back catalog of photography attest to his enthusiasm for the subject.<\/p>\n

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\nHis (mostly fictional) autobiography, Diary of a Piercing Freak, was a seminal work that opened a lot of eyes to the whys and wherefores of the movement, and Malloy began to grow a network of enthusiasts all over the world. He joined forces with several high-profile piercers and tattoo artists in Los Angeles, which was where he met Jim Ward, another of body piercing\u2019s most influential figures.
\nMalloy (Simonton) convinced Ward that the massive growth in interest in piercing as a hobby could turn into something lucrative, and together they made it their mission to promote the movement even further. Ward and Malloy started Gauntlet, producing body jewelry on an ever-increasing scale. Malloy also worked to develop the techniques of the day, particularly the more unknown piercing zones like the genitals. They produced a fanzine, Piercing Fans International Quarterly (PFIQ), which doubled for a while as a subscription matchmaking service \u2013 incredible innovative for its day.
\nMalloy\u2019s other notable contribution to piercing popularity (and questionable lore) was a pamphlet called Body and Genital Piercing<\/a> in Brief, perhaps the Rosetta Stone of piercing myths \u2013 chock full of apocryphal accounts and fantastical titillating nonsense. Malloy was a huge fan of the erotic aspects of body piercing, and his enthusiasm certainly comes through in his legacy. His documents were circulated so widely that it\u2019s now become difficult to separate the real from the fantasy. One thing is for sure though, body piercing would not be the same if it weren\u2019t for Doug Malloy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Who would have thought that one of the co-creators of something so torturously dull could be involved in the most exciting and controversial fashion trends to sweep the earth, and which is still growing in popularity and being taken to new extremes? Doug Malloy (also known by his alias Richard Simonton) was one of the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":73,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-body-piercing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.body-piercing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.body-piercing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.body-piercing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.body-piercing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.body-piercing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.body-piercing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":535,"href":"https:\/\/www.body-piercing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28\/revisions\/535"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.body-piercing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/73"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.body-piercing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.body-piercing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.body-piercing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}