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this post was submitted on 11 Jul 2026
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I’ve never read anything about the looksmaxxing subculture that made me think it was anything other than people with severe body dysmorphia egging each other on. The least ethical 60s psychological experiment conceived by the most coked up 60s psychologist couldn’t have come up with a more fucked up method of seeing how far people will go.
well, looks maxxing is so last year, now we have ball maxxing
https://instinctmagazine.com/what-is-ballmaxxing
Eh... I wouldn't be surprised if they did exactly this in the 60s, just with more LSD involved in the experiment.
i heard of people drilling holes in their skulls for spiritual reasons in roughly that period so this tracks
That’s afaik mostly an urban legend, originated from the “third eye” book by Lobsang Rampa.
nah https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bart_Huges