Jim Ward
American body piercer (born 1941)
James Mark Ward (born June 28, 1941) is an American body piercer.2
From Wikipedia’s article on Jim Ward (this version), CC BY-SA 4.0.
Born Jun 28, 1941.1
About
In a 2004 documentary, entitled The Social History of Piercing, MTV called him "the granddaddy of the modern body piercing movement."
From Wikipedia’s article on Jim Ward, shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.2
Companies
Early life and education
Ward was born in 1941 in Western Oklahoma and moved to Colorado when he was eleven.
In 1967, in New York he joined the New York Motorbike Club, a gay S&M group, and experimented with nipple piercing. During this time he also studied jewelry making. Ward then moved to Colorado, where he joined the gay Rocky Mountaineer Motorcycle Club and further experimented with piercing, genital in particular. In 1973, Ward moved to West Hollywood (a gay village of Los Angeles) where he met Doug Malloy. Together they developed the basic techniques and equipment that have become piercing industry standard.
From Wikipedia’s article on Jim Ward (this version), CC BY-SA 4.0.
Career
Occupation: artist.4
Personal life
Links
Sources
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- 1WikidataJim Ward on Wikidata
- 2WikipediaJim Ward on Wikipedia
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- 7WikidataGauntlet, Founder
- 8Wikimedia CommonsJim Ward photo by Manfred Kohrs, CC BY-SA 4.0