Instructions for expired IAM members If you're an expired IAM member, but are still willing to help out, first you have to log in. Do that by clicking here. Once you are logged in, you can follow the link on the left to take part in the survey. On completion, your account will no longer be expired and you'll be granted a free month.

If you do a review of the available academic and medical documentation of the body modification community you will see that it is limited and inaccurate at best, and deceitful and fraudulent at worst. I've seen researchers draw conclusions about the entire tattoo industry by interviews of small numbers of military college students, prisoners, patients requiring STD treatment, and so on — in effect choosing a specific subcommunity and applying its issues to the whole.

The BME Megasurvey is the largest body modification survey in history (since we, IAM, represent the largest consolidated body modification community) and its results will be made fully available to the public and to the media in an attempt to give them a more accurate demographic model.

To take part in this survey you must be a registered IAM user — but you will get a free month applied to your account as a "thank you" for helping.

Click here to take the survey

Please note that answering the survey will take about 45 minutes, so make sure you have the time to dedicate before starting. Also, please note that this survey is 100% anonymous. Not even BME staff will know what you answered. If you'd like to audit the source code to this software to see exactly what's being stored you can click to download the source code and the data file.

Results of this survey will be released in late July to mid-August depending on how quickly people answer it.

Thank you for your help in doing this,

Shannon (glider)