Who needs cosmetic dentistry when theres tongue splitting?
By Mara Levy Published: Sunday, May 20, 2007 – 18:14 Tongue bifurcation, or tongue splitting, is a type of body modification in which the tongue is cut centrally from its tip part of the way towards its base, forking the end. Many who have had the procedure report that it enhances the pleasure of kissing after gaining independent control of the fork. And while I would bet there’s a blog out there highlighting the oral sex aspect of “lower lizard love” (my term), I’m sad to report that I was unable to find it. Tongue splitting is now explicitly illegal in some U.S. states (and banned in the U.S. military) and effectively all surgeons refuse to do it, so by necessity it is an underground practice. For all you history buffs out there, it was also used as a punishment in the Byzantine Empire. When an emperor was overthrown, he often had his tongue split, according to the tradition that such a mutilation made an emperor ineligible to rule again. Erik “The Lizardman” Sprague chronicles his t
