I was flipping through “Rack Rope And Red-Hot Pinchers: A History of Torture and It's Instruments” by Geoffrey Abbott (Headline Book Publishing, 1993) and came across the following reference to what is, I suppose, an incredibly early reference to a Madison piercing:
“Chain through the Neck
In the more exotic parts of the world, more exotic punishments were administered. In China, monks who broke their sacred vows were punished by hacing a hole burned through their necks with a red-hot iron. A long chain was then passed through the hole and, stark naked, he would be led along the streets, any attempt to relieve the pain caused by the weight of the chain on the open wound being thwarted by the application of a whip carried by another monk bringing up the rear.”
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