Britt Hertz explores the painful reality of flexible athletes testing their bodies against extreme and controversial contortion poses.

WORLD famous contortionist Mukhtar Gusengadzhiev has been jailed for 22 years for sex crimes against children. The 53-year-old Russian known as the Snake Man was found guilty in Moscow of sex crimes ...

For some, a contortionist is nothing more than a freak-show act, doing something unnatural, not a thing of grace or beauty. But in Mongolia, flexing and bending the body into seemingly impossible ...

Mukhtar Gusengadzhiev has been caged for 22 years in a maximum security prison and will undergo forced medical treatment for paedophilia WORLD famous contortionist Mukhtar Gusengadzhiev has been ...