Taboo Tribes

A few months back we featured a video about a small body suspension group headed up by Alexis Noventa and the growing interest in body suspension throughout Puerto Rico. This next video is one example of suspension coming into the spotlight as more and more people become curious about what it is we do. Alexis was invited to be a part of this news segment by reporter Marjorie Ramírez called Taboo Tribes, which covered a range of subcultures considered by some to be taboo, to discuss the practice of body suspension. Although the segment doesn’t necessarily paint the best picture of what we do, Alexis made an effort to explain that they don’t suspend for the pain, they do it for the joy and happiness it brings into their lives. Hopefully people are able to take away a positive message from it, and disregard the assumptions made by those commenting from outside of our community that we are in someway doing this to be negative or as a sort of teenage ‘rebellion’. Alexis has stayed positive about it though, saying that it gave them exposure, and allowed people who were interested in suspension to reach out and contact them. It certainly says a lot that he maintained a professional manner as he explained body suspension, even with the somewhat rude attitude of the crew working on it. The most important part was that Alejandra, who is filmed here suspending for her first time, had a wonderful experience with it. In the end, that means far more than what one television crew or priest thought about who we are.