Got Balls? Scrotum-Nailing Performance Artist Pavlensky Does

Who's afraid of Petr Pavlensky? (YouTube) No one's proved the axiom "desperate times call for desperate measures" more accurately than Russian performance artist and political activist Petr Pavlensky. Last week, a stark-naked Pavlensky hammered a huge nail through his own scrotum, affixing it to the stone pavement in front of Lenin's Mausoleum in Moscow's Red Square. His radical act of self-mutilation coincided with Russia's annual Police Day, in a protest against the "police state" and public a...