Body Piercing

Note- I?ve included information about a certain ?down there? piercing in this op and a bit of slightly graphic information about it, if you think this sort of info will offend or upset you, then don?t read this. Currently I have ten piercings?six in my ears, plus my nose, tongue, navel and somewhere else I?ll leave to the imagination. I love each and every one of them, even the ones that hurt like hell (surprisingly, the tongue and er, other one, weren?t the most painful as you might think, my nose and certain parts of my ear hurt much more). My piercing craze has been a very recent development in my life, I had my first piercing done last summer. I?m ...

Did you know that some peoples opinions on ear piercing are quite dramatic? Some people don't batter an eye lid when they see a 5 month old with gold studs in, while others put it in the same category as child abuse. Well hopefully in this opinion which is about baby and children having piercing, I would like to give my view. I trained several years ago as a Beauty Therapist with Ear piercing as part of the extra within my Diploma. I have 3 ear piercings myself, the last one funnily enough I had done to help one of my mates pass her assessment. Most people think that ear piercing is easy, nothing to it and are easy to care for. Well, to a child, it ...

When I was 14 and staying with a friend, I had my ears pierced for the first time. This was done at the back of a jeweller shop. The man used an ice cube and a needle that he sterilised in boiling water. After piercing my ear with the needle, he then threaded a gold sleeper through my ear. I walked along Llandudno high street with my friend back to the hotel that her parents ran, with blood pouring down my neck. This was nearly 30 years ago, now things are very different in the world of body piercing. No body-piercing professional today would conduct a piercing in this way. Body piercing has become common and it is not just ears that I am talking about. ...