Ok in moderation. (Body Piercing)

Member Name: D-RAY2000

Product:	Body Piercing
Date:	06/10/08 (69 review reads)
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Advantages: can look good on the right people at the right time.

Disadvantages: Youngsters can get this done before they know their own mind and there is a risk of infection!

Having a friend who is a tattoo artist and also a body piercer if that is the title they go by I thought I would bring to you my thoughts on the subject from a personal opinion to a point and then from a what I have heard from him opinion also.

Body piercing is not a new thing by any stretch of the imagination and in my much younger years I had both ears and my nose pierced, I appreciate that is not much piercing compared to some but you should have tried telling my dad that.

Now a days we see almost every young girl around with their ears pierced and that seems to be well accepted and I see no reason why not but when they start piercing other things at a young age we get concerned and again I think rightly so.

A person can have their tongue pierced from the age of fourteen as long as they have parental approval but if you listen to a few of the stories I have heard from my friend you will think that perhaps this should be changed.

He has told me once of a young mother he reckoned around 35 years old virtually forcing her daughter to have hers done (not by him I hasten to add).

He was very clear that had this happened in his studio he would have refused to go through with the piercing but the guy that was asked to pierce the girls tongue did so even though she was clearly terrified and being urged on by her mother.

The other story was of a young girl arriving like butter would not melt in her mouth with her doting father in tow giving his permission for his daughter to have this piercing done but after the father had gone and my friend was preparing to do her piercing he asked her why she had decided to get this done and her reply quite worryingly was my boyfriend says it will feel better when I give him a blow job, more worryingly it turns out her boyfriend was the one picking her back up and when my friend said oh so he drives does he, she replied yes he is 23.

So there we have two good reasons in my opinion why this body piercing culture should have stricter laws surrounding it but then there is the infections that can happen too. My friend told me of a horror story that happened to him a few years back when an 18 year old girl came in to have her clitoris pierced, after the piercing he explained how it had to be cared for until healed and also advised of no sex for the first 2 weeks.

After the girl suffered serious infection his studio was turned over by health and safety checking out his work practice but it turned out that the girl had gone out two days after getting pierced and picked up man who she had sex with on the beach after a nights clubbing and that was the reason the infection had set in.

So it is clear to me that for many reasons a strict age limit should be in place for this practice and also the whole image thing should be looked at carefully. I work in an office with a fair amount of young girls and listening to their outlooks on life makes me laugh, how if the other girls are getting pierced they simply have to and if one girl is having a tattoo then they are all having tattoo`s.

I am sure a lot of this still comes from the pressure of wanting to follow the models and stars in the magazines but a lot of it is also from wanting to outdo each other and a fear of being different.

I can remember when having lots of piercings made you look like a freak and you were the different one, the odd one out but it now seems to have gone full circle and if you are not full of holes then there is something wrong with you, or perhaps you are just scared to get it done? It is worrying how many people will go ahead and do something they really don't want to just to prove they are not scared.

Summary: More holes than a tetley tea bag!