JoeyMFinCoco said:

Of course there is - a lot of breakthroughs are made through sheer luck and coincidence

Estrelle said:

Is that what you call future trauma planning ?

On a more serious note, I'm not sure that lifestyle dictates who will get peircings and who will not, I think it's often a case of the decision to have piercings becoming part of the lifestyle rather than being dictated by it. I don't think lifestyle has much to do with making bad decisions either. I know plenty of people with fucked up lives and marriages, and not a piercing between them. In my experience people are capable of making mind-numbingly bad decisions regardless of where or how they have chosen (or are made) to live their lives.

Interesting though.

retina said:

Thanks for making me feel less silly/wrong.

Maybe I should go have a talking-to with this Dr Roberti (I live in Sarasota)

Just ears and belly button

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Ocean said:

Me too

CarrieMpls said:

I'll never forget the first time I went out in really cold weather while my nips were still healing.


In regards to the topic, I enjoy being pierced, and I haven't been through too much trauma, especially until fairly recently. Though, I did learn my ability to go to a place where I process pain as an intense experience rather than as a neccessarily BAD experience as a teenager dealing with emotional pain. I'm able to find beauty in that intensity. Which makes piercing good, as long as I can hang on to that headspace. I've also been pierced when I wasn't in that place, and then it totally sucks skanky ass.

retina said:

spot on, retina! I have only had one piercing out of spontaneity but that's an anti-tragus (on the ear) and those aren't too dramatic.

Estrelle said:

awesome! Those flaps are your traguses. check with your piercer before getting them done - some peoples' are too small so they can't physically get them pierced. but they look cool

tackam said:

I agree here, too. good point tackam

tackam said:

I have to admit that the pain of getting my tattoos done was amazing. Some people think its weird but I found it to be very uplifting - a real buzz. I don't know if it was all the endorphins or serotonin or what it was but it sure felt good. I didn't get that feeling so much with my piercing, probably because it was over in about two seconds.

tackam said:

Oh my God, yes!!!! Cold weather and freshly pierced nipples are not a good combination.



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CarrieMpls said:

You have your nipples pierced?

AsylumUtopia said:

Point taken. Let me amend my original statement to, "Modern body piercing, which began in the 1970s, has been popular since the early 1990s."

retina said:

Sweet be-jesus!!! Why do you have to like the sox?!?!? FUCK!

MIGUELGOMEZ said:

LOL, you may have just swayed me man.....however, i wonder if i can get one of those clear lucite things to keep in when at work during the healing process

I have my ears and my nose done. I did it all in the last year. I love it! I am Carrie's twin!

I have just earrings and tongue stud. And I have definitely not had a traumatic life at all. Quite the contrary. I wanted a tattoo but decided on tongue percing out of respect for my parents who hate tattoos. They hate the tongue ring too but not as much, but if they see it when I talk or smile they still tell me to close my mouth...

I like the tongue stud very much, it hurt like heck for he first two days and I drank litres of water, couldn't eat solids for a week but after that, perfect healing. I like how it's hideable but quirky. The only things that are different are eating noodles (they twist around it somtimes), ice cream (funny streak when I lick) and lollypops (the feeling of scraping the stud agaist the candy grates my nerves). I have a neon pink UV light ball on the upside, it looks so nice in my opinion. I've never seen it "in action", but whenever we are in a club, my friends ask me to show it on the dancefloor.