ZombieSquirrel

I saw Star's new piercing and it got me jonesing for a new hole in my body. Sadly, when I was having an MRI, I had to take my metal nose ring out. I placed it in a plastic container in the ER exam room and it was thrown away. During the chaos of a move and getting thrown into the hospital, I couldn't get a new one and my hole closed up. I want to repierce, but I also want more holes.

I can get away with the nose ring at work, but no additional facial piercings. If I had a less conservative job, I would have a nose piercing a Marilyn and eyebrow piercing. Maybe more. Alas, I shouldnt get so many piercings. I'm thinking about getting my tragus pierced and other holes on the lobes. I have an oral fixation (shut it pervs) and thus would never leave a tongue piercing alone. I would drive myself crazy.

I wonder what other people have pierced and how you like it. What gage do you have for your piercing? What are/were some cons of your piercings? Why did you get that particular piercing? What sort of job do you have and what are your company's policies on body piercings? Is your piercing easy to remove? Do you have difficulties replacing it, say after playing a sport? If I continue to play rugby, I'll need to be able to remove the piercing for a match for a few hours and then easily stick it back in.

Pictures if you've got them.

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Fremen

I have no piercings myself. I once saw a girlfriend of my sister's get into a fight on the schoolbus when we were kids.
The other girl deliberately reached up and ripped the piercing out of her ear. It turned my stomach then, and gave me a kind of phobia ever since.

But, if I were to ever try it, I'd like to get a row of posts going down the bridge of my nose, or ear piercings like the Bajorans had on Star Trek.

/yes, I'm a dork

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Fotzlid

I've only had one ear pierced a couple of lifetimes ago. It was back when it was just starting to become socially acceptable for guys to pierce their ears. Had a couple people question my sexual orientation. Still remember the shocked "Oh!....you have an earring..." look from the older relatives who would promptly change the subject. Had one boss who said "An earring?! Seriously?" and walked away disgusted then hardly spoke to me for a week.
When everyone got used to the diamond stud, I went out and got a gold hoop and it started all over again. lol
I originally got the earring as an I'm going to do my own thing type of statement. The negative reactions were a humorous bonus.
I took the earring out a long time ago. Never got anything else pierced. If I was 25-30 years younger right now, I'd probably have multiple piercings.

Shauk

My ears are very noticeable. Just 2 6g piercings but I wear talon style jewelry. Sometimes bone, but mostly steel because I like the weight.






also had my tongue pierced from like 10 years ago til about 2 years ago. I just started to hate having it, or like, the image of having it, seemed like every person I knew that had a piercing in the tongue was an attention whoring douche and would try to find reasons to walk around with their mouth open/hang out the tongue, whatever trying to be like "HEY WORLD LOOK AT WHAT I GOT" meanwhile I had people who knew me for 6 months that didn't even realize I had mine.

I've thought about getting a few more, labret, bridge, but other than that I think I'm fine with where I'm at.

Strange Famous

I have three tattoo's, but I have really never wanted a piercing myself and never understood why people get them. To each their own I suppose.

On a girl I wouldnt mind pierced ears, maybe belly button at a stretch... but anything else would strike me as a bit intimidating.

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ZombieSquirrel

Luckily I'm a lover and not a fighter.

I have no idea what you are talking about.

I rarely notice tongue rings until they say they have one or show them off. A lot of guys like to show them off and brag how it gets girls off when they are going down on them. I have not had the pleasure and don't really care.

How is it intimidating?

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EventHorizon

i think piercings are girls are kinda sexy depending on the girl. IMO, the girl's gotta be of a slender build and the jewelry has to be small. monroe cant look like a diamond zit. the snakebites have to be small studs, no hoops (preferably nonmetallic) instead of diamonds so it doesn't look like they had someone start sewing their mouth shut and quit halfway through. no hoops in the eyebrow. no piercings anywhere else. the hip ones look like a surgeon was performing endoscopic surgery and also left halfway through pulling his instruments out. toes, hands, arms, back.. all a bit too exotic for me.

but like i said, these are just what i find attractive. i can admire everything else but it just doesnt do anything for me

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MSD

I've considered piercings over the years, and I've decided that once I get the rest of my body looking like I want it to, I';m getting the piercings I've wanted for a few years now. I'm a function over form kind of guy, although I think I'll like what I have planned. The question is whether to stop at an apadydoe or get a proper apadravya. Maybe both, just not at the same time.

levite

I just have one ear pierced. Had it since high school, back around 1990. I like it a lot. I sometimes think about getting the other ear pierced, but that's about it. I might consider a ring through the cartilege higher up on the ear, but to be honest, I'm a bit of a wuss about fear of the pain.

I like a few earrings on a woman, and I don't mind a discreet stud in the nose. Belly button piercings are also OK, as long as they're simple. I could probably take it if I were with a girl who had small nipple piercings, although to me, it always seemed a little crazy to deliberately pierce things that we would otherwise go to great lengths to keep from even being hit, let alone stabbed or cut.

But I have to admit, I don't care for many other piercings. Most other facial piercings look kind of ridiculous to me. Usually when I see someone with a lot of facial piercings, my initial assumption is that there goes a person who is seeking very hard to get attention. And genital piercings just freak me out.

I guess I just think the body is supposed to be ornamented a little, at most; it doesn't need much in the way of intrusive modification.

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PonyPotato

Once upon a time, I had 2ga & 8ga lobe piercings, a 10ga conch, 16ga rook, 10ga nasal septum, 14ga sternum/cleavage piercing aaaaand I think that's it.

Now I have just the lobe piercings and they've shrunk down to nearly-normal size (maybe 14 or 16ga at the most?). I love the scars for the sternum piercing, though.. I miss it.

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im2smrt4u

I'm glad Star inspired you ZS!

Obviously, Star likes piercings, and I like her with them. She has a similar dilemma, since most jobs she would be looking for would not be too keen on a bunch of piercings. So, she has been trying to keep them semi-hidden. I would encourage her to get more done, but certain spots she isn't comfortable with quite yet.

The dermal anchor is pretty awesome, but unfortunately not removable at home. Only time will tell how well it does long term.

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ralphie250

i have no piercings, but have tattoos. to me, the person makes the piercings. some people can pull them off and others cant.

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cadre

I currently have my lobes guaged at 6 and my nipples are pierced. In the past I have had a vertical labret and a conch as well. Now that I'm back in school I have been itching to get more piercings and I probably will start this summer if all goes well. Plans are two more holes in my lobes, a new vertical labret, septum or medusa and microdermals (probably six total).

I think I look pretty damn good with metal in my face personally and I like piercings because they aren't as permanent as tattoos. To answer some of your other questions, I do not play sports that I have to take my jewelry out for but if I get the microdermals they will probably get taped for certain situations. That said, I tried taking my labret out for work and the hole closed up so fast that it just didn't work. Any oral piercing will be the same way. I used to work in a motorcycle shop and they didn't care about piercings or tattoos but after that I had to take the labret to find a real job. Since then I've gone back to school and the piercing thing doesn't seem to be a big deal in academics here. Maybe someone can tell me how academics are with this in other areas since I plan to stay in this world for a while? My hope is that one day my expertise will make it easier to overlook my piercings and tattoos...

I'm also considering adding to my tattoo collection. We'll see if I ever get a real job again after all this!

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IKelly

I'm actually getting my belly button pierced this week. I'm excited for it. Makes me feel like a kid in the candy store.

Plan9

What's that quote about piercings? Oh, yeah:

"In the first world, people pay to have holes poked in their body. In the third world, people pay to get away from people that want to poke holes in their body."

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Totally not into piercings myself, but the navel and ears are fine on girls.

Guess I'm picky about body art. Grew up on Playboy magazine, though.

I'd rather a girl have good tattoos than an industrial accident face.

Brainwashing by the military tells me that men shouldn't have piercings.

'Cuz men fight all the time and piercings are exploitable weak points.

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Strange Famous

It just stikes me as a hostile act to society when you see someone with outlanding piercings. Its something people do deliberately to set themselves apart from "normal people"... and as a "normal person" I find it a hostile act I guess. If I see a guy with some stuff like that I dismiss it because I know he cant fight with all those bits of metal in his face. If its a girl I guess it intimidates me a bit because I know she is rejecting the world I am a part of and making sure everyone knows she is.

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ZombieSquirrel

I don't understand why there's a gender difference.

This is an attraction thing or a gender thing?

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Baraka_Guru

Most piercings are hawt.

In other words, it's a matter of taste.

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Lindy

But no longer haute. They've gotten so common. Not particularly distinctive anymore.
My ears are pierced, but for me to have more piercings would just be self mutilation.

Multiple piercings must fill some emotional need. So to each according to his needs...

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WhoaitsZ

i miss my labret.

i love piercings.

monkeysugar

I've had my eyebrows pierced 3 different times, and my earlobe to 6 ga. The eyebrow piercings, I loved, but they kept getting caught on things/torn, and the earlobe, I liked it just fine but it didn't look right without doing both. My piercings were kind of a college thing, I eventually took them all out because I was going for salary employment in a fairly traditional field, and wanted to look the part. The prospect of a salary based paycheck won out over the whole "expressing my individuality" thing. Now that I'm at where I'm at, I've got some pretty big tattoos and could get some piercings done again, but honestly, as much as I love them, and as much as I love seeing them on other people I am pretty much done with them myself.

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cadre

Can someone explain this idea to me? I have plenty of tattoos and piercings and I'm not sure how "emotional needs" fit into it or what that even means other than "I don't understand you so I'm going to say you're broken"

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Lindy

Well, If they don't fill some need, why did you get them? What I'm saying is that there is no physical need or reason for piercing. Piercing is not necessary for good physical health. It's not like an appendectomy or a heart bypass.
Cosmetic piercing is more akin to a nose job or surgical breast enhancement.
So piercing must satisfy or express some emotional need. What does getting pierced express?
You (or I, for that matter) can certainly have emotional needs without being "broken." More likely to be broken from unsatisfied needs, eh?
Don't we all need (or at least want) to feel loved, secure, capable, etc.?
Or to be part of the crowd, or not part of the crowd. Or to be "out there" on the bleeding edge? Or to be safe and away far behind the leaders? Everyone has emotional needs, although not the SAME emotional needs.
If piercing doesn't satisfy some physical or emotional need, what IS the payoff?
The "to each according to his needs..." was just a play on the Marxist mantra "From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs!"

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cadre

Why does there have to be a need? Can't I just want something? More often than not I get piercings because I don't really have a reason not to. I feel like people read into things like this too much.

And no, a piercing is not akin to a nose job. A tattoo maybe, but piercings are not permanent, although they may be done to enhance visual appeal.

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lunxpress

I have (had) five piercings. I only deal with three now. My bestie and I would get them to commemorate special times together.

I don't like obvious ones. I think they are a distraction from natural beauty. If someone has one in their lip, no matter how attractive they are, I am fixated on it, not them.