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[NSFW] Body piercings. What's OK and where, in your mind?

Asked by ETpro (34605points) July 5th, 2013

If you want to stick it in your rear cheeks, or through those tuna taco flaps, this question’s for you. Nipple bars, penis piercings (ouch, it hurts to even type that)... Now wait a minute. Not your rear but your ear? Those cheeks? Then you may want the SFW version of this question.

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gailcalled's avatar

LInk is self-referential. You mean SFW version.

bookish1's avatar

An it harm none, do what ye will.

As an infection-prone and slow-healing diabetic, I have to say “not in this lifetime” to piercings in such tender spots, but I might be interested otherwise.

livelaughlove21's avatar

Like I said on the SFW version, I think people should pierce whatever they’d like to pierce. Personally, though, no needle is going near my nipples or clitoris.

ragingloli's avatar

My personal hard limit when it comes to myself is, if it interferes with bodily functions.
Which means lip piercings, nose rings, clit piercings, penis piercings are a no go for me.
Preferrably, I do not want any any modification of my body, not even ear rings or a small tattoo.
But what others do with their meat hull, I do not care one bit.

janbb's avatar

@ragingloli Does this mean that you are a guy?

ragingloli's avatar

@janbb
Look at my list again.

janbb's avatar

Dang, ambiguity remains! And I was just in Germany – missed my opportunity to investigate!

fundevogel's avatar

Truely it is a mystery for the ages my dear penguin.

Berserker's avatar

I can only echo what others have said; do what the hell you want lol.
As for me, I’d rather not. Piercings and all are pretty cool, but maybe there’s some passion or feel I don’t get. Getting a nipple or clit piercing, what’s the point? Who’s ever going to see it except your lover? Or I guess, like maybe if you’re a stripper or something. But not for me.

Plucky's avatar

Adults can pierce whatever they want on their own body. I am good with stopping at my ear lobes (which was done when I was about 12, against my wishes).

SadieMartinPaul's avatar

Women. One piercing in each earlobe. End of story; please pass the beer nuts.

trailsillustrated's avatar

I think people that have any feeling at all about other’s piercings have too much time on their hands.

ETpro's avatar

@gailcalled Ha! Wish I’d caught that in time. I’ve flagged myself and hopefully will get a chance to fix it.

@bookish1 Got ya. Even without all those compelling reasons, I crave no piercings. I avoid pain except in sex, and avoid bloodletting in sex. So no way am I having needles rammed through my body parts.

@livelaughlove21 Yeah, mine either—well my nipples. I don’t exactly have a clit.

@ragingloli I’m in complete agreement—even with the ambiguous list of body parts I don’t want to pierce.

@janbb & @fundevogel In sexual identity, ambiguity is très excitant.

@Symbeline Roger that. I’m really asking you about you here. I would hope we’d all be able to grant others the right to make decisions about their own bodies for themselves.

@Plucky Thankfully I never even got holes poked in my earlobe. I did, however, wear an extremely tight pair of clip-on earrings to a Halloween party, and I ended up with a little tumor. Fortunately, it never got any bigger than a half the diameter of a BB. It’s been benign and free from growth since the day it former, about 45 years ago.

@SadieMartinPaul Thanks/

@trailsillustrated Again, this is about you, not your desires for other people. Given the interest in that topic, perhaps that should be next.

harangutan's avatar

I think people that have any feeling at all about other’s opinions about piercings have too much time on their hands.

If it’s on the ear, cool. Anywhere else is a distraction for me.

downtide's avatar

I’ve been reliably informed that some types of piercings increase the feeling of pleasure during sex, so I guess that is the why. Personally, not for me.

ETpro's avatar

@harangutan I completely agree. I should have been very explicit in the question details that I was asking for people’s thoughts about poking holes in their own bodies, and not their ideas about making such decisions for the rest of us.

@downtide Hard to imaging—and yes, pun intended.

ragingloli's avatar

@downtide
Until someone tries to rip out your genital piercing.

Unbroken's avatar

For a while I was tempted with nipple rings. My nipples are sensitive and responsive but why not more so?

Then I read about labia piercings, all the better to hold open my lips and be plundered.

So I started conservatively with getting my ears peirced. Turns out I have allergies to metal.

So glad I didn’t go there and didn’t scar up my pretty nipples and so forth.

Um I have never been interested in attracted to odd piercings other then to see as art and judge it as art.

ETpro's avatar

@ragingloli OUCH!

@Unbroken I am the web developer for SimplyWhispersStore.com, which is a manufacturer and purveyor of jewelry for people who have allergies to common metals. But they stop at pierced ears.

Berserker's avatar

Speaking of what @ragingloli said, you guys remember those piercings with chains? Like you get a nose ring, and an earring, and both piercings are connected by a chain. I shuddered the first time I ever saw that. Which was in a movie, never actually saw a person with that.
But man, imagine the injuries…not just purposely done ones, but accidents and all…must be why they fell out of favor fast enough. :/

Unbroken's avatar

@Symbeline Reminds me of a fellow I was in the company of on a boating trip.

He was a selfprofessed masochist he had 45 calibur bullets in his ears and he would pierce his nipple area with fish hooks and water ski behind the boat by those fish lines. He described it as a transcendent experience.

@ETpro thank you for the link. I have since let my holes close over and don’t at this time see myself reopening them. Though it is nice to see there are more options should I change my mind.

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