What kind of a surgeon would even do such a thing as eyeball piercing?

One interested in paying off crushing student loans.

And the future.

A butcher.

^A butcher is a skilled professional too.

This is easily the most stupid thing I have seen all week, and I see a lot of stupid things over the course of a week.

I can understand a doctor carrying out plastic surgery on someone, and risking their health in the process, if their small breasts or big nose really are making life hard for them, and taking away all their confidence, and I can understand a doctor risking a patients health to change their gender, if they feel like they were born the wrong sex, but risking their health because they want to shove a shiny bit of metal in their eye is just stupid.

All surgeries represent a health risk.

I am actually losing my temper here.

The human eye, famous for its natural beauty. A thing so amazing, that people have been known to fall in love with a person just because of their eyes.

The source of countless compliments, poems, and nice thoughts, known as the windows on the soul, and so complex and amazing, that they make some people claim the universe simply must have a creator, and point to them as proof of a god, and now these morons, and jabbing bits of metal in them… Yes, you really improved on mother nature, with that heart shape stud in your eye.

You know what would really add to your naturally beautyful young green eyes… a sharp piece of metal jabbed in it, so that every time I look at you I can imagine someone jamming something sharp in your eye.

^“The eyes are the window to the soul.”

People change window treatments all the time.

“Mother Nature” created your aorta too, will you categorically refuse to have it modified as well?

I saw that ABC link about the eyeball jewelry and I can’t understand it. Stupid stupid stupid.

A smart one who knows how to capitalize off the silliness of people who want to do it.

She’s not going to be happy in a few years when the chronic low-grade irritation has caused blood vessels to grow to the site.

@syz Ha, it won’t be very sparkly then.

@SecondHandStoke Aorta? That’s the largest blood vessel in the human body, running from the heart to the abdomen…why would anyone modify it for any reason other than to save their life? You lost me on that one. I don’t understand the comparision.

Not only that @syz, but I would imagine the eye would soon “see” it (ha ha) as the invasion that it is and try to get rid of it. Or absorb it. Or something.

To me this just has to be a hoax that ABC got sucked into.

I have (sadly) seen stupider body modifications, but this is pretty damned stupid.

Why on earth would you risk your eyesight?

I can only imagine Grandpa’s (RIP) reaction to hearing a Russian girl chose to shove a shard of metal into her eyeball. “Knew plenny ‘o the Russkies with metal in their faces didn’t want it there, in the war.”

My daughter is a body piercer, and I remember a few years ago she was showing me pictures of someone who had his eyes tattooed. I was horrified.

I recently had to take my husband to the ER to get a piece of metal out of his eye. A tiny piece of metal caused so much pain and discomfort for him.

Why would someone want to do this? I’m shaking my head in disbelief.

A “prick.”

Why would one want to mess with their eyes in such gross ways? What if they lose their vision, I guess they may sign a waiver not to sue when they go blind!