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Razor X:
--- Quote from: JDog on January 08, 2008, 06:38:42 PM ---I've seen the new type of piercing mod is heavy gauge lip work ie Lip Plates. Like they do in the African jungle tribes. I wonder if these things would grow shut after you took them out for a while??
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I try really hard to stay out of these conversations because piercings are not my thing, but here are a few questions that are begging to be asked:
1. If you're not sure if these would grow shut after you took them out for a while, then why do it?
2. If you did take them out, wouldn't that leave you with a wide gaping hole in the middle of your chin?
3. Wouldn't leaving it in make it extremely difficult to eat and talk?
4. How deep is the hole that is created by that thing? If you took it out, could you stick your tongue through it?
5. How do you blow your nose with a huge metal spike running through it?
6. Why do anything this extreme? If this isn't mutilation, then I don't know what is.
Sorry, guys, but somebody had to ask. No disrespect intended toward those of you who are into piercings.
JDog:
Razor, I agree with you on these points. I like and appreciate body modifications but I personally feel that this type of modification is extreme.
From heavily modified people that I have met and spoken to I would say the majority of them do it because they truly like how they look, which begs the comparison of Different Strokes for Different Folks. What may seem extreme for you and I, someone else sees it as a way to better their appearance.
However I must say also that some people who are into these extreme modifications do it for the attention that they will inevitably garnish.
If it makes you happy then go for it I say. Most of these people are adults and can make their own decisions. They will have to live with the repercussions later.
Timmay:
Nicely said there JDog. I was worried this topic would turn into people lashing back and forth. It just seems piercings and tattoos are the two biggest things that people disagree with..next to politics....
I believe we have to remind ourselves that piercings of the ears nipples and other body parts are different from body modifications. With the difference being the size of the jewelry being used. I for one am not into modifications. Yes I do have 1 ear pierced, I mentioned this before and it ws like 22 years ago. If that is what you want to do to your body....you own it..not anyone else. And like Jdog said.....they are the ones who have to deal with it later in life. I just find it hard to visualize a man in his 80's sitting in a nursinghome wheel chair...with these huge objects protruding out of their body parts. I guess it is just a sign of the times...because the ones who have been doing it for along time were probably way young when they did it....and now they are approaching middle age. I just hope that I am able enough when I get older that i can go visit some of these nursing homes or group homes and see how many lips or earlobes i see tied up around their heads so the wheelchair wheels dont roll over them. LOL
schro:
I'm a new age rebel....I don't have any tattoos or piercings.
Razor X:
--- Quote from: schro on January 08, 2008, 09:31:29 PM ---I'm a new age rebel....I don't have any tattoos or piercings.
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Freak. >:D
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