"Destroying your body."

Your phrase says it all "Destroying YOUR body". Even if you were "destroying" it or hating it, it is YOUR body, do with it what you want!
And I am to assume that tribes who have ben adorning themselves for hundreds if not thousands of years hate their bodies, too? Get a clue.

 

hey good point pamela

 

Ignore these people, piercings are just a way to make your temple look nicer, or to some people (who don't like the way piercings look) just different.
Are piercings a harm? No. They're just decorations.
Life's short, no worries!

 

Overeating, overwork, harmful stress, smoking, the chemicals we drink ... there are alot of ways that we may destroy our bodies... piercings and even cuttings and tatoos, though, I dont see as destroying. Its just leaving a mark... an expression, if you will.

 

Yeah you've said it beautifully.

 

LOL... I missed reading this before. Well said, badwolf. So damn true!

 

thanks Majical Fire Lady!

 

I have gotten comments from my dad and some of his brothers and sisters [my aunts and uncles] about piercings and tattoos....but not too much elsewhere.

However, now with the idea of piercing my nipples I'm getting more negative feedback than I have in the past when it came to piercing my nose, or my eyebrow, or my lip....no one gave me too much negative feedback on my tattoo either. But, I've heard a lot of "womens breasts are sacred" sort of comments as response to my piercing idea....

to me it just doesn't make sense. I don't feel that I would be destroying my breasts in anyway by doing that. I appreciate my female figure more than I can even describe, and piercing my nipples is more a form of displaying my sensuality than anything.

My two cents.

 

I hate it when people ask me that.

 

fuck that. if somebody wants to do something to their body, they should be able to without everyone else parenting them about it. if someone wants to chop their arm off, then let them.
plus, peircings and tattoos are gorgeous.

 

Although I wasn't living with my parents when I got my nose pierced, they were fairly shocked, which wasn't my intention. My mum was all tearful and said that I didn't look like myself anymore, so I just gave her a hug and told her that nothing had changed really. My dad was disgusted for a while but not as disgusted as he was with my tattoo (which he refused to look at until one time I forced him to ... ha ha!)

The reasoning behind me getting my nose pierced was this ... I'd never been particularly "pretty" ... and I was getting older (in my late twenties) so I felt kinda stuck in a rut and I wanted to do something, just a small gesture, to be a little bit rebellious. I'd wanted a nose piercing since I was a teenager but I'd always thought of other people's reactions, firstly my parents, then prospective employers, then boyfriends, etc, but in my late twenties I didn't give a damn and just got it done. I did tell my then boyfriend, warned him, but he didn't seem overly bothered and just remarked that a girl at his workplace had a nose stud and they were pretty commonplace, nothing to get worked up about.

One of my best friends had the reaction that surprised me the most. He was far more disgustipated about my piercing than my parents and other friends were. He gave me a huge lecture about tribal behaviour and sliding backwards into primitive ways ... that was before I got it done, but after I showed him, he said it was more discreet than he had imagined and in fact it quite suited me.

I couldn't imagine myself without it now, although I doubt that I will get any other facial piercings.

I agree ... people should be free to do what they want with their bodies. It's not like we go around forcing piercings and tattoos on other people. Tis a matter of personal taste, just as choosing clothing, shoes, other jewellery, etc.

 

My Dad told me i couldn't have piercings or tatts until he I was old enough to do it without his written consent and i had to pay for it myself. He was dead against it back then. Just recently though he and mum got matching armband tatts for their thirtieth wedding anniversary, lol. I gave him heaps for it. All the lectures he gave me, 'you'll be damaging your body, they'll be there forever, people judge others by the way they look, you won't get a job.' Then he goes and gets one. My little sis who's twelve wants a tatt when she's old enough, and my Dad is completely supporting her decision. They're already talking about what she wants to get. lol, You can't win sometimes.
My work encourages self expression. Think of the movie Coyote Ugly, only without the dancing on the bar. Public liability apparently...

 

these stories are fun to read!
I have my nose and labret pierced, and I love having them. At work, I have to take them out, and I litterally feel naked without them. I've had my nose done since I was 14 and my labret since I was 17.
There's places that I've worked that didn't care about piercings and I would get these old guys in who always were like, "you're so pretty, why would you do that to your face?" That gave me the heebie-jeebies more than anything.....
when they say crap like that, I can't really tell them off, so I just shrug and say that I like it. They can't really say too much to that....
my favourite job was one where we sold jewlery and accessories and stuff, and I was told that piercings were encouraged....as was weird hair (I had it dyed bright pink while I worked there...and green and blue temporarily). Sadily, the boss was a bitch and I got sick of her shit after 3 months, so I had to leave.....

 

Nice My fiancee and I actually plan on getting our "wedding bands" tattooed on our ring fingers Should be fun.

 

i'm not sure if i should take this response as mean or not, ah, well i don't mind others their opinion i was just making a point for my personal reasoning with my personal peircings and tats in my person religious perspective etc.. love to everyone.