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- From: christ@cie.uoregon.edu (Christian G. Smith)
- Newsgroups: rec.arts.bodyart
- Subject: Piercing being "trendy"...
- Date: 2 Jan 1993 23:48:16 GMT
- Organization: University of Oregon Network Services
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- For a while actually believed that piercings were "trendy", I guess
- I'll never be able to fully screen out the bullshit of the world. I got
- my nipple pierced over 6 months ago, and the only place I'd heard of
- body piercings was from Modern Primitives. When I started to hear more
- and more about them, I felt kinda bad. I was dumb enough to get my
- left ear pierced when I was in high school and this piercing (nipple)
- was done completely for my own pleasure...+NOT+ to "fit in" with a
- certain group. I hear more and more about bodypiercing in the media
- like I've heard about goldfish swallowing contests in the 50's.
- They (the media) make it out to be something shallow, when (as anyone
- who's had a piercing can attest) a bodypiercing/tattoo can be a
- really memorable experience with lots of emotion and feeling wrapped up
- in it.
- I've read this sort of crap even in magazines I really like, and they
- keep using phrases that make you think that a peircing is just like
- any other fad (cabbage patch dolls, Dr. Martins, etc...). It's not.
- It's not your white-bread pinkboy fad. You stick a needle through
- your skin (or in it with ink for a tat) and put a ring in the hole.
- This is, in my opinion, pretty "hard core". So, if there are any
- lurking in this group who think that people who have tats/rings are
- just willing dupes in some fashion-fad, think again.
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- That probably didn't make any sense, but I had to get it out of my
- mind....It was really bugging me.
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- -christian
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