Body piercings

[BrianRI]

What do people think about body piercings?

I do not have any yet, but would like to get peoples feelings and if they have piercings, what type do they have?

[BrianRI]

What do people think about body piercings?

I do not have any yet, but would like to get peoples feelings and if they have piercings, what type do they have?

[Rabid_Clam]

Personally I really find zero value in body piercings. I fing them to be very stupid and unattractive. They are on the same level as tatoos, just a disgusting thing to do to a prefectly good body. Just how I feel about them.

[ricky bobby]

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Originally posted by Rabid_Clam:
Personally I really find zero value in body piercings. I fing them to be very stupid and unattractive. They are on the same level as tatoos, just a disgusting thing to do to a prefectly good body. Just how I feel about them. </div></BLOCKQUOTE>

Then you probably think most of the CFI staff/newscasters are stupid then.

[Croydon]

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Originally posted by Rabid_Clam:
Personally I really find zero value in body piercings. I fing them to be very stupid and unattractive. They are on the same level as tatoos, just a disgusting thing to do to a prefectly good body. Just how I feel about them. </div></BLOCKQUOTE>
Boy aren't you mighty judgemental and self righteous person today.

This is an example where our mother's taught us to keep our strong/negative opinions to our self as we never know who you might offend. I guess your mother skipped over that lesson with you.

Your "opinion" is rather strong and harsh. People decide to pierce or tattoo themselves for whatever reason and it is their choice to make.

Your disgust and dislike for tattoos and piercings only tell me that you are an ignorant person to begin with. You coming from VA kind of explains it all anyway.

So I guess the many CFI staff that do have either piercings or tattoos are disgusting then. You hold such high regards for people huh?

It is your loss that you choose to shut people out b.c they have decided to tattoo or pierce.

Some things in the south never change huh.

[Sacramento Jesse]

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Originally posted by g1212:
<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Originally posted by Rabid_Clam:
Personally I really find zero value in body piercings. I fing them to be very stupid and unattractive. They are on the same level as tatoos, just a disgusting thing to do to a prefectly good body. Just how I feel about them. </div></BLOCKQUOTE>

Then you probably think most of the CFI staff/newscasters are stupid then. </div></BLOCKQUOTE>

LOL I totally agree. Body piercings and tatts are just a form of expression to me. Rabid Clam does have his right to his opinion and I respect that. So BrianRI, does that answer your question? Some find it dumb and some take no offense to it what so ever.

[thonglover]

I have ascrotal piercing as well as wear c-rings while naked on the beach. Sometimes I dont wear the rings but I wont remove the piercing just for the beach.

[Pete Knight]

At no point did Rabid_clam say anyone was stupid, just defiling a body was a disgusting thing to do to a body, which I agree with, but at no time did he insult anyone.

Everyone is entitled to an opinion, some people take offence far too easily though!!

The odd discrete tattoo or piercing I can cope with, but I find a body covered with tattoo's and/or piercings to be unsightly.

Thats my opinion, but everyone else is entitled to theirs.

Pete Knight

[Rabid_Clam]

As to piercings and tatoos, I do not think those who choose to have them to be stupid. I just do not find anything attractive about them and cannot support interest in them.

Pretty much akin to a person smoking, I do not allow smoking in my home or car and choose to not be in places where people smoke. All that is their choice as mhy feelings are mine.

We travel like paths in some interests and other paths in other interests. Remember, I never asked anyone here to marry me. (grin)

All are welcome to my home for a visit but of the three, smoking, tats and piercings, the very worst is smoking, piercings next and tats third. Is just my choice of what I like and what I do not like. Am sure you have things you don't like that others, myself included,may be inclined to like/ Doesn't make you bad or stupid, just other than attractive to me.

[RalphVa]

I agree with Rabid_Clam, and I also live in Virginia, and I also didn't ask any of you to marry me.

I think there's a safety issue to worry about with any jewelry, particularly when it's pretty much a permanent thing. It's so easy to hang such things and rip tissue. As a medic in the army, I had to remove lots of rings from fingers. Some may not be as prone to getting "hung" as rings, but they're all subject to this.

God created us pretty nice. Why mess it up with tattoes, jewelry and overeating and lack of exercise?

[nacktman]

Ouch! All that needs said.

You got'em ... ok, but Ouch!

You want'em ... get'em, but remember ... Ouch!

"You coming from VA kind of explains it all anyway" Croydon

Coming from Virginia might explain it? What does that mean? Do you mean anyone from Virginia is ignorant?

"Some things in the south never change, huh" Croydon

Some things never change no matter where you are in this country. Sounds like you have disdain for Southerners. I surely hope not as you will find the same people you "think" we are right in your own neighborhood. Think you might want to watch what you say also as far as offending someone.

Another opinion here is that tattoos are fine if that is what you want and want to do on your skin. I don't find this unattractive at all even those who have a large area of their body tattooed. And no, I have no tattoos.

Body piercings are the same - if people want them let them have them and enjoy them. I have never understood why so many want to tell others what to do with their bodies. We see ourselves differently and that is what's unique about us. Some will find tattoos fine others won't. Opinions vary, yes. Live and let live ....

Allie

[nacktman]

Croydon ignorance is what you displayed by your post as well as self-righteousness, judgementalism, and a lack of attention to your mother's lessons it seems.

Leave us hope you will learn those lessons when you grow up, as well as manners, and proper decorum.

Yes, some things in the South never change just as the never change in the North, East and West ... manners and decorum.

Emily Post's handbook is not geographic specific.

[Croydon]

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Originally posted by nacktman:
Croydon ignorance is what you displayed by your post as well as self-righteousness, judgementalism, and a lack of attention to your mother's lessons it seems.
</div></BLOCKQUOTE>
Agree w/ you 100%. In responding, I went against my own statement.

I was doing exactly what Rabid did.

[Rabid_Clam]

lets set the record straight and correct. I am not from the south or Virginia. I only live here. Was born and raised in New England.

These days, especially here in the south, anything you say or do will offend someone and that someone will want a law made to stop what you think or do. I do not agree with that, but also do not agree with allot of things. I do not want laws made to suit me, nor do I suggest others change their thoughts or deeds. I simply do not like or subscribe to some things and do not participate in those things.

The person that began this thread asked for opinions, and mine was given. Simple wasn't it. Bit there are those who react with vengence.

Loss is a preception by the individual. I feel no loss nor shall I do so in the future.

There are those here where I live that will drive to another county to buy booze so no one who knows them will see. I am real, up front, and tell it like it is. My feelings are how they are but they are not forced on anyone else.

Lets be naked and live in harmony.

[merum]

Tattoos and Piercings... in the words of Jimmy Buffett .. "a permanent reminder of a temporary feeling" may look great today but what about later. A co worker was lamenting of how her cute little bunny tattoo grew 4 inch ears when she was pregnant, and even months after giving birth the tattoo has not gone back to its original size. Something to consider.

[Rabid_Clam]

Could have been much worse.... what if there were a dozen or so little ones along with the 4 inch ears?

[Bob S.]

As a Virginian, who was not happy with Croydon's remarks, I also must disagree with Clam. I do not care if you have tats or piercings as long as you do not mind the signals that those tats and piercings may send to others.

Bob S.

[florida-david]

i don't like those tongue piercings, the person wearing such a thing is often slurring words and it is flapping around in their mouth. Don't care for eyelid piercings and nose rings. Not that i think people should not be allowed to get them, just that i don't like them. If my kids got them (after they live on their own as they WILL not get them while they live here), i would hope they would remove them before they come visit me as i will get dressed when i visit their home if they are not nudists. I think the body is beautiful without man-made accessories. I am not a big fan of tattoos and don't care for all the shaving going on either. I like my fur and body untouched (except by my wife!!!).

These are my personal opinions and maybe a result of having lived in the south my whole life. Ft. Lauderdale is not exactly virginia, but anyways....

[Rabid_Clam]

I was born in Maine, lived west of Boson in Massachusetts for 30 years, have been in Va for 15 years now. My opinions are not of the south but of me. I agree with Florida-david but again southern lifestyle has no influence on my comments. Is just how I feel. There are those that like systic fibrosis, but I don't.

[Croydon]

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Originally posted by Rabid_Clam:
I was born in Maine, lived west of Boson in Massachusetts for 30 years, have been in Va for 15 years now. My opinions are not of the south but of me. I agree with Florida-david but again southern lifestyle has no influence on my comments. Is just how I feel. There are those that like systic fibrosis, but I don't. </div></BLOCKQUOTE>
You rabid, there is difference b/w the way David stated his opinion. Read your previous statement and then read David's...BIG DIFFERENCE.

Your statment is just an outright insult, unintellectual and harsh. David expressed his dislike for tattoos and piercing by being pleasant. He doesn't go as far as saying piercings are disgusting and that anyone who is pierced is not entitled to friendship/relationship with him.

[Rabid_Clam]

Unfortunately I would be deeply embarassed to be in company with someone who has piercings. Just my personal preference. Do as you wish, pierce yourself with a ton of things, but I choose to find other people. Is just my taste and you do not have to share it.

Not meaning to offend anyone but just answered the original question honsetly. Is there something wrong with being honest?

[Bob S.]

Any specific piercings, Clam? What about a woman with ear piercings? A man with ear piercings? A woman with two piercings in each ear? Three? More?

Where do you draw the line with piercings?

Bob S.

[David77]

I have taken many classes in sculpturing at the university and enjoy the three dimensional shape of the human body and am saddened by permanent ink pictures affixed to the glorious human form, as well as the piercing.
It is my personal feeling that persons are trying to "guild the lily". The lily needs no guilding as it stands alone in it's beauty.
I now hope that scarification (scarring of patterns on the body with a blade) does not also become a fad.

This having been said, I will still show respect to anyone, regardless of ink, piercing, etc.

[DoctorSurferDude]

"....drive by body pierce..." --Beck

[Jason Lee]

body piercing = risk of infection = operation to remove piercing and disinfect the skin.

[Sacramento Jesse]

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Originally posted by David77:
I now hope that scarification (scarring of patterns on the body with a blade) does not also become a fad. </div></BLOCKQUOTE>

I seen a special on tv where some tribes in Africa (don't know the tribe) have been doing this as a form of tradition. If I recall it was when girls make the passage to being women, and they are very proud to have their scars patterned on their faces. Now if someone domesticated here from the states did it to show their African tribal roots I would totally support that.

[Rabid_Clam]

David, ear rings on women don't bother me if they are small. Ear rings on men really stretch it and I find them other than attractive. All other piercings are just disgusting but again is only how I feel. Others may like that appearance, but there are people who like systic fibrosis too. Is just a fad and will go away in time. But the damage is done to the person who has the piercing in the first place, the holes remain.

[WacoTX]

The problem with tattoos is that of individual taste applied to an art form. I like some tattoos but dislike others (the barbed wire around the arm). When contemplating the acquisition of a tattoo one should consider what it will look like when they are 40, 50, 70, or 80. A tattoo may look good when one is young, fit, and trim. What will it look like when you have let youself get --- whatever.

[nacktman]

Piercing, scarification, tattoos ... all I can say is Ouch!

[Pete Knight]

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Originally posted by WacoTX:
The problem with tattoos is that of individual taste applied to an art form. I like some tattoos but dislike others (the barbed wire around the arm). When contemplating the acquisition of a tattoo one should consider what it will look like when they are 40, 50, 70, or 80. A tattoo may look good when one is young, fit, and trim. What will it look like when you have let youself get --- whatever. </div></BLOCKQUOTE>
Thats the main consideration for my decision against having a tattoo, a boss from years ago had a tattoo when he was in the Royal Navy whe he was 19 , but at 50 something the tattoo was unrecognisable. I thought to myself, why would I want to defile my body like that?

Pete Knight

[Bob S.]

Psst Clam. It was me, not David you were responding to. http://oakhurstonline.com/icon/cool4.gif

Clam:"Others may like that appearance, but there are people who like systic fibrosis too"

Who likes cystic fibrosis (http://www.cff.org/about_cf/what_is_cf/)? Yes, it is a question that needs to be repeated.

I have no problem with your dislike of piercings, but don't compare it to a potentially fatal disease. Nobody wants nor likes having CS. Why say that?

Bob S.

[Rabid_Clam]

The fibrosis thing was only a medaphor comparason, not for real. As you said. no one really likes that any more than the common cold.

[nakedboy06]

I don't have any piercings or tattoos myself, but I have met several nudists who did and I really don't have a problem with it. I don't think I'll ever get one, but I don't judge others that have them.

Before judging me, judge yourself

[Wiggle It]

I do not have piercings or tattoos of any kind. I did once have an ear pierced, but later let it grow closed again. They don't add anything to the natural beauty of the body, rather they detract from it. Exotic piercings become focal points, an oddity to attract attention.
But you don't offend me if you happen to have such body "art".
Its worth considering how many people have regretted a tattoo later in life, before getting one.

[Naturist4Ever]

#1. Deliberately disfiguring ones body for the fun of it (piercings) just doesn't go with the concept of naturism (respect for ones and others body). That a majority of people simply do not care (anymore) is (imho) a reflection of the society we live in and that has gone astray from values to consumerism (see also #3 below).

#2. There is the other active topic "bad badies", indeed a (heavily) pierced body is really bad in a naturist environment.

#3. I have deliberately used the word naturism. I know for some of you of from the US that is the same as nudism, but for most Europeans it is not, and as a nudist no-one will bat an eye if you pierce yourself to pieces.

Anyway, just a thought....

[jon71]

With all due respect Naturist4ever that seems a bit harsh. It's a pretty common thing nowadays and I wouldn't call that a bad thing. My team leader at work is getting her daughter a belly piercing for her 14th birthday this week. That shows it's become very mainstreet U.S.A.

[nacktman]

Well, my neighbor's sixteen year old just had her nipples pierced and just had to show them off to my wife and I last thursday.
They were nice, she had gotten ones that looked like the oak leaf clusters on a few of my medals and they looked right for her personality.
Her mom's are just the old fashioned straight bar kind.
So, it has definately hit Mainstream America when there are generational differences in the style of the body jewelery each generation prefers.

But, still I say ... OUCH!

[james423]

Have to agree with you, Nacktman, it has definitely hit mainstream America -but OUCH. http://oakhurstonline.com/icon/bonk.gif Don't have any piercings or tattoos myself, but have close friends & family with either or both. They would have to do something much worse than that to prevent me from associating with them.

[Naturist4Ever]

>> my neighbor's sixteen year old just had her nipples pierced

A 16yr old who has her nipples pierced - that beautiful part of the body that is to nurture her offspring?????? Honestly, it is time for the iris-piercing for those that seem too blind to see the ludicruous damage they inflict onto themselves (eheh).

[Jimmie]

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">A 16yr old who has her nipples pierced - that beautiful part of the body that is to nurture her offspring?????? Honestly, it is time for the iris-piercing for those that seem too blind to see the ludicruous damage they inflict onto themselves (eheh). </div></BLOCKQUOTE>



I just can't figure out why people are so worried about everyone else. Does it hurt you to have her nipples peirced? I can understand the thought process where you might not like it and not want it for you or you kids, but to be so bothered by some thing like that is just silly to me.

[ricky bobby]

I've seen many posts asking WHY anyone would get a body piercing. Let me shed some light on the subject, but by no means am I an expert.

People who get piercings do so for many reasons and not just sexual. For some, its a form of expression. A way to express themselves, i.e. like people who color their hair green or have a mohawk. For others it's a way to rebel against society and it's norms. And for others, they consider their body to be a work of art and a blank canvas.

[naturally nude]

I don't care one way or another it does seem that if you have something extra down there it's gonna draw some attention from both gender so I wonder if piercing down there is for just that reason, to draw attention or if there is some other reason like sexual stimulation, once again I'm a little confused and have always wondered about that.

I did once have a girlfriend who joked around about me getting some kind of piercing down there that would do something for sex but I never looked into it as that relationship went by the wayside.

This thread did remind me of something that just happened a few weeks ago...

You see, I'm in an open relationship with my girl and "we" have a little nudist girlfriend who has both of her nipples pierced, it's kinda neat

Anyway, this chick and one of her friends wanted to go for a ride in the jeep and soon into the ride, this girl takes her top off and I noticed she didn't have her hoops in her boobies

So I said something and she says... "You think I can put this through one of my boobies?" and I just about ran off the road when I looked over to see what she had in mind!

It was one of those cocktail swords

Well... she did it and man did it give me goosebumps! Especially when she pulled it back out

Anyway, you boys be careful when tooling around with your tool. Don't fix what ain't broken is what I say. Plus if you go hanging stuff from your johnson your gonna draw attention to it. Heck, I'd look and I'm as straight as an arrow and once I looked I'd feel a little uncomfortable about looking

Best,
N N