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Body piercing: Self-distructive tendencey?

Body piercing: Self-distructive tendencey?

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I am posting this here because it is not a debate - I am not FOR or AGAINST. However, I would really like to know from some practitioners of this art (assuming there are such at RHP) why they would mutilate their bodies.

Clearly, I cannot walk up to someone on the street who has a stud through their lip, or, worse, their TONGUE!!😛😛 and ask why they would hurt and punish themselves like this - I'd likely end up with a thick lip myself! Hence this post.

Earrings, even nose rings, I can understand. Enhancing beauty, displaying your wealth, etc. But relatively worthless stuff that must really hurt like a pin through your lip and eyelids??? Can someone explain this practice to me?🙄

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Actually, when you put anything through your tongue, it doesn't hurt. Well, thats how it was in my case. I probably just lost too much blood.

PS: I did not purposely do that 6 times. 😉

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Originally posted by CalJust
I am posting this here because it is not a debate - I am not FOR or AGAINST. However, I would really like to know from some practitioners of this art (assuming there are such at RHP) why they would mutilate their bodies.

Clearly, I cannot walk up to someone on the street who has a stud through their lip, or, worse, their TONGUE!!😛😛 and ask why they wo ...[text shortened]... eally hurt like a pin through your lip and eyelids??? Can someone explain this practice to me?🙄
There is a tribe on the African continent (the country eludes me right now) where the women wear so many rings around their necks that if they removed them they wouldn't have the muscle tone left to keep their heads up...

I guess piercings, tattoos and everything is just a way of indivdualising one's self, showing one's status and/or making one's self more attractive.

I have heard though that certain piercings enhance certain activities.