Religion and Ethics Forum
General Category => Politics & Current Affairs => Topic started by: Humph Warden Bennett on February 02, 2018, 02:43:14 PM
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I have to say this seems like a good idea. Or am I just being an old fogey?
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2018/feb/02/stupid-young-people-wales-intimate-piercing-ban
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I think it is a good idea. Apart from having one's ears pierced, as I have, I cannot understand why people would wish to have other parts of their anatomy pierced. Having one's tongue pierced seems not only highly uncomfortable when eating, but there is a danger of swallowing the stud and getting it lodged in a place which could put one's health at risk. I think ear piercing for very young children should be banned too, in case they swallow the earring if it is pulled out.
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Agreed.
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I got my nose pierced 2 years ago, didn’t hurt, didn’t get infected, minimal care needed. Love it to bits.
Intimate piercings for under 16s being banned makes sense, to protect the piercer as much as anything else, but the tongue isnt ‘intomate’. And why over 18 when the age of consent is 16? A 16 year old can organise contraception but not a bit of saline to keep a piercing clean?
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The item specifies "intimate" piercings - not "snake-bites", tongues, ears etc!
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The item specifies "intimate" piercings - not "snake-bites", tongues, ears etc!
Yes, but tongue piercing is on the list of those banned.
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Yes, but tongue piercing is on the list of those banned.
Why would anyone want to have their tongue pierced, I just don't get it? :o
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Why would anyone want to have their tongue pierced, I just don't get it? :o
You really don’t know, Floo?
Whatever, it’s a personal choice. And if removed it heals and closes incredibly quickly, even after years. It’s not like a tattoo that can’t be got rid of.
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I find the whole subject of body modification - be it piercings, tattoos, tongue division, Prince Alberts or circumcision - somewhat disturbing.
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I find the whole subject of body modification - be it piercings, tattoos, tongue division or circumcision - somewhat disturbing.
I find piercings and tattoos attractive, although extremes aren’t to my taste.
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You really don’t know, Floo?
Whatever, it’s a personal choice. And if removed it heals and closes incredibly quickly, even after years. It’s not like a tattoo that can’t be got rid of.
My children would never have been permitted to have any piercings, apart from their ears.
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My children would never have been permitted to have any piercings, apart from their ears.
The pinna (and particularly the earlobe) is innervated by a branch of the vagus. The vagus - the tenth cranial nerve - is the longest nerve in the body and responsible for many sympathetic neural activities including sexual responses. In some people the extension of the vagus into the ear (called the "Alderman's Nerve") if appropriately stimulated, brings about erotic pleasure, similar to that of sex. In others it may cause fainting.
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In our family my younger daughter (who is 30 this year) was the piercing and tattoo enthusiast, although as she eventually matured the piercings were discarded. She got two piercings when she was about 18-20: the belly button and the tongue, and when she had the latter done her mother almost disowned her. For a while the thingy she had in her tongue included a wee flashing light - so that when she talked there were these flashes of blue light, which was plain weird - especially disconcerting if it was dark! As I say, these are long gone now.
At around the same time she got some tattoos. She had her name tattooed on her wrist, no doubt in case she forgot (only 4 letters though so not hard to remember I'd have thought) and on the small of her back she has cogito ergo sum, which I told her was quite ironic in these circumstances, and a treble clef at the top of her back just below her neck which can't be seen since she has long hair always worn down, which she did long before getting the tattoo.
I've always fancied getting a small and tasteful but mostly hidden tattoo: perhaps my favourite guitar (Fender Telecaster) on my upper arm where it would be underneath my shirt-sleeves: it is impossible, alas, for I am an abject coward.
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The pinna (and particularly the earlobe) is innervated by a branch of the vagus. The vagus - the tenth cranial nerve - is the longest nerve in the body and responsible for many sympathetic neural activities including sexual responses. In some people the extension of the vagus into the ear (called the "Alderman's Nerve") if appropriately stimulated, brings about erotic pleasure, similar to that of sex. In others it may cause fainting.
I never knew that Harrowby, am now finding myself fondling my ear lobes in experimentation! Nothing's happened so far :D.
Some years ago I remember it was fashionable to have ears pierced in more than one place, people wore three or four earrings in one ear. I wasn't tempted, one piercing on each side is sufficient for me (first done when I was about 13), but I could see it looked pretty on other people.
I find the whole subject of body modification - be it piercings, tattoos, tongue division, Prince Alberts or circumcision - somewhat disturbing.
So do I - apart from earrings. Earrings for pierced ears are generally far more attractive than clip ons & you can have little tiny ones. It seems strange to me that people want to deface themselves when there's nothing wrong with the original but each to their own.
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The pinna (and particularly the earlobe) is innervated by a branch of the vagus. The vagus - the tenth cranial nerve - is the longest nerve in the body and responsible for many sympathetic neural activities including sexual responses. In some people the extension of the vagus into the ear (called the "Alderman's Nerve") if appropriately stimulated, brings about erotic pleasure, similar to that of sex. In others it may cause fainting.
I have never heard that one before. I have no such sensation, thank goodness.
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I'm still trying :D.
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Why do some people stretch their earlobes with those plug things? In order to repair the damage, should they regret it later in life, they will need cosmetic surgery!
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I don’t regard myself as ‘defaced’.