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    > and thats only from the neck up
    
     :-) :-) :-) :-)
    
    
    David

    
    As a woman, I'd be wary of participating in the ultimate intimacy with
    a pierced partner.
    
    That's got to scratch you up.....yech.  If I wanted pain, I'd go
    dancing on X night at Axis.
    
    Lisa

    Where exactly is the piercing?  Never having seen this in person, I
    find myself sitting here attempting to visualize exactly what it looks
    like...
    
    Thanks,
    
    Lorna
    

    I believe I've heard that there are primitive tribes or maybe modern
    primitives, that er, use piercing and scaring to add to the pleasure
    of their partner. Personally it makes me cringe.

    Typical that 3 women have already replied to a topic so sensitive to
    males!
    
    Going off in a huff,
    Ray
    
    P.S. -- Lorna, locations vary. Many of your friends and acquaintances
    probably have copies of the "Modern Primitives" coffee table book or
    similar glossy magazines available for loan.  (If only Charles Haynes
    was still around...)  Unfortunately, as I explained, I'm not a Primmy
    myself.  Feeble memory attests to the Prince Albert being striking, but
    I can't recall whether that was the one centered right behind the
    glans.  Any hipsters dressed in black willing to give me some help?

    re.0 Where did you dig this up I.E. becoming popular?
    re.3
    Picture a ring going in the opening exiting thru the bottom and you
    have a prince albert. I saw a guy with one at a nude beach in
    California but then he had just about everything else pierced
    too. I don't even care for a pierced ear on men so one can imagine
    how disgusted this dude made me....
    
    -j

    re: .0

    >So what does this randomly-selected representative group of men think
    >of penile piercing?

    I think it's damned bizarre.  
    
    Not to mention unhygenic. 
    
    And painful!!!  (shudder)
    
    Mike
    

    Thanks for the clarification, -j.  That certainly sounds like the most
    practical spot, unless you find an elastic pin. 
    
    As for how I know it's getting popular:  Several guests mentioning it,
    several overheard conversations on the bus ("He looked like he was
    about to faint for the next three weeks!"), questions in the "Ask
    Isadora" column, demonstrations at clubs, proximity to two piercing
    shoppes...  You mean it's not popular in Colorado Springs?
    
    Ray

    re:.0
    
    I can think of better things to do with it, than to punch holes in it
    and hang rings or chains.
    
    Besides, can you imagine having to explain to airport security why your
    crotch is setting off the metal detector?

    re .9
    
    The guy wispers in the airport security guard's ear as to why he set
    the alarm off...
    
    Guard says (quite loudly) "You have a ring through your..."
    
    I love it  8-)

    I once saw a woman with her reproductive parts pierced.  She was in a
    porn flick. 

    To me, if it turns you on, go ahead. There are men/women out there who
    stab themselves with needles full of drugs, growth hormones, etc.
    Whats wrong with someone decorating themselves if they want.

    To me. I like my bod without tattoos, earrings, and etc. And my honest
    opinion about piercing their reproductive parts is:

    "OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOUCH�!!!:)

    
    	i don't understand where the question of hygiene comes into
    	play....
    	if one bathes regularly and thoroughly there shouldn't be the
    	question of cleanliness or the lack there of.
    	you DO bathe and wash *THERE* don't you?
    
    	as for body piercing, like anything else, to each his/her own.
    	

    Denise, 
    
    Flattery will get you everywhere!:)

    
    	i don't frighten THAT EASILY!

    re.8
    >>                       -< Or are you just needling me? >-
    
    Never... I was just curious outside of the one gent I met in
    California I had never seen or heard of it before.
    
    I can just picture a guy walking into Spencer gifts buying
    a pair of earrings and asking the attendant install them
    just like having a ear peirced. NOT!
    
    You mean there are actually shops where one can go and have this
    done?!?  Colorado Springs for that matter the whole danged state is
    too conservitive for me to expect this to become popular here.
    
    -j

    
    	like tattoo parlours and the like, so aren't there shops that
    	specialize in body piercing. a few spots in the boston area
    	and more on the west coast.
    
    	if you're interested i have the names of a few areas.
    	send mail.

    A piercing parlour (or "body modification shop") is a block away from
    me.  Another is about a 15 minute walk.
    
    Ray

    re.16
    No need I have no desire to deface my body. I belong to a nudist
    resort because I feel that if god had intended for humans to wear
    clothes we would be born with them.  I have no rings or tatoos for
    the same reason.
    
    -j

    Body piercing is fairly common in L.A, of coure. I've never seen a
    PA, don't want to, and tend feel my gag reflex kick in when I see guys
    with nipple rings.
    
    Pierced noses are pretty common, and I think it looks odd.
    
    Multiple ear piercing with say, a dozen rings in one ear, is also
    common, as are tattoos.
    
    

G'day

What's always amused me about pierced noses, with studs or rings,
is 
  `what happens to the snot?'

Doesn't it gunge up the stud or ring?

Lee

    
    	disgusting... but,
    
    	the stud can be removed for cleaning and adding an anticeptic
    	then replaced.
    
    	it's not such a big deal.

Nose rings have a long and honorable history.  They're mentioned several
times in the Bible.

Today's Boston Globe has an article on body piercing, and has several mentions
of men having "genitals" pierced.  There is a quote from a Revere (MA)
bartender who had this done.  So, I guess it isn't confined to the left coast!

			Steve

    
    	you'd be surprised at how popular it has become.
    	there's more on it on the usernet.

I liked the line about "bejeweled family jewels."  I thought the pictures
were pretty gross (one of a pierced eyebrow, and one of a pierced navel).