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What is piercing?
Piercing is a form of body modification that invloves puncturing the skin and placing a decrotive object through the puncture. Body piercing has become a wide spread ritual among young adults through out america and other countries. There are many different types of piercings and a number of different places to pierce.
Places to Pierce
There are many many places of the human body that can be pierced and now commonly are.
Ear-
The ear is the most common place to get pierced by both sexes but other
piercings are very quickly becoming just as common. Currently there
are ten
very widely known places to get you ear pierced at:
Lobe
Outer Conch, Cartilage
Inner Conch
Tragus
Anti-Tragus
Rook
Daith
Helix
Orbital
"Industrial"
Click on the above link to see a picture of the ten common places of
ear piercings.
Eyebrow-
Many people are now getting their eyebrow pierced and I know of two such
places to get them pierced at, although there are a number of different
ways to get them pierced.
Eyebrow
it self
And The Bridge
Nose-
As well this piercing is become greatly common.
Nostral
Septum
Tongue-
There are four common ways to get your tongue pierced. The most common
way is Centre tongue Piercing. The rest are as follows.
Centre
Tongue
Off-centre Tongue
horizontal Tongue
Lip-there
are very very many different ways to get your lips and the surrounding
area of your mouth pierced.
Standard
Labret
Cheek
Scrumper- piercing the gumline
Madonna-
piercing above or below your lip to one side or the other
Medusa-
piercing above or below the lip in the center of the face
Lip
Lowbret- piercing through facial skin below the tooth line to one
side or the other.
Nipple-
both males and females are now commonly getting their nipple's pierced.
There is really only one place on the nipple to get pierced but there are
a few different ways to get them done.
Standard
Larger Gauge
Multiple
Navel-
Most commonly women get their navels pierced but some men will do it as
well. There are a few diiferent ways to get your navel pierced.
Standard
Multiple
Inverse
Horizontal
Male Genital-
There are a numerous amount of different types of piercings for male genitalia.
Ampallangs-
horizontally through the head
Apadravyas-
vertically through the head
Frenum-
throught the underside of the penis near the bace
Scrotal
Ladder- multiple frenum piercings
Guiche-
between the rectum and the testicals
Hafadas-
testicals
Scrotal-
scrotum
Prince
Albert- through the urethra and out through the bottom of the penis
Dydoes- Through the ridge and the head, usually done in pairs
Foreskin
Prince's
Wands- A stainless steel tube about 3-4.5" long, hollowed out and
the inner end tapered and rounded. The tube is worn in the urethra
and is kept in place by a ball-ended stud worn through Prince Albert, Ampallangs,
or Apadravyas piercings and screwed into the Wand.
Pubic
Piercing
Female Genital
Clit
Hood
Triangle
Inner Labia
Outer Labia
