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The SO Piercing Questions & Discussion Mega-Thread

I had my ears pierced at 18 months old, got the second holes done at oh... I think 15 years old? And my cartilage at 15 I think too... maybe 16. I have a daughter that is 4 1/2 and we just got her ears done. Yes she screamed. But 10 minutes later she was fine and she LOVES her earrings now. If people think its wrong, so be it... but this is what I think...

You do whats best for you and your baby. I nursed my daughter for over a year, some people thought it was ridiculous I nursed that long. Some woman won't nurse their babies at all and go straight to formula. Some parents choose to cloth diaper their children, some use disposable. What does this have to do with anything?!?! I do whats best for my child, you do whats best for yours.
 
I don't really think it's right for people to pierce a baby's ears. They should wait until they have a say in the matter and actually want it done.

I had my ears pierced at age 5 and I had to beg to have them done. Eventually they closed up because I didn't wear earrings enough and I had them redone again when I was 11. Now they've closed up yet again and I highly doubt I'll have them pierced a 3rd time.
 
awww.....
I had my ears pierced when I was 10 years old...but my younger sister had it pierced when she was an infant.
Anyhoo...like the Italians..a lot of Filipinos do it as well. It's no big deal.
Although I respect each and everyone's opinions about it here.
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Honestly when it comes down to it I think it's another method of gendering unknowning infants and masking it with a cultural identity. It's not like female babies who don't have their ears pierced are going to avoid this genderfication but still...
 
Its only as deep as you make it out to be. If you raise your kid tellin them that then thats what theyre gonna believe. if you raise your kid without it bein a issue then it aint like its gonna have some kind of negative effect on their idea of their self and their gender or some shit. make a big deal and it will be a big deal. dont, and it aint gonna have no effect either way.
 
It's not like one's parenting is the only factor that causes someone to be placed under the pressure of gendered norms. We all are from just about every source. Some just choose to see it and others don't while others still recognize it but don't care.

It sort of bothers me but I accept that it's basically unavoidable to a certain extent.

Just because it doesn't bother you or you don't think it's a big deal doesn't mean it doesn't exist.
 
spork said:
I don't really think it's right for people to pierce a baby's ears. They should wait until they have a say in the matter and actually want it done.
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Exactly what I was gonna say.
 
spork said:
I don't really think it's right for people to pierce a baby's ears. They should wait until they have a say in the matter and actually want it done.
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QFT, as they say

edit: nowhere near as bad as circumcision, but it's the same principle from where I sit
 
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most guys who are circumcised don't seem to mind that the decision was made for them.
 
^^What about the ones who aren't in that category? It's wrong to mutilate babies, even if they're your babies.

At least piercings heal
 
ok, thread is like OLD. and feelings that i put out yrs ago, still vehemently remain the same. don't HURT your child for vanity, i find that pretty lame, culture or not. words like mutilate are really overreaching, but srsly. make an ouchie for vanity sake? please try to convince me why this isn't wrong.
 
I think that parents should wait until they're kids have a say. I wanted to pierce my daughters ears when she was a baby, but I waited until she said "mom I want my ears pierced" at age 6. Why? Because I think I have no right, to decide that for her. Its HER body. Her ears. Where do I get off thinking I have the right to do that to her? Plus it hurts. Doesnt matter how much it hurts, its still pain. I also wasnt going to mess up the trust she had in me. As an infant, trust and security is a must. How great would she feel if mommy held her down and did something that hurt her?

There's no good excuse for it. I can't say its for her well being, or that its good for her, or its vital for her health. Like when babies get their shots (which I also hate). Thats for their health, well being, its a needed evil to keep them healthy.

So I guess to me - getting an infants ears pierced is akin to making them eat a cupcake. Along that same train of thought, taking an infant in to get their shots is like making them eat vegetables. Hopefully that follows.....

So for me, I think its wrong to do it and while I really really really wanted her to have her ears pierced, I patiently waited until she wanted them pierced. (I was thrilled!)
 
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Anybody have experience with piercing or similarly modifying your own body? Can it be done really cheaply?

I used to have between double and triple gauged earrings. However, they have been out for 5+ years and now they are almost closed up entirely. Can I repierce the hole (there's still a hole since I got them at 12 gauge originally, ie a chunk of my ear was taken out) and then stretch them up myself.

I plan to gauge them using electric tape around something thin (maybe a thin tree branch?). Then gauge them up to around double zero and have my friend carve me something cool (he's good with wood).

Anybody have any experience spiking/nailing/piercing/stretching themselves?

mods, maybe 2nd opinion? I didn't know honestly.
 
love, please look online for some cheap tapers. seriously. don't use a tree branch. :\

use something sterile that's not going to rip your ears so if you choose to let them grow back, they'll actually grow back and not be totally scarred.
 
I did my own piercings when I younger to save money (lip, nose, ears). I bought the proper jewelery though, and just did the piercing bit myself, with a regular old needle. I agree with rogue robot that substituting a tree branch might not be the best idea. :D

I never had much of a problem with infections (strangely, seeing as I don't think I ever actually disinfected anything :\ ) but they did scar quite badly, particularly my lip. I took it out around 6 years ago and I still get people asking if it only came out recently. The scar doesn't bother me, but I'm sure it was due to me doing a messy job myself rather than getting it done professionally.
 
Did you ever see the newer version of "the parent trap" with lindsy lohan when she was younger? They did it with a needle and a lemon. Thats how my mom and all 4 of her sisters did eachothers ears when they were little and they all still have them today.
 
Mz_Thizzle said:
Did you ever see the newer version of "the parent trap" with lindsy lohan when she was younger? They did it with a needle and a lemon. Thats how my mom and all 4 of her sisters did eachothers ears when they were little and they all still have them today.
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starting a piercing is a little bit different than stretching a piercing.

i put every piercing hole i have in my own ears, but i didn't stretch them myself unless i had tapers.
 
I heard by doing your own piercing you get extra uneven scar tissue that leads to little lumps. The needles they use at a doctors or professional piercing parlors are hollow so they pierce and take out extra flesh to make a clean hole that heals up evenly.
 
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