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Alison Underhilll's avatar

Good Grief!!

Another of our patients brought in a book on these mutilations…I think he’d been there when the doc came out aghast. I don’t get it. Yikes!

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Jonathan Allen's avatar

When I had a hobby of making jewelry from modern metals (nickel, Inconel, and Monel), a young lady asked if I could make her a pair of nickel rings that passed through her ear piercings, and then weld the ends to form a permanent continuous ring. I figured out how to do it, but decided it wasn't a smart idea.

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Jay Weedon's avatar

You forgot to mention earlobes shaped in huge loops.

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Terry J. Allen's avatar

also creepy, especially when left with empty flappy loops

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Georgia Landau's avatar

Those eye colors would definitely get my attention. A first reaction of eeek. But I agree completely about about permanent vs temporary. Never saw a split tongue. I wonder if the parts can move separately . What it would feel like. Think I better stop there.

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Alison Underhilll's avatar

We are a weird lot, we humans. While running the free clinic so long ago, I saw some really creepy things. One of our volunteer docs came out ashen…said the patient had his penis pierced! Ouch!

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Terry J. Allen's avatar

I have seen labia and nipple piercing. Ouch indeed. The labia hung outside pants thru a hole in the fabric and were held together by a padlock. we are a strange species.

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Susan Forste's avatar

I'm glad you don't have a photo of a forked tongue! Also cringe-inducing: the earrings that create big holes in earlobes. I do like hair dyed rainbow colors, however.

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Terry J. Allen's avatar

yes, the ear thing, especially without the ear plug in and there is just the floppy loop.

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Edie Shedd's avatar

Sorry! Made a mistake with the question mark and now can't get rid of it!

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Edie Shedd's avatar

Gross!

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Terry J. Allen's avatar

I kinda like the non-permanent exhibition cosmetics. as for the diamonds ...

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Edie Shedd's avatar

Gross?

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