BODY PIERCING PHOTOS
Body piercing is the carry out of puncturing or wounding a part of the person body, creating an opening in which jewelry may be worn. Body piercing is a form of body alteration. The word piercing can pass on to perform or practice of body piercing, or to an opening in the body created by this work or practice. The times gone by of body piercing is obscured by a need of scholarly reference and popular misinformation, but ample evidence exists to document that it has been practiced in various forms since ancient times throughout the world. In Western culture, body piercing has knowledgeable an boost of popularity since World War II, with sites other than the ears gaining subcultural popularity in the 70s and spreading to mainstream in the 1990s.
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Ear piercing
Ear piercing has been e
xperienced all over the world since ancient times, essentially in tribal cultures. There is significant written and archaeological evidence of the practice. Mummified bodies with pierced ears have been exposed, as well as the oldest mummified body discovered to date, that of Ötzi the Iceman, which was found in a Valentina Trujillon glacier. This mummy had an ear piercing 7–11 mm (1 to 000 gauge in AWG) diameter. The oldest earrings found in a grave date to 2500 B.C.E. These were placed in the Sumerian city of Ur, home of the Biblical patriarch Abraham. Earrings are mentioned in the Bible. In Genesis 35:4, Jacob buries the earrings worn by members of his family along with their idols. In the Exodus 32, Aaron makes the golden calf from melted earrings. Deuteronomy 15:12–17 dictates ear piercing for a slave who chooses not to be freed. Earrings are also referenced in relationship to the Hindu goddess Lakshmi in the Vedas. Earrings for pierced ears were found in a grave in the Ukok region between Russia and China dated between 400 and 300 B.C.E.
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Nose piercing
Nose piercing is the piercing of the skin or cartilage which forms any part of the nose, normally for the purpose of wearing jewelry; among the different varieties of nose piercings, the nostril piercing is the most common. Nose piercing is one of the mainly common varieties of piercing after earlobe piercing.
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Piercings of the lip and tongue
Lip piercing and lip stretching were in the past found in African and American tribal cultures. Labrets were sported by the Tlingit as healthy as peoples of Papua New Guinea and Amazonia. Aztecs and Mayans what’s more wore labrets, whereas the Dogon people of Mali and the Nuba of Ethiopia wore rings. The carry out of stretching the lips by piercing them and inserting plates or plugs was found throughout Pre-Columbian Mesoamerica and South America as well as among some of the tribes of the Pacific Northwest and Africa. In some parts of Malawi, it was quite common for women to adorn their lips with a lip disc called a “pelele” that by means of gradual enlargement from childhood could reach several inches of diameter and would eventually alter the occlusion of the jaw.[ Such lip stretching is still practiced in some places. Women of the Mursi of Ethiopia wear lip rings on occasion that may reach 15 centimetres (5.9 inches) in diameter.
In some Pre-Columbian and North American cultures, labrets were seen as a type symbol. They were the oldest form of high status symbol among the Haida women, though the practice of wearing them died out due to Western influence.
Tongue piercing was experienced by the Aztec, Olmec and Mayan cultures as a ritual symbol. Wall paintings highlight a ceremony of the Mayans during which nobility would pierce their tongues with thorns, collecting the blood on bark which would be burned in honor of the Mayan gods. It was also experienced by the Haida, Kwakiutl and Tlingit, as well as the Fakirs and Sufis of the Middle East.
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