To Freak Out The Minds Of Other "old People Like Me"

[Guest gwenthlian]

that is faintly disturbing, but its all about shaping your body to fit your mental picture of how it should be, ring a bell? ^^

I do love piercings though desperate for snakebites but yeah, medical school is not going to like those.

[Guest SaraNetherlands]

I know of tongue splitting, but I wonder does it not impair speech?

As for me, tattoos and piercings always fascinated me and I'm quite sure I'll gather my share over time. However I've never been a girl for "oh that looks just cute, I want that", everything has a meaning or aesthetic value where the whole fits together.

[Guest Pól]

I think I'm in the same group as Kyle. I have no problem with other people doing it, but this really squicks me. ...eesh

[Guest StrandedOutThere]

I've got one pretty decent sized tattoo on my right arm. A couple of years ago I got the top of my left ear pierced. Man...that was horrible. I had it done in Germany where I could just barely talk to the woman who did it. She jammed a needle through my ear that looked like a 20 or 22 gauge. It was attached to a syringe for grip. When I saw her coming at my ear gripping that thing like a knife, I really had some serious second thoughts but just went with it. Next thing I knew I felt warm blood running down my ear. The pain was horrible. It hurt even more when she put the little bar thing through the piercing. I couldn't sleep on my ear for like a month and the thing always annoyed me. Finally I took it out and let it heal up.

That was the end of my experimentation with piercing. Never again...

I can't imagine letting someone pierce my tongue, let alone allowing them to split it with a knife. OUCH!!

[Paula ult]

I have to say almost nothing bothers me anymore, currently i have a 2 lobe piercings and a daith in one ear in the other one i have a tragus, helix and a 1" stretched lobe.

At one time i had 18 ear piercings going up both ears but scaled those back to what i now have, i had my nips pierced but they never really healed good, and i had some below the belt, those are long since gone, there were some other more extreme things but it would be TMI.

holey Paula

[Guest Evan_J]

When I saw her coming at my ear gripping that thing like a knife, I really had some serious second thoughts

LOL I had the top of my left one done. Two holes. Let em heal for the same reason. I was 19 or 20 though when I had it done. What do ya expect? lol It was a couple years after I'd lied that I was 18 and got the um....the one thats someplace on me lol. I didn't get the armband till I was 30. If piercing as it is now were in when I was much younger, who knows. At these ages though noooo. Looks "wierd" to me or like you're immature.

And a genital BM? Maybe we should all think about it. SRS is a mod, isn't it?

[Guest Jeannine Bean]

I also like the skull holes and screw in steel mohawks and horns.

I always wanted horns and a bisected tongue. <sigh> I guess I could always go the old fashioned route and sell my soul to Satan..

--Jeannine

[Guest TBForLife]

This all brings to mind my point in being an advocate for body modification.

A Lot of people ask me "what about when you are 50"

Well I usually say "I'll have more"

We are given these bodies and I think that any person that wants to alter their body in any way as long as they understand the permanent impact and are willing to accept the consequences of our actions, they should be allowed to decide what they want to do with their bodies!

Especially people who feel like they aren't born into the right gender!

I personally don't need any surgery to that effect. I'm very satisfied without it. But who said I could have a flat chest? I did. I wanted a flat chest so I as someone interested in natural health and being of a slim build, have worked out, used skin creams, taken testosterone and reduced my body fat so that right now, yeah I can take my shirt off in public.

(public? yeah, who cares what the public says anyway, amend, I can take my shirt off and look like a guy!)

But what about those of us who by any and all means can not get their chest to go down to an acceptable size without the assistance of surgical intervention? Why should that be an issue? If I can go off and work out some great pecs and after years of hard physical discipline become male chested, why can't anyone else? Well no reason. You have breasts, you don't like them, ok fine get rid of them.

You have a penis, don't like it, most people born with one kind of like having one, but hey you don't like it, good , get rid of it. It's your body.

So let's say you want your tongue to split in two, that's something I've been considering for a long time. However I have a very bad set of teeth and I get a lot of broken teeth and abscesses. This would be a great reason, a logical one, not to split my tongue.

Let's come around to a good point here. Who decided the morals and ethics of modern medicine anyways? I didn't vote on that.

It's the people who have weak minds, weak stomachs and won't hire someone who's got a split tongue.

Because as someone mentioned, how would you get a job with that?

I don't know, does having two tongues somehow negate a doctorate's degree to the point where the person who has had ten years of university education is somehow less intelligent because they've decided on a physical means of self expression.

Pure BS!

Is it that some people are unwilling to accept self expression to such a capacity, that they want us all to be alike in such great ways that being different than a normal male or female in any way shape or form threatens them?

I'd like to pose a threat to boring mundane living myself.

I'm a hyper androgynous female who lives as a male, has a flat chest full of very interesting tattoos dealing with my religious ideas (we wont go into that) that DO offend people. I also have my lip, back, wrists, tattooed, and nothing less than four extreme piercings at any given time. (1" ears, bridge, genitals etc)

And I LOVE my body. Who is to say that I don't have an amazing body?

No one.

[Guest NeverSayNever]

Might actually be getting eyebrow done this weekend

Haha, I changed my mind. I got my lip pierced instead

Weird thing is, I've got a bit of a lisp now LOL

And my son had his tongue pierced - for oral sex he said

o.O LOL

Right on, TBForLife!! I think it's awesome that you don't care what other people think,