Source: Modblog

Parents of stubborn children in Minnesota may relax, Governor Tim Pawlenty has finally signed a body-piercing bill into a law at St. Paul, which will forbid underage youth from poking themselves. The law will be put into action from August 1. Don’t panic, as the law gives relaxation to traditional ear piercings and will allow those youngsters to pierce themselves, who get their parents along and they sign a consent form. He has also signed various other bills.

I think Gov. Pawlenty might have seen above featured chap, therefore, to save his country youth from marring their face - he passed this law.

This is not a Photoshop product. Let me introduce him to you... he is Bertrand ‘Razor’ Werthing, a piercing practitioner, who has pierced himself with four to six-inch rod driven through the top of the eye socket and up through to the top of the skull. He claims that piercing is ‘fairly safe’ and stresses on sanitation. He sanitized it ‘twelve times daily’ moreover didn’t take shower and said, ‘You wouldn’t want water getting in there; that could kill you.’ Specialists call this puncturing as the Phineas P. Gauge. According to doctors, it is not a safe process to demeanor by anyone on their own and requires a professional to conduct it, as it is no less than a surgery.

Beside, frontal lobe piercing he has pierced septum, bridge, labret and earlobe.

Read: TheMQ about Bertrand

Steeney at Freaks on Broadway in Westport MO, pierced Haley aka Sophie. Her all three piercings are inspired by her piercer and says,

Well, all three of my industrials were inspired by my piercers willingness to custom bend the bars however I wanted [the challenge was fantastic], the anti-eyebrow seemed like it would fit my face well, the nape of my neck was inspired by the fact that it’s really bad, my sternum piercing was for the shock value and I still find it to be very, very aesthetically pleasing and my cheeks were to enhance my smile and give me dimples.

She is thoroughly satisfied with her piercing but according to her,
The cheeks have proved to be the hardest to heal, I’ve had them over a month and they are still hurting though the swelling has gone down ten fold. Both the nape of my neck and anti-eyebrow rejected though the scarring was minimal, only two dots for each and I haven’t had a single infection, though sometimes I wake up with my head attached to my blanket and then my piercings are sore for a while.

I do not know what is happening to people these days. Are the going crazy or what? Now look at this girl whose has got computer devices pierced on the back of her ear. Her earlobe piercing is something natural but USB piercing seems weird to me. It would have been an intelligent choice if I could plug-in my mouse and control the brain.

The piercing is done by placing two columns vertically usually along the back, which can be laced together.

Though these days corset piercing is done on other parts of the body also. Generally, these piercing are temporary and are removed after the occasion for which it was pierced. There is a high risk of rejection involved in corset piercing.

Torsos laced up.

This a strange example of body piercing. This person has got three nuts pierced into his foreheadhead.

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Even the jewelry is different for each. Pocketing jewelry is simply a curved bar (as shown below) with smooth ends but no beads. On the contrary, piercing jewelry has beads, jewels, etc. Pocketing jewelry is fitted to your skin and piercing jewelry is worn on any part of the body. There is a risk regarding the fall of pocketing jewelry while in piercing, the risk is there but the degree is less. Pocketing is less popular among the people than piercing.

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