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Belly Button Rings, what's the purpose?

I've never really understood the appeal of piercings myself (navel piercings, genital piercings :eek:, even ear piercings), but hey, to each their own. Everyone, naturally, has the right to express themselves.

Just as I have the right to think that facial piercings (nose, lips, eyebrows) are garish and ugly, and often mar what is an otherwise nice face. :p
 
Why do young people follow any fad? "Because everyone's doing it" or "because all my friends are doing it." The irony, of course, is that when EVERYBODY does something to be cool, it's no longer cool. They're all conforming to their non-conformity.

Yeah, like marriage.
 
^ Oh come on, they're not THAT dumb, are they?

Well, it's not like they consciously thinking that. But if you boil down all the "I'm a pre-pubescent and I feel angst and I'm not sure why and there are hormones running through my body and I'm afraid to be an outcast so I'll do everything my peers are doing that they got the idea for from pop culture but we all think we're being individualistic when really we're conforming because we want to be loved by every one and I want a boy to like so what should I do other than start this paragraph again from the top," then yeah, it is about that.
 
Went over there tonight and saw it, it's really not that bad, I still think she's crazy and looked just fine without it though, heh.
 
Belly button rings don't annoy me but nose piercings do. I think they are ugly.

I remember hearing a conversation on the bus that went something like this

Girl 1 (in her late teen, maybe early 20s) - I wish I could find a job but employers won't even look at me once they see my nose piercing.

Girl 2 ( about the same age) - Why don't you just take the stud out of your nose.

Girl 1 - I shouldn't have to, I have a right to express myself.

Girl 2 - and employers have a right not to hire you.

That conversation gives me hope for the world.
 
While I don't think I'd ever get anything pierced myself, I think some piercings on some girls are hot--including navel piercings. I like nose studs, too. They aren't a make-or-break sort of thing with me, though.
 
Belly Button Rings, what's the purpose?

It's sexy.

Well, only if you've got a nice belly-button/belly.
If you have an ugly or flabby belly, a belly-button ring won't make it any more appealing. And if you have a nice, tight, toned midriff, it's a case of gilding the lily.

Nose rings look just fine -- if you happen to be of the bovine persuasion.
Only if you're a bull, though. Nose rings on cows just makes 'em look butch. :D
What about lesbian cows?
 
How does one blow their nose if they have a ring there? Wouldn't it be somewhat messy?

If you really want to know, Q-Tips. Yes, it grosses me out as well. I have never understood the appeal of deliberately putting holes in your body and sticking pieces of metal in them.
 
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