Body piercing and how society
Body piercing and how societyBody piecing is a topic that is world wide and is in our every day lives. The
following series of paragraphs will explain how people with piercings are looked
at by society today. Some wonder why people even get piercings. Most of
society doesn�t really know the background of piercing�s. Today�s society can be very cruel and judgmental to new and different things and I will give you my
insight on piercings.
People get piercing for several different reasons. They might not always be the right reason but they still get them. People get body piercing due to peer pressure. Other people get piercing to fit into a certain group that they want to be included into. Some teenagers get piercing to be rebellious against their parents. Others get it done because they see a piercing as something beautiful and want to add that beauty to their own body. Some people even get it done simply for sexual stimulation of that particular body part that is pierced. The main age group that seems to get piercing is 17-25 even though there are some grandmas out there getting all pierced up.
In today�s society people judge people by their piercings. Society is and has been stuck on visual judgment. All different types of people get piercing just society makes the choice to judge people like that. Even though most people think the same way society does doesn�t mean that society is always right. We all think like society sometime in our life even if it isn�t right to do so. I know I have caught myself making some comment about someone and not even knowing the person. In many different countries piercing is a way to show leadership in tribes. Even though body piercing have been going on for hundreds of years many people today think that its just some new trend that all the drug addicts are doing. Which is not true. I mean look at me do I look like I would have a nipple ring. The history of body piercing goes back quite a ways. It goes all the way back to the Roman and Victorian time when body piecing was not uncommon at all. Many of the Romans got piecing only to...
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