Of *course *it’s been done! I know a girl who has her labia minora pierced several times and “sewn up” with a single corkscrew piece. THAT’S subculture! :eek:
I’ve seen it done with string, but never with a helical piece of metal…
Okay I just said way too much and will leave now.
Yup, although I’ve more commonly seen them in eyebrows.
Umm…this may be TMI, but does she had sex? And if so, how? I mean, I can imagine that it’s not sewn up all the way, but I’d imagine that even slightly rough sex could cause it to tear or rip out, not to mention that those in the body mod sub-culture tend to attract others also in the body mod sub-culture, leading me to wonder if people with several piercings “down there” ever get stuck together. :eek:
I am assuming you are a woman. Short answer if it’s “taboo” or “subculture”, no. In my neck of the woods, even in the 1980’s South Texas, this was not considered outrageous for women to wear (tattoos, yes, but that’s another story 
). Now. 1987. A guy. Yes. Subculture and sort-of-a-taboo. 2007. Hardly. I don’t think anyone bats an eye about guys wearing earrings or women with tattoos.
I believe she takes it out first, but I am not privy to the proceedings, so I can’t be sure.
I do have a (male, obviously) friend with a Prince Albert CB who once got “stuck” when his partner forgot she was wearing a clitoral hoop instead of her normal bar. Yowza! Luckily, he was able to stay very, very still while she worked things out, so to speak, and they didn’t need ER help.
I guess DH is just really conservative when it comes to body altering type things. Although he did have a tatoo on his biceps which he had removed . Now he has a huge scar.
I took the earring out and will let it grow up since he dislikes it. It was really healing up nicely too!
OWWW. I hope you know I just reflexively clamped my legs together from reading that. I’m not unfamiliar with piercing one’s nether regions, but that… OW. What if you sit wrong…? cringe
Another vote for not subculture. I knew the whole piercing thing was passe when I was still in college lo these many years ago. They were selling “tattoo” t-shirts at the mall. “So, like, you don’t have to, like, go through all the pain of getting ink done, and like, you can just take it off if you get tired of the design!” Sorority girls were tramping en masse in their clogs and neo-retro bell bottoms to get bellybuttons, ears, tongues (<giggle> aren’t I a naughty girl?!), and possibly other things pierced. We referred to the tats that would popularly be called tramp stamps as “insert dick here” signs because so many designs pointed straight to cleft of the rump.
I wasn’t even into the whole body modification thing and I still cracked jokes about the Barbie-wannabe’s mothers getting clit-hood rings because it was trendy. The 30-something overweight chick at work had a pierced nipple and was thinking about getting her tongue done. To give you an idea of how hip this woman was, her favorite band was Heart and this was the late 90s. Getting a cartilage piercing is about as out there as shopping at Hot Topic these days. The guy is waaayyy uptight if he thinks it’s “subculture.”
He is uptight about certain things, no doubt about that. I didn’t get it done to be “cool”, or “out there”. I’m not one to follow the crowd. I don’t have a slut stamp. The tatoo I do have was done in memory of a friend, way before it was trendy. I got the cartlage piercing because I like the look. I was concerned after his reaction, that maybe like lower back tatoos, that this piercing had a negative association that I wasn’t aware of. Thats why I asked.
Sorry, I just re-read what I posted and realized that it could be interpreted as being slightly derogatory of your choice in piercings. I only intended to be snotty about the whole piercing trend and its becoming mainstream. I don’t do BM, but I get what it’s about. You shouldn’t do it because your friends do, or 'cause it’s kewl, but because you want to. Part of what’s involved is not just personal aesthetics, but also the rite of passage of deliberately doing something to yourself that causes pain.
In earlier days, you also had to bear social opprobrium, something which is much less now, unless you’re heavily pierced or have unusual piercing placements. This is a whole lot less socially acceptable than this due to placement. As far as I know, the ear piercing I linked to would be considered pretty mainstream, borderline normal nowadays. On the other hand, making your ear into a pincushion by getting all the possible illustrated piercing in that image will draw more negative attention than just a couple rings through the top part.
And if you look like this guy, you’d probably better be ready for quite a few double-takes and comments, as well as some jokes about what you’ve got shoved through the hole in your schnoz. If your husband thinks a simple helix piercing is subculture, he probably wouldn’t even want to look at anything on BMEzine’s site. Even those guys would think some of the stuff here is dumb. (CAUTION, last picture is mostly unidentifiable at a glance, but definitely not work-safe)
