I don’t mean to say that all goths are attention seekers. I accept that some may like the look. But surely individuality would not result in ‘conforming’ to the goth look in every way. Wouldn’t that be a bit of a coincidence? Or am a overestimating the level of individuality that people are capable of - Do people really think “I like the goth look. So I will copy it”?
Don’t know why this thread seems to be focusing on -women- who have various piercings, because I’ve seen just as many men with them. I should state up front that multiple ear piercings up the cartiledge used to bother me, but not so much any more; there’s such a plethora of other unlikely places now, I guess.
I really don’t mind any piercings very much now, although the tongue ones continue to make my stomach roll, especially when I’m trying to talk to someone with one. I just keep focusing on that ring or ball or whatever they’ve got in their tongue and it just grosses me out. Plus sometimes it’s hard to understand someone with a tongue piercing. Today I saw a picture of someone with a -forked- tongue. Now that, IMNSHO, is over the line. First thing I think of is a snake, and I am -not- fond of them, let me tell ya. Although the person sporting the forked tongue said that they could move both sides independently and it made for a good kiss. I don’t know about that!
Sorry for the slight hijack; I figured that tongue forking was in the same family as piercing though. 
My only real experience with a “goth” is my S/O’s sons girlfriend. When he brought her over the first time. She was just damn scary looking. We didn’t say anything, just realized it was a phase. Since then, she’s totally changed her dress style and attitude, not because of anything we said or did, but I think she realized that she didn’t have to dress that way to get our attention. She’s quite a striking woman, and I think I actually am more impressed with her for having the balls to initially meet us that way. That took guts, especially since I’m sure he told her what a hard ass I am. I don’t know if she was looking for attention at first, but she got it. But she gets a whole lot more now. I’m sure there are a lot of goths that like the look, but my post was based on this experience. Didn’t mean to use my Wagner PowerRoller.
Any form of self mutilation is unattractive to me. It’s too bad it’s so common now but at least piercings heal when they outgrow it unlike tattoos.
ps, I’m not really fond of ear piercings either but a small stud can look pretty good.
Oh I should have added they don’t gross me out unless it reaches freakish proportions. It’s just not something I like to see.
I don’t understand all this open horror with tongue piercings. I’ve had my tongue pierced for three years, and most people never notice I have it, unless I make a point to stick out my tongue and show them. I’ve known this one guy since before I had it pierced, and two and a half years later, he was teasing me about something and I stuck my tongue out at him. He was visibly startled and asked when the hell I’d had that done.
I’ve never bothered to take it out, ever, because it’s just not visible unless I choose to make it obvious. I don’t get it, are people walking around with their mouths hanging open, and tongues lolling out? Yawning a lot?
Because the physical appearance of someone has so much to do with their intelligence or personality.
Yes, they do. People like different things. Shocking!
This + your username is extremely amusing. 
I have noticed that my friends with tongue rings tend to have trouble enunciating certain letters. Especially /th/.
I have no peircings with the exception of ears (I rarely wear earrings) and no tattoos (I think they are tacky but I am not going to deny someone else’s right to have one). I am happy to hear that there are men out there who don’t find that sort of thing attractive. It makes me feel less out of the loop.
I’ve always found pierced tongues very sexy on people you normally wouldn’t expect to have a piercing. It’s something unexpected; like wearing sexy underwear under your twinset and pearls. If I could be bothered taking care of a tongue piercing, I’d get it done in a heartbeat.
My boyfriend has a couple of piercings in his ear, but he hasn’t had anything in them for awhile. He also has an eyebrow piercing which looks dead sexy, but he has the right sort of face for it. I’m neutral towards piercings and tattoos overall, and whether I find them sexy depends on the individual and how they carry it off.
Take a joke man. Do you really think I actually believe that for every hole added a person’s IQ drops?
Do they? well I’ll be a monkey’s uncle. Isn’t that weird!
I know one guy who has two peircings in one ear (one in his cartilage) but this guy is so hot anyway (and completely oblivious to it). The only thing I don’t like on a guy is those huge diamond earrings in both ears. Ugh! I am also really tolerant of tattoos on guys as long as it is not a naked woman who has nicer breasts than I do on the fore arm.
On the girls I’ve seen certain things on, I love it! I had a GF who had a drogon right above her ass. And lovely one it was. Ass and/or dragon. I loved playing with her navel piercing. She liked it when I did, too.
One of her best friends got married and she was in the wedding (I’m sure you’ve seen this story before) and when the bride kissed me as we were introduced, I realised just how cool a modest sized toungue stud could be. When GF had it done shortly there after, we had to check on something we had both heard. (wink, wink) Yes, it was fun.
I’m not opposed to other piercings or tattoos, either. Until they border on mutilation or get in the way of normal processes. Why a male or female would want genitals pierced is beyond me. Sub-dermal implants are downright weird. Forked tongue? That’s a mutilation.
Facial piercings? Multiple ear piercings? I judge these on a case by case basis. This is going to sound so un-PC, but oh well: They usually look better on more attractive people. And… the smaller, more subdued, the better. A guy with some huge honker of a nose and a 2" safety pin thru his cheek just looks stupid. And adding 15 ear studs to a girl who is not what I consider as pretty is just a piece of flesh with multiple piercings. Go ahaead and flame me for my un-PC views. It’s how I see it.
And even with the attractive people, men or women, I think it’s better when it’s a more subdued look.
Am I attracted to people simply because of piercings or tattoos? No. Again, each case is judged seperately by my own sense of beauty.
Am I pierced or tattood? Nope. Haven’t worn earings in years. And I’m probably not going to get repierced. As for the tattoos, my ever changing sense of style wouldn’t let me make up my mind, so I just never did. When I punked or freaked, I did it all with clothing, makeup, and hairstyle. Now, I’m normal looking as all get out. But, I still have that leaning, even tho it’s not really a part of the country music scene I’m currently mostly into.
Well, I am another person who finds piercing in women, even in the ears, unattractive. Really, girls need piercings to enhance their beauty about as much as they need another hole in their head. 
Find piercing’s sexy? Nope, not particularly. Many, (eyebrow, lip, hell…anywhere on the face) skeeve me out.
I will second Kayeby though, it’s best when you discover a piercing or tattoo you didn’t anticipate finding.
Peronally, I love the odd hair/piercings/tattoos. As long as they’re tasteful (some people might say that can’t be done, but oh well). I’ve seen piercings that were just WAY over the top. Like a guy with a 2" disk in his lower lip. Or the guy with 4 eyebrow piercings - 2 on each eyebrow, one where they normall go, and the other on the inside, near his nose. Ug.
On first sight, a lot of people think I’m Goth. I’ll refuse it until the day I die. I just happen to love piercings, black clothes, and long coats. I love the way they look on me, but I hate the attention I get from them. I know, it’s weird. I think my piercings are beautiful on me. BUT that’s my opinion, and I know not everyone shares that opinion. I honestly don’t care what anyone but my mother thinks of it, whether they like or hate them. It’s my body, and I’ll decorate it as I see fit.
And I have 4 tattoos, each one having a deeply symbolic meaning for me. I didn’t get them to look cool, since only two very tiny ones on the back of my wrists are ever visible.
I have 8 piercings: navel(only occasionally wear), nipples(14g, stainless steel hoops with catseye beads), tongue(14g, 5/8", SS, with a dark blue gem), lip(14g stud, SS, dark blue gem), nostril(pierced with 16g, currently have 18g jewelry in, SS with dark blue gem), ears(4g, dark blue with white marbled acrylic plugs).
And as for clothing, I’m the only person I’ve ever met who’s been wearing black/dark clothes since I was old enough to pick out my own clothing. I went through about a 2year “color phase.” I wear jeans, Tshirts, Docs with a dragon on the side, and a foot-length black coat in winter. When I have the money for it, I’ll be updating my clothes to a more dressy look, but they’ll still be black.
Hair is mostly purple with blue streaks in the front.
I’m well-educated and polite. I don’t do drugs, I rarely drink, and, damn, I smoke. Not even cloves, like a good Goth should. Just regular Camel Light 100’s. I’m starting up my own business, at the age of 20. I’m not in college because I believe that I can learn anything I want to without spending thousands of dollars and ending up in debt, and I don’t need a piece of paper to do what I’m going to do. The Cody and I have an apt, and we manage to pay bills, rent, and have some money left over for nice things.
One day I’ll take my piercings out. Just not anytime soon. And my tattoos will tell the story of my life.
I’m sorry to ramle on and on, but I thought I’d stick in a "pierced and tattooed freak"s point of view, heh.
Sorry if you don’t like my piercings, but there are a lot of things about “normal appearance” that bug me as well. Not in the “Oh, that’s so NORMAL, I must go puke now.” Just in the “God, that looks bad/trashy.” I hate low-ride pants (The ones that go almost to the pubes - trashy!), dark hair with thick blond highlights, pink makeup, turtlenecks with no sleeves, visors worn upsidedown/backwards, etc.
So, everyone dislikes something about how someone else looks.
I think that low rise jeans (the ones you describe) are trashy. Dark brown hair with chunky blonde highlights are just trashy and feista de serious damage to the hair. Pink make up if done right (ie very very little) is ok but I know the look you are talking about. Visors are just gross and don’t get me started on ball caps! Turtlenecks without sleeves were meant to be worn under a jacket. If you wear them without one, you have to have just about perfect arms which few people have. I also think that microminis that can be seen right up as the girl is sitting is slutty.
I am a VERY conservative person and when I walk down the street with my goth friends stares (very rudely) happen.
Peircings and tattoos are not my style, that’s all. No big deal.
Personally, I feel that one facial piercing is enough. It doesn’t matter where it is - eyebrow, lip, etc, but more than one is overkill (this is, of course, IMHO). Exceptions are nose piercings (I have only ever seen one girl manage to look ok with a nose ring, otherwise I think they often look like big spots - do blokes even wear nose rings?) and if you have a tongue piercing you can have another facial piercing because you don’t see the tongue piercing all the time. Ears are free territory, just so long as they don’t end up drooping with the weight of all the rings, it makes you look as if you’re disappointed :D).
That said, I also think that my opinion in this case doesn’t count. For every person like me, or the other posters in this thread that have expressed a personal dislike for piercings, there are others who like them, and the more the better. And, more importantly, the only person who should have an effect on what you choose to do with your body is yourself (that sounds so cheesy). And if you get bored or disillusioned with the piercing most of the time you can just take it out and it’ll heal up with little, if any, scarring. It’s not as much of a life-affecting choice as tattooing, is what I’m trying to say.
I find piercings in women highly sexy. Nose rings, belly ring, tongue piercing - yummy! I seem to be in the minority here, but I find them to be a huge turn-on. So, yes, some of us definitely do find them to be sexy!
I have always felt that piercings and tattoos are indicative of low self-esteem and fall into the same class as people who mutilate themselves with razor blades or broken glass.
Why do you feel that way?