Your Thoughts on Belly-Button Piercings

[SundownWaterfowl]

I like tattoo's. Would like to get one someday.

 

[I have WHAT in my yard?]

Had a friend who had one and it looked really cute when we were all 18. Then we all got old and had kids. Her piercing grew out with her belly and when her belly button popped out it stretched the piercing. She wasn't wearing any ring by then so she didn't notice until AFTER the baby and her tummy started to flatten back out. She was lucky and she worked at it but when she got her stomach nice and flat she had this stretched out thing that looked like a pull tab on a beer can!!

Her insurance company would not cover fixing it as it was cosmetic. It took her a few years but she finally did get it removed.

 

[PorterinCT]

Would we think it was "trashy" or "sleazy" if it was something young men typically did?
Just pointing out how the patriarchy is so critical and morally judgmental about female
bodies (if anyone wants some smart gender theory reading pick up Judith Bulter's Bodies
that Matter). Not a personal attack, just pointing out how easy it is to fall into the mindset
of the white male patriarchy dominate culture...

Are we asking "what do you think of men with facial hair?" no...

If you don't like them, don't get one - simple enough.

And PLEASE, don't pierce your hen's belly buttons (do they have belly buttons?)

 

[Noncentzter]

I'm 52, have one ear with two piercings and three tats. My daughters, when they were teenagers wanted to have their belly buttons pierced. I said ears were ok, but I was not paying for belly buttons. If they wanted their belly buttons pierced they had to wait until they were 18 and pay for it themselves. Interestingly enough, they are both over 18 now and neither one has gotten that area pierced, as of yet.

 

[agnes_day]

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absolutely. if any of my sons came home with one, they would be taking it out pretty darn quick or i would do it for them.

personally, this whole getting rid of standards in appearance is why people go to the store in their pjs and ratty hair, why 8 year old girls look like they are getting ready to hit the bars,why men dress like thugs,...its an "everything goes" society now and we will pay the price, eventually if we havent started paying already.

 

[DragonEggs]

I'm biting my tounge right now... Be good... be good....

Oddly enough... I noticed that I haven't been wearing my bellybutton ring for a few days....

I thought about getting some tattoos on my stomach area but I am afraid of stretching when I maybe one day have kids. Tattoos stretch and shrink with your skin without becoming mutated, as long as there are no stretch marks. I know a lot of women who oiled their bellys while pregnant and never got stretch marks and some women whos stretch marks were so bad they had to have cosmetic surgery. One girl I know had a playboy bunny on her stomach and when she had her kids and they did the historectomy and tummy tuck afterwards it cut off the bunny's head and left only the tips of the ears. I wonder if she ever got that fixed....

Funny that the belly button ring hole stretched on a pregnant woman. Ive never heard of that. I know lots of women who were 9 months pregnant and wore soft belly rings, even after their navel popped out. None of their holes stretched.

Guess thats why every body is different

 

[Miltonchix]

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Sleazy is sleazy. Trashy is trashy.
IMHO the young men are to blame for most ALL the sleaziness. No dads kickin' butt and keeping them in line. If you don't want your daughters being sleazy quit letting them hang with sleazy dudes. Unfortunately the sleaze line keeps getting shifted more and more and depraved behavior is accepted as normal.
My youngest (now raising her 3) kept telling me she does it to be different. HUH?? You look like all the other idiots!!

 

[agnes_day]

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Sleazy is sleazy. Trashy is trashy.
IMHO the young men are to blame for most ALL the sleaziness. No dads kickin' butt and keeping them in line. If you don't want your daughters being sleazy quit letting them hang with sleazy dudes. Unfortunately the sleaze line keeps getting shifted more and more and depraved behavior is accepted as normal.
My youngest (now raising her 3) kept telling me she does it to be different. HUH?? You look like all the other idiots!!

exactly!

 

[chickendude]

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Me personally I don't like them. To each their own. But you stated... "Are we asking "what do you think of men with facial hair?" no..." That's not a good analogy because facial hair on men is 100% natural. A belly piercing is not.

 

[Sir Birdaholic]

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Hey, don't dis my tatts. Same thing as a woman wearing make-up, only permanent.