The discovery of jewellery dating back to the bronze ages in Europe and the British Isles shows that the peoples of that time probably pierced and stretched their lobes with heavy bronze jewellery.
The 'Kama Sutra', which was probably written in India as long as 1, years ago, describes the practise of male genital piercing as a sexual aid. The gladiators of ancient Rome and the athletes of ancient Greece pierced the scrotum and the foreskin for the practical purpose of keeping their genitals out of their way while performing in sport and combat.
But this practice was also used in ancient Rome, ancient Greece and also in South East Asia where the horizontal Palang piercing was used to prevent slaves, and convicts, from engaging in sexual activity. During Europe's Middle Ages from around AD , it may have been a combination of poor economy and strict religious dogma, which created a cultural atmosphere that suppressed the individuals freedom to experiment and practise body modification.
Those times were also troubled by plague, and so people may have been more wary of physical defects, such as marks on the skin or of sores and perforations on the body. But the following renaissance had Europeans leaving their shores in larger ships to explore further and seek new resources and goods to trade back home.
It was from this time that Europe was re-introduced to tattooing and body modifications. Elizabethan sailors encountered tribes-people, who would pierce their ears, which they believed would help to improve their eyesight; an appealing proposition to seafarers whose eyesight was all-important. Gavin, MD. Larger text size Large text size Regular text size.
What Is a Body Piercing? What Should I know About It? Ask questions and make sure that the body piercer : is a licensed practitioner washes his or her hands before each procedure wears fresh disposable gloves like those worn at a doctor's office uses single-use needles and sterilized instruments uses ear-piercing guns that are sterilized or disposable The shop also should follow procedures for the proper handling and disposal of waste like needles or gauze with blood on them.
Choose jewelry including backs or studs made from metals that are less likely to cause reactions, such as: surgical stainless steel solid gold not gold-filled or gold-plated niobium titanium If you think the shop isn't clean enough, if all your questions aren't answered, or if you feel in any way uncomfortable, go somewhere else to get your piercing.
What Happens During a Piercing? This is what to expect from getting a body part pierced: The body piercer should wash his or her hands with antibacterial soap and water and wear clean, fresh gloves.
The area to be pierced except for the tongue is cleaned with alcohol or other antiseptic. You should see the piercer remove needles and equipment from sterile containers.
Your skin is then punctured with a very sharp, single-use needle. The piece of jewelry, which has already been sterilized, is placed. The body piercer disposes of the needle in a special container so that there is no risk of the needle or blood touching someone else. While some historians have slightly overstated the case it wasn't a general fashion trend that everybody and their sister went for , there seems to have been an enthusiastic embrace of the idea of nipple piercings among the demi-monde in Parisian society in the s — they were apparently referred to as anneaux de sein.
The show Outlander features nipple piercings on a mistress of the French king at Versailles. There is a legend that Victorian-era doctors actually recommended this to women as a way of easing pain during breastfeeding , but nobody has actually found any evidence of this though it sure would be fun if it was true! Nose and septum rings have had an extraordinarily long life; they existed in both ancient African and Mesoamerican civilizations, were mentioned in the Bible , and remain part of the dowry and divorce settlements of the Bedouin nomadic people.
They came to India in the s, and spread to America in the '60s as hippies returned from their journeys to Indian ashrams. But nose rings actually turned up in American society a lot earlier — and all because of a French songstress with a pet pig. The singer Polaire — who at one point had one of the world's smallest waists at inches in a corset , marketed herself as "the ugliest woman in the world", and was beloved of French painters like Toulouse-Lautrec — brought herself, her pet pig named Mimi and her nose piercing to America in to do a tour.
Polaire's nose piercing was seen as another mark of flamboyance, but people did take notice. However, it's likely none of them guessed that a century later, people would be getting the same piercing not to telegraph their extreme eccentricity, but to look cooler on Instagram they also probably wouldn't have guessed about the existence of Instagram.
Or the internet. It's been an eventful century! By JR Thorpe. Warning: NSFW content ahead. FLorentine Codex. This body was proven to be over 5, years old. There have been many examples of body piercings throughout history for a wide range of reasons. Many cultures have used piercings to indicate an affiliation to a certain tribe or clan, to indicate status or social ranking, to enhance attractiveness, to appear fierce to enemies, or even to symbolically represent a rite of passage. In ancient Egypt, there were noted to be examples of naval piercings.
It is said that in this culture, the royal family had gold rings through their belly buttons to denote their high class and status.
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