Women: Piercing Web Filter

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(Ah, Sleazeside Heights, summertime and Joisey white trash  Bernadette and I lost ourselves in brief reminiscence.) <p> It seems to me that navel piercings on the boardwalk are so... non-threatening. They're child's play  like Piercing Mildred, a cartoon girl you get to pierce, and then help heal. (As far as I know, Mildred existed long before Tamagotchi fever hit this country.) Now, I've known for a while that my own <a href="../../../www_subdomain/tripod/letters/emma4.html">navel and nose piercings</a> were somewhat less than extreme. But do you wanna know what <b>is</b> extreme? There are strict definitions, according to the Body Modification E-zine (Tagline: "hack your body." I like that.) Actually, there's extreme piercing and then there's technical piercing. The former makes even jaded piercers say "woah, dude"; the latter refers more to the procedure, and the level of skill required in the piercer. A pierced uvula, for example. Talk about cartoonish piercing  when does anyone think about their uvula, except when some toon opens its mouth and screams? <p> Speaking of piercing, some 54-year-old woman in Virginia just got arrested for animal cruelty. The police found a fawn with pierced ears in the back of her pickup truck. It's sort of sad, really. The woman just wanted a pet, and I guess she figured if parents can pierce their 3-year-old daughter's ears, then why can't she pierce a deer? <p> Maybe I'll just go get me some mehndi. Liv and Gwen and the unmentionable Artist tell me this ancient Indian art of henna body painting is the modification of the moment. And best of all, it isn't permanent. You could probably even do it to your pets. <p><hr><p> <b>Emma Taylor</b> is the editor of Tripod's Women's Zone. 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