Septum piercings
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Anonymous
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Can someone explain why some young people have them and think they're attractive?
Every time I see one I have to resist the temptation to reach over and tug it down just to see what would happen. Or ask why they aren't wearing cow bells too. |
Anonymous
Why do some young people have them? Because they wanted to. Why do they think they're attractive? Because their tastes are different from yours. Chacun(e) à son goût |
Anonymous
But what makes it attractive? There must be a reason. A theory, even. What about septum piercings attracts them to it over the conventional places for piercings. |
Anonymous
I'm 45 and have had a septum piercing since I was 16. I like piercings. To each their own. That being said, I have actually has someone yank on my piercing and berate me for having it. She was extremely lucky I was able to control myself and not punch her in the face - which I really had to resist the temptation to do. |
Anonymous
Duh, it's a decoration, just like ear piercings. Good lord. |
Anonymous
What makes other piercings attractive? Because people like it. I don't have a nose piercing but I thought about it for years because my grandmother and her mother, etc. had them. If I didn't have terrible allergies, I would have. |
Anonymous
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OP here.
To clarify, I am taking about those rings that go through the septum, not your old fashioned nose piercing. To me it seems quite silly and childish and I cannot fathom why some people find them attractive, if only because it involves parts of the nose that is closely intimate with bodily fluids. Do they pierce the septum because it's among the last places of the body for piercings to come to and theoretically a novelty? |
Anonymous
| Because they think they look like a badass. |
Anonymous
| Those are so gross to me. All I can think about when I see someone with one is the inside of their nose, which then grossed me out. I also think about hogs. Nothing is attractive about them. https://c8.alamy.com/comp/DJ263X/pig-with-nose-ring-DJ263X.jpg |
Anonymous
Yes, that's the thing! I can understand the nose stud even if I don't care for them. But the septum rings remind me so much of livestock that it has me scratching my head wondering why kids would want to pierce themselves as if they were a cow or pig. |
Anonymous
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Kids want to rebel against perceived societal norms and go outside what they view as mainstream.
Once upon a time, when my elderly mother was a teen in the early 1950s, she was not allowed to have pierced ears. In her family and very socially stratified, prejudiced community in the southern U.S., pierced ears were for lower-class people -- i.e., poor people, immigrants, African-American people, "the other." It would have been just as transgressive for her to sneak out and get her ears pierced then as it would be for your 15 year old kid to sneak out and get a ring in their septum now. It's all cultural, OP and some PPs. Piercing has been around for thousands of years, and what's considered beautiful, acceptable, and even necessary is about societal norms and beliefs and about those who push back against those norms. https://www.racked.com/2016/5/10/11602034/ear-piercings-history-culture-claires |
Anonymous
| People like different things. |
Anonymous
Sure. And it's still d*mn ugly and silly. It doesn't excuse it or your foolishness. But kids gotta be kids. At least septum piercings aren't as stupid and permanent as most tattoos I see these days. Then again those who have septum piercings also tend to have tattoos, so hardly surprised either. |
Anonymous
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I don't like them personally, but they're not any different than ear piercings, nostril piercings, or belly button piercings - people like different aesthetics. It's subjective, not objective.
Just like how Americans eat chickens, cows, and pigs - and other people eat dogs, camels, and ostrich. Neither is more weird - you're just culturally conditioned to eat/like what you eat/like, |
Anonymous
| Yes, I think of cattle when I see them. Not what I imagine most women are going for when they choose decorative jewelry. |