Anonymous wrote:I think they can look good on some people but honestly, they must go around smelling their own puss all the time and that is so gross.

Their own....puss? Do you mean pus?

Neither makes a lick of sense.

I think they can look good on some people but honestly, they must go around smelling their own puss all the time and that is so gross.

Anonymous wrote: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?

Oh sweet, sweet summer child...

Believe it or not, sometimes people make choices about their appearance that have nothing to do with attractiveness. Sometimes it’s about experimentation, self-expression, or artistry; not everything is about getting the dick.

They want to feel unique and special. For some people, the only way they know how to do that is to look like a freak.

For some people, it’s also about wanting to feel included and like they fit in somewhere somehow. So they do stuff like that and get to fit in with the freak group.

It makes me sad for them.

I always think how miserable it must be when you have a cold

Every time I see one I think, why do they want to look like cattle?

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote: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,

Excuses, excuses.

Do people pierce their septum because they think it's actually attractive, or are they trying to be cool and edgy?

We're not talking about thousands of years of cultural history here, but a popular culture that has resulted in a desperate grappling at trying to be unique and individualistic as part of your identity, and septum piercings seem to be the latest in finding new areas to pierce so you can proclaim to the world how cool and edgy and rage against the machine you are.

Excuses... about what? You don't make any sense.

Why does anyone do anything? Wear certain clothes? Style their hair a certain way? Lots of people do all sorts of things to be "cool" and "edgy" or because they like the look or whatever to be unique. That's how style/fashion work, and have always worked - people try and be innovative. Not everyone likes everything and that's fine. I myself just have one basic piercing in each ear, and don't even color my hair. But I get that people like different things - even things that **GASP** I don't personally like!

Anonymous wrote: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,

Excuses, excuses.

Do people pierce their septum because they think it's actually attractive, or are they trying to be cool and edgy?

We're not talking about thousands of years of cultural history here, but a popular culture that has resulted in a desperate grappling at trying to be unique and individualistic as part of your identity, and septum piercings seem to be the latest in finding new areas to pierce so you can proclaim to the world how cool and edgy and rage against the machine you are.

Everything is not for everyone, OP.

Anyone who Yanks on another person's body or piercing deserves any beat down they get.

I saw a woman on the bus who had the back of her neck pierced, like the amount that would be pierced in one’s septum. I almost vomited.

If you think that’s bad ,whatever you do don’t google “Prince Albert piercing”

It's disgusting. I tolerate the traditional pierced ear (have them myself, but just because I couldn't stand the pinch kind of earrings), but body piercings in nostrils or belly buttons are just un-hygienic.

I can't imagine the misery if you have a cold or sinus infection.