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For the metalworking process, see Piercing (metalworking).

Girl with several facial piercings (Monroe, Septum and Labret)
Body piercing is the practice of puncturing or cutting a part of the human body, creating an opening in which jewelry may be worn. Body piercing is a form of body modification. The word piercing can refer to the act or practice of body piercing, or to an opening in the body created by this act or practice. The cultural norms reflected in body piercing are various. They may include religion, spirituality, fashion, eroticism, conformism, or subcultural identification.
Contents
1 History of body piercing
1.1 In ancient times
1.2 Worldwide
1.3 In western cultures
1.3.1 Ears
1.4 Body piercing folklore
1.5 Personal attitudes
1.6 Religion
1.7 World records
2 Contemporary piercing procedures
2.1 Standard needle method
2.2 Indwelling cannula method
2.3 Dermal punching
2.4 Piercing guns
2.5 Internally threaded jewelry
3 The healing process and body piercing aftercare
3.1 Behavior that promotes healing
3.2 Behavior that hinders healing
3.3 Changing of initial jewelry to allow for swelling
3.4 Discharge on the jewelry
4 Risks associated with body piercing
5 Removal
6 Body Jewelry Sizing
7 See also
7.1 Related media
8 References
9 External links
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History of body piercing
In ancient times
Evidence suggests that body piercing (including ear piercing) has been practiced by people all over the world from ancient times. It is said that people would pierce their ears so that evil spirits wouldn't enter their body. Mummified bodies with piercings have been discovered, including the oldest mummified body discovered to date, that of ?tzi the Iceman, which was found in a Valentina Trujillon glacier. This mummy had an ear piercing 711 mm (1to000 gauge in AWG) diameter.[1]
In Book of Genesis of the Bible 24:22, Abraham's servant gave a golden earring of half a shekel weight and ten bracelets to Rebekah, wife of his son Isaac. In Exodus 32, Aaron makes the golden calf from melted earrings. Deuteronomy 15:1217 dictates ear piercing as a mark of slavery. Nose piercing has been common in India since the sixteenth century.
Worldwide
Ear piercing, of either one or both ears has long been practiced by men in many non-Western cultures. Other forms of body piercing have also existed continuously for as long as ear piercing. For example, women in India, Nepal and Pakistan routinely practice ear and nostril piercing, and have done so for centuries.
In western cultures

Nipple piercings, vertical labret piercing and a stretched ear.
Ears
Ear piercing has existed continuously since ancient times, including throughout the twentieth century in the Western world. However, in North America, Europe, and Australasia, ear piercing was relatively rare from the 1920s until the 1960s. At that time, it regained popularity among westernized women. It was gradually adopted by men in the gay, hippie, punk, and gangster subcultures, until ever-widening appropriation attenuated its subcultural associations altogether. Today, single and multiple piercing of either or both ears is common among Western women and somewhat common among men.
Body piercing folklore
The marketing of modern body piercing products and services has emphasized their connection to longstanding cultural practices, even as the image of body piercing is often one of indifference or even radicalism regarding cultural norms. Musafar connected modern body-piercing culture to longstanding practices in non-Western cultures. Retrospective and imaginary though these links may be, they have succeeded in making body piercing a central practice of modern primitivism.
Malloy took a different route, marketing contemporary body piercing by giving it the patina of a Western history. His pamphlet, Body & Genital Piercing in Brief, concocted fanciful histories of genital piercings in particular. These ersatz, and often homoerotic tales---which include the notion that Prince Albert invented the piercing that shares his name in order to tame the appearance of his large penis in tight trousers, and that Roman centurions attached their capes to nipple piercings---are widely circulated as urban legends, and Malloy's pamphlet is sometimes cited as evidence of their historical veracity.
The notion of an aristocratic European past of body piercing enjoys widespread appeal. Hans Peter Duerr argues in Dreamtime that nipple piercing became popular in fourteenth century Europe. There is evidence, both anecdotal and photographic, that nipple piercing was practiced in Europe during the late nineteenth century and in the early...(and so on)