Body piercing encyclopedia

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Ear piercing is one of the easiest piercings you can opt for. There are number of reasons as to why people go in for ear piercing. Apart from looking cool, many cultures around the world entail ear piercing as one of the most important parts of their cultural proceedings. In India, most women are supposed to get their ears pierced to wear traditional jewelry. Read more…

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Ear peircing is the art of getting your ears pierced with stones or any other jewelry such as junk jewelry. In fact, the ear’s lobe was the first part of the body that man attempted for piercing and this was because of alleviate by means of which the ear could be pierced. In fact, a mummy was found in the Austrian glacier which was about 5000 years old and ear peircing was done. The holes of the ears had been made big by 7-11 mm.

The primitive tribes pierced ears for mysterious purposes as there was a belief that the demon can go into the body through the ears. The tribes believed that the spirits could be warded off with ear peircing. Ear peircing is done in some societies as a part of a puberty ritual. For example, the mother and the father pierce their ears to mark the child dependence on them in Borneo. Read more…