“[B]ody piercing [is a] common form of body art that has become more socially acceptable and increasingly popular in the U.S. over the past several years.”(Sandager, 1) This same art has been used in many different cultures for thousands of years. Though, in those other cultures their piercings meant something. We do it to show belonging to a particular group, rebel, and to go with a fad. These are the same reasons that American teens do a lot of things.

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Many parents tell their kids that they can’t have a body-piercing because it would make them look like an oddball. This is now untrue. The culture is changing very rapidly and body-piercing is just one part of it. It has became way more acceptable because people are getting used to seeing it on so many people. Take one trip to sixth-street in Austin. You will see that such a big percentage of the population is doing it. Why then, parents, are you really telling your kid that they can’t have a piercing? It is because they didn’t grow up around it, so to them it is weird. To them it is the person who never amounts to anything and does countless amounts of drugs that has piercings. The kids need to pull out a picture of their parents in their hippie outfits and ask them, “were these people not considered weird at first?” Was flower power acceptable to their parents?

There are many dangers of piercing. The first is that your body may reject it. If you are pierced with an unsterilized needle, you can contract HIV, Hepatitis, or other blood-transmitted diseases. If not done professionally, you can damage vital body tissues. You can h

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