Body piercing: after thousand years

Body piercings have seen a resurgence of interest in the last ten to twenty years and are becoming more and more a part of the mainstream Western culture. Take a look at any fashion or entertainment magazine, and you`ll see plenty of well-known celebrities with body piercings, like navel rings or a labret. You might be surprised to find out that piercing is actually an ancient form of expression that most cultures have practiced at some time or other for thousands of years.
Body piercing has become more and more popular last time. Many years ago piercing was for the most part confined to ears, but today`s vogue contains studs, bars and rings being inserted in the tongue and neck, in the ears, in the eyebrows, in the lips, in the nipples, in the navels, and in the genitals.

Piercing was used by many cultures (many ancient civilizations) many years ago. Later piercing kits become very popular with people in spite of sex. Is it a man or a woman - it doesn`t matter

Many people performance body piercing because of their religions or some cultural reasons. Except it, many people take a great interest in ornamental, spiritual, or some sexual reasons.

A lot of people who have a piercing don`t have any problem. Home cure can help fast healing and obviate any problem of yours.

Body piercing long time ago:

Archeological excavations testify that body piercing was popular (ears and other parts of the body) long time ago. It was almost everywhere over the world.

Mummy with piercing has been found, contain very old mummy discovered to date, which was found in an Austrian (A lazily movable mass of the ice) glacier. This mummified body was pierced in the ear - about seven - eleven mm (diameter).
The most ancient known mummy with piercing remains of one man. He was pierced over 5,000 years ago. He had pierced his ears with a lot of gauge plugs in mummy`s ears. Plugs maybe one of the oldest configurations of body modification. History is telling that the Egyptians liked to decorate themselves. They even narrowed fixed types of piercing to the regal family.

Actually, only pharaoh could have his navel pierced beause anybody else, who tried to get a belly button ring, could be killed being duly executed. Almost every successful Egyptian citizen wore earrings, though, to show their abundance, and they put emphasis on their beauty. Elaborate glazed and gold earrings often depicted items in nature, like lotus blossoms.

Body piercing is also mentioned in the Bible. In the Old Testament it is evident that body jewelry is a well-thought-out sign of beauty and abundance, particularly for Bedouin and vagrant tribes. Body jewelry was given as a wedding gift or as piece of a tocher, very often. It is evident, that piercing jewelry was a mark of status and allure in the Biblical age.

Tongue piercing was pretty popular with social elite sections of Aztec and Maya civilization (A participant of the Nahuatle people who fixed an empire in Mexico that was uncrown by Cortes in 1519). While it was being transform into a part of a bloody rite, and such piercing wasn`t indicates to be permanent. Many centuries ago in the Central America and Mexico were a piercing jewelry: Mesoamericans was real connoisseur of the body art. They wore jewelry in their noses, ears, and lower lips, and same attires persist to be popular with local peoples in these area.

As for nowadays, body piercing hes passed ahead to body tattoo. One of the reasons of this phenomenal occurrence is maybe the most probably the short duration over the life. Maybe that`s why most people, who want to make themselves body art, make body piercing. Because they can dare to make piercing.
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