Do's & Don'ts of Body Piercing

Video Transcript

" Hi! My name is Rick Wyckoff. You can check out our website at avatartat2.com. I’m here on behalf of expertvillage.com talking about do's and don’ts for body piercing. With the popularity of body piercing, there are a lot of untrained people out there performing procedures not only in houses and trailers all over the country, but actually in legitimate businesses. Just because there is a sign out front and they possess and business license does not exactly make somebody qualified to perform piercing procedures on the public. Since it’s not regulated by most state governments and there is no federal regulation regarding body piercing, you have people with great variation degrees of training and also motivations for doing body piercings. Some of the motivations are financial; some of them are culture or personal. Some of the procedures that you’re seeing done are not proven procedures. They’re not piercing that have not been around for a long time that people have lived with for long periods of time. Also, there are other procedures being performed beyond piercing that are, in my opinion, not only unsafe and unhygienic, but just generally unattractive. Cuttings and branding don’t really have a true aesthetic value to most people. They start off looking like a shape or a symbol, but as time goes on and the scar tissue develops and the person’s body changes and they become a regular, losing their original shape and all that, it’s really a lot of danger and pain for not of a lot of reward. Then there are people who are taking it to an even farther degree and doing extreme branding and amputation; chopping off digits etc. or removing large sections of skin. Basically, scalping off a large areas of somebody’s anatomy, basically skinning somebody. Those practices are definitely risky. If you are interested in it, going to the website bme.com is the one to check out for every point of view on that kind of thing and all different kinds of photographs and stories about people’s experiences regarding extreme mortification. "