I like the one about how if you get your nipples pierced and then you become prego milk will squirt out different directions...I just tell people COOL!! I always wanted to be a sprinkler!!
It's not true...

I had to laugh when I read #7. I know where that erroneous notion comes from. As a medical microbiologist, I am forever having to educate people on this topic. The yeast used to make bread and alcoholic beverages is Saccharomyces cerevisiae. It does not live on humans and it does not infect anything, including humans. Therefore drinking alcoholic beverages or eating bread with not give you a yeast infection from the yeast used to make that food.

The kind of yeast that infects people, which causes vaginal yeast infections and thrush in the mouth, is Candida albicans. It lives on our skin and mucous membranes and causes opportunistic infections. In other words, if our resistance drops, or the bacteria that are normally colonized on us are decreased (for example from taking antibiotics or using Advir and not rinsing your mouth out afterwards like the directions tell you to) then Candida (which is always around) will take over and you will get a real yeast infection. If Glyoxide or Peroxyl use increases the risk of an oral yeast infection, then it is most likely because these antiseptics are also wiping out normal microbiota.

i like number 6 my moms always warns like that now i can tell her it's not true.

LOL!!

HA! I CAN'T BELEIVE #2!! You MUST be joking. My stupid navel piercing HURT SO BAD- it hurt as much as after surgery I had done- if not more. But at least I had pain meds for that- for the piercing I obviously didn't and I had to take something.

Don't let them kid you- BODY PIERCING HURTS LIKE CRAZY.

I agree with how they say that piercing isn't all that painful. It is so quick! It's over in like a second or two. Even the pain isn't that bad during those few seconds. If you want a piercing and are afraid of pain, just don't think about and just go do it! The worrying about the pain IS really the worst part of it all! You will laugh at yourself when it's over cause you worried so much

piercedoff101 It seems like something went wrong for you, because there shouldn't be that much residual pain when you get your navel pierced!! I got mine done at 12 and had no problems, maybe you should get that looked at?

i laughed like crazy after i got my nose pierced. it hurt...but i was really amused that i had been that worried.

but then it got annoying and i took it out after like 2 weeks.

Anyone ever been told that they will get tongue cancer if they pierce their tongue? I had a radiologist lecture me for 15 minutes, basically saying my tongue will fall off if I didn't take my barbell out.

A reverse PA is incredibly painful and was the only piercing I fainted from.....nipples were pretty intense too. How fast the piercer is a big factor pain wise and the one I now use does NOT use clamps......I have had with and without the clamps and either way is ok with me. The clamping seemed to minimize the piercing.....
bubba

This is directed at piercedoff101: If you read carefully the writer explicitly says that pain is a relative thing. Everyone has a different experience. This is because everyone is built slightly different. You may have more nerve endings around your navel than other people. The density and elasticity of your skin may be greater. A persons tolerance for pain is another issue. Yours may just be very low. I for instance had my apadravya piercing done with a 4 gauge needle. Yes it was painful. The head of the penis is full of nerve endings but I've hurt myself much worse than that by smashing my thumb with a hammer or my hand slipping off a slippery wrench.

As mentioned in an earlier post on this topic, pain is a relative thing. My nipple piercings hurt like hell, but it was over in a moment. One word of warning dont knock a new piercing as I did in a store. That hurt more than the actual piercing lol.

Great Questions often asked of me. First, pain is a part of daily life. I have lived with progressive back curvature since i was a teen. I pop more Ibuprofen than balloons to cover the annoyance. I have multiply piercings. Some professionally done and others I have done. Each produce pain but only for an instant. What is produce was a proud piercing that has healed and exists without any pain. But, i still have my spinal pain... So,which is worse.
Also, piercing is not demonic... I am a conservative christian and find no reference to counter piercing. In fact, Hebrew slaves in the Old Testament, when freed by their masters, could choose to remain in his service for life. This, when chosen, was symbolized by boring the earlobe and replacing it with a ring. The freed slave proudly wore this symbol to show his/her love of the master. Likewise, the body is indeed called "The Temple of the Holy Spirit." For me my piercings and even the many tattoos I sport, are to enhance my body in artwork that symbolizes my personal faith. I get many people to ask me about my artwork. After explaining my religious symbolization, many consider "getting a tattoo or piercing." HHmmnn, how evil and demonic. For anyone who hears these negative comments, just hold your head high, give and ear to the confused individual, thank him/her for the comment, smile, and LEAVE IN PEACE !!!!!!

i remember when i first tried to split my tongue..

botched the processes...

spent 9 hours bleeding..

took a few stitches to get it to stop..

When i was 14 and in high school, a retarded ass school nurse told me i was going to die of a brain tumor/abcess from piercing my tounge....anyone ever heard of that one?? lol, what a dumb bitch...

There was a 15 year old boy in California (I think) that died shortly after getting his tongue pierced. While the piercing didn't directly cause his death, the fresh wound provided bacteria an easy outlet into his body and the resulting infection caused his death. But yeah, even my boss has tried the whole "body piercing will kill you" scare tactic. She doesn't realize that by having so many "holes" in my body, I am probably the cleanest person she knows.

(In response to piercedoff101)

Note that levels of pain differ from each person.. My navel piercing didn't hurt at all whatsoever.. Infact the ONLY piercing I have had out of all 11 was the top of my ear in the cartilage but even that was "short-lived" as the article says most piercing pain is.. Don't freak people out if you aren't going to state that it hurts but it can be different for everyone, it isn't necessary.

#2 depends on the person and how they can take it, I have 8 tattoos none hurt but somepeople are different, I had my tongue peirce wasnt nothin, last night did my own crenom peircing and i bout dropped to the floor, sike it was way less painfull then my tongue.. its a quick pain the most pain you will probably steadly feel is after ward with you tongue..

Fear of pain is no reason not to go through with a piercing. If you want it, get it! And I'm not sure why people think a navel piercing is supposed to be easy - maybe cuz it's more popular than others? I hear that tongues and VCHs are the easiest to recieve - and navels are actually pretty gnarly. I had a girl faint from a navel yesterday, even though she didn't seem to be in any pain.

My mom told me that there's a nerve on the top of the ear that if punctured (as by an outer conch or helix piercing) will kill the individual instantly. There are enough people who had helix piercings done by idiots that I'm pretty sure this isn't true. But has anyone else heard that one?

How many time can you pierce your navel when you already have thick and hard scar already?

When I first had my left nipple done it hurt like hell another guy had to hold me down and he put in a ring which migrated out in six months.Plucked up the courage to get both done again a year later but at another place in cornwall u.k.what adifference it was quite an enjoyable experience,no pain or blood this time thank you red dragon of redruth.

I just got my tongue done 4 days ago and I worked myself up like crazy beforehand. It was funny when I actually had it done, I didn't even flinch. The pain (if you even want to call it that) was very, very quick and minimal. I had to laugh at myself for making it way more than it was! I am ready to get more now, like tattoos, they are addictive!!

Welcome to Tribe Whiskerfish & yes, they are addictive

ROTFLMAO! Take it from someone who has nursed 3 children for a total of 5 years (all together not each, LOL). Even UNpierced nips act as sprinklers when you nuse. Wait till that first hot shower after your milk comes in, you'll wish there was an off switch!!

Not to mention when you pump, with unpierced nipples, haha. It really is like a shower, it sprays out in little jets, in every direction. It is SUCH A TRIP to look down and see that. Idk what it would be like after being pierced though, can't imagine.

My favorite myth has not been covered here (yet), I get piercing clients constantly asking which side of their nose/ear being pierced means they are gay/straight. I always tell them the same thing...I know many gay men and women and not one of them looks at someone and says well they have the left/right side of their nose/ear pierced I'm gonna go hit on them.
It doesn't mean anything except that you wanted that side pierced!

You're right Tiffany, that one is still out there. I think that is the original piercing myth, from the mid 1970s when body piercings was still largely unknown. Guys started to get their ears pierced, with a gun, as that was the only known way, and they would get a tiny stud on one lobe.

I remember all the talk was on "is it really ok for guys to get their ears pierced like that?" And then the answer came, if its on the left it means he's gay, nad on the right he's straight. Or maybe it was the other way around, I can't even remember which was which now.

And during this time, my friends, and schoolmates had no idea that people got other things pierced, this was before nose piercings, navels or anything else. That's why I say it is probably the original piercing myth.

Thanks for this, rickster58761 It's refreshing to hear that I am not the only conservative pierced person on the face of the earth. Some people ask me why I believe what I do - I am a republican, yet I am also an artist and I sport body art. They wonder why I am not liberal like most artsy people. I just smile

Response to rickster58761. The only biblical argument, one my parents used, is Leviticus 19:28 'Do not cut your bodies for the dead or put tattoo marks on yourselves. I am the LORD'. However this verse is probably referring to pagan rituals and the same chapter also forbids hybridizing animals and shaving, lol. Given the context i don't think it has anything to do with aesthetic or symbolic body art. There are also many references to piercings, especially a nose ring as a symbol of a marriage covenant. I'm 22 now and since i left my parents I've pierced (edited) a dozen times, my mother will probly never understand but she accepts my right to live according to my own convictions now that I'm an adult.

Hey noahjm, when i split my tongue i ended up nicking one of those main veins in my tongue and just cauterized it with a wood burner. it still bled for a good couple hours but i didnt need stitches to stop it. just some good vitamin water and a deep meditation.
I hope my next split goes better though. I had to get it put back together for a prospective job in the military.