From: AliBaba
Category: Desperate cry for attention
Date: 26 Jan 2000
Time: 08:24:48
Remote Name: 165.247.97.99
Drazz, you asked those of us with piercings other than ears, did sexual motivation have anything to do with it - here's my two francs on the subject. I've told this same tale in another context, so the rest of the pool can skip it.
I got my belly button pierced on the spur of the moment. As a present for my 7th anniversary, the women I sponsor had chipped in to pay for getting my tattoo reworked. (I'd had a star on my wrist bone (yeah, I know, don't say it) since I was 16, it was a home job and not a particulary good one, and I'd wanted to get it covered with our emblem (a triangle within a circle, for the unititiated) for several years. ANYWAY, I was at the tattoo parlor, the guy did the work, great job, but I had money left over. I didn't particularly want another tattoo, but felt like I should spend the extra funds there, as pocketing the difference would have seemed somehow unethical to me. (Probably silly, but it's how I felt.) So at the last second, I decided to get the belly button pierced.
Now...a REALLY good question for me to have asked would have been "is this going to hurt?". Stupid me, I figured it would be just like getting my ears pierced. Duh. WRONG. It hurt like a sonofabitch.
But the funniest part was when the guy was giving me instructions on care and cleaning, and how to keep it from getting infected. He said "now for the next couple of months, while this is healing, don't let anyone put their mouth on it." Well shit, says I, that's the whole purpose in GETTING one, isn't it? It's a lure, plain and simple.
No doubt other people have other motivations I'm just saying that that was the main reason I got one.
Hope this answers your question.
Ali "a tattoo saying 'place lips here' would have been too obvious" Baba