Modern Piercing

Modern piercing drilling became popular in the US, UK and Europe as part of the punk movement in the 1970s against-culture.

Piercing

There was a visible manifestation of the rebellion, most mail or rings around the ear or nose, or nails on the characteristics of eyebrows, lips and tongue. Captive as "jewels" were quite common at that time and the punk look of the moment, his clothes torn necklaces and bracelets that offer Scottish white leather and metal skewers.

Since 1990, the practice was widespread and now claimed to be an expression of individuality, rather than the rebellion of the punk era. Piercing even developed an erotic component for drilling and the accompanying jewelry pin applied on the nipples, navel and the most intimate places.

A 2005 survey found that more than 10,000 people over 16 years found that 10% of them had in ear piercing, with the favorite among women who are the navel, followed by the nose and ear while elsewhere the Order of the favorites among the men were ordered by popularity nipple eyebrow and ears, tongue, nose, lips and genitals, finally descending.