At A Glance
Author	Maddie
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Hello to everybody reading this, thank you for having an interest in my stories and what I would like to share. I'm a typical 13 year old girl who happens to love body modifications. That hasn't always been true though, I have just been introduced to piercing. I'm not going to go on in great detail about one of my piercings or lecture you, I just want to explain what body piercing has done for me as a person, and how I feel about it.

I first started to pierce myself when I was 11 and the addiction kicked in. The next summer, I got a second lobe piercing and had 4 piercings, more than anybody I knew. A year later I got a third lobe piercing and the next summer a fourth. That was 8 piercings now and my craving for piercing just grew with each new hole. I realized that as I was changing my look, I was changing my personality and really my life. This was taken lightly by my friends who wouldn't be able to stomach a third lobe piercing.

It was still that third summer and I was starting to broaden my piercing options. Like most other parents though, I could not "modify" my face until I was gone and legal. This truly angered me and I knew I HAD to get another piercing before I went crazy. I found the perfect and easily hidden tongue web piercing and went for it. That became my ninth piercing and my own secret.

Like I said before, that just added fuel to the flame and I am still craving that perfect piercing.

Body modification has changed me in ways I could never had imagined. This does not mean I am suggesting it to depressed teens who's parents are fighting, but it has changed me mentally as well as physically.

Before I got pierced, I was a wus for pain, even looking at a needle made my skin crawl. Because piercing something requires a needle to go through your skin, I had to suck up and face it. It has made me able to withstand needles and pain altogether more easily than before.

I know my stories may not be the most hard hitting or extreme, but everybody has a story to tell.

Having this addiction to body modification is relatively new to me, but I like it. As I said before, this has changed me. Addiction to piercing isn't uncommon, in fact it's very common! Almost everyone who gets a piercing wants another one, am I not right? However, I think you have to know when to stop. If you over do it, then you can end up regretting ever getting pierced, belive me, I've seen it. Be in control of your body, I'm trying to be, and try to know when to stop.

I'm saying this because it's what I think and how I feel about body modification. I have gotten a lot more out of body modification than I thought I would, but it has cut me very deeply. I am very fond of piercing and I think people should have the freedom they want when it comes to their own body and how they use it or abuse it.

Many parents have exactly the opposite opinion and think that their children should wait until they are older to make sure that they want to make this "life altering" decision. Personally, I don't totally agree with that. Teens aren't only thinking about getting this piercing and how it will affect them right now at school or at home, they are also considering what could happen to them in the future if they do go through with they're decision.

There is an ongoing battle between teens and their parents about these issues. I go through it with my parents every time I ask for a new piercing. The only response I get is "no". I can be considered lucky by some people because I have this many piercings, but I think I should be able to get more. It's not like I'm gonna get my privates pierced to have good sex or anything!(yuck!!) If there good, why not? What could possibly happen to my life or the way I feel about myself if I got a tongue piercing that I would kill for?

Anyway, I know that body piercing is a permanent change to your body and that you may regret it, but many under pierced kids and teens feel the same way I do about the war going on between kids and their parents. Parents should lighten up!

Well this is mainly the bulk of what I wanted to say, and I want to leave saying a few more words. I used all of these examples of different feelings people may have because this is how I feel about body piercing. This is what piercing has mainly done for me, I have been able to understand many different points of view along with developing my own. Thank you very much for reading what body piercing has done for me! :)