An odd thing I notice about body piercing is that more than any other phenomenon in the world it causes me to learn the names of body parts I hadn't previously known. It's just caused me to look up "tragus" on Wikipedia, and it was another person talking about piercings a couple of years ago who caused me to look up where one's septum might be. Piercers and piercees seem to be the only people (other than, I must presume, those in the medical profession) with a serious need to identify such bits of the body with more precision and efficiency than "that bobbly bit at the front of your ear" :-)
no subject
An odd thing I notice about body piercing is that more than any other phenomenon in the world it causes me to learn the names of body parts I hadn't previously known. It's just caused me to look up "tragus" on Wikipedia, and it was another person talking about piercings a couple of years ago who caused me to look up where one's septum might be. Piercers and piercees seem to be the only people (other than, I must presume, those in the medical profession) with a serious need to identify such bits of the body with more precision and efficiency than "that bobbly bit at the front of your ear" :-)