Introduction Appendix B: On Piercings and Tattoos

I have somewhat of an affinity for tattoos and piercings, though I should note that I'm neither heavily tattooed nor heavily pierced with only three small tattoos and nine piercings). I have had, on occasion, the question "why?" posed to me regarding piercings (oddly enough the same question doesn't seem to get asked about tattoos). The answer is simply that I like them and that I tend to get curious about what it's like to have different locations pierced. It only hurts for a couple of seconds and they're easily removable, so it seems like a fairly benign interest to pursue.

I've been sitting on this blog post for a couple of days now and I'm not feeling particularly wordy, so here's just a quick bit of info about what I've currently got.

Tattoos

• One on each wrist (daughter's names).
• One on my back (Black and Red Nautical Star).

Piercings

• 10g left and right ear lobes.
• 16g left "Auricle Piercing", it's like a helix piercing but specifically only mid-way up the ear.
• 16g right helix.
• 16g left daith.
• 14g labret.
• 14g tongue.
• One more that isn't polite to discuss in mixed company ...
• I've also had my eyebrow and left helix pierced, but took those out long ago (as I did with my first tongue piercing).