abstract:Body piercing, a form of body modification, is the practice of puncturing or cutting a part of the human body, creating an opening in which jewellery may be worn. The word piercing can refer to the act or practice of body piercing, or to an opening in the body created by this act or practice.
Of these, 13 women were drug users, most of them intravenous, 31 had either had tattoos or bodypiercing, chiefly pierced ears, and 17 had had earlier surgery, another risk factor.
Professor SAPOLSKY: It was at this point that I decided that Paul needed to do the phone calls because this was way beyond me, and he called up 50 bodypiercing parlors.