Now that my kid is finally asleep . . . People should be allowed to do whatever they want to their bodies once they reach a certain age. That doesn't mean they will do those things. I'm over 30 and I don't have any piercings or permanent tattoos because I don't want any. I recently got into temporary tattoos again since I found some while I was organizing stuff and it gives me another conversation topic with my kid. When people are old enough to understand that certain changes are permanent and that they can enjoy temporary alternatives such as clip-on (or magnetic) earrings and temporary tattoos, then it's completely up to them. People mature at different rates, so 18 is a good rule of thumb.
My mom got her ears pierced for the first time on her 40th birthday, and I was very young at the time. Pretty much all my female friends in elementary school had their ears pierced, and I'd seen some of them go through forgetting to put in earrings for a long time and the holes closing up and getting pierced all over again. My mom said I could get my ears pierced too if I wanted, but I decided it wasn't worth the trouble. Sure enough, my mom also forgot to keep earrings in her ears all the time and . . . yuck!
What people do to their bodies is their business as long as it doesn't affect me. I got a few pairs of earrings for pierced ears as presents while growing up, and it was rather annoying, but with most of those things, it's pretty easy to convert them to clip-on earrings.
I don't have a problem with Satanists, but I was raised Catholic, so if you want to play this game . . .
Blind Pharisee! First clean the inside of the cup and dish, so that the outside may become clean as well.
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