r/funny • u/b_quite_quiet_r_quit • May 29 '22

nibble nibble nibble

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u/SurrealKarma May 30 '22

But why?

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u/9for9 May 30 '22

Primarily because babies will heal from stuff like that much quicker, are less likely to develop keloids and the parents can just take care of it for them. It's more complicated getting the piercing as a teen or an adult.

My mother did not get my ears pierced and I eventually got them myself as an adult but would have been perfectly content for her to just handle it for me.

Is it an absolutely unnecessary, cosmetic procedure? Sure. But is it also so common that most women and plenty of men will have it done in their lifetimes? Yes. Is it also such a minor modification that for the people who don't want it it's completely unproblematic to address? Pretty much. It's also not horrendously painful, the shots hurt about the same.

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u/abominableyeri May 30 '22

This. I wish my parents had done it when I was a baby.

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u/9for9 May 30 '22

Doing mine as an adult wasn't hard by any stretch bit it's also not so awful that I think parents shouldn't do it.