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Why is everyone going nuts over this? The UK hasn't banned baby ear piercings. It doesn't even intend to. Some woman in the UK has posted her ridiculous petition Online. She wants the piercings banned.
In some cultures it's customary to have a girl's ears pierced in the hospital after birth.
A form of child abuse ? People really have gone off the deep end.
It is a custom in Italian culture. My First Generation American Nana did not pierce my Mom's ears as a baby. Mom never got her ears pierced and wore those horrible clip ons. OUCH. I got mine pierced at 20. My daughters asked for my permission when preteens. I gave it.
Odd thing? My older daughter, now in her 30's, is a Lesbian today and NEVER wears earrings. Does she regret HER decision? No, because she just doesn't take advantage of the holes in her ears. No big deal. If a woman whose parents pierced her ears as a baby doesn't want to wear pierced earrings, she doesn't have to. If good enough for an adult lesbian, it should be good enough for an adult straight woman.
Edit: Religious issues aside, I think adult men have far more of a case against newborn circumcision, than adult women do with newborn ear piercing.
Maybe they are also objecting to the method of the piercing in newborns? I never saw it done in my culture, but did in the Hispanic culture. Growing up, I had a GF of Mexican heritage. Her Abuela was always asking me if she could pierce my ears. She called me over their home to watch when they had a newborn girl in the family.
Abuela took a sewing needle and burned the tip. She then took some red string (?) and threaded it. Then she took a cotton ball soaked in peroxide and soaked baby's earlobe. She pushed the needle through baby's ear and threaded the string through it and tied the ends together. Every day, she applied more peroxide to baby's ear. I think she left the string in the ear for about a week. Then a gold earring was put in baby's ear.
Perhaps it is also the method that is being objected to?
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I was being silly.
