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Next Step in Gilding the Lily

I was noting some piercings recently, when I remembered fencing scars. There I a nice description of the application of them in Royal Flash by George McDonald Fraser, in which the main character is given two scars in a practice duel with a master. The scars were as part of a disguise, and the novel is similar to The Prisoner of Zenda. The fencing scars were especially popular in the later 19th and early 20th centuries in Germany, but they were not rare ...

I have wondered about tattoos and similar things that distract, or detract, from someone’s personal appearance. I suppose that people who are especially ugly have good reason for wanting people to look at the eighty five piercings, rather noticing that you are uglier than a deformed warthog, But I have noticed otherwise not bad looking people with tattoos and/ or piercings. I realize that these things are fashions, and that a fair number of people have only a piercing through the septum, so that ...