[brwnsuga]

...according to my husband, men who see a woman with a tongue piercing think she is easy.... that's another down side to piercing one's tongue.

[trisham]

No pictures, please.

[GSlob]

"The complaint detailed in the Journal of the American Medical Association joins a list that includes tetanus, heart infections, brain abscess"
To have a brain abscess one necessarily must have a brain, which is manifestly and self-evidently not the case with the tongue-piercers. Therefore the JAMA must be in error on this one. Abscess somewhere else - OK, stands to reason, but not on the non-existing brain.

[mtbopfuyn]

Can teens legally have these piercings without parental consent? If so the parents haven't a brain either.

[dirtboy]

I can only imagine how painful that could get. I played a lot of pickup basketball until I was 20 - I got five severely sprained ankles and even a hairline fracture of my right fibula but kept on playing with all those injuries. But only two injuries made me quit a game - when I split open my chin and had to go for stitches, and when I got an accidental elbow to the chin that made me bite down on my tongue so hard one tooth almost went through it. It wasn't the severity of the injury that made me stop (the bleeding stopped almost right away) - it was the pain that was so intense I could barely see.