Are Body Piercing's Socially Acceptable?

I think it depends what is pierced and what job you have. I work in an office and we really aren't supposed to have more than our ears pierced. Even the ear stretching I've been doing isn't technically allowed (but my lobes are small, only 10G so far). A couple girls have covered up tattoos and I always wondered why they wore skin colored tape over them, but then I realized tattoos are against the rules. I think things can't be allowed in a work place just because they are art, but personally I'm not against body modification. A lot of people are though. I don't care though if I go into a juice place and someone has a bunch of piercings. However, if I was hiring someone in a professional environment especially if they were dealing with the public, I'd be unlikely to hire the very pierced candidate, ceteris paribus. But a nose stud wouldn't make a difference to me.

I've only had my ears pierced, I've always been to chicken to have one any were else. I really don't see were they should be offensive to have body piercing's, I do however think that some people go overboard with them, just like they do with their tattoos.

I don't mind a small piercing in the nose. However piercing and tattoos does not go hand in hand with certain jobs like policemen, army etc. I don't have any percing. I am tempted to do a small tattoo but I don't like to have a piercing on me.

I honestly don't mind about people who has a lot of tattoos or piercings on their body who is working in an office or any kind of job. For me, they're still human and most of them are smart people. They just choose to express themselves with body arts. I have 3 piercings each in my ear and piercing in my bellybutton. Tattoo on my left chest as well.

Sue- I just read a very disheartening post and came here to post something about discrimination and saw your thread, so thought I'd answers your first before I started one on just the topic of discrimination. Several were on about how they just thought it was disghusting that this one woman had over 6500 piercings. I admit, it's a lot of hardware, but I don't think I'd go around calling her names either just because she made a choice to pierce her body. I don't think anyone should have to remove piercings simply because another says "Ohhh gross, that's offensive". I could very well say "Well your nose is offensive so cut it off". You know? I guess I just have grown tired that no matter where you are there is a new form of discrimination, and it comes in the area of body modifications. I think that it is slowly coming about, but it's slow. We've now got middle aged men getting hoops but they are small. My husband has a 6 in his septum, and still gets asked "They hired you with that?" lol. And yes, they did. I guess it's just sad all the way around. I try to be very nice to other people, but to see someone be treated like trash because they simply decided to adorn themselves, well it's just bigotry in my book. Namaste-Anora

Ears and side of my nose. All are socially acceptable in 99% of professions for people my age here.