Tongue Piercing

A tongue piercing is specifically pierced on the center of the tongue. This form of piercing has been a form in a history in religious as well as performance practices. The tongue piercing draws back to the time of Aztec and Maya cultures with the illustrations of the priest piercing their tongue and then dawning blood from it or passing rough cords, designed to inflict pain, through the hole but in the Aztec culture there had beenno evidence of permanent or any long term piercing , despite of this practice many other permanent body modifications, their piercings are done to honors the gods. As for the Islamic Fakirs and Sufi's belonging from the Middle East, and the Asian Spirit Mediums of the Far East practiced tongue as an offering and a proof of trance state. The Aborigines holy man practice tongue piercing , in order to enable the holy man to " suck with his tongue the [evil] magic out of his patients body." In the twentieth century, the Westerner acquired the sideshow tricks from fakir's bringing to American and European audiences their first glimpses of tongue piercing. Tongue piercing is widespread in today's period of time compared to ten years ago. Today, the long term piercing has become a part of the resurgence of body piercing in contemporary society. The ready availability of high quality, surgical steel barbell style of jewelry is associated with the emergence of piercing in the 1980's. The tongue piercing is not a gender specific. Usually, tongue pierced is pierced with barbell jewelry.Tongue rings can be made of surgical stainless steel, 18kt and 14kt gold, titanium, acrylic and niobium. The most common gauge is 14 gauges. Length may differ based on the thickness of your tongue. During piercing the barbell length may be 5/8 inch to 1 inch but after it is healed the barbell size is normally 7/16 to 1/2 inch.