well, I think you're cute micheleh, but I'm biased lol. I just hacked off my waist length hair actually. I got tired of it getting in my food and foresaw headlines like 'man strangled at night by own hair'. It looks like crap cause I have no one to trimn the back. I have a pierced ear. I admit to liking pierced bellybuttons but not anything else pierced. I don't think it's masochistic. A tattoo hurts more than piercing. I think it's more than just an effort to stand out. I think it's the changing tribal rite in our society. That tribal rite changes, but there's always some act the young perform which makes them 'part of the tribe'. Once it was long hair and bare feet, or tattooes, or piercings, or pink hair, or bongos and coffee shops nad very bad poetry. There's always something. Right now it's body modification. In ten years it will be somethging else. Nothing to worry about. Just joining the tribe, the rite of manhood/womanhood. Quite natural.

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