A black-and-white photo of a person mid-air in a Superman-style body suspension pose, supported by multiple hooks in their back and legs, smiling joyfully toward the camera. They are suspended horizontally in a large indoor space with high ceilings and visible rigging. A group of onlookers—some seated, some standing—watch with expressions of admiration, amusement, and support. The atmosphere is lively and communal, capturing a moment of shared experience and transformation.

Your (self-chosen) oldest modification

Not including modifications that were forced on you — circumcisions, ear piercings as a baby, and so on — what’s your oldest non-earlobe body modification? The reader in this entry tells me that she got her nipple pierced seventeen years ago at the Gauntlet in NYC — she’s 56 years old now and still loving it!

My nipple piercing (retired) will also turn seventeen on February 14, with my first tattoos turning 19 this year, meaning that I’ve had them for over half my life now. Roo and I were talking about our tongue splits as well, with 1998 being the year that tongue splitting exploded in popularity, many people will soon be walking around — still happy, like the woman below — with decade old split tongues.

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Comments

172 responses to “Your (self-chosen) oldest modification”

  1. Lori St.Leone Avatar

    My nostril piercing is 16 years old, and my tongue piercing (and my first tattoos) are 14 years old, so I’m a member of the half-my-life club, too. Wow, that’s kind of crazy to think about. 🙂

  2. Lori St.Leone Avatar

    My nostril piercing is 16 years old, and my tongue piercing (and my first tattoos) are 14 years old, so I’m a member of the half-my-life club, too. Wow, that’s kind of crazy to think about. 🙂

  3. Casey Avatar

    I had my left inner conch pierced on my 16th birthday. Almost 7 years later (wow!) I have two in each conch and my left daith pierced.

  4. Casey Avatar

    I had my left inner conch pierced on my 16th birthday. Almost 7 years later (wow!) I have two in each conch and my left daith pierced.

  5. Summer Avatar

    I’m such a youngin’, my oldest non earlobe body bod is my nostril piercing, which is going on 5 years (i got it when I turned 16). Next to that is my year old rib tattoos. My body mods have quadrupled since then. lol.

  6. Summer Avatar

    I’m such a youngin’, my oldest non earlobe body bod is my nostril piercing, which is going on 5 years (i got it when I turned 16). Next to that is my year old rib tattoos. My body mods have quadrupled since then. lol.

  7. candycovered Avatar

    Summer, same here. nostril piercing 5 years ago when I was 14. retired it now though.

  8. candycovered Avatar

    Summer, same here. nostril piercing 5 years ago when I was 14. retired it now though.

  9. Burnt Flowers Avatar
    Burnt Flowers

    Double navel piercing, soon to be 12 years old (done when I was 16).

  10. Burnt Flowers Avatar
    Burnt Flowers

    Double navel piercing, soon to be 12 years old (done when I was 16).

  11. Valon Oddity Avatar

    damn, could just be the contrast, but she is looking pretty fucking hot for 56.

    my first was my ear back in about grade one or two and after that in the next 6 years i had it taken out and repierced about 15 or so times. i love it that much.

  12. Valon Oddity Avatar

    damn, could just be the contrast, but she is looking pretty fucking hot for 56.

    my first was my ear back in about grade one or two and after that in the next 6 years i had it taken out and repierced about 15 or so times. i love it that much.

  13. Toothpaste Avatar

    nostril at 15.. i took out my earrings at age 8. yay scar tissue from guns!

  14. Toothpaste Avatar

    nostril at 15.. i took out my earrings at age 8. yay scar tissue from guns!

  15. lee Avatar
    lee

    my cartelige turns three next month
    i feel so young

  16. lee Avatar
    lee

    my cartelige turns three next month
    i feel so young

  17. sarah schizm Avatar

    lobe stretching at 11 if that counts
    or eyebrow piercing at 11.. might have been 12… hmmz

  18. sarah schizm Avatar

    lobe stretching at 11 if that counts
    or eyebrow piercing at 11.. might have been 12… hmmz

  19. blackandblue Avatar
    blackandblue

    tragus at 15 years old.
    I took it out when i was 23, so it lastest 8 years.

  20. blackandblue Avatar
    blackandblue

    tragus at 15 years old.
    I took it out when i was 23, so it lastest 8 years.

  21. AJ Avatar
    AJ

    my parents didn’t let me get a non lobe piercing til i was of legal age and STILL hate that i did get them. first tattoo was 2 days after my 18th which was the love park sign on my left calf, first non lobe piercings were my snakebites like 5 months after my 18th, which i just recently took out and repierced because i was tired of them being crooked. so me being 21 now, my oldest is only 3 years… such a youngin =(

  22. AJ Avatar
    AJ

    my parents didn’t let me get a non lobe piercing til i was of legal age and STILL hate that i did get them. first tattoo was 2 days after my 18th which was the love park sign on my left calf, first non lobe piercings were my snakebites like 5 months after my 18th, which i just recently took out and repierced because i was tired of them being crooked. so me being 21 now, my oldest is only 3 years… such a youngin =(

  23. The Darthside Avatar
    The Darthside

    Yea, my navel piercing is 14 years old now, and I’m 28. Wow…

  24. The Darthside Avatar
    The Darthside

    Yea, my navel piercing is 14 years old now, and I’m 28. Wow…

  25. Valon Oddity Avatar

    completely missed a couple words there. lol. on my 15th birthday in the middle of my highschool at lunch, i had a friend pierce my eyebrow with a safety pin. haha

  26. Valon Oddity Avatar

    completely missed a couple words there. lol. on my 15th birthday in the middle of my highschool at lunch, i had a friend pierce my eyebrow with a safety pin. haha

  27. buggirl Avatar
    buggirl

    I pierced my bellybutton myself when i was 14 (15 years ago) but it rejected. Pierced my left lobe at the same time. Re-pierced (professionally) my bellybutton 11 years ago, when I was 18, about 3 months before I got my right nipple pierced. Oldest tattoos are 10 years. Got the first 2 within a month of each other. Just the beginning of a lifetime of mods. yay!

  28. buggirl Avatar
    buggirl

    I pierced my bellybutton myself when i was 14 (15 years ago) but it rejected. Pierced my left lobe at the same time. Re-pierced (professionally) my bellybutton 11 years ago, when I was 18, about 3 months before I got my right nipple pierced. Oldest tattoos are 10 years. Got the first 2 within a month of each other. Just the beginning of a lifetime of mods. yay!

  29. Mark Avatar
    Mark

    She’s 56 in that pic??? She looks damn hot!!

  30. Mark Avatar
    Mark

    She’s 56 in that pic??? She looks damn hot!!

  31. quinnnchick Avatar
    quinnnchick

    I got my tongue pierced 9 years ago when I was 29. It seems so long ago…

  32. quinnnchick Avatar
    quinnnchick

    I got my tongue pierced 9 years ago when I was 29. It seems so long ago…

  33. Michelle the robot Avatar
    Michelle the robot

    my first non earlobe piercing was nipples too!

  34. Michelle the robot Avatar
    Michelle the robot

    my first non earlobe piercing was nipples too!

  35. Campbell Avatar
    Campbell

    Hah, how intimidating, my oldest piercing (pubic surface bar) is only 1 and a half years old. That rejected though (although I’ve had it re-done since), so I guess my oldest piercing is my apadravya @ 1 year and 4 months old.

    That means I was 18 and 3 months old when I got it.

    It seems like so long, but in reality it’s such an inconsequentially small amount of time 🙂

  36. Campbell Avatar
    Campbell

    Hah, how intimidating, my oldest piercing (pubic surface bar) is only 1 and a half years old. That rejected though (although I’ve had it re-done since), so I guess my oldest piercing is my apadravya @ 1 year and 4 months old.

    That means I was 18 and 3 months old when I got it.

    It seems like so long, but in reality it’s such an inconsequentially small amount of time 🙂

  37. AeChei Avatar

    i pierced my own earlobes at 15 …I actually attempted scarification at 14, but it got filed under self-mutilation and i wasn’t very good at it…so there’s no permanent scars that anyone but me can see.

    other than that…helix, i think about 2.5 years old now. feels like longer. damn thing still isn’t healed right!

    i’m 22 now and i have 5 lobe piercings (2 at 8g, 3 at 16g), the helix, double nostrils, septum (stretched to 8 from 14), tongue, nipples and VCH.

    I need more.

  38. AeChei Avatar

    i pierced my own earlobes at 15 …I actually attempted scarification at 14, but it got filed under self-mutilation and i wasn’t very good at it…so there’s no permanent scars that anyone but me can see.

    other than that…helix, i think about 2.5 years old now. feels like longer. damn thing still isn’t healed right!

    i’m 22 now and i have 5 lobe piercings (2 at 8g, 3 at 16g), the helix, double nostrils, septum (stretched to 8 from 14), tongue, nipples and VCH.

    I need more.

  39. Jasimo Avatar
    Jasimo

    I gotta say she is hooot. She doesn’t look like she’s even in her mid-twenties. As for me I got my first piercing, eyebrow, 5 years ago, and first tattoo 2 years ago. Currently also have done middle of lip, 0g and 18g in the bottom of my ears, and a second tattoo.

  40. Jasimo Avatar
    Jasimo

    I gotta say she is hooot. She doesn’t look like she’s even in her mid-twenties. As for me I got my first piercing, eyebrow, 5 years ago, and first tattoo 2 years ago. Currently also have done middle of lip, 0g and 18g in the bottom of my ears, and a second tattoo.

  41. jumpdowngoboom Avatar
    jumpdowngoboom

    Aside from my earlobes, which I’ve had for 12 years or so, my oldest would be my tongue, which I had done when I was 18, so 7, almost 8 years ago. Damn, I’m closing in on being as old as I feel.

  42. jumpdowngoboom Avatar
    jumpdowngoboom

    Aside from my earlobes, which I’ve had for 12 years or so, my oldest would be my tongue, which I had done when I was 18, so 7, almost 8 years ago. Damn, I’m closing in on being as old as I feel.

  43. cyber_android Avatar

    Stunning lady!

    My oldest mods would be (not counting scars from my first foreys into modification at a very young age) my nipple piercings (horizontal), they’re just over 8 years old now.

  44. cyber_android Avatar

    Stunning lady!

    My oldest mods would be (not counting scars from my first foreys into modification at a very young age) my nipple piercings (horizontal), they’re just over 8 years old now.

  45. Kenevin Avatar
    Kenevin

    My nipples were the first as well

  46. Kenevin Avatar
    Kenevin

    My nipples were the first as well

  47. Zar Avatar
    Zar

    i diy’d my helixes when i was about twelve/thirteen, was forced to take them out by my mom soon after. i then diy’d my right helix twice at sixteen and those are, i suppose, my oldest mod.

  48. Zar Avatar
    Zar

    i diy’d my helixes when i was about twelve/thirteen, was forced to take them out by my mom soon after. i then diy’d my right helix twice at sixteen and those are, i suppose, my oldest mod.

  49. pwapwap Avatar
    pwapwap

    First ear piercing is now 11 (done with my consent and begging at 10).

  50. pwapwap Avatar
    pwapwap

    First ear piercing is now 11 (done with my consent and begging at 10).

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