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Western fashion has always included earlobe piercing for both sexes, a small talismanic reminder of what has been called the "folk order."
To see a range of faces with central nose rings, see the piercing gallery at Body Modification E-zine or the zine itself.
Primary diagnoses for hospitalized poisonings are shown in Table 1. Suicide was not listed as an eventual primary cause of death among patients hospitalized for poisonings, nor was attempted suicide (E956, "Suicide and self-inflicted injuries by cutting and piercing instrument," or E958.
But a story as piercing as this goes to the heart of the matter, for it embodies the terrible event in such a way that it steals up on us and will haunt us in our sleep.
Almost two generations of 20 th -century women lived with unpierced or healed earlobes, until ear piercing became almost universal for both men and women in the 1960s, just as if it had always been there.