Provocative piercings, up close and personal (NSFW Pics)

People never cease to amaze me when pushing their bodies' artistic boundaries.  I thought I was daring when I got my nose pierced.  I was in Amsterdam at the time, high on mushrooms, and I thought that a piece of metal in my nose was just what I needed. I'm usually too much of a pussy for shit like this, but some people get off on this kind of pain.  Below, I've included some of the most piercing pictures of painful piercings. I can't even imagine how these people felt during their artistic voyage of self discovery!  My own story of getting my face pierced went a something like this: