Tongue Piercing

A tongue piercing is a type of body piercing usually done directly through the center of the tongue. Since its decline in popularity around 2011, it has seen a recent upsurge making it now the second most popular piercing amongst young women aged 16–25 in 2019. It has become quite unpopular amongst men, although in the 1990s and early 2000s, it was more popular for men than women to get and associated with punk culture.

Midline tongue piercings, or one hole through the center of the tongue is the most common way to have the tongue pierced.

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