- ABC News: Pierced naval a life-saver
- Alberta Report: Flesh for the pagan fantasy by Davis Sheremata
- Anthropoetics: Chronicles of Love and Resentment by Eric Gans
- APBnews.com: When the Body Is the Canvas, Safety Counts By Julie Catalano
- Associated Baptist Press: 3 neat body piercing articles on 18 March 1999
- Augusta Chronicle: New trends can damage your body 12/3/96
- Augusta Chronicle: Restrict disfigurement
- Augusta Chronicle: Touching a nerve by Lori Weichman
- BBC News | Health | Allergy risk of body piercing (P)
- BBC News | Health | Tongue in chic (P)
- BBC News | Health | Tongue piercing 'can be fatal' (P)
- BBC1: Heart of the Matter: The Full Bodyworks 20/9/98
- Bermuda Sun: The Answer Man
- BME: Germany REALLY hates BME!
- Boston Globe Online: More and more, teen-agers are piercing their bodies and faces by Barbara Meltz
- BURR online: With the Prick of a Needle by Karen Coates (P)
- Cedar Rapids Gazette: A piercing question by Laura Palmer
- City and State News: Body Piercing Parlor Is Not Your Traditional Franklin Street Shop by Nancy Nelson
- CNN : Town wants tabs on tattoos, piercings - Oct. 27, 1996
- Cornell U's Vital Signs: Body Art in the 90's
- Crier: Body piercing is taken to a new level
- Daily Bruin Online: Getting lanced - Despite the historical stigma, body piercing has gone mainstream
- Daily Egyptian: Designs that last a lifetime By Astaria Dillard
- Daily University Star ONLINE: Body Piercing on uprise among college students by Cori McCann
- Daily University Star Online: Consideration for parental feelings, desires not necessarily bad ideas by Jordan Dees
- Decatur Herald & Review: Beyond ear lobes
- Decatur Herald & Review: Know your piercer by Stepahnie Erickson
- DeCode: Piercing
- Detroit Metrol Times: Alisa Gordaneer's Lizard of Fun
- Digital High: Body piercing and tattooing/Lincoln HS By Heidi Lucas and Yolanda Soto
- Digital High: Piercing (All you need is loose skin) by Lauren Acuna
- Eagle-Tribune: A risky fashion statement
- El Conquistador Online: Don't worry...this won'hurt at all by Victor Wilson
- El Conquistador Online: Infections: the joys of piercing by Anthony J. Prieto
- El Conquistador Online: The who, what and why, of the body piercing trend by Vicky Molinar
- Entertainment Ave!: Tongue Piercing - Cheap Advice By Stu Gotz and Trash
- Evansville Courier & Press News: Columnist gets body pierced every week by David Kinney
- Eyepiece.com: Today's Editorial
- Forbes: A new, new generation
- Forbes: Teenage Wasteland by Mary Beth Grover
- Goofball.com - 400+ Holes In My Head (P) (NEW 8/6)
- Health Journal: Perils from piercing story part 1
- Health Week: Program No. 210 (SEE Body Piercing)
- HEALTHSTATE: A Piercing Issue by Merry Sue Baum
- Herald-Mail: Tongue piercing by By TERRY TALBERT
- Horizons: But does Mom know? by Victor Balta
- Herald-mail.com/news/1998/03/27/lifestyle/March30tongue_piercing.html
- INSIGHT ONLINE!: Some Piercing Insights by Kelly Hansen
- Johns Hopkins News-Letter: Body Piercing by Cyndie Chang
- KRON: Body Piercing by Janel Thamkul
- KSU's Collegian: Body Piercing: No part off limits by Tim Orindgreff
- KSU's Collegian: Ear-piercing fiasco leaves columnist in pain, $258 down in savings account
- LA Weekly: Protecting Your Body's by Sandy Cohen
- Leather Online: Jim Ward Remembers Gauntlet's History, Part I
- Linköping Science Fiction Archive: Skin by Kathe Koja
- Live Wire News Item: Penis piercing scene on cable access shocks viewers
- Lizard of Odd
- Lydia, Oh, Lydia, Have you seen Lydia? By Bonie Burton
- Lydia, Oh, Lydia, Have you seen Lydia? by Bonnie Burton
- Mail & Guardian: Adventure in the skin trade (P)
- Mail & Guardian: Piercing: Whatever makes you happy
- Milwaukee Journal Sentinel: Beauty marks By Gemma Tarlach (P)
- Milwaukee Journal Sentinel: Students' 'fashion' statements smack up against school rules By Catherine Fitzpatrick
- Moms Online: You Pierced Your What?!? - Moms Online (NEW 9/11)
- Nancy Friday | Eye of the Beholder
- Nando Times News: Miss America Pageant gets first look at body piercing by David Morgan
- Nando Times News: Tongue studs and contact sports -- a dangerous combination?
- Nashville Times: Body Piercing
- NAU's The Lumberjack On-Line: Students get pierced, tattooed during summer by Kevin Goss
- Nevada Outpost: Gen Xers lead piercing and tattoo fad by by Dena Babbs & Crystal Zobrist
- New Scientist Planet Science: Cheap and nasty by Alison Motluk
- NewStandard: Body-piercing shop alarms City Council by William Corey
- NewStandard: Get the facts before getting tattooed by Linda Castrone
- NewStandard: Piercing ears: aftercare and cautions By Dr. Paula Prezioso
- NewStandard: Piercing Perils
- NewStandard: Piercing shop under the gun in Quincy
- NSU's - Pheasant Call: Art Forms: A different class By Becky Hagen and April Pearson
- Oregon State Daily Barometer Online: Local body piercing parlor offers safe, affordable service by Andrew McCord
- Pacific News Service: Pagan Fashion's New Frontier -- Facial Tatoos by A. Clay Thompson
- Pain Industries: Decoration, Mutilalation, and Reclamation by Jessica Audley
- PBS "HealthWeek," "Body Piercing" script
- Phoenix New Times: A RIVET RUNS THROUGH ITFLESHING OUT THE BODY-PIERCING PHENOMENON
- Phoenix News: Mane of Steel by Dewey Webb (P)
- Piercing the Body Art Taboo by Ann Key and Lauren Ball
- Piercing.........Why I Like It - And Why Others Do To by Mary Higgins
- Prevention: Back to School -- A Piercing Look
- Quirks: Getting under your skin at Fatty's Tattooz
- SALON Daily Clicks: Defacing Ourselves
- Salon People | John Lopez, body piercer
- Salon People | No pierced nostril for Barbie
- Salon: Travel | Nipple-ring blues
- San Francisco Examiner: A STUD IN A HURRY By Robert Salladay
- San Francisco Examiner: Body piercing betrays suspected smuggler (NEW 8/27)
- San Francisco Examiner:Body piercers vote to unionize By Katherine Seligman
- SEE Magazine: MY MESSY BEDROOM by Josey Vogels
- Sex Questions -- Ask the Sexpert from Women.com: Body Piercing
- SFU's The Peak: Poking Holes in the Art of Piercing by Roberta D. Smith
- Signs of the Times - Body Piercing and the Royal Family
- Signs of the Times - The Hidden Dangers of Tongue-piercing
- Signs of the Times - The Punctured Ear Lobe
- Sioux City Journal: Body piercing catches on among Siouxlanders by Lynn Zwrschling
- Sioux City Journal: No boundaries for body piercing
- SPEBE: Pierce Me Now! by Koah Vierkoetter
- The Age: Steel yourself ... it's the pierce de resistance by Shane Maloney
- The Auburn Plainsman: Body art becoming more acceptable by Jeffery WiIllis
- The Auburn Plainsman: Tattoo shop 'draws' students, grandmas by JEFF PRUITT
- The Boulder County Business Report: Tattooing, piercing seldom in company dress codes by Vicky Uhland
- The Cavalier Daily April 10, 1996 Life Section -- Piercing trend moves from head to toeMen, women copy Third World countries by poking numerous holes in bodies
- The Chicago Tribune: Piercing analysis: Chicago's out of it by Mike Royko
- The college hill independent: FROM PUNK TO PLEBIAN by Pamela Neufeld
- The Creightonian Online: Body Art Expresses Secret Rebellion by Sara Burda (P) (7/30)
- The Denver Post Online - Sunday Lifestyle
- The Detroit News: Body language: Tattooing and body piercing have health experts worried
- The Detroit News: Detroiter faces cruelty charges for piercing dog's body .
- The Detroit News: Got the tattoo habit? It may be an addiction by John T. Walk
- The Detroit News: MTV takes a piercing look at health issues facing youths by M. Mindy Moretti
- The Detroit News: Only your tongue belongs in your cheek
- The Detroit News: World News
- The Minden Times: Off the Wall -- Body Piercing by Sue Carr
- The Mount Holyoke News: FEATURES: Tattoos, piercings still controversial on campus, nationwide by Jennifer Christie
- The Mount Holyoke News: FEATURES: Thinking of getting a piercing? by Jennifer Stalcup
- The News-Times Regional News: Longtime devotees of piercing say most newcomers miss the point By Jim Shelton
- The Online Daily of the U of W: Body piercers warn about health and hygiene risks by Nathan Freier
- The Online Daily of the U of W: Body piercing and tattooing: Before you do it by Tricia Romano
- The Seattle Times: Sprint pays lip service to Stones
- TheIndependent.com News: 'Not generally accepted in the community' 07/13/99 (NEW 9/11)