Oh no- it's not always necessarily religious; a lot of cases it's more a cultural/social/let's get it done early type thing.. Like drinking ages across the word- ish.
(It doesn't change the natural appearance that much, surely? They're only earrings, and it's much more of a normal boring thing over there than here, where they've only recently become mainstream and widely worn, so what's considered a natural form for a hild there might be quite different)
(ifonly, Mon 31 May 2010, 10:07, Reply)