teen navel piercings?

No. It isn't slutty. Perhaps your mother might see it as something you'd like to show off, and generally midriff exposure can be a sexual thing. But really, lets be serious here...it is just another form of body art.

On another note, a close friend of mine got her nose pierced. Two weeks after she told me off and wanted me to never talk to her again. So now whenever I see girls with nose piercings I am suspicious. :laugh:

My mom took me to get mine done for my 17th birthday. I think I took it out in my early twenties. I also had my tongue pierced when I turned 18, and took that out when I was 22. Like you, I was a pretty good kid. A couple of piercings isn't going turn you trashy. It's not something you're going to have forever. Enjoy it now, and take it out when you grow out of it. Don't let your mother or other people's opinions sway your from expressing yourself.

I agree with unconn in terms of the piercing having a sexual connotation. No one wants to think of their daughter as being a sex object. Your mom may think it is trashy because, let's be honest, it's usually the trashier girls that are baring their stomachs. She doesn't want that for you. I am pretty conservative so pretty much no one knew I was pierced.

Keep in mind that tattoos are in the same genre as piercings. They used to be trashy, and now everyone has them. This is a little bit of your mother needing to get with the times, and a little bit of truth in the fact that, while piercings aren't trashy, they're probably not going to be called classy either. Keep it covered when you need to, and flaunt it when it is appropriate.

I asked when I was 17 and mum actualli used it as an incentive for me to drop a few pounds as she said ye if my stomach would look good with it. at the time you wouldn't have seen it!

so she had a point! then I lost weight and got it done but didn't like it so its gone again! xxx

No it's not slutty or trashy. I'm 26 and I'm thinking of getting mine re-pierced actually.

Almost anything young people do these days would be considered slutty and negative back in a day when many of our parents were teenagers. I'm sure when you will grow up and your 14 year old daughter would wanna do something trendy for that particular time we all will think it's silly. Maybe shaving head bold permanently and getting metal hear implanted, I don't know what we will come up after 30 years.

It's all subjective. Social stereotypes of different times. Problem with a lot of people is that they are stuck at the times they grew up. There is a time when we are teenagers and our friends too, then we grow up and our friends too. We are friends with around same age people all the time, cos we can relate to them. Without communicating much with other generations we are stuck with those ideas and once a new person comes in to your life and says I wanna do some crazy thing it's new to us so we don't get it. I think the only way how to stay open minded to changes is have a lot of friends from younger generations too, so they keep us up to date with new stuff and open minded. Good thing once you get older, I would assume it would help to keep a young spirit alive, good thing when you get older.

****, I'm getting too frickin' philosophical again. I'm gonna go ate a cupcake now...

My mom wouldn't let me get any tatoos, or a navel piercing and now I'm really glad. The tatoo I wanted would have looked silly later and the same goes for the ones I thought about getting, but didnt, later on. I'm glad I didn't get the navel piercing because I like how my belly looks without one, and I'm not sure i like the look of the jewelry anymore... Basically, I got old and the ninteys weren't the best time for me to be making permanent fashion decisions, since I'm more conservative about that stuff than I thought.

It's your image to think about. Just know that some people will have a negative reaction. If that bothers you, and you are asking an Internet forum about this, then it's something to consider. If it doesn't bother you then I wouldn't worry about it.

Mother of 5 kids ranging from 22-8 chiming in.

I delay/postpone thinigs like piercings/ink/etc because it's step one. If you take step 1 at 14 how long will that satisfy until you need to find some other "creative" outlet?? I prefer making decisions like extreme hair color, piercings & tats something they have to REALLY consider.

At 18 they can do as they like....if they aren't living in my home. My house, my rules....18 or not.

Will I break relationship with my kids if they get a tat/peircing or other adornment I don't particularly care for? Of course not. I love my kids. Heck, I got a belly ring when i was 31 and going through an unwanted divorce. Took it out when I got pregnant with my new husband...didn't want to deal with it any more... but it's certainly not something worth getting all worked up over.

Taking time to make a decision is a good thing. I agree with your mom requiring you to delay, but not with calling it trashy.

I've wanted my belly button pierced since I was 14 or so, too. I just turned 20 and just got it done for my birthday. I'm really glad my dad wouldn't let me get it done sooner because I keep getting it caught on everything and it hurts so bad! I don't think at 14 I would have been able to take care of it properly, I feel like I probably would have torn it out at school or band. So I'm glad I waited. But I don't feel like it's trashy, the only time mine gets seen is when I wear a bathing suit.

That does not make a girl trashy. My neighbor girls are 15 and 14 and both have theirs pierced belly buttons. It's just jewelry.

My daughter (16) has "spider bites" on her lip. She is chubby, so a navel piercing is not on her to-do list. But if she asked, and she paid for it with money she earned, then I would let her have it done. I think at 16, a kid is old enough to make their own decisions about piercings.

I had mine pierced when I was 17 after a very heated debate with my dad. I grew up in Florida, and had plenty of opportunity to show it off. I was paying for it with my own money and my mom was willing to sign for it. He agreed after a lot of yelling between the 2 of us. I went and had it pierced, then took it out when I was pregnant with my daughter. I didn't know back then that they had bars I could wear while pregnant. I would have never taken it out otherwise. I loved it!

That being said, should my daughter come to me asking if she could have one when she is 14, my answer would be no. When she is a little older, I would still be leery, but I wouldn't stop her. As others have said, there are sexual connotations even if we don't agree that there should be,