History

Historical development

The spread of nipple piercings to be found among the men of the Karankawa strain (on the Gulf of Mexico) and for the women of the Kabyle, a Berber tribe in northern Algeria.

The earliest European reports of the piercing of the nipples for attaching jewelry to go to the middle of the 14th Century back. At that time, clothes were very deep cleavage in noble women proliferation, the increasingly bare chest to the nipples. Soon to a fashion, founded by Princess Elisabeth of Bavaria / Isabeau, in the exposed nipples adorned with diamond rings or gold chains were to be created. Several centuries later, during the Victorian era to 1890, arrived in Paris and London, called De Anneux being in fashion - on a fortified breast piercing jewelry. This was usually quite costly and in turn gained its distribution primarily in the upper class. However, there are all these reports are no reliable historical evidence. In the 1970s, the piercing was the Gauntlet in Los Angeles, a studio and stage venue, and the magazine PFIQ known again, but initially only in the piercing scene.

Presence

The current trend is relatively new and has only been a few years. Today's popularity and media exposure was, inter alia, by numerous stars and celebrities such as Lenny Kravitz and Tommy Lee moved that brought in the late 1990s, the first time a general public with the Piercing in contact. A survey of Pierce from Switzerland, according to the nipple piercing has become the belly button piercing as the most popular body piercing abgelöst.Einer study in 2002 found that, five percent of undergraduate students in the U.S., a nipple piercing, with increasing Tendenz.Eine survey in 2005, representative of a sample of the total population in the United Kingdom concluded that nipple piercings are more common than labret or eyebrow piercings, in men it makes even the most frequently stung Piercing dar. In 2008, nipple piercings on many models in the context of fashion shows such as the New York Fashion Week (Abbey Lee for Calvin Klein) and seen in fashion magazines (eg Vogue).