Young Brunette Girl On The Table Reveals Her Negligee With High Heels, Headband, Necklace, Bracelet, Earrings, Navel And Genital Piercing Jewellery In The Room With Brick Walls

Unlike the nipple piercing, that became a short lived fashion trend at the end of the 19th century, genital piercings were uncommon in the western world until the second half of the 20th century. In the 1970s, genital piercings were introduced to the emerging body modification community in Los Angeles by the early piercings pioneers like Jim Ward and Doug Malloy. Genital piercings were sported by the modern primitives movement that developed during the 1980s. Only until the recent years, genital piercing was confined to a body modification subculture.
With the beginning of the 21st century, genital piercing became increasingly more popular, with celebrities such as Janet Jackson, Christina Aguilera, Karina Bacchi, Fantasia Barrino, and Pete Doherty confessing to have or planning to have genital piercings. Genital piercings nowadays have a growing demand, especially in a young adult, college-aged population. Marilyn W. Edmunds, adjunct clinical professor at the Johns Hopkins University, states that:
Women with genital piercings are no longer on the social fringe or part of the "punk" culture who are experimenting with behaviors that are "socially provocative." Over the past 30 years, genital piercing has become mainstream, and women engage in it for a variety of reasons.