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Edmunds, adjunct clinical professor at the , stated, "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.

Nevertheless, the term may also be used to indicate all body piercings in the area of , , genitals and , including piercings such as , , and that do not involve perforation of genitalia.

This is preferred because healing time and incidence of infection are reduced by the flow of sterile urine.

Many men and women of the Victorian royalty chose to receive nipple and genital piercings.