In this essay I hope to persuade my mom to let me get my tongue pierced by proving that tongue piercing is both safe and sane. "Tongue piercing is a relatively simple procedure if the technician has the knowledge and the correct tools" (Monahan, Roger 1). Piercing is not dangerous as long as you keep everything clean and sterile. "The tongue is the quickest-healing part of the body, and one of the least painful to pierce," stated piercing artist Joe J. Infection is one of the biggest problems in piercing but when done correctly, piercing is safe and harmless. Few tongue piercings suffer from infections because the tongue has a tinfoil-thickness o