More on Victorian Nipple Piercing

From the Archive:

Okay, I’ve found another book that mentions the “bosom ring” – it says that Victorian English women would go to France to get their nipples pierced.

This book is from the same era (1970s) as the other book that referenced Victorian nipple-piercing. It does not contain any direct quote from a first-hand source, but it does footnote where this bit of info came from:

a GERMAN text from 1912.

And even that is not a primary source – it is referencing ANOTHER GERMAN article.

So I have yet to find a primary source document!

Wouldn’t it be funny – since this seems to stem from a German article about English and French women – if this were all a bit of pre-war propaganda on the part of the German press?


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