Trends: Pierced Bodies and Question of What Is Mainstream

As a senior dad of a Pali High teen-ager, my gray hair turned even grayer after Sunday’s cover story about body piercing [“Body Language,” April 30]. And I thought our daughter’s “surprise” nose ring was an abomination; may she be spared from ever meeting your man, Ra, and his crown to crotch metallic mutilations.

Hopefully we’ve seen the last of Baba, the professional piercer with the Lucite stud through his tongue. What a fun guy. Has he considered a career with the Ringling Brothers?

Call me intolerant when it comes to fashion, but if this is mainstream, the stream is polluted!

BARRY E. BLITZER Pacific Palisades