Legal Considerations
In the United States, it is illegal for anyone under 18 to get one. This is actually due to laws against what is legally considered molestation of minors, and has nothing to do with the actual piercing process itself. Laws in other countries vary. In many European countries, minors are required to bring a signed consent form from or to be escorted by a legal guardian. Even in countries that have no laws regulating genital piercing in minors, many piercers refrain from doing them (since physiological development is not completed in minors).
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