Lip Sewing
Lip sewing is rooted in body modification culture, and is considered to be a ritualistic modification, with much symbolism connected to the idea of closing the lips by play piercing.
Lip sewing may be done for aesthetic reasons, or to aid meditation by helping the mind to focus by removing the temptation to speak.
Read more about Lip Sewing: Procedure, In The Media, Lip Sewing As Protest
Famous quotes containing the words lip and/or sewing:
“Teach not thy lip such scorn, for it was made
For kissing, lady, not for such contempt.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“Their holders have always seemed to me like a woman who should undertake at a state fair to run a sewing machine, under pretense of advertising it, while she had never spent an hour in learning its use.”
—Jane Grey Swisshelm (1815–1884)