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Why the obsession with needles?
submitted 2 years ago by trident765 from self.nonmorons
Drug needles, tattoo needles, vaccines needles.
Members of modern culture seem to love sticking themselves with needles. Why is this?
[–]wary_observer 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun - 2 years ago* (0 children)
Another aspect. Needles may be needed in times of illness or injury, but probably there is no good reason to stick yourself with a needle when you're healthy.
Maybe the act of piercing the body with a needle is a subconscious recognition of illness (dis-ease)?
[–]wary_observer 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun - 2 years ago* (0 children)
Piercings too.
Getting stuck with needles is unpleasant. There is something unsettling about it. Your person being pierced by a cold, sharp metal implement, delivering a mysterious foreign substance. But maybe there is an appeal for people with certain deviant tendencies.
With drugs, you chase a state of mind that may be very enjoyable, but risk serious injury or death. You receive something with known, but not totally predictable effects into your person in a somewhat traumatic way. For some personalities, this is thrilling.
Tattoos, probably a similar effect when it was an unregulated, seedy thing done in back alleys. Also an initiation rite in certain subcultures, a way to prove you were tough/brave.
Vaccines. Maybe this is an initiation rite for the modern mass culture. A proof of obedience, submission of bodily autonomy/integrity to the medical priesthood.
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