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I've been browsing antique jewelry a lot lately and wonder about this. With jewelry specifically I think about hair, coral, pearls.

Then that extends out to animal skins, bones, human relics, etc.

What makes one thing gross but the other okay?

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[–] Witchfire@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

My line is at wet specimens.

I don't even mind handling dead mice for my snake to eat, and I have a few small taxidermies around. I've even handled human teeth and had one of my own that had to get pulled (tooth fairy stole it though)

But wet specimens creep me TF out, especially if they've been diaphonized. I hate to say it but I've even seen wet human specimens (stillborns), that is a HELL FUCKING NO from me

[–] MrsDoyle@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 week ago

I bought a pretty shell necklace in Samoa, and then asked the seller what shells it was made from.

He said... "Dolphin's teeth."

When I reeled back in horror, he chuckled and said, "Yum yum."

I have various bits of jewellery made from beef bone, I happily wear leather, but there was something intimate about teeth that made it gross, plus eating dolphins, argh.

[–] Lemminary@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

I don't mind it as long as it wasn't part of their body, like their skull. That does freak me out.

[–] DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world 0 points 1 week ago

No limits, but no interest, either.

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