I think they are OK if done right but then that is the same for all areas really. I am not fond of the one's guys get in their private area. I am OK with women having them but when a male has it done it creeps me out. My first piercing was a bar piercing under the lip and my second was on the nose. They were both bars and both of them came out 3 months later. The one under my lip just popped out and the nose one slide out when I was cleaning it. I got a ring now so that shit doesn't happen again, my lip had the semi-ring type piercing. No one told me a bar below the lip would be annoying until I experienced it.