It really does. The order that I noticed things in this was: Nipple Piercings>Baked Beans>Shirt Text and maybe I've been on Lemmy too much, but that just makes sense to me.
51yo here. Yeah they were. In fact, nipple and belly button piercings as well as women with tattoos (ej. Tramp Stamps) became fairly normalized by the early to mid nineties.
I saw a butt piercing; an eyelid stud; a weighted frenulum chain (think bike lock); a full back brand ; and vulva "Sarlac Pit" tattoo all in the 90s. Everyone had something.
I was an outlier in my career at the time in not having any tattoos or piercings or body mods. No judgement on those who did, just wasn't for me.
Pretty common among the body piercing crowd, which certainly was a smaller percentage of the American population than it is now. I had a nipple piercing in 1996-1997.
My great-grandfather wrote a small book of sayings before he died. The last entry went like this:
The way I see it you don't have anything to worry about. You're either sick or well. If you're well you don't have to worry.
If you're sick you'll either get better or you won't. If you get better you don't have to worry.
If you die you either go to heaven or hell. If you're in heaven you don't have to worry, and if you're in hell you'll be around your friends so you won't care.