I write this as a story, more than an ongoing experience because at time of writing both of my nipples are without clamps, are unpierced. Anyway some years ago - I was 23 I got both my nipples pierced, later I removed them and then later I had them repierced.
At A Glance Author Michael Contact the_oceanides@hotmail.com Artist John Studio Belfast City Skinworks Location Belfast In '96 I was a final year college student and for some reason became aware of nipple piercing, then it seemed exciting different - whatever. I am a fairly respectible/conservative person and the tattoo parlour advertising this particular service seemed to be not - though it was quite, quite clean. I am not terribly fussed by tattoos and have never had the slightest inclination to get one, but piercing is/was different it is the insertion of jewellry which can choose to remove or to keep in situ.
I determined one bright day to get my nipples pierced there. After asking the enumerable questions that newbies tend to I signed nervously the consent form; then it was the point of no return. I entered behind the door through which all piercees would go, removed my shirt and then sitting down one nipple was marked with a pen clamped sprayed with a solution supposed to freeze it and then pierced I saw it all and it hurt a burning sensation as I remember it, then the other and it also hurt - I honestly forget which was the most painful. The after care in this first instance didn't really happen, that was later for the second and last time.
Unlike what others have said there was no tea and sympathy although I did't scream or anything I was nonetheless fairly nervous and the piercer had to get someone else to hold the clamps on my nipples whilst he pierced them - both of them. The same night because of the discomfort I (probably foolishly - afterall I'd just spend £40) removed them. Despite the pain and the discomfort I've mentioned on each occassion there was a sexual thrill about the whole thing can't explain especially why - there just was, and even touching them would drive me nuts - they were so sensitive so erogenous a part of me.
Months later I got the nipples repierced but this time it was one at a time and eventually I went up 2.4 mm. Stretching up to this 2.4 mm hurt; I started at 1.6 mm and it was a big jump but happily nothing ripped. I scrupulously cleaned them twice a day with a salty solution in the shower for months afterward it hurt on each occasion that I rotated the ring through the nipple - most people tend not to write about this, for them the discomfort is the piercing itself, cleaning can also hurt ;)
With my pierced nipples I felt as though I'd entered a forbidden world of sexuality where people got things done to themselves that they knew would hurt for pleasure, of course in reality I was still as grey as ever on the outside. In '97 I was going away for a trip of a lifetime before the job of a lifetime for a lifetime (the job lasted 6 months I was a round peg in a square hole) and felt that as I was camping - potentially wild camping that I didn't want the hassle of my pierced nipples - keeping them clean would be a little harder, so I removed them for a second and last time.
I still think of having my nipples clamped. When they were clamped I found that a part of my anatomy which was hitherto unremarkable before the piercing became highly erogenous and sensitive - unfortunately my chest hurt like hell, if I was hit during Karate - which I was doing at the time - you can't have it all ways. I know a lot of people (not in this forum) think of it as a form of mutilation, to which I can only agree - however as these same people would probably not raise a eyebrow to a girl with pierced ears I think there's a degree of hypocrisy, to me a nipple is just another part of one's anatomy. As to whether or not I'll ever get my nips pierced again, who knows? once you've paid the cost of getting them done and hacked the pain part - how come no-one every mentions that cleaning them twice daily in salty water for weeks afterwards hurts as well, you end up with part of your anatomy that not only is visually different but also was for me anyway hugely erogenous. All I have left are a few ring secreted away, and memories - maybe later I'll have more than memories... Unfortunately just now I still live at home and I know (however old I am) that it would be tough to go through this again and keep it a total secret.
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Michael