My name is Rich. I'm now forty, and have had pierced nipples since my early 30's. For years before I finally got them, I knew that I wanted them- I've always had a nipple fetish, and when I heard about a fellow having a 'ring in his tittie', well, I knew that's what I'd been looking for all my adult life!
At A Glance Author Rich Contact Rich@bme.anon When A year ago Artist Josh Studio Perfect Touch Location Oxford, Alabama, USA This is about my nipple piercing. To be exact, my third nipple piercing, which I got back early 2003. My first two nips (and a couple of frenums), which I might write about in separate stories, I did myself back in the mid 1990's, before I knew anything about piercing (I didn't even have the internet back then, to help me learn about the piercing community) and is a great story on what not to do! After that experience, I knew that any more piercing ought to be done by a professional. I'd already gotten a tattoo at a place called Perfect Touch, in Oxford, Alabama, and I was acquainted with the piercer on staff there as of this writing, a young fellow called Josh. Josh is quite professional in his manner and bearing. He's also cautious to a fault- if he doesn't thing a piercing is safe, he won't do it- I've watched him turn down a job because a friend's penis was too 'vascular looking' for a frenum. I'd let him pierce me anytime!
My first piercings done as I said, by myself, were conducted very slowly, and not with the right kind of needle. So I knew how much a nipple piercing could hurt, but it was after all, taken in slow stages when I did it to myself (and there was a sexual component to the self-piercing). This was definitely to be different, I knew. I've a female friend that had gotten both her nipples done by Josh, I wasn't there but I heard she nearly came up off the table. So I knew this would HURT. I just didn't know how much...
Once before, I had started to get another piercing on a nip, but chickened out after the first side of the usual medical form was completed. This time, however, rather than just one friend, I took him and his wife, of the aforementioned female nipples... along with my wife. The more folks you have on hand to provide 'encouragement' (read: peer pressure to keep you from wussing out), the better!
I made sure I wasn't hungry when I went- I didn't want to pass out from some kind of shock!- but I didn't go on a full tummy, either; I didn't want to puke up all over myself. I've only had one kind of pain that made me vomit, and that was a kidney stone... does a nipple piercing hurt as much?
First I showed Josh my nipple, and told him what I wanted. It was to be the left nip, I wanted another horizontal put in behind the existing horizontal piercing I'd given myself years before. When I first pierced my nipples, I knew then that I wanted two piercings in each. (I'd tried that once, but I'd done it myself and it didn't work out from being too close to the end of the nipple.) And I wanted the left nip in particular, to be pierced a second time because unlike my right nip, the left didn't get much additional sexual sensitivity from piercing, and I was hoping that getting another ring in it would help. I'd stretched my existing nip rings up to 12 gauge, so after looking at things he said no problem, he could put a ring behind the one I had, into the areola a little behind the existing nipple, and since I had a 12 ga. in there, that's what he recommended for the new one. So I filled out the paperwork, and paid the fee, and for good measure, I went ahead and gav e him his tip. That's perhaps a bit premature- it could be something you wouldn't want to tip for afterwards- but I knew it's one thing to chicken out and get a refund- quite another to ask for a man's tip, back! I knew having done that, I'd be just that much less likely to chicken out, especially if it was a good tip I'd given (always one to want my money's worth).
He got me laid down on the piercing bench, minus my shirt, and proceeded to get everything laid out and ready. A CBR out of a sterilization packet, and a new needle out of its packaging. Gloves, some kind of petroleum jelly looking stuff, all the rest. After stretching and marking my nipple for the new location, I was given the chance to approve of the placing. Then my existing ring was removed for the procedure, and I was prepped and clamped and ready to go. So there I am, laying prone, nervous, and not at all sure I really knew what I was doing, with Josh holding in a gloved hand this BIG looking, goop-covered, hollow needle above me. The folks I brought with me, looking down at me and just daring me to try to back out.
I know now, that looking at the needle was probably not a good thing. But that's the last thing I saw before closing my eyes. I heard Josh tell me BREATH IN....BREATH OUT....BREATH IN......BREATH OUT.... I knew what was coming, having read about it enough times here on BMEZINE, that probably on that third exhale.... and sure enough, Josh said, "One more time: BREATH IN.......BREATH OU----!! and I exploded with pain. Man, that hurt! To my credit, I didn't attempt to escape. It was just a fraction of a second, I'm sure, but it sure was an intense fraction. I felt a very painful fumbling as he put my new ring in and secured the bead, then reinserted my old ring to its home. I'm sure he was deft enough in his actions, and the whole thing probably took half a minute or so including putting the old ring back in its piercing- but it seemed like a lot longer! After that, I opened my eyes, to see faces of indifferent concern above me. ('Indifferent concern' is closest to ho w I can describe it.) My wife told me she thought I was going to cry, from my facial expression. Not hardly- in fact it wasn't just a moment after I opened my eyes, that those endorphins kicked in- in a very short span of time I'd gone from being really nervous, to intense pain, to having to suppress the strong urge to giggle!
(By the way, the nip piercing darn near rivaled a small kidney stone- at least a piercing is over and done with very fast by a good piercer!)
I felt a little shaky, but high. Still, I had the presence of mind to be sure I was ready to sit up before doing so- which I did after another minute or two. Then the aftercare sheet... sea salt soaks, no ointments or lotions, use diluted antibacterial hand soap, or one of several products by name... all the usual. I thanked the man, and went on my way. Time to get something to eat, AND a few adult beverages were a nice thing to have, as well- though I was concerned that alcohol might increase the propensity of the new piercing to bleed. It didn't in my case, though, despite using the excuse of a piercing to have a little too much to drink. I'm not generally much of a bleeder, and in fact, bleeding was minimal. After the first night (it was done in the evening) I don't really remember much blood at all- just lots of lymph and crusties. By the time I got the beverages in me, pain was returning in a dull thudding pain- for the first half hour at least, those natural br ain chemicals that kick in had me feeling pretty much nothing at all.
The piercing healed without any complications. It was pretty painful and tender, the first week or three, working soap through it being the worst activity I had to do. The salt soaks I found quite soothing, though my wife enjoyed making fun of me walking around the house with a Dixie cup held to my tittie.
I have found that this piercing is a little more fragile than the ones I did myself, which had produced some scarring (another reason not to do it yourself). I still have to be careful even now, about being too rough with it when changing out jewelry. Recently, I tried out a flea-market nipple shield with barbell, and got my nipple rather infected as a result of manhandling it, and not using more than a little rubbing alcohol to sterilize the new jewelry. Big mistake. Be careful of those nipple piercings. I am happy however, to note that unlike some, I haven't had eternal crusties, and even sebum seems to be much less of a problem than what it was, say, six months ago- my piercing is a little over a year old, now. But it seems like I've had it way longer. That's the way of my piercings, they quickly become a part of me and who I am, I could live without them, but it wouldn't be easy!
I'm sorry to report that after some initial extra sensitivity, it's not that much more erotically sensitive than it was. I knew that might or might not happen, but like Josh said when I was telling him what I wanted and why, if nothing else, I'll still have another ring in there! And I'm glad I got it- I've wanted double piercings in both nipples since I first pierce myself nearly ten years ago.
Now I watch my left nip enlarging more than the right one... and I know it's time to get the right one pierced with its second ring- I just have to get good and psyched up, now that I know what kind of pain to expect! But I know I have to get it, sometime!
Rich