At A Glance
Author	Ryan
Contact	Ryan@bme.anon
When	A year ago
Artist	???
Studio	Zebra
Location	Berkeley, California

So when I was 15, I saw a guy at with his nipples pierced. I thought it was the coolest thing and I knew then that when I turned 18 I was gonna do it. For the next three years I researched all there was to know about nipple piercings, from hygeine to nipple jewelry. When I was researching some info on nipple piercings, I read that after getting pierced there's more sensitivity in the nipples. Being somebody who had sensitive nipples to begin with, the thought of having them more sensitive made me even more excited to get pierced.

When I finally turned 18, I knew that soon I'd get pierced. I was hanging out with some friends and they needed a ride to Berkeley, so I figured that I'd take them and get my piercings. I went to Zebra on Telegraph Avenue and walked inside. I chose Zebra because I had my cartilage pierced there a year earlier and the people there seemed to be very clean and very professional. When I walked inside, I told the guy behind the counted that I wanted to get both my nipples pierced. The total for both nipples was $90, $45 for each. The guy behind the counter explained that barbells would heal faster than rings, but being the cheap ass I am, I thought to myself that I didn't feel like buying more jewelry later on down the road, and I liked the rings, so I chose the them. It turns out that I ended up buying barbells 7 months later, so it didn't really matter what I chose. After selecting the jewelry, he offered me some numbing cream, but I turned it down because my nipples were going to hurt after the cream wore off, not to mention that I'd have to wait 45 minutes for the cream to take effect.

So after I paid I was handed a number and then waited for what seemed like forever. I was by myself and more nervous than I'd ever been about anything before in my life, but I knew I'd wanted this for so long and I told myself that I couldn't back out. I guess it was kind of like a right of passage for myself, and if I didn't go through with it I'd let myself down or something. While waiting I snacked on some complimentary cookies and soda so that I'd have some sugar in my system before I had a needle go through my nipples.

My number was finally called and I walked back into the piercing room. I sat up on a stool and the piercer told me to take my shirt off so he could mark my nipples with white tattoo ink to see where the needle would go. After marking my nipples, I checked to see if the markings were even (which they were) and I sat down and got ready to be pierced. The piercer clamped my nipples, which hurt quite a bit more than I thought it would, but I didn't think the piercing itself would hurt any more. I'd read that the piercing part doesn't hurt that much, so I wasn't too worried. After the nipples were clamped I watched the piercer take the piercing needle out of it's package. When I saw that the needle was a 10 gauge, I thought to myself, "Oh dear God, that's fucking huge!" The jewelry was 12 gauge so the needle needed to be 1 gauge higher to make room for the ring. The piercer prepared me and told me that he'd tell me to take a breath in, and when he told me to breathe out he'd pierce me. I breathed in, and then he said breathe out. That second before he pierced me was terrifying. I knew there was no turning back. As I breathed out, the 10 gauge needle tore through my flesh of my nipple. It was the most pain I'd ever felt in my life. It was so painful I didn't know what to think. The adrenaline was pumping so hard I couldn't even scream. I just remember my eyes rolling back into my head a little bit and trying to process what had happened. I looked down and the needle was sitting in my nipple. He told me that I'd feel a little discomfort when he put the jewelry in, which I did, but when he finished with the first nipple it was quite satisfying to look down and see my newly pierced nipple. The only bad part was knowing that I'd have to endure the same thing with my other nipple. The same thing happened, felt the same amount of pain, but then it was over, and I had my newly pierced nipples. It was awesome. The guy told me that I could sit down if I needed to, but I said I was alright. I wasn't alri °>ÃwŒë ght like I thought I was, and after 2 steps I got really dizzy and laid down on the chair that was in the middle of the room.

The initial pain was over, and now it just felt like there were clamps on my nipples. Later that night, my left nipple started bleeding a lot. I freaked out about it because it didn't stop bleeding until the next morning. I got pierced at 5:00 in the evening, so bleeding for 16 hours was rather disconcerning. The first day was the worst, but after that it got better. The healing process took a while, and at one point one nipple seemed to get infected. I cleaned it with bactine, which I got at Safeway in the first aide section, and it cleared up within a week.

Now it's been almost a year since I've had the piercings and I'm totally healed now. It's fun to play with my nipples when I'm bored, and just tug on them, and even more fun when somebody tugs on them for me. They're really sensitive now so any touching of them makes them pretty hard really fast, and my nipples now seem to be connected to my dick. If my nipples get hard, so does my dick. The piercings are wonderful in bed and just way too much fun during foreplay. All in all, it was totally worth it. For anybody thinking about getting their nipples pierced, DO IT!!! Be ready for some pain in the beginning, but after they're healed they're the best things in the world.