So where to now? I had been looking at the BodyMod culture thing for quite a while now. Having a couple of tattoos means that I am no stranger to change, but piercing? For me this is not so much about the spiritual part as a little marker for things in my life that has changed or is changing. Could piercing fulfill the same I wondered? In my world there is only one way to find out. 'Do it' No words, no wussing out, no complaints, then you end up much happier in the end i think...Besides, I may know a person or two that may actually enjoy me having them too...
At A Glance Author jacktar Contact jacktar@bme.anon IAM jacktar When Five years ago Artist Jackie Studio Wildfire Location Cape Town In some play scenes, people have used needles on me, but this was more of a test run and playing to achieve other ends of course. But the flipside, I told myself, was, should I not like them, I can always remove them. How many and where? That was the next question...And the information about this? Rare back then. So of to the I-net.
In the end it took a good couple of months and a day of having nothing to do..Walked up to Wildfire, they were in the center of cape Town, up the stairs and asked for a nipple piercing. The kind lady behind the counter asked : 'One or both?'. Both, it came out even before I thought about it...
It's here where I met Jackie. She marked the two nipples, making sure that the line up well, even...This after some very careful explaining of what to expect, how to care and what not to does...I sat down, the first clamp, slow deep breath in, release and ...A sharp sensation as the needle went in, a strange slippery feeling as it went through followed by the bar, and a shiny bit of metal was in my left nipple. Clamps, breath, zip...And on the right, zip...No blood, no pain no strange feelings other than a nice little glow.
On my way out I picked up a bottle of saline and a very neatly put together pamphlet on after care.
The healing up took a little longer than what was indicated, but I can only blame myself. I am quite active and dragging a wetsuit over nipples in a great rush did not help.
Keeping the the 1,2 was not even a thought. As soon as this was healed up well it was up to 2,4 and and then up to 3,2mm rings in both. This went fine for about a year before I noticed that the piercing on the left was slowly making its way to the surface. After some deliberation I decided to go have a little talk to Wildfire about this.
I took it out...Give it a couple of months, maybe even more we decided. Let it heal up completely, then redo it. This was about four months ago and about six weeks ago the itch was there. Back to Wildfire, and this time it was Liesel that grabbed me.
Once again the service was very professional, with a little less to say on the care as she had been stretching me as time went along. Setting it just right was a little time consuming, but well worth the effort. We both think that going up in size, but heavier in rings has helped to distend my nipples a little, and where the piercing was done quite deep, close to the base, this changed as time went by. So the whole migration may just have been this distention of skin we think now, but even so, I would have had to reset to compensate for the change.
It is for this very reason that bodymods attract me so much I think. It is a way of changing, enhancing even a little of what mother nature gave me. That this also extents a little into my interest and participation of BDSM is no surprise for me either.Indeed, personally I find that there is a lot of common ground between these two lifestyles. This does not mean that they are the same and that all and sunder will understand or cross as I do though. But think of the trust, the communication on the rapport that you build up with your piercer. Even on the bread and butter piercings you have shared something with someone else, that forever will be with you and them, one way or the other.
In the other side of my life, it has opened up some very interesting avenues to go and explore. Two pretty well placed strong points in some rather sensitive parts of your body means that you have to trust someone else very much.
I also know deep down that this is not the end. I have discovered with ink that it really is quite addictive and my gut instinct is that piercing is going to be as addictive, if not more so...