the skinny on my skinny: my amp piercing

At A Glance Author anonymous Contact anonymous@bme.anon Artist Dave Studio Top Notch Tattoo Location Elgin Illinois

Well, this is my ampallang story, written more so for informational purposes for anyone looking into it and I'm currently really bored so I figured why not.

I would say that piercing my penis was perhaps one of the only things that I never thought I could ever do. It just plain looked too painful to me. I thought, yeah it might be kind of cool to have a piercing, there, maybe a PA. Then I looked at BME and saw some pictures and thought that a piercing would just be too painful.

I put the idea out of my head, but piercing came up in conversation a few days later and somebody told me about someone they had met that had a bunch of piercings and loved them. Then I ran the idea by a couple of girls and they said that if they were guys they would've already had theirs pierced. I'm still a little unsure at this point, but leaning more towards it.

I had my tongue pierced in April, got 2 tattoos in June and 1 in July and kind of figured that I had a good handle on pain so I looked at some more pictures and saw the picture of the double amp and thought that that looked really cool. Also, the amp seems to be less common than the PA and I was reading up on it all and read that anything going through the urethra would involve a q-tip dipped in iodine and that scared me.

So I made up my mind to go with the amp. Just to make sure I didn't chicken out, I went and told people I was going to do it so as to trap myself. I was going back to school in 2 weeks so I wanted to take care of it as soon as possible so I could just sit for a few days and take it easy. The timing was right, I had the money. This was going to happen.

The place that I get my tattoos from does not do male genital piercing so I had to look around. I made some calls during the week, trying to find places that would do it and trying to see how much it would cost. I had heard about the place I decided on. People told me it was really clean and the people were really cool. It would cost me $60 with jewelry.

So I called on a Friday and tried to set up an appointment because I figured most tattoo shops are pretty busy Friday nights. I talked to the piercer and he told me that the largest barbell they had was a 7/8. I wasn't sure how much the barbell was going to go through, but I thought 7/8 was perhaps too short so I asked for a 1.25. He told me he didn't have one but that he would try to get one during the weekend and he would call me and let me know. Sunday he called and told me that he could get me a 12ga 1.25inch barbell. I told him I would call him back and set up an appointment. I talked to a friend of mine that said she would like to watch and I set up an appointment for Wednesday when she wasn't working.

Wednesday finally rolls around. I'm scared as all hell. I pick up my friend and we go to get my penis pierced. The piercing room was incredibly clean. It was like a doctor's office. I sign the forms, he talks to me a bit. He shows me the needle and barbell, both in what appear to be sealed sterile bags. Tells me that this is perhaps the most intense piercing I can get and makes sure I know what I'm doing. I agree, he lays some plastic on the medical looking chair, and he has me drop my pants so he can mark my penis. I'm laying on the chair just trying to breath deep in and out, hoping that the breathing will make me light headed. He shows me the markings and I breath some more. He makes sure I understand how important it is that I do not move. He doesn't like to use clamps and so it takes him a little longer to pierce because he has to work the needle through slowly. I've read that the clamps need to be clamped on very tightly and that's another little bit of pain to factor in.

He starts piercing. At first its mild, then it starts to hurt more and more. It feels like a really painful pinch coming from the inside out. I think somewhere in the middle of the piercing I let out a whisper of a cry, all I said was god and then I tried to go back to my breathing. It was a really crazy feeling, I almost felt like I wanted to crap or pee just because I didn't know how else to react to what was going on down there. Then he stopped and left the needle in, I didn't want to look. Back to the breathing as he worked the jewelry in. It felt like more pinching, but I new it was almost over so I did my best to just do the breathing.

Done. He bandaged me up and wrapped a glove on my thing and I was about ready to go. He broke the needle after he was done to show that he can't use it again. He went over the aftercare stuff and talked to me a lot during and after the piercing to make sure I was alright. I tip him and I'm off. I drop me friend off and go somewhere to pee, I'm afraid at first, but it doesn't really affect my peeing in any way.

The aftercare is not that bad. I soak it in a sea-salt bath once a day. It helps remove the crusted blood and lymph that form on the barbell and the holes left by the piercing. Then I use antibacterial soap and clean it and the barbell. I read that it would bleed a lot, but it mine really hasn't. Whatever vein is there, he didn't hit. I didn't bleed much during the piercing and afterwards, it, for the most part, wasn't that bad. I say for the most part, because the Saturday I moved back to school, I had 1 beer and I think it really did a lot to thin my blood. I bled a lot on that 1 and only 1 night. Sunday my bleeding was all but over. Its now Tuesday night, almost one full week after the piercing, no more blood trickling. It feels slightly sensitive, it stings a very little bit to get the jewelry caught on my boxers and I find myself adjusting a lot, but all in all I am more than happy. I think the jewelry might be a little longer than I needed, but it's better to be too long than too short.

I'm glad I did it. It isn't a pain I want to ever feel again, but I'm glad that I did it. The fear of the pain is what bothered me the most because I couldn't even imagine it. A pinching feeling is the most accurate way for me to describe it. If you could prolong the pain of getting hit in the testicles to the length of time it takes to get the piercing, the piercing hurts less. Getting hit in the testicles knocks the wind out you, makes you feel weird in the pelvis and you have lingering pain. This piercing is very isolated. The head feels it, but it doesn't really spread. If you could constantly get hit in the testicles for 6 seconds, that would hurt more than the piercing.