I had no contact with body piercing at all, although the sight of men and women with multiple ear piercings, I considered distasteful! In the summer of '97, I was on a trip to Alton Towers theme park and it was a glorious day. There many men walking around with their shirts off and about thirty men I passed had pierced nipples. When I saw the first, I was disgusted and thought him perverted. By the end of the afternoon, this had changed to curiosity! Within about a week, from no where, unsolicited, there arrived through the post, a catalogue from Wildcat of Brighton, detailing all their body jewellery. I read through and the description of the Prince's Wand was absolutely rivetting! As a gay man, well in the closet, this seemed to be an ideal toy!
At A Glance Author anonymous Contact anonymous@bme.anon Artist Mark Boyle Studio Nothing Sacred at The Voodoo Lounge Location Middlesbrough, England, UK I screwed up courage, did some telephoning and found a piercer 50 miles away who would do it. It had to be a long way away so that people wouldn't know me!
Thre Saturday appointed arrived and I drove the 50 miles in bright sunshine in early September, wondering just how intense the pain would be, what the reaction of the piercer would be and what the after effects would be. I found the place and the piercer, also a tattooist, was "inking" someone. He left this client and took me into a small side room. I undressed and lay on his torn bench. When he turned to start the marking up he audibly gasped - not at the size of the materials he was to work with, but at the fact that I had shaved! The piercing was over and I was back in the street in just a few minutes and I wandered along the seawall in the sunshine feeling like I could fly!
I was well pleased and the aftercare went well and the piercing healed in about a month. The disaster came when I took the ring out to clean it because of a build up of limesacale (it was an inferior quality ring). I bent the ring and couldn't make it hold the ball again. I just left it to as I thought that it would remain open - I had heard/ read somewhere that PAs don't heal. Anyway, this one did.
Next summer, I had my right nipple pierced at a local piercers and then a few weeks later, the other, too. The right nipple kept migrating forwards.
It was at this time that I met Mark when I went to have the left stretched and we discussed genital piercing and, within short order, he had given me a frenum (now 8mm) and a lorum. When this healed, I wore a 3mm ring with 12mm ball and it was great. Unfortunately, it grew through and fell on the floor one night as I was changing for bed! Nipples come and nipples go, a 5mm earring, and a navel piercing has come too, as well as a guiche (you must get one!) and another lorum, but, alas, that has gone too - within 5 weeks!
And so did another PA, by Mark, last September. It healed well and I started to stretch it. When I got up to 4mm, it started to pull through the head towards the urethral opening. When I took the ring out, I had only a piece of tissue less than the width of a human hair, which Mark painlessly snipped, so that now I have an really enlarged urethral opening. With the departure of theis PA I saw my hopes of a wand dashed and Mark began working on an idea combining a Wand, or similar, with my frenu, ring. I wear a 3mm curved barbell behind the glands under my foreskin. It's just THERE all the time.
Another appointment last week with Mark began yet more work on the nipples to see if I could keep a piercing there. We talked of an ampallamg, as I had mentioned it before, and he showed me pictures and articles, from BME.. I said that we'd go ahead on the Thursday(March 1st) and we agreed the length of the barbell.
The Wednesday and Thursday passed slowly in a kind of dream as I was thinking ahead and counting the hours down in fear and excitement. I was also experiencing life with my foreskin rolled back - very sensitive!
On arriving at the studio, at 4. 30ish, I was fitted with a condom filled with EMLA cream and we waited the 45 mins for the anaesthetic to take effect. I was then taken into the studio, undressed, marked up, breathed deeply and was pierced - but I still say, "Thank God for the cream" even though I did not feel anything. By 5.35, I was cleaned and dressed. The rush though, afterwards - I danced around the shop like a kid, with a grin as wide as wide!
Aftercare has been no problem and there has been absolutely No AFTER PAIN or discomfort. Bleeding was minimal and there have been only a few "pink" pees! I was warned that the days following could be quite uncomfortable with a gnawing ache, which was why I chose the Thursday night as I have a light timetable on Friday and Saturday and Sunday are days off anyway.
Three days later, it is now Sunday lunchtime, I have a permanent smile on my face and can say that so far it has been the easiest of the piercings that I have had ........... and I aren't half proud!
Live in Cleveland, UK? Then Mark Boyle's the person for your piercings. He is his own best salesman, both in the quantity and variety of his piercings and tattoos, but more especially, because of his calm, reassuring, honest and informative manner! He's great!