For as long as I can remember piercing fascinated me. Initially by multiple piercing in ear lobes, then later on by more extreme piercings, especially genital.
At A Glance Author anonymous Contact anonymous@bme.anon When A year ago Artist Ruth Katkis Studio Hardware Location Reading I started slowly, first with my nose, then ears, then nipples. It was only after having two thick rings in my nipples that I knew I wouldn't stop until I had it all.
I looked for ages trying to decide on exactly what I wanted, I mean I liked all the male genital piercings, but I wanted to start with something special. Then I stumbled across a picture in a tattoo/piercing mag of a large gauge ampallang. That's it! That's exactly what I wanted.
However fate it seems was against me, my girlfriend at the time didn't particularly like the thought of my penis having bits of metal through it. Which I thought was a bit odd as she loved all my other piercings, especially my nipples. Still, no point rocking the boat, but try as I might the ampallang never really left my thoughts.
After months of waiting I finally thought, right that are it, I'll go and get my amp! There I was sat in the Piercers chair, with my pants round my ankles, ready for the needle and what happened next? My courage typically deserted me. The pain of having a needle pushed through the head of my penis was nothing to the pain I would encounter when I got home and proudly showed off my new addition.
Some of you reading this may think, what happened to the courage of your convictions? Well you'll be pleased to know that I didn't wimp out completely. Instead of my glorious amp I sported a low placed pubic piercing, just on the base of my penis. My rationale was this; if she liked this then perhaps I could persuade her that an amp wouldn't be so bad after all.
Oh how wrong I was!! If there ever were a woman who hated genital piercing I'd found her!
So that's how it stayed for three years until one Friday night when we split up. Obviously the thought of having my ampallang took a back seat for a while.
It was months later I awoke on a beautifully sunny Monday morning. I'd taken the day off work, just to generally relax. I went downstairs, started to eat breakfast, that's when it hit me. I could have whatever piercing I damn well wanted; I didn't need to appease anyone.
I hurriedly called Ruth, who had performed most of my piercings. Although I'd been to other piercers before I felt most comfortable with Ruth and she had a vast knowledge and experience of performing less popular piercings. Months earlier she performed an anal piercing for me which no other piercer I knew would do. Ruth said to come down in the afternoon and she would perform the piercing. I was ecstatic!
The morning seemed to drag on forever, had a bath, couldn't afford to be dirty! Eventually the time came, I left the house and drove down to Ruth's studio. I always love the waiting rooms in tattoo/piercing studios for several reasons. I love looking at the pictures, jewellery and all, enjoy meeting and talking to like minded people and really love the feeling of excitement and trepidation that I only get when I'm waiting to get a new piercing.
After what seemed an eternity Ruth called me in and her unique, relaxed manner soon put me at ease, one of the main reasons why I chose Ruth for this piercing, its bad enough hanging out your tackle, but to feel nervous and uneasy whilst doing it certainly isn't my idea of fun.
Ruth discussed best placement for this piercing given my anatomy, which was to be placed quite far back in the head of my penis, so it would cleanly pass through the urethra. We then discussed jewellery. Eventually I decided on a large gauge barbell
(3mm) With half moon balls. Apparently this would be more comfortable when I was aroused.
Once again there I was lying on the chair, pants round my ankles, but this time there was no going back. 3-2-1, Bang! The needle had gone through and was not as painful as I expected. Ruth then placed in the barbell. 'Ok, that's it' said Ruth, I looked down, and saw through a very bloodied penis two sparkling balls. I can't tell you how good it felt to finally have the piercing I'd wanted for all these years. Ruth carefully strapped my penis with cotton gauze to soak up any excess blood and told me how to look after my new addition.
The next few weeks I was careful to follow Ruth's aftercare to the letter. I kept it religiously clean, bathed it in a salt-water solution and abstained from sex. The only real discomfort was for the first couple of days, if I became aroused it did have a slight tendency to bleed. After about six weeks my amp had fully healed.
A year on and I still get a buzz from it.It looks fantastic and sex is out of this world. Just want PA and a frenum to complete my collection!