In the late 1950s I acquired a book titled "Sexual Practices Around The World." It described just about every sexual act you can imagine
At A Glance Author Greyfox Contact Greyfox@bme.anon When Ten years ago or more Artist Jim Ward Studio Gauntlet Location West Hollywood, Ca including, of course, coitus, masturbation, circumcision, etc. One of the most interesting chapters described the act by the Dyak peoples of Borneo of piercing the head of the male penis and inserting a gold rod. They would compress the head of the penis between two pieces of bamboo with holes in them. The young man would stand in a cold river until he was numb and was ready to get the piercing over with just to get rid of the painful bamboo compression. A sharp need was inserted through the bamboo followed up by a gold rod. It was said that women would not marry a man who did not have one. At the time I thought that this would be an interesting thing to have, but I Los Angeles was a long way from Borneo and my chances of getting there were somewhere between slim to none. I dismissed the idea that it was neat, but it just wasn't going to happen.
In 1985 I was reading a sex oriented magazine and read a letter to the doctor column in which a woman inquired about getting her genitals pierced. The doctor said that there was a place who did that sort of thing and that if she would send him her name he would pass it on. I got very curious and sent him my name and address. About one month later I received a catalog from Gauntlet Studios who were located on Santa Monica Boulevard in West Hollywood. I eagerly read the catalog and much to my amazement there among all those piercings was the amphallang. I instantly knew that I had to have one so I contacted Gauntlet immediately. I was given and appointment and could hardly wait until the faithful day.
Gauntlet was easy to find as it had a huge purple awning over the front of the store. It was fairly narrow inside with a jewelry counter on the front left and a doctors examination table partially screened just behind it. On the right side was a small desk and behind that three small work benches where two ladies and a man were making jewelry. Jim Ward came up and greeted me.
I told Jim that I wanted an amphallang. He briefly told me about it and showed me the jewelry they used. I was invited to climb up on the examination table.
I pulled down my pants and underwear. Jim made some measurements on the head of my penis to size the jewelry. The skin was cleaned with Betadyne and marked. All of this manipulation caused my penis to become semi erect. When Jim had everything set, he asked me if I was ready. I told him I was. In my enthusium to get the piercing I failed to ask about the pain factor, which I was shortly to have answered. I happened to look to my right and saw that the jewelers were watching with intense interest. I wasn't sure if they were looking at my penis or the progress of the piercing. Jim placed the point of the needle, which looked to me like a huge railroad spike, on one of the marks. Two fingers of his other hand were used to back up the skin on the other side. I heard the words here we go and I was instantly greeted by a searing pain. I think I probably permanently bent up the edges of the table from the shock. Jim continued to push the needle through. The most painful part was the piercing of the outer skin with the center not being bad at all, until the point reached the outer skin and I got another jolt. He commented that the worst of it was over, so I looked down to see a 12 gauge needle through the head of my penis. The insertion of the jewelry was not too bad. When everything was in place, Jim said it was all done. I sat up to see a beautiful barbell amphallang. I stood up and showed off my new piercing to the workers, who told me it looked really great. I got dressed, shook hands with Jim and walked out onto the street. I wished that I could have been naked just to show off my piercing.
Piercings are just like eating potato chips, you can't have just one. My next experience was with dydoe studs. Jim was concerned that my glans didnot have enough flare to properly support the studs. I decided to give it a try and told him to proceed. He got them in OK, but they were never really comfortable. I did have one great experience with them, however, as I visited a nudist camp in Topanga Canyon. A lady was sitting about ten feet away trying to figure out what the piercing was all about. I got up and walked close by here just to give her a good view. The expression on her face was superb. I would have given anything to have had a photo.
Under the potato chip theory I later got a prince albert, which was removed when I did a meatotomy on myself, a frenum and scrotum piercings.
Some time later I went back to Gauntlet and found that Jim had gone to San Francisco to open a new store and had left Elayne Angel in charge. I asked her to do an apadrayva on me. It was her first and she pulled it off without a hitch.
I found that Jim was a superb piercer and great gentleman and I wish him the best of luck in his new Gauntlet venture.