At A Glance Author Jeff Contact Jeff@bme.anon When Three months ago Artist Aaron Solomon Studio Saint Tattoo Location Knoxville, Tennessee The day I got my ampallng I had been thinking about it for quite some time. In the order of a couple months. I just aesthetically enjoyed the piercing a lot. Though had been warned about the incredible amount of pain involved with the original stick. I had read horror stories that included recollections of screaming and fist-pounding . I had seen videos of grown men screaming while getting this piercing performed on them. I'm eighteen and this would be my second piercing, only after a relatively painless prince albert.
It was about six o'clock in the evening when I went over to my friend's house to meet her. I knew that I wouldn't be able to drive well after getting this piercing done, so I had her drive me. I gave Aaron a call and asked if he was ready for me to come in. He said yes and off Leah drove to Saint Tattoo. The piercing shop which has won the Metro Pulse's (a magazine based on Knoxville) best piercing and tattoo shop award roughly eight times in a row. That fact was a small amount of consultation, but I knew I was in good hands.
I walked in Saint Tattoo at about six thirty and saw Aaron. He told me to hang on a second as he cleaned the piercing area. As I waited, he got the area clean and then he got my paper work. I was shaking very badly as I filled it out. As I walked back with Aaron, he sat me down and talked with me about the piercing for about ten minutes. As he got everything ready he was still consoling me about the pain. He stated, "about ninety percent of piercing is in your head, though I'm not going to pull wool over your eyes and tell you that this piercing is just like a lobe." As he kept on talking to me, and so did Leah, I became a little more comfortable. He explained to me that when he was ready he would ask me to take a deep breath in, and then he would ask me to let it out and that is when he would pierce. He wanted me to think that the deep breath out was letting out all of the bad thoughts and feelings out.
I dropped my pants and he cleaned me very thoroughly, very much like a surgery prep. He told me what he was doing at every move he made. I grabbed Leah's hand and thought "I'm doing this? Why am I doing this. This is absolutely crazy!" My mind started to race and I was having a lot of second thoughts. All of a sudden I heard it "take a deep breath in." I did it thinking "holy shit" then Aaron said "aaaaaaaaaad let it out".. I started to let out my breath (why, I'm not sure) and it went from a hiss to a grunt. I felt Leah's hand start to grip and squeeze mine really hard, and I heard her start to squeal. Meanwhile, back at the barn, it felt like a really dry needle, even though I saw him use A LOT of lube. It took about one second to get the needle through, and the I felt the same feeling to a lesser degree as he slid the jewelry through. I'm not going to lie and tell you it didn't hurt. Because it really did... a lot. But it wasn't nearly as be as I thought it was going to be.
Oh no, the story doesn't end there. As we left Saint I paid after we went over the sheet of paper that had the aftercare instructions on it. I really like his work a lot, so I left him a 100% tip, somewhere in the order of fifty dollars. He thanked me and I thanked him, and Leah and I were off. After all of the adrenaline and endorphins seemed to ware off I began to almost feel nauseated because of the pain. I couldn't really think straight either. That night I couldn't sleep either. I kept on tossing and turning , and god forbid me laying on it. I got up and went to the bathroom about hour or so feeling like I had to pee really bad... but nothing came out.
It's been a little over three months now and it still gets moderately sore often. But if I had to I would do it again. I now feel like a stronger person after getting this done. It wasn't a piercing that I went and got a whim. I put a lot of thought into this piercing, and I feel that it means some thing. Both of my genital piercing resemble change. I get them after a really rough breakup with a really evil spirited girl. Not only are they a change in a sexual sense, but also in a spiritual and mental way.