Self Installed Apradaya > PA

At A Glance Author 2gapa Contact 2gapa@bme.anon Artist self Studio the bathroom Location Suburban Washington, DC

I am a 47 year-old hetero male, married 25 years. In 1978, during a visit to Europe, my spouse and I found out about body piercing. Both she and I had our nipples pierced at a tattoo parlor in Amerstdam - sorry, I don't remember the name of the shop now. Eventually we had stretched them to about 8 ga. When she became pregnant with our first child in 1985, she stopped wearing hers, and I sort of fell out of the practice a couple of years later.

After the birth of our 2nd child, I decided to do something special to celebrate. While she and the baby were still in the hospital, I decided to do an apradavya. I got everything I needed together, a 10 ga needle, a 1.25" 10 ga barbell (both aquired at a shop on Connecticut Ave. in Washington, DC, called the Leather Rack) and some pennington forceps. After boiling all the metal stuff for about an hour and wiping it all down with betadine, (the needle came in a sealed pack which was supposed to have been autoclaved - I just went with that), I carefully marked the head of my cock with dots of betadine. On the top I tried to make it dead center and the bottom was just at the point where the head meets the shaft. Then I clamped it with the forceps and started from the bottom. At first it was easier than I thought. I could feel the tip of the needle pass pretty quickly through the bottom wall of the urethra and start into the top. As the needle passed into the top, I found that it was soon no longer penetrating and just sort of pushing the tissue. Looking around I found something (I don't remember what) to push down on the top with. Pretty soon the needle broke through the top. The next part was harder. I had a tough time getting the barbell through behind the needle. Maybe I should have taken one of the balls off the end (careful, that last line WAS a joke.) I had started by butting one end against the base of the needle and pushing through, but somewhere around halfway through the top, I had some real problems. After a lot of struggle, and a fair amount of blood, it came through the top. I put the ball on, wiped everything off with betadyne and wrapped it up with a couple of large gauze sponges. I cleaned everything carefully a couple of times a day for the next two weeks. Some blood seeped out for the first 2-3 days, but eventually everything calmed down.

Since our second child was a lot smaller than our first, everything had gone pretty well for her and she suprised me by being interested again in about 6 weeks. Since she hadn't seen me nude, and I hadn't quite figured out how to tell her, I think she was a little pissed off at first about what I'd done, but she got over it. Within a couple of months, for her comfort and mine I stopped wearing the barbell and the top hole began to close over, but I kept the bottom, which made it into a Prince Albert, I guess.

Eventually, I had stretched it to about 4 ga. It didn't seem so at first, but after a while the web of skin between the PA and the opening of my urethra began to get thinner and thinner, especially when I was wearing the padlock she liked to keep the key to. In about 1993, I decided to do something about it.

We had been going through kind of a rough time emotionally, and for a few months sex had become infrequent. I had earlier considered installing a PA farther back, because I was concerned that my current one might tear. After deciding exactly how far back the placement would be, I wore something as heavy as I could stand in my then current PA for about 2 or 3 weeks. By the end of that time the web was only about an eighth of an inch. One weekend when I was home alone, I carefully cleaned some small scissors by boiling them for about an houe and then carefully snipped the web. I was suprised at how much blood there was. Healing was no problem, and in about 3 weeks I was ready for my 2nd PA, which I did myself, this time from the inside of the urethra out without forceps. It is now stretched to 2 ga. (and I sometimes stretch it larger) well placed about 5/8" down the shaft from my urethral opening, and very playable. And my wife loves it.

I just about have her convinced I should get an ampallang, but I might not do that myself. I'm trying to figure out what placement of ampallang would be best. I think it would be nice to be able to loop the ring through my PA around a trans-urethral ampallang. Anyone have any recommendations?