My 4-gauge scalpel-pierced Apadravya.
At A Glance Author Flygare Contact Flygare@bme.anon When A month ago Artist Lukas Zpira Studio East Street Body Piercing Studio Location Malmoe, SWEDEN Recently, Lukas Zpira visited East Street piercing in Malmö during his Crazy bod mod tour. This is the studio where I've been woking as a shop assistant of and on for a few months hoping for an apprentice ship. I've been in to body mods for a couple of years now, and since I first got interested I allways new that some day, I'd get myself an apadravya. I've been thinking about the ampallang too, but since I like the look of the vertikal one better, and consulting a few people about which of the would be the best one sex wise, I finally made up my mind. A friend of mine had his done by scalpel piercing, which turned out to heal really quick. He also removed the frenum to get the appadravya dead centered. This is the way that I also wanted to do it, since I wanted a big gauge from the start, and also as centered as possible. The problem is that no one reliable perform this in Sweden so I was glad to know that Zpira was about to visit my home town and that I was able to have it done by a man of skills. I made up my mind a week before and then I just waited. I did'nt really feel anxious about it, as I new I would get anaesthetics, but still, I was a bit shaky the day I was about to go through with the procedure. I was in the studio earlier that day, watching Zpira do some pociting, and after that I had the opportunity to get an interview with Zpira for an article in Scandinavian Tattoo Magazine. For those who never met the guy I have to say that he's a very interesting person to talk to.
Well, I got home, had a steady meal, and then I went back to the studio to get it over with. We talked through the procedure at first and I tokk a look at the jewellery. he wanted to put a 4 gauge ptfe stud with o-rings which I felt completely allright with. I got to lay down and he cleased my penis. It turned out I never had to cut the frenum, as it's very thick and it would be no problem to pierce right through it. This would save me alot of problems with swelling, and I was glad that I also could keep my frenum piercing. He marked me up and then the procedure started. He put the needle all the way through the head to give me the injection, which was a very intense but short sensation. He slowly removed it as he put in the anaesthetics. It was a weird feeling, not to have any sensation left in the head. After that he slowly cut the scalpel through from the bottom and up, mad a little cut and put the metal stick through to stretch the hole. He had to press hard to get it t hrough and it looked pretty nasty with the bleeding. As he started to put the jewellery in he had to press even harder and by now, I was very happy that I couldn't feel it, cause this would probably have hurt more than imaginable. Finally it was in place and I had my appadravya. I felt really calm during the whole process as Lukas was really good and working in a truly skilled and professional way.
I stayed in the studio for a few hours after, watching Lukas do some more work. As I was about to go home the sensation started to come back. I did'nt feel any pain, but a weird tickling feeling started to grow in the area. By the time I got home this sensation had increased alot more, and I had a hard time sitting still. It was kind of an erotic, pleasurable
feeling mixed with pain which was really nice actually. I had no problem at all pissing, no pain whatsoever.
The aftercare.
After a good night sleep I got up. Since he had put the barbel in really tight there was no bleeding, so I didn't wrap it up for the night and it turned out there was just a little tiny clot on the sheets. When I took a piss, the came out a big blodclot at first but since then there have been no bleeding at all. I wash it twice a day with antibacterial soap
clockwise. I also boil a herbal tea made of water, lavender-blue and red clover, which I let cool and then bathe my little friend in for 20 minutes a day. This is to decrease swelling and increase healing.
Everything has worked out really good for me so far, and I can't wait to put in a 4 gauge steel barbel. I also made plans to visit Lukas studio in Avignon to let him make the ampallang later this summer cause it would look great to have the cross. I strongly recommend everyone to pay Lukas Zpira a visit if you have the possibility.