When I first started getting piercings, I thought "No way am I ever going to put a needle anywhere near my little friend...EVER!" and stuck with that idea for a good...6 months or so. Then slowly the interest started building and building until finally one day I decided I wanted to get one. Of course, it took a good 3 or 4 months still to even build up the courage to walk into my piercing shop and talk with my piercer about it. But that was just the beginning...
At A Glance Author James Contact superscrub@cox.net When Three months ago Artist Brett Studio ColorBomb Location El Cajon, CA Another month or two went by, and I finally actually ordered the 12g barbell I was going to use, after Brett measured to see what length I would need. It took a little while for the jewelry to come in, but that didn't bother me, since I was still far from having the courage to actually go through with the piercing...
Me and my girlfriend were supposed to get genital piercings together, me and my apadravya, and her and a triangle, but her jewelry was a long time in coming, and months after my barbell had already arrived, I was anxious to get it done...quite anxious indeed. So one day we were just in the shop for some reason or another, and I just had to get it that day! We talked briefly with Brett and decided to do it later that night.
We come back and wait for a bit, so Brett could finish the seemingly endless line of belly button piercings, but that didn't bother me. Finally he gets to setting up the screens and all the necessary equipment. I wasn't nervous until I heard those things lightly clacking on the metal tray. Minutes later I dropped trow (I think that's the right phrase) and was being marked for this thing, which took a good 10 minutes to get it just right. I sat on the chair all covered in that paper to keep my butt sweat off of the chair, and prepared for the worst. The clamps, needless to say, were quite uncomfortable, but obviously were nothing compared to what came next. I was laying back in the chair, so unfortunately couldn't watch, although I doubt I could have once the needle was in. My god that pain was pretty bad, more so than any other piercing I've had at least. I didn't actually scream out, but I was certainly breathing in and out very loud, and might have grunted, I'm not exactly sure.
Afterwards, the two tattoo artists and the apprentice tattoo artist all shook my hand and congratulated me, I had such a buzz afterwards, it was great. I felt better after this piercing than any of my others. I'm still mixed on whether I'd be willing to go through with something like that again. I say it was bad enough to not want to, but I also said I'd never do it in the first place...so much for what I say...
The night after the piercing, it was a bit tender, but not very painful. My nipples were more painful after-the-fact. Also, the night of, the piercing was perfect, straight as an arrow. Unfortunately, I'm not sure what happened, but a little while later, I realized the top is slightly to the right of the center, leaving me with a crooked Apadravya, no big deal though. If it ends up bugging me, which it doesn't now, then I can always put a ring in and make it a PA while the top closes up and just have a reverse PA done to fix the problem. At least the easy half will already be done.
This is what I tell everyone it felt like..."It was 10 seconds of probably the worst pain I can remember experiencing," and I wouldn't change a thing about it. My girlfriend, who was watching, said that when the needle burst through the top, a little stream of blood squirted out, but that was the extent of my bleeding in the shop itself. The bleeding didn't start until that night while I slept. This is the part where I become a woman, since I swear I bled as much as a first period would. It was all around my midsection on the sheets and on my boxers I was wearing. It was great! I still have the bloody boxers somewhere, since they were crappy anyway, and I didn't feel like washing them or wearing them again after that...maybe I should frame them and put them on my wall.
Anyway, a few months later, I thoroughly enjoy the piercing, even though I haven't gotten much "use" out of it. Once it's completely healed, and I have the right length jewelry, I believe it will be my favorite one (except maybe for my 00 ga tongue). Any guy looking for a genital piercing, I believe this is the one for you!