How:
At A Glance Author ShawnAvery Contact ShawnAvery@bme.anon When Six months ago Artist Jon Studio HTC Location Tempe, Arizona It was a very simple process. I travelled to HTC, went in, and mentioned what I wanted done. HTC only does piercing, and in the two times I've been there now it's always been a positive atmosphere and good experience. I filled out a form, my identification was scanned, and I waited a little bit.
I was led to a clean room, and i sprawled out on what looked like a dentist chair. The process was explained, the pants came down, the penis was marked for placement.
He would tell me to breathe in, then breathe out as the needle went through. To focus my energy through the pain, and he said to focus on a point placed in the middle of the forehead. He said he would do it as quickly as possible. He pierced me with a 9 gauge needle screwed on to a taper to the 8 gauge barbell. One quick, easy stroke. The tools used and procedures followed were top of the line. Gloves were changed many times, and Jon pierces freehand and from the results he is quite good at it.
The time of reckoning arrived, and to be perfectly honest, I wasn't quite ready. Actually, you are never quite ready for something as intense as this. The pain lasted about a second; during this time my entire existence was all about the pain of the penis. It was over as quick as it began, leaving me with the usual piercing high..
And bam, I look down, there it is. Absolutely perfect. My body is now more of an expression of who I am on the inside. More about personality, less about circumstance.
Afterwards I felt very relieved that I went through it. A little lightheadedness, and a small ache in my general penis area that reminds me that I do indeed HAVE a penis, with a nice barbell going through it.
The hardest part is the wait. When you know something big is going to happen and you are very antsy, like you are a little kid and its christmas eve. You took something already pretty cool, and made it better. *high fives self*
I got my seasalt, thought about the aftercare a bit, and im wondering a lot about what morning wood is going to be like.
Why:
A few weeks ago I decided that I wanted to get my penis pierced. I had it done today. I got an Apadravya as opposed to a Prince Albert or an Ampallang because of the sexual aspect. I wanted it pierced, yet didn't want there to be any crazy split stream urinating going on or any problems with it during sex. I believe it to be an expression of how my attitude and personality is. Having an 8 gauge barbell running through the head of the penis seems excessive in a way, and that is exactly why I wanted to get it done.
Body modification and pain are sacred to me, because I think they are fundamental aspects of what makes us human. Nowadays it seems everything and everyone is caught up in some sort of system or hierarchy where certain values are emphasized and others are discarded in some corrupt form of what people perceive progress to be. I think true progress lies in tolerance to all ways of thinking and acceptance of life and nature, rather than spending life trying to bend everything to your will and benefit.
Piercing of the penis is also a big deal. Most guys cringe at the thought. To bring pain to a part of the body normally devoted to pleasure is repulsive to them, as if the two ideas are opposites. Love hurts, does it not? Sex is misery in a way, because to allow another person to bring you pleasure requires a certain degree of trust, and to trust is very difficult and risky. That I could go out and trust a complete stranger to put a rather large needle through Mr. Happy is an amazing thought, and the fact that it isn't JUST a thought is a sign of how noble and awesome people can be.
Yeah, I was nervous, even a little afraid of getting it done. Yeah, it hurt a bit, but pain doesn't always have to be a negative experience. To me it was for a good cause, a way to break out of this shell we call the body, and reach a new level of understanding and awareness. If we aren't alive to face our fears, what are we here for? To me my body is a gift, a tool to help me in understanding existence and a means to interact with the world. To decorate it and improve upon it is one of my most natural inclinations.
6 months later:
I still have my Apadravya, and have downsized the length of the barbell until I got the perfect fit. I'm very happy with it. There were other consequences of getting it done that I didn't quite expect. It is a VERY sexual piercing, and the way it travels through the penis is very stimulating, sometimes overly so. Not that it's a bad thing at all, but I just didn't expect the difference to be so intense. The sexuality of it is so pervasive that touching it at all will turn me on, and when touched a certain way it feels orgasmic, though I am not having an orgasm. It is extremely pleasurable for it to be touched even when I am not erect, as if nerves are exposed and accessible that previously weren't.
I've had sex with 2 people since I've gotten it done, once 2 weeks after it was pierced (I DEFINITELY do not recommend that, it was painful so I had to stop) and a few times with someone else recently. The first time recently I hadn't had the barbell downsized, and she was so tight that I could barely even get in. It hurt her (like I said before, the barbell was much to long) so we stopped. Naturally, I went and had it downsized the next day. Afterwards it made a very big difference and the sex got a LOT better. I ended up having the barbell length downsized once more to get a perfect fit. I'm still sensitive in certain positions and it's painful if I'm rough with it... grinding against someone in jeans or something is not something you will want to do with a peircing like this. Doggystyle was uncomfortable for her, but the thing is she was VERY tight like I said before, so I had to be gentle anyway.
I'm looking forward to sex with someone a bit more experienced so I can experiment more. Hopefully not every girl will find doggystyle uncomfortable because I really like that position. It's very much worth it if you can get through the healing time, and I wouldn't recommend having sex during the healing time because it can be quite painful, especially if your partner isn't gentle. Otherwise I say go for it. I think I would just about die if for some reason I had to take it out.
To wrap this all up I just would like to say that HTC body piercing in Tempe really made me feel comfortable throughout the whole process and that I think Jon does some real professional piercing. The placement of the piercing is absolutely PERFECT and I couldn't imagine it being any better.