It's been a good 6 months since I decided to go ahead and get my penis pierced. Genital piercings had always been something that caught my attention whenever they had popped into my mind or I had seen pictures throughout BME.
At A Glance Author Threshold Contact Threshold@bme.anon When It just happened Artist Craig Cutler Studio Trouble Bound Studios Location Canada So on January 5th, 2006 I decided it was my time to get an apadravya, pierced originally at 14g by Craig Cutler at Trouble Bound Studios I was told by both him and a friend of mine who has an apadravya that I would probably want to look into gauging once it was healing up well.
My first thought was that I wouldn't really need to, the tugging and apparent 'self gauging' that I was told that the piercing would start to do overtime seemed to be nonexistent to me, but sticking true to his words it did slowly begin to happen. I noticed that I was peeing through the bottom hole and sometimes even the top one as well(boy was that ever interesting) and sexual fluids were also coming from the piercing holes as well.
I contacted Craig one day a good month ago and told him I had needed to look into gauging it in the near future and he said we would get on it when he got some 12g barbells in of the length that I needed.
A month passed and the thought of gauging drifted from my mine until the top hole of the pierce started to appear as if it was ripping. Urine and sexual fluids began to come from these holes in larger amounts and more regularly than before. The fact that it appeared to be ripping on top gave me a good scare, so yesterday I noticed Craig on MSN and told him that I was having some troubles and wanted to have it gauged ASAP.
He told me to drop down to the shop in a couple of hours and said he was going to look for some 12g barbells that he had poked away.
The rest of the day went by and I found myself in the shop around 2:00pm. After a brief conversation with Craig about my problems I did tell him that I was looking to gauge my apadravya to a 10g or an 8g in the long run. Here is where the small problem came...
I went into his room and he showed me the piece of jewelery. Thinking back on it now it was clearly not a 12g barbell but at the time I was so excited about having it gauged that I didn't bother to question him. He has done 16 successful piercings on me already, I have minimum reason to think he'd steer me wrong.
He told he it would have to be sterilized and asked me to come on back in an hour or so.
I left and went for a coffee, passed some time walking around downtown and made my way back to the shop around 3:00pm.
I finished off my coffee and went back into the room. He gave me a medical wet-nap to clean myself with and then I laid on the table. He prepared all of his tools and I heard the phrase I'm beginning to get oddly used to coming from him during these procedures "whip it out dude,".
He changed his gloves again and took the taper, then I felt what I'm certain is the most painful thing I'll ever feel in my life. I immediately started to tense up, I had a small feeling of what the initial pierce of my apadravya felt like but that was quickly blown out of the water by the fact that this was a hundred times more painful than that.
I asked if we were finished and he said not yet, I told him to stop.
He asked me if I was sure I wanted him to stop and I asked how far we were, he told me the taper was half way through. There was no turning back now, if I stopped now I would walk away with the same 14g barbell and some of the worst pain I've ever felt with nothing to show for it.
I told him to do it. about 8 seconds and 2 large screams later it was finished and the new barbell was in. I stood up and tried to grasp what I had just gone through.
He slapped me on the shoulder and asked if I was alright and good to go for the next pierce I had planned for that day(my bridge). I told him I had to take a quick walk.
Now your wondering what the miscommunication between us was, right?
The barbell that I thought was not a 12g barbell certainly wasn't a 12g barbell, it was a 10g. He had thought I wanted to go to a 10g today and thats what we did. Looking back now I'm glad it's over and done with because I'll only have to do one more sessions of stretching if I want to go to an 8g.
The rest of the day was extremely tedious. It hurt terribly for about 3 hours afterwards and throbbed painfully for about 2 hours after that. Today it seems pretty good, no pain. It's stiff and the barbell is difficult to move through but that's a given.
I'm happy with the result, as much as it hurt it's worth it in many ways.