I was about 18 years old.. and at the time.. there was no such thing as a BME community or piercing studios.. And if u wanted a tattoo.. well you had to be a biker or a convict. Having a ear pierced for a guy was still somewhat suspect.. and if you did it.. you had to make sure it was your left year.. cause if it wasn't.. that meant you were gay.
At A Glance Author trexchomp Contact iam@rahim.net IAM trexchomp When Ten years ago or more Artist My Studio In my Bedroom Location On a Chair.
I was in high school; grade 12 I believe. My last semester. I was teaching a martial arts / self defense class during lunch hours and after school to earn extra credits. To make a long story short, I got into an argument with some hockey players about what was the roughest sport, and who could tolerate the most pain (hockey is violent, but come on.. with all that padding on.. pfft). So anyways.. I decided to put an end to this whole argument, because one of them mentioned that "..Once ya get kicked in the nards, its over.."
So later on that night.. I sat in my room with a bottle of rubbing alcohol, a butane torch lighter, big tweezers, small needle nose vice grips and various sized sewing needles.
I poured the alcohol into a beaker I stole from the science lab, and soaked the tips of the tweezers and needles.
I'd never heard of a PA or any other kind of genital piercing before, but I knew they existed but never seen one before. In the mean time.. I looked for a good place to pierce. At first I had to get my self hard so I could see (and avoid) where all the veins were.. then after I marked the in and out spot with a ball-point pen, I had to wait till I was soft again. This went on for about an hour till I was happy with the location. I found a good place on my shaft that was clear of most of the big veins and very visible.
I started up the torch and grabbed the pliers, tweezers and needle. I remembered reading about ear care after ear piercing, and how there was the possibility of getting infected. The last thing I wanted was an infection on my dink.. After all, this was high-school, and I was gonna be using it a lot. Watching TV and having a lot of Dr.'s in the family I knew that a hot needle will cauterize the wound and make it heal instantly. You trade the ease of cleaning and healing time in exchange for excruciating pain for a a few seconds that seems like for ever.
Holding the needle in the torches flame using the pliers, I used the tweezers to gather up the skin on my shaft between its ends, squeezing tightly to cut off pain, I managed to line up the entry/exit markings.
The needles was glowing red hot now.
I took it from the fire, with a deep breath, I pushed it into the entry hole fast and hard, and by utter reflex, expecting the worst pain in my life, I closed my eyes!!!
"WHAT THE HELL AM I THINKING! OPEN YOUR EYES! ARE YOU NUTS?!" raced through my head.
And I pulled the needle out just as fast. And opened my eyes.
Then the pain came.
It was there and it was great. I head was pouring sweat like someone turned on a faucet. I felt as though steam was going to blow out of my ears and eyes... but calmly, I reached over and turned off the torch. Put the pliers with the pin on my desk. It was not red hot anymore, but it melted the rubber matting on my desk ask I put it down, curling it up, turning it black and sending up thick black smoke with made me feel ill.
I got off my chair, and slowly laid down on my bed, in fetal position, both hands on my penis. I bit my pillow and screamed into it. I lay there in pain, sweating and silent till the next morning. I kept putting vitamin e on it to keep it from burning so much. It didn't help.
Anyways.. after the pain died down over the next few days, I put a safety pin through the hole I was surprised that even though I closed my eyes, I managed to hit the exit hole exactly where it was intended. I still regularly doused it with rubbing alcohol, just to be safe.
The piercing started off as a 22 gauge, and has not bee stretched out to a 10 gauge. And over the 10 years, I've never had a problem with the piercing and it looks great. It seems to be a great conversation piece and its lead to a lot of curious people experimenting with it.. ;).
Personally, I wouldn't recommend anyone do this on their own. If I had the choice now, I wouldn't do it myself but ask a professional. I look back and figure I was an idiot because I risked losing my penis all together and or scaring myself badly. All for a stupid bet. (Eventually I showed my hockey player friends in the change room after gym, and they finally agreed that I was right about wherever the hell it was we were talking about.)