The idea of this pierce basicly left me for a while, but one day I decided that it had been too long since I had gotten a new hole and I called my piercer. He said he was willing to do it and so we set up a time.
I went to the shop a few days later with a freind and a video camera (hey, if I ever adopt a grandkid) and got ready for the pierce. I had marked the spot for the piercing earlier (figured it would be good to mark it when erect) and so the piercer (Ian Bishop at Lone Wolf Bodyart in Nashville) got everything ready and went to work. The pierce was performed just like a PA except deeper and went off with out a hitch. We wondered how the jewelry insertion would go since he had to manuver the 10ga 1/2" ring thru 2 holes, but it was very simple. The bead was inserted and I was on my way home.
When I got home I found that I had been doing quite a bit of bleeding... a hell of a lot of bleeding, but this wasn't a complete surprise. I will say that it did bleed quite a bit more than my PA, but since this pierce went thru slightly more tissue I wasn't too surprised by this. About 3 days later the bleeding stopped and all seemed fine, for the moment at least.
After about a wekk I began to get a bit concerned as the pierce was still quite painful, and after 2 weeks I was getting really worried. I went back to the piercer and he took a look at the pierce and noticed that the ring was a bit too wide and seemed to be moving the original PA hole forward, not to mention that I noticed anytime there was pressure on the ring from my clothing I was put through some pain that is almost unbelievable.
We finnaly got a curved barbell that would fit the pierce and installed it and from that point there have been no problems at all. So what is having a dolphin like? in a word, wonderful. It is like having a PA without any of the problems, no more problems with urination, and no painful twisting of the ring in my sleep which I sometimes experienced with the PA, as far as sex goes, it is just as good if not better, it really feels like there is a lot more metal in my ureathra although I'm not sure if the actual amount is any greater. The only problem I can see is that I can no longer hang 3lb weights off my penis to impress my friends :)
All in all, it looks great, it feels great, and I no longer piss on my feet... I think I like it.