A good-looking cock

At A Glance Author anonymous Artist Jeff and Tasha Studio Gauntlet Location Los Angeles

I am in my seventies, but it's never too late to fix your cock the way you would like it. My reason for getting into piercing was in the first place aesthetic, and I told friends in the Los Angeles piercing scene just that when I made an appointment with Jeff at the old Gauntlet shop on Santa Monica Boulevard four years ago. Jeff was attending a course in San Francisco when I phoned, so there was a period of waiting until she came back. Jeff was the expert on dydoes, I was told, and as it turned out the wait was worth it. Her expertise with the needle made a visit to the shop an event I looked forward to tremendously.

I first wanted to encircle the head with dydoes. Jeff put them in, two at a time, at monthly intervals. I went with 14 gauge on her advice, and we completed the first stage of the project with the installation of three pairs, dorsal, lateral, and adjacent to the meatus at fairly steep angles so as to pierce the maximum of tissue. (In retrospect, I sense there was a technical reason for the decision to run diagonal dydoes, the generous amount of tissue pierced lowering the chances of rejection or healing out.)

For barbells I like 6 mil balls. The display of steel balls on the head and a second circle pulled in place under the rim gave my cock the luxuriant appearance I was after. It was Jeff who after that suggested a PA. For this we chose a 10 gauge circular 3/4 inch barbell with a handsome ruby-colored bead. Jeff took what seemed an inordinate amount of time to get the placement of the entrance centered right -- a precaution I was grateful for when later I began work on a frenum ladder. Pressure of the receiving end of the insertion tube against the spot marked out on the ventral surface dulled any pain that might accompany the piercing, and I walked out into the LA sun that day a happy man. Because this time the urethra had been pierced, for a couple of days urination was accompanied by some bleeding, but it was nothing to get worked up about.

The only piercing move I have some regret over is the apadravya I had put in by Tasha, then working independently after she and Jeff and their respective partners had quit Gauntlet, and Jeff located in New Mexico. I had given careful thought to the look of an apadravya in the overall design. What I did not anticipate was the either/or decision I was confronted with when Tasha took over at a new studio. For the apadravya, I had been anticipating a second piercing of the urethra perhaps a quarter of an inch below the PA exit point. But I was told there were reasons against this. The last-minute decision was to use the PA hole as the entrance for the apadravya, which meant losing the PA, or abandoning the apadravya exercise. I chose to go ahead with the apadravya.

For a couple of months I liked the pull of the apadravya and the sight of a quarter inch ball in the circle of dydoes. In the end, I missed the attraction of the PA, and took the 1.5 inch 10 gauge apadravya out. The scar from the dorsal exit remains as a slight dimple on the head, and I have not yet decided what if anything to do about this. Over the next few months with a circular bar bell back in place in the PA, the size of the ring was enlarged to a nice 4 gauge, and I have to admit I am more pleased with the effect than I was when I wore the apadravya.

I got Tasha to install a couple of frenums to get a ladder started, and continued the rest on my own. I would not want to try a self-piercing that involved the head or the urethra, but doing a frenum is comparatively simple. The chief difficulty is to situate the markings so that the ladder sits astride the ventral surface of the shaft centrally. For this reason, I would not advise self-piercers to cut a ladder independently, but to do as I did and get the first rungs cut by a professional. With good light and the right forceps for holding the skin preparatory to piercing, cutting a ladder then should be in anybody's reach. Today I have a ladder of six 10 gauge rungs extending from close to the front dydoes to halfway to the scrotum.

I imagine there are two ways of handling a frenum ladder. One is to copy the image seen in illustrations and construct rungs of a width equal to that of the pierced skin, the result being a smooth ventral surface of the shaft. While the pierced area is healing, barbells that have been inserted must be freely moveable for good drainage. But after a month or so, if the wearer so desires, the barbells can be shortened to the point where the skin in front will bunch up. I shortened the initial barbells from three-quarters to three-eighths of an inch, which has drawn the intervening skin together and formed a track running up and down that looks good and feels good.

My advice to others on the trail of genital piercing? Every man should consider the benefits of piercing. Provided there are no medical reasons for desisting, there is no such thing as a cock that cannot be enhanced by today's piercing technology. Don't get pierced, and you don't know what you're missing!