it's FRENUM, not frenulum

At A Glance Author dznuts Contact dznuts@bme.anon Artist tom brazda Studio stainless studios Location 609 Queen st. West, toronto, ontario

i think i spend an unusual amount of time searching bme. well, it may be a little more honest to say that i usually just peruse the site to find new and interesting things i might like.

about 3 months ago i was looking around the site with two friends, one of whom is my girlfriend. we were looking up pics of (ear) piercings for the other friend. naturally, we wandered through the genital section, where we all joked that i should get something done. i had thought of this before, but this time i was actually considering it. i'd decided on a frenum pierce -- it looks kind of funny.

at this point i'll explain why a genital pierce....i only have 4 other holes, two of which are hidden ( 7/16" ears, scrumper and slightly stretched tongue piercing ). these are all for aesthetic reasons (i think about this a lot, i'm an art student). besides that, they give me confidence, in that i know i have some control over my body, and no one else knows about them. well, the ears are obvious, but i normally have real small ears, so now they look normal.

so imagine how i feel about the frenum - everything listed above, amplified by a thousand times!

before my recent move to toronto, i asked my regular piercer to recommend me to someone in toronto. she told me to go to tom at stainless studios. i decided to ask shannon (you'd better know who he is by now) to recommend me to someone as well, since he lives in toronto and seems to know what he's talking about. he recommended tom as well as some other piercers in the area.

i moved to toronto the week of my birthday. lo and behold, stainless studios is only a couple of blocks away from my house. and, seeing as this was the first big move of my life ( and the gaining of my independence ), as well as my birthday, i went in and talked to the guy with the dice in his ears, i gave him my jewelry ( a past tongue barbell ), and i made my appointment.

when i came back later in the day for the procedure, tom hadn't shown up yet. so i waited, and within about 30 minutes he was there, ready for me. he said something about dog food. i understand he really likes his dog.

he called my name and motioned for me to follow him to his little room. i did. told me to sit down on the chair and introduced me to his apprentice. i did and said hi. and i dropped my drawers. my "manhood" was more nervous than i, obviously. it had shrunken like i'd just had a cold swim. oh well. we discussed and decided on placement, he got the clamps (which sort of scared me, but didn't hurt in the least), and lubed up the needle. HOLY SHIT! my jewelry was only a 12g, but the needle looked like about a six. but i knew i was just being foolish. i let him proceed. and did he ever! he said it would pinch quite a bit (he has the piercing himself). he asked me if i was ready, and i replied yes, and at that moment, i realised that he wasn't going to do the whole breathing thing that i was used to. so i breathed out as hard as i could anyway, right in his face. oops. i would say that it was borderline pain for about 1/4 of a second, then heat. then nothing. nothing at all. i zipped up and let tom know how much i appreciated it. we chatted about how i came to hear of him through my old piercer and bme and all the interviews i'd read about him. without a doubt he was the calmest, most inviting man i'd met in quite a while. i was happy. and i left.

three days later i wasn't happy. to make a super long story short, the placement just looked odd to me. so i went back to see if he would do it over. now i had another week to wait until i could feel that pain again. oh well. so i went back and had it re-pierced higher up, and the pain was a fuck of a lot more intense. he decided until after to tell me this.

it's been 3 days since, and i'm completely happy about it. i take good care of it and i can't wait to test it out. i even went skateboarding today and i didn't even notice anything at all.

its good, so do it if you're thinking of it. well, you will anyway.

as i've said before, if you're thinking of doing it, you have no choice- it will be done!