This has got to be one of the stupidest ideas I have ever had.
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I've been self-piercing for about two years, mainly because I got tired of paying people money to shove needles in my body. I've pierced my eyebrow a few times, ears, all the basic facial stuff, and I was getting bored. I was talking to one of my friends about it, and he told me that I would have to be insane to pierce my penis, and I, being the genius that I am, saw it as a challenge.
At this point it was about 1 in the morning and I was sitting at my desk with a sewing needle in my hand. This right here is a sign of bad things to come. At that point I come to a realization: wouldn't it suck if I pierced it, got the jewelry in, and it was doing fine when along comes an erection and the alignment is somehow screwed up so my skin rips. I think this is the only actual thinking I did the entire night. Yes, absolute brilliance I'm sure. So, in a stroke of insane genius, I decide to pierce it while having an erection.
Imagine, if you will, a 16 year old kid sitting in from of his Apple computer watching porn trying to hold an erection long enough so he can find some place on his penis to shove a needle through. Not to mention the fact that I was holding a desk lamp between my knees in order to get good enough light. I'm sure if my parents would have walked in at that exact moment I would be in some serious therapy right now.
I realized that as soon as I got ready I had no idea what I was doing. I didn't even know where I was going to have this thing. Having given no thought at all to what I was doing, I just found a place that made the most sense... right where the head meets the shaft on the underside. There appears to be a small amount of spare skin there just so idiot kids like me can find something to do with it.
At first I just press it lightly, still not convinced I was even going to go through with it. And eventually I just pushed harder and harder. It hurt; oh boy did it hurt... I never was a fan of really fast piercing. Eventually I see the tip of the needle through the other side of the skin and so I stop pushing.
Bad idea.
Once I composed myself and start pushing again, the needle DID NOT want to move. Any time I tried I was met with a fair amount of pain. So I get another wonderfully brilliant idea. I hobble over to the bathroom and lather up a bar of soap in order to lube up the needle. Looking back I think needles should be kept away from people like me. That worked fairly well and once I was sure it wasn't going to automatically close up on me, I took the needle out. Once I found some jewelry I put that in, and it went in rather easily.
After that, I sat back, relaxed... and wondered what the hell I had done.
Needless to say I was proud of what I had done and really liked the way it looked.
The next few days were painful. Do not wear jeans. Do not wear any kind of tight pants. Avoid wearing pants if you can! On the second or third day it hurt to even walk, and there was a few occasions where I was in a lot more pain then I thought a piercing could bring. I blame this on the jewelry. It was a big hoop, so it was just begging to be caught on something and rip itself right out! I changed the jewelry to a smaller hoop, but would have gone to a bar had I had one around. The pain went away and it healed a lot faster because it wasn't constantly being tugged at.
People were sort of shocked. If you are at all modest about yourself, then doing this and telling anyone is a bad idea. But this was a bad idea to start with. I don't mind showing people, they think it is cool. They also think I am totally nuts.
It's almost a month later and It's totally fine. Still have it in, still wear it, and I can do anything with it in. It was stupid, but I do not regret it at all. But it is good evidence as to what things boredom can lead to.
And for you're own sake, do not use this as a how to guide.