So I'm a mostly white kid who didn't really grow up around any thing other than white, conservative people. I never saw any kind of piercing past a simple single ear lobe piercing for a girl or a guy with his left ear pierced. I can just say that the stigma associated with doing anything beyond that was quite palpable in the city I grew up in; Mesa, AZ. I was basically brainwashed to see any person with a non-typical piercing as a rebel or a waste of human life. Anyone with a tattoo was just a bane to society. It was really how I felt about body modification as a whole until I hit the ripe age of eighteen. I got to college, realized that one of my best friends not only had three tattoos but had his ears at a nice gage of six. Where the hell had I been when this all got done? Then I opened my eyes. Todd, my friend with the tats, wasn't a drain on the U.S. economy, wasn't a drug addict and my parents liked him. I had been lead so wrong.
At A Glance Author Gordie Contact gordonmuggy@cox.net When Two years ago Artist Ana (I think) Studio VR tattoo Location Gilbert & Baseline In Mesa AZ Fast forward three months later, Todd had added on more piercing to his repertoire. He got his frenum pierced during his last trip to California on a whim. Past stressing the part in his story about telling the lady that he only wanted to be pierced through the skin the bottom of his penis, I realized what his piercing looked like. I took it as a dare and two days later I was a walk in to get my first piercing without a single hesitation or second thought, or first thought really. The piercer, Ana, was pretty cool and made sure to get the placement of my piercing right and made it seem not so strange to be putting blue dots of ink on my penis. I thought I would be more uncomfortable with the idea of shoving a piece of metal through the favorite piece of my anatomy. I never even had my ear pierced before but I just couldn't feel nervous about this. She decided on a twelve gage needle and straight barbell. I decided on a barbell with blue balls on it. I really wanted blue balls for the first time in my life, pun intended of course. Then after some not so mild shrinking and a quick pinching feeling I had my first piercing... right below the head of my penis. I paid Ana and tipped generously for not injuring me in any way other than I intended and headed out for the night.
In that first night I showed all my friends, one of their sisters and came dangerously close to telling my mom, the source of most of my stigmatization towards piercing.
Other than my initial drive to Todd's apartment, I was never uncomfortable with my new metal insert. I never even snagged it on anything when I was sleeping which I had been warned about. It healed up really quickly too. I even "tested" it the first night I had it. I needed reassurance that everything was still working properly so I took matters into my own hands, literally, and masturbated. It was good. There was no pain, no blood and no tearing. I was feeling a lot more secure about a frenum piercing as a first timer kind of thing. I was completely healed in about three weeks as far as I could see and I was looking a lot. I never got the chance to try it out with intercourse, I didn't have a girlfriend at the time and I don't tend to sleep around at all. I did get a couple hand jobs, only the second was painful. The girl managed to pull on it a bit hard and got me to scream for all the wrong reasons. I managed to keep my piercing for a little over a year but I had to take it out for soccer. I just didn't like the way it felt when I was sprinting and it was pulling in all the wrong directions. I miss old blue balls since I lost the barbell.
Now two years later, I've had two more frenum piercings, both my tragus, and currently I'm working on stretching back up to a two gage in my ear lobes. I was there but I went from a six gage to a two gage and that needed some time to heal and grow back together, but that's another story. Anyway, for starting the way I did in my view of the body modification world, I think I've come a long way and I still have a long way to go. I'm enjoying what I'm doing with my body now and I don't think I can go more than 3 weeks without needing to do something more. So until I do my next mod, au revoir.