Disclaimer: DIY piercing is obviously stupid and dangerous, same thing goes with smoking and drinking and I enjoy all the mentioned activities...
At A Glance Author anonymous Contact anonymous@bme.anon When It just happened Artist Me, with some help Studio My bedroom Location Scandinavia Donīt blame me if your dick turns black and falls off after some failed DIY-piercing attempt inspired by this story.
It all started about seven years ago with a dirty safety pin pushed through my earlobe, a couple of years later things had evolved a bit and I had quite a few piercings at different places on my body. This included selfdone lobes, nipples, vertical labret and professionally done septum and PA.
I canīt really remember all the different piercings Iīve had and what sizes they were, but the PA was important in such way that it took me across the border into the promised land of genital piercings.
I remember that I really wanted a frenum, but I learned from various sources that PA and frenum was a bad combo for uncircumcised guys.
Poking holes in the scrotum seemed a little nasty, and since Iīm a bit overweight a Pubic piercing didnīt seem like a very good idea either.
I wanted to do something that only involved the skin on my dick, no way I would put a thick ugly needle through the actual "flesh".
The answer was a Lorum.
This happened a couple of years ago, at that time proper piercing needles or cannulas was not commonly available where I live so I had to sweettalk some travelling hillbilly-looking piercer at a market to sell me a couple of 14GA needles. Those were the kind with a plastic sleeve around the actual needle, great stuff for DIY!
I obviously forgotten a lot of the details, but I remember that it took me several attempts to make a Lorum good enough to keep.
Some went out after a few minutes, others lasted a week or so.
Finally I got one that was both straight and decently centered (My dick changes shape radically during erection...), so I stretched it to 12GA with a taper immediately after poking the hole and then left it to heal with a titanium barbell inserted.
After at year or so I stretched it to 10GA, an quite painful experience IIRC.
Life went on, and that brings us up to date:
Lately, my interest in body modification has reawakened after one or two years of inactivity. Once again I felt the famous urge, so I started googling around and found out that piercing related stuff is much easier to come by locally these days. I just couldnīt resist ordering some 8GA needles, a nice 8GA barbell and a really heavy piece for my PA amongst some other stuff.
Unfortunately I had to order from a few different places, so when my piercing urge reached the point of no return yesterday I didīnt have all the stuff at home.
What I got was the 8GA barbell, which I figured would fit great in my old and well healed Lorum. My 8GA taper had not arrived, so I had to improvise a bit.
Coming up with makeshift stretching jewellery is nothing new to me, this time I set my eyes upon the rolls of different sized Trimmy Lines that I use as strings on my standup bass (!).
The existing Lorum was as mentioned 10GA, which equals 2,4mm.
8GA is 3,2mm, a slightly too big step for my poor dick.
I had Trimmy Lines sized 2,7 and 3,0mm which proved to be just what I needed to stretch gradually up to 8GA.
It took me perhaps an hour to go from 10GA to 8GA and there was no pain involved this time.
I simply cut pieces of the Trimmy Lines, rounded and polished the ends and inserted them just as regular jewellery with a little help from my 10GA taper.
I left the first one in for about half an hour before I changed to the second bigger one, and shortly after that I put my 8GA barbell in with a big smile!
Now over to the more interesting part: My brand new DIY Lorum!
Of course, a simple stretch didnīt satisfy my recently resurrected urge for pain, blood and polished metal, I had to get another one!
Since my big fat needles hadnīt arrived I had a little talk with a friend who I knew had some unused 10GA needles.
No problems there, I paid him a visit and left with a nice 10GA needles and a pair of forceps.
Back home I cleaned everything (needle, 10GA taper, 10GA barbell and forceps) with alcohol and then boiled it for over an hour. (I know...)
I didnīt want any pubic hairs to interfere with the upcoming procedure, so I trimmed the area and managed to hurt my ball sack at the same time... Just what I needed, right?
Well, finally I sat in my bed with the forceps pinching my skin, the smell of rubbing alcohol in my nose, a horribly fat needle in my (gloved) hand and my girlfriend holding my dick in position by grabbing the PA ring.
It must have been quite a sight...
The needle did actually look quite frightening, Iīd never used anything bigger than 14GA and this was supposed to be a 10GA.
A few moments later, after slowly pushing that huge spear through the skin of my own dick and followed up with the taper, I realized that the needle was not 10GA but rather 12 or some odd size in between. Stretching the fresh hole to 10GA seemed to hurt more than the actual piercing, but it was nothing to worry about at all.
The amount of pain involved was about the same as in piercing an earlobe and definitely a breeze compared to nipples and septum.
Well, I followed the taper with the barbell. A little tip: Externally threaded jewellery sucks... Not a real problem this time, but it caused some unnecessary pain.
After cleaning the area from excess lube (no blood at all) I just sat there for a while admiring my work. My girlfriend took a few pictures with her digital camera, but she deleted them since fat, hairy, naked guys shouldnīt be photographed holding their penises...J
After an hour or so I noticed that the skin over the piercing had swollen a bit, but I didnīt bother too much and a nightīs good sleep and a couple of sea salt soaks took care of that in the best possible way.
Today life goes on as usual, though I might walk a little funny.
Iīm really longing to get a few more and stretch all of them up to at least 4GA, itīs a bit sad that these piercings tends to heal pretty slow...