I have been a silent observer of BME for about two years now, and I finally got the guts to post my experience, hopefully with more stories to come. I have always wanted to get some sort of piercing done, my mother got her first "unorthodox" piercing when I was 6 she went hard core and got a BELLY BUTTON ring, which at the time fascinated me, I know now that it wasn't all that hard core but since that day I have been absolutely fascinated with them. But with me now being freshly 18 and still in the living with the folks, who now are your average atomic family I soon realized that if I were to get a piercing that they were to either approve of, or not know about it I would have to work really hard. Begging didn't work for my ears (which are still un-punctured) so I decided to go with getting one that they didn't know about. So after about three years of getting past the taboo nature of it and the introduction of high school I decided that I was going to have some genital piercings.
At A Glance Author Joecoffee When Three months ago Artist Myself Studio My bathroom Location U.S.A. (east cost) What was to be done
I was dead set on getting a PA after reading about them on this lovely site. (First piercing But with that done, I got to doing my frenums. I had done all of my research and slept on it for about a month I decided to do it.
Procedure
I rarely get the house to myself so I decided to do it when I was "showering" (and now that I think about it it's probably the cleanest place that I have to myself.) This was my first experience with a surface piercing so to speak but I did my best. After I had gotten the needle and the two rings to take a bath in a Ramekin filled with rubbing alcohol I positioned myself with my legs spread apart and my little guy all cleaned up I pinched and pulled the bit I was going to pierce, grabbed the needle and stuck it through. Pulling the needle out and replacing it with the jewelry was amazingly simple. (What I do is buy one size larger a needle than the jewelry that I use so it slips right into the needle no problem) I pulled my hand away and let it go back to normal. "FUCK" (I thought) I soon realized that it was WAY crooked. Oh shit, well you live and learn, after thinking real hard about how not to do it I tried again no more than five minutes after the first. The second was allot better (Positioned just below the first). So to clean off it took out the first and took my shower vigorously cleaning the site with soap.
More of them
After about a moth of just having one I figured I should keep going and make it a full ladder so I went out and bought more rings (18 captive bead just like the last one) but I only bought three of them, bad idea. I wanted more! But I was so broke, so I used those and two small 18 circular barbells that I had bought for my PA back when it was an 18. I got those all in just fine. But a one seemed a bit shallow...
Healing
I kept them all in and had them in a nice little arrangement (since they were of varying sizes) I had the smaller two (size) captive bead at the top and the medium two (size) captive bead in the middle and lastly I had the loser circle barbells at the bottom. By this time my first one was done and the other five were slowly recovering. I went about my normal daily tasks just fine. But one day at work I went to take a piss and noticed that the two barbells were stuck to each other and the second one from the bottom had latched itself to the ring above it and upon closer look realized that while it was hung up on the ring it had ripped. Damn. So I did what I could till I was home and I cut away the piercing. So being a little more than worried I looked and did some more research and realized that they my just be rejecting because they were too shallow. I then decided that it was time. I took out all but the top two.
More healing...
It's been about a month and a half since then and the top two have healed nicely and they are now VERY much loved by my girlfriend. The rest of the shaft I rubbed Neosporin on for a week or two and periodically soaked in salt water. And just to be sure when they were completely healed I rubbed Vitamin E on the area in hopes that the scaring would subside. And it did, to my amazement!
Recently
Now I have two Frenums and my PA as well, and about two weeks ago I added a low trans-scrotal (ironically using the same circle barbell that I had so much trouble with, for my frenums). But I still have plans to go out and buy new captive bead rings and do it all over again. Now that I'm a little wiser.... So far my girlfriend loves them and really looks foreword to the new "ribbed" boyfriend she'll have. I just need to figure out how to time it so I can heal up and go visit her and still be able to "enjoy" her company when were alone.
Advise
If you are planning on doing this yourself be sure to use a hollow needle and please use captive bead rings or a strait barbell. THEY CAN'T CATCH AND RIP THE SKIN. Do your homework and make sure you're not a ninny about how deep you go there's nothing more painful than a shallow frenum.