About a month ago I somehow got it into my head that piercing my scrotum would be a good idea. I don't have any other piercings, and I've never really considered getting any piercings, but the thought of piercing my cock or my scrotum had never occurred to me, so when it did it actually seemed like the best place for me to get a piercing.
At A Glance Author Dr. Send Contact Dr. Send@bme.anon When It just happened I spent a couple hours online reading stories about other people who had done hafadas to themselves, and the more I read, the more it sounded like a good idea: it didn't sound like it would be too painful, the process sounded pretty straightforward, and a lot of other people had done it without any problems.
I guess I kind of had the bug at that point, and I couldn't get it out of my head for a couple days, so eventually I ordered everything I needed online and hoped that the bug wouldn't go away before it arrived. I wanted a 12 gauge circular barbell, but I wasn't sure that I would be able to ram a 10 gauge needle through my scrotum without passing out, and I'd heard bad things about piercing with the same sized needle and barbell. So I settled for a 14 gauge barbell and a twelve gauge sterilized needle.
When it arrived a week and a half later, I was surprised that it still seemed like a good idea. I had also ordered a cheap set of slotted tweezer-clamps, so I spent some time fiddling around with the clamps and my scrote to see where the best place to pierce it would be, using an LED flashlight to see if there were any veins or anything that I would hit with the needle.
When the time came, I dipped all of the instruments (actually just a clamp and a barbell) into a bleach solution, and then into boiling water for half an hour, all the while getting increasingly nervous and incredulous that I was actually going to go through with this. I was a little concerned because my scrotum was shrinking up pretty tightly (out of fear, I guess), and all the practice I had done with the clamps was on a loose scrotum. I aso remembered at the last minute that I didn't have a cork as a backer, so I grabbed a little potato and soaked it in the bleach for a while (I know, probably not a good idea). I had disinfected a corner of my bathroom counter, so I arranged everything I needed there: the needle in its opened package, the clamps, the barbell, the potato, some alcohol swabs, the flashlight and some latex gloves.
After thoroughly washing my hands with antibacterial soap, I donned some gloves and after wiping my scrotum down with alcohol, started getting the clamp into position, which took a couple tries. Once I had it in the right position, I unscrewed one of the balls from the barbell, and took the needle out of the package and removed the little plastic tube from the sharp end. I rested the clamp on the counter, and with the potato in place, started pressing the needle against the skin.
For the first time, I started having doubts that I would be able to go through with it. The needle felt really sharp and painful. But I kind of moved it around a little, and rotated the potato around, got everything adjusted, and I guess I found a place where I couldn't really feel the needle against my skin. So I started pushing, and I felt it pop through the first layer of skin, and I kept pushing until I thought it was about in the potato. At this point my hands were shaking pretty badly, and I was starting to sweat. I took a look on the potato side, and it looked like the needle was all the way in, but I pushed it through a little more just for good measure. Then I undid the clamp and took the potato off the end of the needle, and noticed that the needle wasn't actually all the way through, so I pushed it through the rest of the way.
Then I felt like I was going to pass out and/or hurl, so I sat down on the can with the needle still in my scrotum and put my head down trying to get some blood back into my brain. I was sweating pretty profusely too, at that point. After a couple of minutes my heart rate had returned to normal and I was feeling pretty good, so I got back up, took my gloves off, washed my hands, put new gloves on and finished putting the barbell in by sticking it into the hollow part of the needle and pushing it all the way through. It was a little asymmetrical, but I though, whatever, so I started screwing the ball back on. My hands were shaking like mad, and I was trying to concentrate on not dropping the little ball, but I finally got it on without too much difficulty. A tiny drop of blood came out of the exit wound at this point, but I wiped it away and that was all the blood that came out.
Then I was done. I looked at it in the mirror for a while. It was pretty asymmetrical; the exit wound was a little higher and farther to the left than the entrance wound, but I wasn't about to re-pierce it and it looked pretty good anyway, and besides, my balls are asymmetrical anyway, so it's not like the ring throws everything out of whack, so I decided to just leave it as it was.
I'm hoping that it won't get infected, but it doesn't hurt at all and as long as I keep it clean and soak it in salt water I shouldn't have any problems. Except for the whole mental aspect of pushing the needle through my skin, it was really easy and it didn't hurt very much at all, about like getting a blood test or something. I highly recommend it.