Climbing the frenum ladder

At A Glance Author richard Contact richard@bme.anon Artist Elayne Angel Studio Rings of Desire Location Decatur street, New Orleans

The best time to visit New Orleans if you're decadent is Mardi Gras. And you want to do something that will change your life a little.

One of the world's best piercers is Elayne Angel at Rings of Desire, a piercing parlor upstairs over a record store and

painted in lots of shades of black and gray. Elayne is quite the pierced lady , with fifty or more piercings and just about a full body tattoo gallery, with large wings tattooed on her back, leading down to the little heart on her right bun that says "slave" in the middle. She has new work from Julie Moon on her legs, full coverage fish scales in many colors.

The lady is striking. She has the ambiance of a very mellow and happy submissive savage. A constant fire in her eyes. Very easy to like and respect. For example, Elayne has many ear piercings, shaves her head, wears lots of leather, and even has five tongue piercings in a row down the center of her tongue. She did my first piercing six years ago.

I had one frenum barbell and I asked Elayne to do four more, two top of my shaft, and two on the bottom. She was interested in the project. Doing this during Mardi Gras would give it a special extra Pagan energy.

Other piercers were unwilling to do more than one at a time, but I was ready for all four. Elayne asked me if I had had dinner, I said yes, and she said "That's good".

After cleaning my anatomy she took careful measurements to make sure the placements would be even and esthetically pleasing. She took her time with this, and moved measurements and dots around several times. She took a small flashlight as she applied the forceps to the spots she had marked for each one. She showed me a blood vessel going through one spot and moved the spot so as not to puncture the vessel and slow the healing.

Four times she placed the forceps, took the needle and cork in hand and told me to take a deep breath and let it out. There was pain, but tolerable. Elayne is very quick and the pain ends in less than a second. With each barbell she pointed out that the grooves were on the ball, not on the bar, so pain would be less on placing the barbell. Only number three was more painful than the others. Perhaps more nerves were stuck. There was little or no bleeding.

Now my dick had five 12 gage barbells, three on the top and two on the bottom. It looked really nice, and it also looked like the dick of death. The Prince Albert already there added to the effect.

Elayne studied the work and she was pleased and gave me care instructions (Use a sea salt soak twice a day, and clean the piercings then and when showering by moving them back and forth in the skin. ) Next, she gave me a rubber chicken by inverting her rubber glove around my shaft and securing it at the base. This would take care of any early bleeding and protect my piercings and my clothing in the early hours. Funny, when I get a rubber chicken I usually don't have to urinate for about five hours.

She let me rest a while and I was ready to go out into the street and into Mardi Gras. Elayne sent me out with care soap and a small bag of sea salt.

Over the next day or so some large black and blue markings appeared, I think largely from the forceps.

One interesting tradition in Mardi Gras is flashing. In the French Quarter up and down the streets you will see clusters of people negotiating who will flash and what will they flash. It's mostly women, they get strings of beads for a flash. Many women wear tube tops and skirts to facilitate flashing.

Hey, it's mardi gras...I wonder what they'll think of a man with seven piercings in his shaft...so I go to some of these groups and join in the negotiation...who would like to see a dick with seven piercings? Some wanted to see and were willing to trade flashes. The piercing work generally got a chorus of shrieks and screams. One delightful woman flashed and then reached down and pulled on the Prince Albert. A good conversation starter. Some wanted to videotape...what the heck, it's mardi gras. Some women even gave me beads. Nice.

All in all I'm very happy with the frenum ladder. My girlfriends/lovers all report they can feel the piercings and they like them. As a lover I want to offer something extra.

A frenum ladder is a nice conversation starter.