I am a 28-year-old guy. I have been interested in Piercing since High School. I am pretty conservative due to the nature of my work, so I currently have only one ear piercing which celebrated it's 10th birthday last labor day. I currently wear a medium gauge CBR, nothing stretched. I won't go as far to say that I was a pioneer in male ear piercing, however when I got it pierced I was defiantly on the leading edge of the curve! It is an interesting thought to know that my piercing has transcended most of my adult life, and soon I will have had it for half my life.
At A Glance Author Anonymous When A year ago I have also been very interested in play piercing. Long before I got my ear piercing I used to poke and prod myself with needles. Probably not the safest thing since I did not follow the cleanest procedures - although the needles were marinated in alcohol. I poked my nipples, my chest, all over my legs and near my penis. The sensations were of sexual nature, and made me quite aroused. These play piercing sessions were part of my masturbation sessions.
After college, while finding myself, still trying to figure out my straightness or gayness, I decided to try an ampallang. This piercing lasted for about a year. One day while playing with myself, I took out the jewelry as I had done many times in the past, but this day the still unhealed left side closed up.
The ampallang was fun, and I have no regrets. You can read my experience at http://www.bme.freeq.com/pierce/09-male/amp/A00612/ampalate.html
The ampallang was a rite of passage. I was terrified of needles and heights when I was a kid. I got over the fear of heights by climbing a 150'tall ladder to the grid above a theatre stage. The grid's floor was expanded metal, so this 6,000 square foot attic high above the stage appeared to have no floor as you walked across. A few days latter, the only reason my heart would race as I climbed to the top was because of the exercise, not because of my fear. So, how does one get rid of the fear of needles? I did not think I needed injections from my doctor that often, so instead I donated blood religiously every time I was eligible. It only took a few visits to the blood bank before I could watch the 12 gauge needle go into my arm with no fear. A few visits latter, the adrenaline was gone too, as fear's lovely partner in crime is adrenaline.
So the ampallang was an extension of getting over the fear of needles - once I conquered the blood bank, to get my adrenaline fix, I knew I needed what I viewed as the most extreme piercing. And, this is important to remember for latter in the story, the ampallang did hurt, it hurt a lot, but it felt so good at the same time, like the burning of an orgasm.
Well, now that you know my piercing and personal history, what about my ass getting pierced?
I have a disease recently diagnosed as Crohn's. This means my immune system every once in a while wages world war three with my colon, and I get lovely cramps with many visits to the restroom as my colon fights back.
Crohn's is not fatal and many people live normal lives with it, however it predisposes me to a medical condition called a "fistula". It is important to note however that every reader out there has a good chance of getting a fistula too; I just am twice as likely. Every hospital every day performs procedures to fix fistulas, as they are very common.
A fistula starts when a fissure, a small paper-cut like crack in the skin, or a gland, somewhere in the anal canal near the sphincter, gets infected. Instead of healing properly, the infection makes a tract, like a drinking straw, somewhere else. Most of the time this tract breaks skin somewhere near the rectum. Then, you experience continuous draining of the infection until surgery. This tract is an alternate connection between your rectum and your buttocks; in the same way a PA piercing is an alternate tract between your urethra and the side of your penis.
The surgical procedure to fix a fistula is pretty simple. You go to sleep, and they insert a metal rod thru the straw or fistula. Once the metal rod successfully pierces your ass from the hole in the buttocks to the inside of your rectum, the surgeon then simply cuts the skin down to the rod, leaving the tract open. Sometimes stitches are used to keep it open, other times it is just left as is. The wound heals from inside out, granulating scar tissue as it heals.
Well, in my case, the tract or 'piercing' was deep. If the doc would have simply cut the whole thing as deep as the tract was, he would have cut a lot of sphincter muscles and I would have had a good chance that I would lose control of my bowels.
So, what is the solution? I got a piece of jewelry for my pierced ass! The doctor inserted a rubber band, about 12 gauge, thru the tract 'piercing' and tied it in knots. Think Price Albert, but for your ass.
Then, the bands were tightened with each visit to the doctor. Six months latter they finally migrated completely out. By letting the bands slowly migrate; the muscles and skin would heal behind the bands.
So, what can I share about the experience. First you should know I like anal sexual play. Solo or with my boyfriend, a little playing with my ass will make me cum "hands free". In many aspects my sphincter is much more sensitive sexually than my penis as I always cum when I play with my sphincter, but my penis is a little more reserved.
Since I have had, in essence, a PA in the ass, and a PA in the penis, and both are sensual spots on my body, can I find any similarities? Would I recommend a recreational piercing of the ass?
Well, the penis piercing, as I said before, was great. It provided joy, pain, sexuality, sensuality, and feelings of conquering my fears. Even when it hurt, the pain was warming to the soul, centering, and pleasant.
The piercing of the ass was the complete opposite. Can we say prescription painkillers?
It was, by far, the most painful experience I have gone thru. Worse than dislocating joints and worse than road rash and worse than broken bones.
The first few days I simply could not move, even with the maximum dosage of percocet my doctor would allow.
Once the wound stabilized, the pain was still omnipresent. It was a pinching pain, like the burning you feel when Novocain is being injected.
Even when the bands became loose and the wound was stabilized and no longer migrating, touching the bands (piercing) provided no sensual or sexual pleasure. At times the pain was completely gone when they were loose, but still no pleasure, still no joy. And, they constantly drained as it was healing, and this fluid would cause rashes due to the constant moisture.
What did it feel like when the doc tightened the bands -- the concept of stretching the piercing? Well, the doctor would not let me leave his office, let alone stand up, after the procedure for at least 15 minutes. The pain felt like nothing else on this world, and it would cause me to go into a sweat followed by shock, and in one case, I passed out. This was with percocet on board, no pain killer dulled the pain.
My advice: There is no reason to pierce down there. It hurts like hell and it never becomes fun even when the wound is stabilized. Once a tract is formed, by the nature of a piercing or natural fistula, the only way to heal the wound is to let the tract be cut or the piercing to be migrated out. The scar you are left with is large, and there is a sizable degree of risk, especially leaving a crevice that could leak bowels.
I have attached a picture of my piercing.
Sincerely,
Thankfully healed!