I first heard of this place as a bondage shop. Later I found out that they
sold jewelry and did piercing. When I finally made it down to the studio I
found it to be typical of a bondage shop and some what sketchy as a place to
be getting pierced. However, being young and having my mind firmly set on
getting pierced right there and then I stayed and started to talk to the
owner. He went on and on that he had tons of experience doing all of these
piercings that I still haven't heard of to this day. The way he talked
convinced me that he knew what he was talking about, probably he would have
been better off as a used car salesman. After a little persuading he talked
me into getting a reverse PA. He said he hadn't done many but a few, and he
sat in on many when he was apprenticing "in California". He added that it was
fairly easy to do and hurt about as much as an eyebrow, which was my only
piercing at that point. After explaining the experience in detail, I said to
myself 'how bad could it be?'. He helped me pick out my jewelry, 12g. 5/8"
CBR, showed me the sterilized needle and dropped the jewelry into some iodine
to "sterilize" it. As I sat down in the old dentist chair the anxiety finally
hit me. Of course I tried to delay the emminant pain by talking about
anything I could think of. When he showed me the recieving tube that was
about to enter my urethra I asked if that part was going to be painful.
Laughing lightly he said,"a little bit", with his thumb and index finger held
a half inch apart. As crudely as possible he jammed the tube in me, seeming
to have no regard for the well being of my future children. Then, reaching
for the needle he exclaimed "hope you're ready!", and I swear that he had an
evil glimmer in his eye. With no further adue a pain greater than any I have
ever felt rushed over me. And this did not take the one second that he had
promised me, in fact he stopped half way through to tell me that he was half
way through! I swear that in the time it took him to push it the rest of the
way through I could have done it myself about twenty times. Now with the
needle through it was time to insert the jewlery. At this point I was half
expecting him to lose the connection and we'd be doing this all over again.
Thankfully he didn't. After giving me my after care instuctions, which were
"clean it with hibicleanse three times a day for three weeks and avoid having
sex for awhile" I paid the hundred and ten dollar charge and walked out with
the sinking suspicion that he was not quite as experienced as he claimed to
be. I got home and took a shower to get the immense amount of blood off me.
It was then that I noticed that the piercing was slighlty off center. I
didn't think that the experience could possibly get any worse. The first time
I put the hibiclens on it burned pretty bad but it was nothing in comparison
to the first time I urinated. I thought maybe this was normal for the first
day with a new reverse PA. Much to my dismay the pain that came with the
hibilens did not go away and after a couple days I noticed that the skin all
over the head of my penis was dried and flaking off.
I went
through about a week of gut wrenching pain until I called a piercing shop in
Boston. When I told them what the problem was they asked me what the guy had
given me for instrucions. Hearing my answer the guy at the other end of the
phone said "ouch!". He told me the proper way to clean it, saline and
anti-bacterial soap. I did what he told me and I ended up healing
fine.
Going through that awful ordeal once was enough for me. It was time
to get myself educated. I started off reading tattoo mags and ended up
finding a couple of piercing insruction videos which I ordered. I watched the
videos and found some info on the internet and decided that I wanted to get
into this. I started off piercing a couple a friends and ended up apprenticing
at the shop that put the hack who pierced me out of business. The more I
learned about proper techniques the more commited I became to being the best I
could be. I have been piercing professionally for four years and I try to
educate people before piercing them and make sure that is the decision that
they want to make.
