I guess I will start from the start of all of it. I was searching around bme and as soon as I saw it I knew I wanted one, I don't know why but I knew at that moment I would be getting one.
At A Glance Author jason Contact kodakjason@mindless.com Artist Shane Post Studio Tribal Arts Location Minnesota I first went to my regular piercer to see if he did RPA's but he doesn't even do genital piercings so that ruled him out. He said he girlfriend could do it but she had only done PA's but I agreed anyways cause I didn't think it could be that much harder. Oh how I was wrong. I got there about 10 minutes early but they closed up shop anyways cause it was so close to closing time. They only do genital piercings after hours. She did her set up and everything was ready and then it was time for me to drop my pants, this actually had to be the most nerve racking part of the whole thing. She had a couple of good sized rings there but she said they were to small and we would have to use a curved barbell instead (I should have knew right there that this was going down the wrong road). I asked her where she was placing it and she said right behind the head, as I never pay attention to details I couldn't remember where the placement was from the ones I had seen on bme. She got ready and put the recieving tube in which I thought was just insanely uncomfertable, for the next half-hour she tried to get the needle through (I still don't to this day know why I waited so long to tell her to give up). The pain from trying was intense, the most intense pain I had ever felt. She never did get the needle through so we gave up. I thanked her for at least trying, I was never mad at her cause I knew she had never done a RPA before. It turned out the be the best endorephine/adrenaline rush I had ever had because of the pain involed so at leat least it wasn't a total lose.
I was back a couple of weeks later to my piercer to get my tongue upsized and he gave me the card of a guy he said I could go to if i still wanted to get it done. I was like hell ya. I called him about 2 weeks later and set up a appointment for Dec 15, 2000. I some how convinced a friend to come with me which was a good thing in the end. The drive to Tribal Arts was 3 hours from where I lived so it was quite a trip. On the way up I got this crazy idea the I should get a off center RPA so i could get one on the other side to match it so when I was done it would look like a V. Once again as soon as I thought of it I had to do it cause I thought it would look so cool. When we got there finally it turned out he didn't have his studio set up yet and was piercing out of his house, but as soon as I walked into the room he used for piercing I knew he was just as professional as anyone else. I went through his portfolio which was amazing to say the least, he specilizes in surface piercings and his work was amazing. He set up for the piercing and again it was time to drop my pants, this time it wasn't so bad, not sure why. He frist felt for some glads so the didn't hit them. He put the recieving tube in a gain but it wasn't so bad this time. One quick push and it was over. That wasn't so bad this time. He put a glove around it and taped it to catch the bleeding. I paid him thanked him and left.
Now if I was smart I would of had my friend drive me home and called it a day. Nope, I decided we should go shopping, what a mistake that was, all it did was irritate the piercing and piss it off. So one the ride home it hurt cause of that.
As for after care all I did was salt soaks and just regular cleaning. During the first week when I was home I cleaned it everytime i went to the bathroom cause it was bleeding and such. After 4 days i decided that i wanted to have sex with my girlfriend with it, BIG mistake, infact HUGE mistake, it basically set back all the healing that it had done so it hurt insanely bad for the next couple of days and it bleed again for days after that. I had to use salt soaks to help with the swelling. Its been almost 3 months now and it is doing great, all I need to do is get a bigger ring cause the initial one is to small and is causing pinching. Now all I have to do is set up my next appointment so I can get the second one put in so I can have the V that I have wanted to much now.