I had never thought in a million years that I would get a genital piercing, let alone that I would get it at 35 years old. I have one tattoo that I waited until I was 30 to get.
At A Glance Author irishgreens Artist Ed Powell Studio Rising Phoenix Location Aurora, IL One day about a month ago, I was bored and decided to get a third piercing in one of my ears. I told my husband I was going out. When he asked where I was going, I told him it was a surprise. When I returned home and showed him my new earring, he asked if that was all that I had gotten pierced. I said, "Yes. Why what else would you like me to get pierced?" He kind of shrugged it off and said he didn't know. Well, the gears in my head started turning.
A few days later, I approached the subject again. I asked him if it would turn him on for him for me to get a genital piercing. He looked a little sheepish and finally responded, "Well, yes. But I wouldn't want you to do it just for me."
Over the next few days I mulled it over in my head and did a lot of research on the internet. I decided I was going to do it. At first I was going to get one of my inner labia pierced. But then the more I read, I realized that if I was going to go through the pain, I might as well get something more than a pretty decoration out of the deal. The thought of added stimulation really appealed to me. So I decided to get a horizontal hood piercing.
I searched and searched for a female piercer in my area, but came up empty. So I decided on a studio with a great deal of experience.
My husband really wanted to go with me and at first I wanted him there as well. I thought it would make it easier to bare my bottom half to a total stranger if he were there. But the first opportunity we could get a babysitter for my three-year-old daughter was a week away. I couldn't wait that long. Once I make up my mind to do something, I want to do it! I don't want to wait. So I talked my husband into letting me go alone that evening. No small feat, let me tell you.
As I made the 45 minute drive to the tattoo parlor I had chosen, I was more excited than nervous. I didn't really think that it would hurt that much. My tattoo had been a breeze. When I walked into the studio, it was filled with a bunch of young guys trying to decide what type of tattoo they could afford. I nonchalantly looked over the piercing jewelry while I wait my turn. When the guy asked me what I was interested in, I told him a hood piercing much more casual than I felt. He said, "Great. Let me just get set up in back." When I went into the small piercing room, I was really getting nervous. My piercer was very nice and extremely professional. I began to relax. I actually felt less self-conscious with him than I do at they gyno. He talked to me while he prepared everything and then showed me the purple dots where he was going to do the piercing. I told him it looked fine. After positioning the receiving tube, he asked me if I was ready. I started doing the breathing I had learned in Lamaze and told him yes.
What I felt next was like a hot poker going through my most sensitive of places. It hurt so bad and surprised me so much that my butt raised off of the chair. I couldn't believe it. Everything I had read had said that it didn't hurt that bad. Well, it sure did for me!
My clit was still burning when he inserted the ring. I paid him, thanked him and left. I stopped at a drug store on the way home to get some anti-bacterial soap. I walked like I had been riding a horse for a week. When I got home, all I wanted to do was lay spread-eagle on my bed with no-one else within 10 feet of me. I kept repeating to myself over and over again why I had this done in the first place.
The pain did get better over the next few days, but I felt like I had this foreign thing in the most private part of my body, which I did. And I was afraid to touch it for fear it would hurt. After about a week, I adjusted to having the ring in my hood and really started to like it. And then the itching started. Any type of healing tissue often itches when it is healing and I knew this, but it was still very annoying. However, I had no bleeding and no discharge. It is healing quite nicely. I have been extremely cautious about getting an infection, so I have made my husband stick to the 6 week healing time before we can do anything. He is anxiously awaiting the unveiling.
All in all, I am very glad that I got it, despite the pain. I love walking around with my little secret and knowing that I am different than most of the women I will ever meet.
I can't wait until my 8 week healing period is over and I can change my jewelry. I am going to get a 18kt gold ring with an opal put in. Then my piercing will truly be a work of art.