At A Glance
Author	anonymous
Contact	anonymous@bme.anon
When	A month ago
Artist	Steve
Studio	In Skin
Location	Tunbridge Wells, Kent

I got my vertical hood piercing about a month ago and thought I'd describe the experience in the hope that other people can learn from my mistake. The piercing itself is not necessarily a bad idea but it can go horribly wrong. Anyway, I will describe it from the beginning. So after months of reading other peoples' experiences and trying to build up the courage to get pierced my friend finally dragged me to our local piercing studio. I was terrified by the time I got there, not really by the idea of it being painful but by the asking for it in front of everyone and then having to be half naked while I got pierced. So I managed to mutter what I wanted to the guy who came over to help and he fetched the guy who does genital piercing. Now I have to say he was the sweetest guy ever and made me feel at lot less uncomfortable. After the preliminary chat checking that I knew what I wanted and how it was done etc he took me downstairs to a more private room than most of the others. The ones upstairs only had translucent curtains so I was quite relieved when he said there was another room. So I sat down and he checked that I was suitable for the piercing and marked it up and everything. By the way, if you are planning to get this piercing done I would recommend that you wear a skirt, it makes things a lot less awkward.

So all that was left to do was actually pierce me. I was told to take deep breaths and warned that it would hurt, which it did, a lot, but was fine after literally two seconds. Then I was told how to clean it and all that and off I went. I was really pleased with myself for actually managing to get it done and excited about any effects it might have as this was the main reason I wanted it. But I stupidly decided to test those effects far too soon. After only about a week I had sex and the next day when I was cleaning the piercing I noticed that there was a tiny hole in the middle that I could see the bar through. I rang my friend who has lots of genital piercings and has read up on them a lot and he said not to worry just to carry on as usual, not to play with it and it would heal itself. But a few days later my hood had ripped from the hole in the middle up to the top so effectively there was about half as much skin holding the bar in place as there was originally. This was when I started to panic but I had to work and could not get to the piercing studio and my friend reassured me that I could just let it heal and change it for a smaller bar. He also suggested that any swelling would have gone down by then making the amount of skin seem smaller anyway so it probably was not as bad as I thought. Turns out he was wrong. I kept the piercing in and it seemed to be ok so I thought I would just leave it and change the bar later on like my friend had suggested and for about a week it was fine. Then one day, with no pain or anything, the bar just dropped out.

So I thought I would write this story to warn people that they say not to have sex for a certain amount of time for a reason and it really is not worth it to try. However, do not let this put you off the piercing in general. I assume it depends on the person but for me it did have some effect. You hear about people saying they could hardly walk around because of the pleasure after they got it done and I'm not so sure about that, it certainly did not happen for me but it really does make a difference when you are having sex.

I would recommend the piercing itself but do not ruin it like I did. Do not have sex straight away and if anything does go wrong then go back to the place you got it pierced and get them to check rather than just taking a friends advice. I know everyone is meant to know this but there must be some fools out there like me who did not pay much attention. I thought because my "fuck buddy" and I had had sex straight after some of his piercings and they were alright that mine would be too but I suppose the skin is thinner and easier to tear. Anyway, it does not really matter now but I have definitely learned my lesson and will be much more careful with piercings in the future. Good luck if you do decide to get this piercing and look after it properly.