My girlfriend and I had a separate interest in play piercing, and one day she happened to mention it as we were looking on BME, and I was thrilled she was interested. A couple of weeks passed before we got around to ordering needles (and other goodies). The package came yesterday morning, allowing us time to pick up some essentials (gauze, a sharps container, medical tape, paper towels). Later that evening, we decided to try it.
At A Glance Author A + A When It just happened Artist me and my girlfriend Studio our room Location Northampton, Massachusetts We spread out a blanket on our bed that we didn't mind getting alcohol or blood on and laid out our supplies: rubbing alcohol, needles, paper towels, gauze, and cotton balls. We had just taken a shower, so we were fairly clean, but we decided to wipe down the area to be pierced (we both decided on our thigh) with the alcohol. We gave our hands a quick wipe as well because we didn't have gloves.
Yes, we didn't use gloves. One of the reasons was convenience. While my girlfriend was picking up the accessories (at Target), she found only one type of gloves, which happened to be "one size fits most." We both have small hands and I abhor wearing latex gloves that are too big. Besides, all that extra latex probably would have hindered our motor function. We are fluid-partners, so the worry of passing infections between us didn't exist (though we ended up doing our piercings ourselves and I never came in contact with her blood anyway). So we made sure to clean up really well to reduce passage of any nasties that might have been hanging out on our hands.
By this time, I was getting a little nervous, so I let my girl go first. She tried to do one more towards her knee, but decided her upper thigh would be a better place. Slowly she inserted the needle, telling me it only hurt on the entry and exit and that you couldn't feel it when it was in the skin. I took a deep breath, unsheathed my needle and began to push it into my skin, by my knee (I think I wasn't paying attention when she said it hurt there...). It stung as it entered my skin (the kind of feeling you get when you clean a cut with alcohol). I didn't feel much as it traveled through my skin, but the exit was pretty painful. My skin bulged out quite a bit before the needle sliced its way out.
This was when I got a little woozy. The pain was moderately intense, mostly a stinging, burning sensation, which was probably due to the tension of the skin in that area. I was a little shaky as the endorphins kicked in and decided to stop and take a break. My girl was on her third needle by this point and ended up doing four. She seemed less affected by it than I was, probably due to the placement. We ran our fingers over the skin covering the needles to feel how strange and bumpy it was.
We left the needles in and moved on to try out our new speculums. Maybe it was the endorphins, but the sensation was amazing! Quite enjoyable. After I had spent several minutes examining my girlfriend's cervix while kneeling at the foot of the bed, the skin over the needle became quite irritated and I decided to take it out. Immediately two puddles of blood rose to the surface and I bled quite a lot for such small wound. I pressed some gauze against it and it stopped quite quickly. My girl didn't bleed as much as I did. The sensation of taking it out was similar to putting it in, a stinging burning feeling. Not too painful though.
The whole time my legs were trembling. The combination of endorphins and sex hormones was sending my on a fabulous high. At one point, while my girl was examining my cervix, the speculum got stuck on the most open setting and I freaked out. It was akin to how I would imagine bad acid trips being. For those brief seconds, I was just scared that this thing in my vagina wasn't going to come out! It of course slid out easily, and I calmed down fairly quickly. It was the only time when I felt out of control, the rest of the time I was calm and serene, some what akin to smoking pot but more comforting and light. Even though I had only done one needle, I was definitely experiencing an altered state.
We deposited our used needles in the sharps container and cleaned up our supplies. As we laid there I thought, "I could really use a face mask right about now!" So we did face masks and laid around looking silly as our bodies calmed down. We took another shower to rinse off the masks and get the alcohol smell off. As we laid back down in bed before sleeping, I felt closer to her than I've ever felt. Our bond was even stronger, knowing not only that we were into the same sorts of things (and that we felt comfortable talking about them to each other), but also going through the whole process and feeling the sensations that went with it. It was amazing.