The first time I saw exotic body piercing was at the Lollapalooza fest back in '91, I remember seeing one of the Jim Rose Circus members walking through the art exhibit tent with both of his pierced nipples. Initially I was a little shocked or maybe it was intrigued, but it sort of stuck in my mind as a general curiousity. I had seen lotsa piercings while in college but never anything really exotic, just lots of noses, and then belly buttons, and then tongues, so many so that I didn't really feel so interested anymore. I lived in Orange County CA and spent plenty of time up in LA so getting pierced seemed more and more just like joining the ranks of the in-crowd, Might as well just get a cell phone and buy a beemer while I'm at it also. It just wasn't so special anymore, at least until I got internet access...
At A Glance Author Alan D Contact kafin8ed@earthlink.net IAM kafin8ed Artist David, I think... Studio Red Hot Devil Location Wenatchee Washington So jump ahead 5 years after Pallooza fest began and college, about the time Metallica brought Perry's Circus to it's knees & put it out of it's misery I sat surfing the web & ran across the BME website. I had heard of pierced genitals & all sorts of other freaky stuff, but all I had been exposed to really was the Incredible Mr Lifto so I didn't really know that everyday shmoes like myself could get this sort of thing done too. Actually I think I was more interested in all the beautiful women getting their pretty parts pierced but I figured that if I wanted to find a pretty pieced girl then I'd better get some metal myself. I read many of the experiences on BME and came to the conclusion that I wanted an Ampallang. It sort of made sense to me that if it was gonna really hurt then I should just do that one first and then anything else would just be a walk in the park, you know, just go BIG. Well, I came really close to getting it but wussed out basically, the one time I went in to get the amp, Val at Outer Limits in Orange wasn't there, damn I was pissed because I felt most comfortable having her do it.
So, one thing led to another and the urge to have it done sorta wore off, other life-altering events interupted my plans. A year later I live 2000 miles north in Washington State in a podunk farmtown at the base of the eastern cascades. Now the challenge is finding a piercing shop let alone someone else with piercings, this town is a whole nuther world compared to LA, but then where isn't, and also, thank goodness, I needed that change. So I find Red Hot Devil piercing shop & decide to get something done. I wasn't sure about the shop not knowing anyone who got work done there & not finding much online info about them so i got my nipples pierced. Wow, what a fucking rush that was, I felt electric for about 3 days. Everything worked out really well with the nipples, they healed up in about 3 months and the increased sensitivity was awesome.
Increased sensitivity was something I was really looking for in a penis piercing too, I've always suspected that being circumsized had removed some sensitivity for me. If I could get some of that back with a piercing I'd be really happy, not that it was required but just that it might make things more fun =). So I talked to some of the piercists here and nobody had done or would do an ampallang for me so I was back to square one and the BME website. Well the next best thing, and some would argue, the best thing for a penis piercing was the Prince Albert. It had a real short healing time compared to the ampallang and was sposed to hurt less so basically I was sold, also one of the piercists at Red Hot Devil did them regularly, by special apoinment though. I can't quite remember his name, maybe David, but he did a really good job keeping the humor level up so I was pretty comfortable letting another guy handle my member & sharp metal pointy bits all-at-once. During th e process, laying there in the dentists chair, without any pants, I was reminded of one of Henry Rollin's writings discussing the moments in life you stop & introspectiverly find yourself doing something that, not too long ago, you would've branded inconceivable, and I smiled.
I started the piercing with a 12ga CBB. It didn't bleed too much, but needed to be wrapped up. After I got home I checked it out and it started bleeding right away, (a bleeding penis can be quite the unfamilar form of panic by the way). I managed to keep things under control, but just barely so. The very next day I had to work 8 hours, walking was uncomfortable, and the worst part was when I had to pee everything had to get unwrapped and bleed a bit and then rewrapped all hopefully without bleeding all over the bathroom floor at work, which of course I share with a whole slew of coworkers who lean to the conservative side of things (think Rush Limbaugh). So the first 3 days required some very careful & timely bandaging efforts to get on with the healing process. Things would have been MUCH easier if I hadn't needed to work those 3 days. After 3 days the bleeding had seemed to stop so I was able to go without bandages on the 4th day, but it was uncomfortable to wal k. One important thing I learned was to wear brief underwear, as much as they suck, it is SO much more comfortable to not have your junk swinging around while you are healing. Another thing, it felt SO good to pee, at first it was scary because you'd expect it to hurt, but it feels very soothing actually and is the best way to clean the inside of the piercing. It's also good to drink lots of fluids & stay hydrated when you get the piercing because you don't want to get a blood clot inside your urethra, do you? keep that up for a couple days too.
The cool thing about this piercing is that it turned out to be all that I ever really expected, and probably a little more. It REALLY feels great down there, especially with the larger gauge jewelry. Speaking of larger gauge jewelry, I was able to stretch from 12 to an 8 ga at about 4 weeks (very fast) then in another month I stepped up to 6ga and then a month or so later I stepped up to 2ga! The stetching process was actually really easy, everything just stretched out while it was hanging down there so I never had to struggle really until I tried to go to 0ga. Zero was a big step up & I made a taper to help out, bit my tongue and pushed it through, but in the end after 3 days I couldn't handle the iritation and stepped back down to 2ga, maybe I will try again later but for now I'm very happy with a 2ga curved barbell.
Lots of people ask whether it's possible to pee normal with the piercing so I'll answer that question here: it's about 90% possible with proper technique. You have to develop proper technique! For me this is twisting the shaft 180 degrees so the jewelry is on top and "steering" with one finger on the near end of my jewelry. This works best in urinals or just standing, peeing into a toilet with the lid down can be a pain. I often just sit down & read a mag, but that's mostly just me being lazy.
Well, that's about all I can think of for right now, I'm still hunting down a pretty pierced girl, they don't grow on trees up here like they do in LA. Up here we grow apples on our trees, lots of apples...but at least now I can run round like a freak off my leash screamming "how 'bout these apples right here 'eh???!" -Alan D