I won't lie, I'm the biggest wussy there is when it comes to body mutilation and pain. I still cringe at getting my ears pierced. When I got the VCH done, I already had my nipple pierced and my first tattoo done. But this is a sensitive area. This is one of THE MOST important parts on my body.
At A Glance Author piercinglover Contact piercinglover@bme.anon When Five years ago Artist Some Piercer Dude Studio The Piercing Place in Saskatoon Location Saskatoon, SK
I knew someone who had done it and had been debating getting it done for some time. When I was planning my trip to Saskatoon, I decided that I would get it done. I knew I wanted to get it done vertically cause everyone that I knew that had it done had it done horizontally. I'm the kind of person that likes to be different. I went to Saskatoon and on the second day there, I asked some friends to take me to a piercing shop where they knew it was a safe, clean and a reputable shop.
I went in and started looking at the jewellery. A man greeted me, asking me if I needed help. I responded that I wanted my hood pierced. He started showing me the jewellery that they had and explaining the differences between them. When he had a general idea of what I wanted, he started suggesting different options. He laid out a 14G and a 12G and asked me which one I wanted. I told him I wanted the smaller one as logically, it would hurt less. He then told me that the bigger one would cause more sexual pleasure. Guess which one I took?
When the time came to pierce me, he took me into the back of the shop. Now, this is where I REALLY start to get scared. I took off my pants and panties, laid down on the table, and watched the piercer poke around a bit, getting the positioning just right. Finally when the time came, I was holding my girlfriend's hands and I had another friend standing at the end of the bed taking pictures. The piercer had made the marks on me, handed me the mirror and made sure that I was happy with where it was going. He pulled my hood upwards, so the skin was tight and positioned the needle on the first dot.
It was then that I started panicking. (I wasn't kidding, I'm a wuss, I'll do it but I whine and get nervous and scared). I told him that I didn't want to do it any more. I was done, I had made a mistake. The piercer laughed at me, told me to calm down and that it would be over soon. (He knew that I was just panicking and that I really DID want it done). I felt him push on the needle, felt it slide into my skin and that was it. I smacked my piercer on the top of the head and told him to STOP. I didn't want to do it, I told him to get away from me. By this point, the needle is half-way through. He paused for just a moment, told me that it was half-way done. And then, I felt the needle slide all the way through.
When it was done, he handed me a mirror so I could check it out and I started grinning ear to ear. I fell in love immediately. For so long I had wanted to do this. I knew I could, I just had to get myself to the Point of No Return. It was a testament to my sexuality, my feminity, my independence and my uniqueness. It was a testament to myself.
When I walked out of the back room, I was still grinning but so was the front end clerk. She looked at me and told me that she had to turn up the music so the other customers couldn't hear me yelling at my piercer!!! The piercer came out and told me how to clean it (pee on the end of a q-tip and every once in a while, soak it in epsom salt).
I walked bow legged out of the shop, scared that if I walked properly it would hurt, I wouldn't sit down either, thinking that that would move the ring and it would hurt. Took me about 10 minutes for me to realize that that wasn't the case.
The only advice that I would give to people just getting it done is what my two biggest and worst habits were: forgetting that I just got a VCH piercing when I'm wiping after going to the bathroom and forgetting when I pull up my pants.
Five years later, I'm still absolutely head over heels with this piercing. My boyfriend loves it. This was some of the best money that I have ever spent.