At A Glance
Author	anonymous
Contact	anonymous@bme.anon
IAM	craw11
When	A year ago

I wanted to share my experiences of using a soldering iron for body modification. I have performed my own frenum removal with this method, and I have also "straightened out" a crooked nipple piercing, by cauterization with a soldering iron. The beauty of this method is that it involves no bleeding at all, and the cutting tool is intrinsically heat sterilized.
This method will probably sound extremely painful to some readers, but the technique is to move the tip of the iron very quickly and lightly across the surface to be cut. After one or two "sizzles", the nerves are killed off, and the cutting is then virtually painless.
Although I now live in the U.S., I was circumcised in England as an adult, under the National Health system. This meant that I got a free circumcision, but it also meant that I did not really have any choice in the way I was cut (I would have liked a tight and high cut), and the usual practice was to leave the frenum completely intact, with a rather lumpy piece of foreskin stitched to it. Needless to say I was less than happy with the appearance of my cock, but was not willing to go through he whole thing again.

About a year ago, I decided to cut the frenum and "trim" up the loose skin using my handy soldering iron. I inserted a needle through an old frenum piercing hole and applied upward pressure to the bridge of skin. Next, I touched the hot iron to the skin just above the needle until the nerves were dead. I then held the iron firmly against the frenum skin for a minute or two until the needle popped through the severed frenum. There was absolutely no blood and the remains of the frenum healed up and disappeared within a week.
The advantages of not having a frenum, apart from looking much better, are that I can take much rougher handling when masturbating or being sucked, and anal sex can now be much more forceful (to my girlfriend's delight!)

I have also used this method to correct a crooked nipple piercing. About four months ago I decided to get my nipples re-pierced with barbells at 10 gauge, having retired the earlier ones about ten years ago. The right nipple, which had lasted longer at the time, had rather more scare tissue than the left, and so the piercer decided that he would make his entry point above the scar tissue and exit at the old exit point. I don't really know why he did this, but of course, looking down at my nipple it was clear that the piercing was out of alignment with the surface of my chest, and had a tendency to project forward on the entry side. (Possibly he thought that piercing through scar tissue would be more painful?)
One of the main reasons for deciding to get re-pierced was that both my girlfriend and I like to indulge in rough nipple play (she is pierced too). I could see that when this piercing was healed sufficiently to allow such play, the poor alignment was going to create problems when she pulled hard on the piercing during a session. After about four weeks I decided to cut down through the old scar tissue with my soldering iron, secure the piercing into the its new position with surgical tape, and tape the nipple hard across in the opposite direction. The actual piercing hole made by the hollow needle on that side of the nipple then closed up, while the tightly taped barbell established a new "groove" closer to the surface plane of my chest. This is now healing up very nicely, and I am sure that when I get a slightly shorter bar in the piercing in a few months time it will be straight and level, and match its partner on the left.
This experimentation with a soldering iron, and the discovery that using cauterization techniques does not need to hurt unduly has led me to think about the possibilities of some self-performed brands. I think this method would work best for straight-line designs rather than brands involving curves, and as I recently started to shave my pubic area again, I am thinking of some lines radiating in a sun burst from the base of my cock. I have also started to enlarge my urethral opening using the soldering iron, but I do not want to go too far on the underside because I want to keep my 6 gauge P.A. I have instead been working on the upper side, where the meatus is thicker, but it is hard to prevent it from healing back together again after a few weeks. I am trying surgical tape again to hold the two halves of the glans apart for long enough to prevent healing together. I would be interested to hear from anyone who has experience of this, or any other uses of soldering irons for body modification.