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The rec.arts.bodyart Piercing FAQ is divided into 30 parts: 1--Introduction 2A--Jewelry Materials 2B--Jewelry Sizes & Designs 2C--Facial Piercings & Their Suggested Jewelry 2D--Body Piercings & Their Suggested Jewelry 2E--Genital Piercings & Their Suggested Jewelry 3--Getting A New Piercing 4A--Professional Organizations, Piercing Instruction 4B--Professional Piercers - United States - Alabama - California 4C--Professional Piercers - United States - Colorado - Iowa 4D--Professional Piercers - United States - Kansas - Nevada 4E--Professional Piercers - United States - New Hampshire - North Dakota 4F--Professional Piercers - United States - Ohio - Pennsylvania 4G--Professional Piercers - United States - Rhode Island - Wyoming 4H--Professional Piercers - Canada 4I--Professional Piercers - Beyond N. America 4J--Professional Piercers - Beyond N. America Cont'd 5--Care Of New Piercings 6--The Healing Process & Healing Problems 7--Healed Piercings 8--Historical Information 9--Resource List 9B--Resource List Cont'd 10A--Personal Experiences - Facial & Unisex Piercings 10B--Personal Experiences - Genital Piercings 10C--Personal Experiences - Genital Piercings Cont'd 10D--Personal Experiences - Genital Piercings Cont'd 11A--Jewelry Manufacturers 11B--Jewelry Manufacturers Cont'd 11C--Jewelry Manufacturers Cont'd This section includes: 10C Personal Experiences - Genital Piercings Cont'd 10C.1 Reverse Prince Albert 10C.2 Apadravya 10C.3 Bead Implants 10C.4 Prince Albert with Intact Foreskin 10C.5 Camilla's Custom Nipple Studs 10C.6 Double Ring Wedding Ceremony All texts written and (c) 1999 by Anne Greenblatt unless otherwise noted. Please see Part 1 of the FAQ for information regarding copyright and dissemination of the FAQ. DISCLAIMER! The Piercing FAQ contains material of a sexually explicit nature. The information contained in the Piercing FAQ should not be construed as medical advice. 10C PIERCING PERSONAL EXPERIENCES - GENITAL PIERCINGS CONT'D 10C.1 Reverse Prince Albert by Steve Weston <stweston@nmsu.edu> On July 1st of this year (1995), I finally got my reverse PA. I have been thinking about it for over two years, and decided to go for it. I got it touch with someone in the Albuquerue area who new about the piercers, his name on the net is O Captain My Captain, and he agreed to be my saving grace and drive me to and from the shop. I had it done at Sine Qua Non by Eerin. He was great. He was nice and calm and relaxed the whole time. The thing is, is that he had never done a reverse PA, but told me that if I was comfortable with him doing it, he would be more that happy to. I decided what the hell, since he was so honest and straight forward about it, what could really go wrong. Anyway, I signed the release, picked out the jewelry (12g black Niobium captive bead hoop), and waited for him to say that everything was ready and sterilized. When I went into the piercing room, I was quite relieved to see all of the equipment packaged and or soaking. I dropped my pants, got into the chair, and he began his thing on my thing. I was thoroughly cleaned, marked, and set. I asked if Lydocaine was available and he already had it handy. He put some into my urethra and after a few seconds, he inserted the recieving tube. This is where I got a little nervous. That tube was a whole lot bigger than I thought, and I didn't even feel it, just it's weight. He took some time to explain to me that because this pierce does not use clamps, and because it goes through more meat than most others, it would take longer than usual. So I began breathing deeply, and he told me when he was about to start. Now, I won't lie, it hurt quite badly, but not as bad as I imagined, and not in the same manner that I thought it would. The only problem I had was that I was expecting an actual feel of puncture, and when this did not occur after quite a while of pain, I began to freak out mentally. Just at the time when I was about to say stop, Eerin said O.K. we're all of the way through. My first reaction was to say "Really?" but I just continued breathing calmly. Now, I expected the pain to continue, but after the needle was all of the way through, there was no more pain at all. He threaded the hoop, and voila, I was finished. It was about this point in time when I started feeling like I had smoked about seven bongs single handedly, and he said I could lay there as long as I wanted. This was a good thing, because I don't think that I could have walked evenly and in balance then. The dreaded glove and rubber band came next, yuck, what a pain in the ass. He informed me that things might hurt a little when I first go to the bathroom and when I get my first erection. When I got home to Las Cruces, I went to the store and bought all of the cleaning stuff and proceeded home to clean it for the first time. This was no problem, a little tender, but nothing I couldn't handle. The only times that I bled where during the night for the first four nights, I guess thats because they were the only times I got an erection. When I decided to try masturbating, about five days afterward, the only thing that hurt was the cum that got onto the exit "wound" afterward", but manipulation was no problem. As for healing, it took almost four months for it to completely heal, and now I am quite active with it in most ways. The crusties were gross and a pain, but less pain cleaning them than rotating them into the pierce while cleaning. I got infected once, and a little iodine and frequent cleaning did that very well. I think I cleaned three times a day for just about a month, and I think I really needed to too. After that, I just was carefull to get the crusties off when I took my daily shower. And now, I don't have to worry about those anymore either. About a month ago though (three months after the fact), I noticed that I had a raised white ring around the exit hole, but I read that that is quite normal for a lot of certain kinds of pierces. That is gone also. Overall, I consider my pierce to be a high point of my existance, in that I despise pain, but I did it, and am quite proud. I would not discourage anyone from getting a reverse PA, but I will say that it takes quite a while, and patience. If you can get through the first week, and into a routine, it's cake. Over X-mas or maybe in January I am going to be getting upsized to a 10ga, and I can't wait. And for X-mas, I am giving myself a nose pierce as a present. Pierce number three, here I come. 10C.2 Aparavya Piercing Experience by Joshua <joshua@netaxs.com> http://www.netaxs.com/~joshua October 21, 1995 I got my apadravya today, and boy did it hurt. Did it ever. I can actually barely remember the pain, but for the first time ever, I screamed. Pretty loud too, when I went out everyone asked if I was ok. Different kind of pain than the nipples, which was shortlived and searing, this was like real pain. Like getting an arm broken, only worse. Jim Weber at Infinte Body Piercing did the job, as he's done all my other genital piercings (and most body ones as well). It's been about 4hrs since then and I'm still just coming down from the rush... I've already got a 0ga PA, so the hole on the bottom is quite large. We decided on using a regular length apadravya barbell (10ga) with a 5'16" ball on the bottom of it, to prevent slippage up the urethra (I already had such a ball in my posession). Not a perfect solution, but it works for now (I evenually plan to stretch up to about 6ga. The barbell will still slip into the hole if I pull enough, but the barbell tends to stay in it's place, since the new top hole is very tight. Basically, we decided that we would use a needle receiving tube (0ga, since my hole is that big on the bottom) and then pierce through the top into that. He marked the spot, and I made him move it a bit to the left. After I was satified with the mark I prepared, by lying down and beginning those nice relaxing breaths (not). My heart was racing quite rapidly and I could feel it. The tube went in easily, since I've already got the 0ga hole there, and the clamps fit on nicely, altough they were a bit tight, but not too painful. I stuttered a few time, in terms of starting the three-breath countdown. Then I steeled myself up, told Jim that "this is the first breath"...in... out... in...out...in...ouuuuCCCCHHHH!!!!!!!! <insert gut-wrenching scream here> Then it was over. Jim removed the insertion tube, pulled off the clamps and then screwed in the ball on the bottom. I was then wrapped up in a sterile pad, gauzed and taped (covered by a surgical glove, to catch leakage of blood, if there was any). I was getting very light-headed, so Jim offered me some Gatorade (which Infinite keeps around for such occasions) drank about half the bottle and lay down for a little while (1 minute or so). I was fine after that, but I'm still a bit shaky (4 hours later). I took off the bandages, because I had to go the bathroom and there was quite a bit of blood, but none in the glove, so it wasn't flowing freely (no bloody glove). Going the bathroom was a bit painful, but nothing I haven't felt before due to my PA, or some random bladder infection (sorry to gross anyone out). I rebandaged with a sterile-pad, gauze and tape, and we'll see how much blood there is overnight. I'm quite happy with the placement and look of it (I just want it to be larger and have bigger balls, but I can wait until it heals). Much more so than my PA, which I don't know how happy I was with it, since I stretched it out so much. The good news is, I can now pee standing up, which is something I haven't been able to do since I went above 6ga in my PA. The only bad news is the blood, but we'll see how long that lasts. A few days later: The blood has been almost non-existent (except for crusting) after that first removal of the bandage. I soak every morning, remove the crust, clean with betadine and wash out. Do the same every evening. I'm soaking it in epson salts at night (after betadine, before washing) to keep keloiding down (worked before so...). Waiting for sex isn't a problem, since my SO is out of town for the next couple of months, which makes this piercing choice good planning. 10C.3 Bead Implants The author writes: "Due to company restrictions on my account, I am unable to give you my e-mail address, but will continue to monitor this newsgroup." A while ago on this news group I saw someone was asking about putting pearls and such under the skin of the penis. I read about this somewhere several years ago. This was a time when I had just done some of my own piercings. I had done a PA along with a Hafada and a Frenum (which didn't "take"), along with my left nipple. I had enjoyed all of them, not necessarily the doing, but the having later. I also have two tats. Those I didn't do myself tho. I decided to try the implants. I had gone thru a knee surgery and had some excellent pain pills left. I chose to use glass bead from a bead shop instead of pearls. I went to my local crafts/bead shop and bought some of the smallest black beads I could find. Actually the two smallest sizes they had. I know I should have had them autoclaved, but didn't. I boiled them forever in a microwave. I had heard that the microwaves are good at disinfection. [This method of "sterilization" is not recognized as adequate. -ed] I took two of the pain pills and waited 30 minutes for them to take hold. Then secluded myself in the bathroom. I have to admit, it is rather strange to cut into yourself. But I managed. I found it rather difficult to cut the pocket under the skin to hold the beads in. I remembered that I had some a surgical suture package. Don't ask how I got ahold of that! I found that one small suture to close the self inflicted wound did the job. I used the smallest of the two bead sizes. I put two in. One on each side, about an inch down from the glans ridge. It was an experience that I'm not sure I want to repeat. The afterwards part is the best. They healed nicely. In a week and a half or so had sex for the first time. Wife didn't say anything! Did she not feel it? In fact she didn't say anything til about another week when she was stroking me that she asked. She's not sure if she likes them or not. Very non-committal. Shes like that. I however do enjoy them. I love the feel when I'm, stroking myself. Plus I feel them when fucking. I never have felt the need for the larger bead size. These I'm very happy with. And since I had gotten black ones, the color shows thru the skin. If someone else is going to do this I would suggest getting a more natural color maybe. This way someone could say its just a mutation of some sort. I have since gotten a dydoe piercing. This I had done professionally. Now that one HURT! 10C.4 Prince Albert with Intact Foreskin by Sean Corfield http://uptown.turnpike.net/~scorf Well, I just got back from Into You, the proud owner of a 10ga 3/4" SSS CBR! Got to Into You about half an hour late and Mark had taken his 6pm appointment early, but he was finished by five past so it was my turn (I didn't recognise him without his bright orange hair -- too attractive for wasps he said!). I signed the release form, picked a ring (well, no...once I said I wanted a CBR he produced a 10ga 3/4" and I just looked and said "er, yeah" :-) Paid up (20 GBP for the pierce, 6.50 GBP for the ring). Downstairs, I peel off and sit in the "dentist's" chair feeling a little bit ridiculous but Mark chats away putting me at ease. I'm the third PA in a row he's done, apparently. Teena, he says, is in Burma and likely to stay there for a year or so. Then we chat about Dunstable Tattoo Expo. He dons gloves and marks me up after confirming that I 'hang to the right' -- 'yeah' he says 'that'll sit nicely in there'. Change of gloves and he lays out the needle etc -- ulp, it looks awfully big! 'Just relax and get yourself ready' he says 'you'll just feel a little push' I look away at this point...SHIT! 'OK, just putting the ring in...there, you're done!' I unclench my fingers from the arms of the chair and look at the ring: WOW! And I only had to suffer that short, sharp pain for this...yeah!!!! Mark gets me a glass of water and a sucker and I dress and we chat some more. I mention that I've still got my long tongue barbell in. 'Want to change it now? No charge if the old one's not damaged' So he gets a smaller 14ga barbell and swaps it over after some minor trouble getting access to the lower thread: 'Stick your tongue out straight' Unngh, says me... :-) Yeah, it feels a lot better like that! 'Any idea what you'll get next?' Dunno... So we discuss some other piercings and I leave thinking I might get a frenum next... Who said the A-word? So it's now about 4 hours since the pierce and, apart from some bleeding when I took a shower, it's fine. No discomfort (just fascination :-) and I've started the 'glass of warm salt water routine'...now that really is something to make you feel ridiculous!! To sum up then: I'd recommend Into You anyway having been there before. Mark is great - his relaxed chatty manner really helps and he seems to take care that the piercing is well-placed and you're going to be happy with it. The PA is so much less painful than I expected -- Mark actually said 'yeah, the guy comes up to stick a needle in your dick and you're thinking...uh-oh, do I _really_ want to do this and then...it's over and you _know_ it was the right decision!' and I'd agree with that. Brilliant! It bled a bit for the first four or five days and is still a little tender but I'm happy with the way it's going. My only concern is that I'm uncircumcised and, since it isn't entirely comfortable to keep the foreskin back all the time, I generally have it covering the PA during the day and uncovered at night. I'm soaking it in warm salt water fairly often and it seems to be healing incredibly quickly! 10C.5 Camilla's Custom Nipple Studs by Camilla Calberg <camc@ki.ericsson.se> <camilla.carlberg@cybergal.com> Guess what I'm sporting in my nipples... A couple of earstuds mounted in a somewhat intricate way! I dont know if some of you remember, but some time ago I wrote to this newsgroup and asked about special frontal Nipple piercings so that I wold be able to wear special * Nipple studs *, my own name for them , straight in from the front of the nipple. I have a pair of 0.24" gold beads sitting on/through the front surface of my nipples tips, and they are doing a good job decorating their position. I'm very pleased with the look :-) Here are a couple of ascii drawings of how my nipples look: Top view: _W_ stud | | 0| |O barbell --- ---- areola I have the "normal" horizontal piercing through my nipples, plus one extra coming in from the front that connects to the horizontal piercing channel. This means that I have a T shaped hole inside my nipples. I am wearing a 10ga barbell through thease piercings and they are well healed. The comments I've received are: encouraging whistlings from the boys [some of my female friends must have gossiped :-) ] I have allowed some of them to have a look also and they made big eyes and almost dribbled and said WOW HOW SEXY! The girls have looked enviously at me and said Didn't that Hurt very much? How brave of you! They look very sexy! How pretty your nipples look! They do look very cute! I must know how you did it, because I also want to wear such jewllery! This is how the jewllery are made: It consists of two parts the regular "ear stud" plus an adaptor that screws into the horizontal barbell. For healing and technical reasons the smallest gauge that is recommended to use is 14g,so that is what we chose. If the piercing is made with a smaller gauge it doesn't tend to heal too well and would be difficult to find when changing the jewellery. The bar coming forward out of the centre of the nipple will be 14g screwed into the horizontal barbell at one end. the bar itself is a hollow tube for most of its length (except the threaded bit). The hollow tube is thinner at the inner end that have the threads, like this: --------------____ Drilled hole here ----> 0 | This end threaded ~ 1.0 mm ______________---- And of cource there is no abrupt changes in diameter it changes smoothly! Into the adaptor can be inserted any ear stud from the high street. This is how he made the piercings: First of all sterilizing all jewlerry parts in an autoclave. The modified barbells with threaded holes in the middle, stud holders and the gold bead studs. Then I got a good cleaning of my nips. Then we spent a good time measuring out the center of my nips and trying to get them symmetrically placed. And finally marking the exit holes. After that I got some mild numbing agent dabbed on my nipples. He used a Cannular Needle, this has a plastic sleeve around the needle. First he removed one ball from the barbell and then withdrew the needle into the plastic sleeve. Then put the sleeve over the barbell. Now comes the trick: Pull/push the sleeve into the very centre of the nipple, (measure carefully). Hold the Sleeve steady and pull the barbell off the end. Now the sleve should be exactly alligned with the marking on the nipple tip. Gently tilt the nipple sideways and Push the needle forward and out of the centre of the nipple, including the sleeve. This means that the needle pierces from inside and out. At this point we had a rest and I was beginning to se how everything would turn out. He then removed the needle leaving the sleeve behind. And inserted the stud holder bar threaded end first into the sleeve pulled the sleeve out and the bar into the new hole. Next step was to gently loosen the sleeve and insert the threaded barbell,while holding the stud adaptor. Now he screw the new bar into the barbell and the reamaing ball on the barbell. The new stud holding adaptors are made too long by 2/3 mm = 0.026" for a while until it heals to adapt for swelling and to give something to hold onto for insertion. I had a chance to take a good look now and I could see the adaptors sticking out as little as they should. My nipples looked a bit sore but otherwise everything looked OK. Finally he swabbed me with a cleaning agent and popped in the gold bead studs. My breasts looked absolutely marvellous with thease golden studs sitting in the nipple tips. By this time my head was spinning and I was bubbling of Joy! The studs sit a tiny bit in front of the skin during the healing time, but later on I will have the adaptors shortened so that the jewlerry settles in my nipple tissue, just slightly pushing the skin down. My boyfriend was with me during the whole "operation",and that was a relief. Afterwards he took me to a faboulus restaurant and I felt like I was walking on clouds. I had a dull ache for some days after and I could not sleep on my tummy I had to use a couple of paper towels shaped as doughnuts round the nipples in order to release them from pressure but now it has disappeared. The cleaning and care of the piercings is almost as with every other piercing the only differences are that I can't work as easily from both sides of the holes. I apply the fluid on my nipples and adaptors and slightly loosen the adaptor in order to work the fluid in the holes by rotating the adaptor. I have found that a tiny syringe with a blunt tip is ideal for rincing from behind. Just put the syringe "tube" in one of the barbell holes and gently squeeze till the fluid comesquirting out through the front hole. And my loved one has bought the promized set of Qubic zirconium studs so I can hardly wait until the healing weeks till I can try them out. They are a bit larger than the gold studs and I don't want to screw up anything so I'll be patient! I will almost never need to remove the adaptors - I can just switch the fancy part. I like to change my earrings and nose studs rather frequently, so I am very glad that I will be able to do so with my nipple studs also. I will be able to use what ever "Ear-" or in this case "Nipple-stud" I want. It combines the good parts of ear studs and body jewllery. It's very easy to switch the fancy part + you get the stimulation from the jewllery and you are still playing it safe! My nipples has become a bit more sensitive now than before but not so much that it bothers me. I had to use a couple of paper towels shaped as doughnuts round the nipples the first days in order to release them from pressure. Now I think it's quite nice to get stimulated when the blouse moves during the daily duties. 10C.6 Double Ring Wedding Ceremony by Calyxa Omphalos <calyxa@chucko.com> http://www.best.com/~calyxa Three years ago I met Chucko, my husband-to-be, at a Thanksgiving Day party. His ears perked up at all the right times, especially when I mentioned that I was thinking of getting my labia pierced. He talked about how he'd planned to get his nipples done but that the plans fell through. We fell in lust, and then in love. On our 10th day together, he said something about getting maching wedding rings. "Wedding?" I asked. He quickly said, "uh, nipple rings, yeah, that's what I meant!" Over the years Chucko changed his mind about nipple rings, I guess seeing me get my labia pierced (twice, but that's another story), and watching me heal my nipple (took less than a year, but it's still kind of a long time) was what did it; he'll probably follow up and explain when he sees this post (hi, dear!). Then, last year, I proposed, giving him a gold and diamond ring. He said "Yes" and on October 14th of this year we were married. Now the fun begins. A wedding present we received was a gift certificate for Gauntlet! (The givers asked us first if we'd be into that, and I told Chucko that it was his decision, I'd be up for it if he was.) By this time, he'd decided that a PA would be just the thing, if it could be gold. I'd planned on getting my other nipple done, but thought it'd be more appropriate for this ceremony if I chose something more intimate. I meditated on my anatomy, having large outer labia and almost no inner presented what I thought was a problem. I considered the triangle, but couldn't really do the "pinch test." If I had known abou the q-tip test, I would have tried that and known that a vertical hood piercing would work out fine. We scheduled our appointment for last sunday, November 26th, which was the three-years-to-the-date anniversary of when we met (though we consider Thanksgiving to be our primary anniversary). We had a couple friends show up as witnesses, including my maid of honor (I had her put her 4 ga big hoop earrings in for the wedding). She took photos of the piercing. First, I had one of the Gauntlet staff "check me out." I still wasn't sure about the vertical hood. I went back into one of the booths, dropped my drawers and sat up on the table. The Gauntlet staff woman took a q-tip and did something I couldn't see with it (put it under the hood with the clitoris, hmm, interesting sensation, that...) She said, "no problem" for the piercing. I went back out front where we were looking at jewelry. Picking out the jewelry was surprising. Chucko knew he wanted gold, and a single-bead captive style ring. The first ring he was shown was a 12 ga. I said, "put a 10 up there for comparison." And that turned out to be the one. I guess I shouldn't be too surprised, I knew he was a size queen when I married him. I chose niobium, 14 ga. There was a wide selection of color. I have a light green ring in my outer labia, so I didn't want to clash with that. I settled on a dark blue ring with a lapis bead. We read the care instructions while waiting, and finally John called us back to the booth. All five of us crammed in there, John, Chucko, our two witnesses and myself. John asked, "Who's first?" Chucko said, "I guess I am." I should let him write his PA experience. It was his first piercing of any kind, and it was 10 ga, and it looks beautiful. Then it was my turn. I got up on the table again, just as I did when being checked out earlier. John had cleaned up and switched gloves and he prodded me gently, "to get to know it a little." He wiped me with betadine, then drew a mark for the entry. I had a mirror and after looking at the mark said, "Looks scary! Let's do it!" That got laughs and smiles of approval from all in the room. He put the needle receiving tube in there the q-tip had gone earlier, which was even more interesting than the q-tip. Then he cautioned me, "Try not to slam my head between your thighs when I do this". A few breaths later, the needle was through. I was still breathing, but was getting dizzy. John put the ring in, but before he got the bead in there, I had to get horizontal. With my legs above my head, I no longer felt like I was going to faint or something. Soon the bead was in and we were done! I can see why some women find the vertical hood piercing "too intense" to leave in all the time, but I think I'll get used to it pretty quickly. I plan on trading in the ring for a barbell when it heals. -- -- Anne Greenblatt Manager of the rec.arts.bodyart Piercing FAQ Piercing Exquisite http://www.piercingexquisite.com User Contributions: |
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