And then after you clean it, you should urinate, too. Usually, we tell people to use saline solution soaks, like a quarter of a teaspoon in a cup of water. Usually, we wrap them up in a little burrito. Sometimes right after you pierce it, people bleed a little bit. It takes around six to eight weeks for everything to heal up nicely. The thickness of the bar should remain the same in most cases, but if we're using circular barbells or a complete hoop, the diameter of the ring should change dependent on the size of a person’s anatomy. The only thing that we’d change based on the person’s size is the jewelry. It’s going to be slightly uncomfortable after you first get it regardless. We’ve done it on both, and it doesn’t make a lot of difference. Does someone’s individual anatomy, such as their penis size or whether they’re circumcised or uncircumcised, play a role in piercings? I don’t like that because it scrapes as it goes down.
Some don’t use the tube and like to open the urethra with their fingers and push the needle down. Every piercer is going to have a different method. I’m pushing that tube down into the penis, and then we’re going from the outside into that tube. What we usually do is use these hollow metal or glass tubes. What is the actual piercing procedure like for a Prince Albert? They’re a lot more painful, and the Prince Albert and frenulum heal a lot quicker. The more advanced genital piercings, such as the ampallang and apadravya piercings, go through the head in different directions. The frenulum piercing and the Prince Albert are pretty much the two starter piercings. They look a lot scarier than they are because you pierce down through the urethra and then out of the bottom wall. The other most popular one is the one that people think of when they hear “male genital piercing,” and that’s a Prince Albert. It’s a small amount of pain that lasts for a brief second, but when it happens, it’s very intense. What are the most popular styles of piercings? They won’t want anyone else to know what they’re having. Men generally don't seem to have the same willingness to see each other naked for some reason. I'm not sure why this is, but in my experience, women always seem a little more comfortable when confronted with each other's bodies. When guys do it, a lot of time they’ll come in solo, and they’ll be real nervous about it.
For some reason, women seem to feel at ease coming into the shop or booking an appointment. The weird thing is you get a lot of women who come in with their friends for a clitoral piercing, and they’ll treat it as this fun thing that they’re doing. Men’s Health: How common are male genital piercings?Ĭhris Saint: They’re not too common. We spoke Saint with to learn what to expect from a penis piercing. Getting a penis piercing is serious business: not only do you have to get accustomed to living with a shiny new permanent accessory on your junk, but it can also seriously affect every other aspect of your genital functioning, from your sex life to how you pee. The most common types of penis piercings are the Jacob’s Ladder (a piercing or multiple piercings on the underside of the shaft of the penis) and the Prince Albert (a piercing toward the head of the penis), says celebrity body piercer Chris Saint.
In fact, he claims to sometimes add a padlock to the penis ring to give it additional weight.)
In the Netflix documentary series Tiger King: Murder, Mayhem and Madness, the big cat fanatic boasts of having a Prince Albert for 18 years. (Take the eccentric roadside zoo owner, Joe Exotic. If the prospect of having a needle inserted into one of your most sensitive areas sounds daunting to you, you’re not alone.īut for many body modification enthusiasts, the end results are worth it. But when you get a penis piercing (like the notorious Prince Albert piercing), your penis is the organ being penetrated. When you look at your penis, you probably imagine it penetrating various orifices (or whatever else you’re into-we’re not one to judge).