The Truth About Piercing Nipple, and how much it hurts...

At A Glance Author anonymous Contact stalman@hotmail.com Artist Bob Studio Bee Cool Location Calgary, by Chinook Station (next to skaters)

It was only yesterday I was reading stories just like this one on nipple piercings, trying to find out the truth of just how much they really hurt. Now I sit in from of my computer screen, with a hoop of metal sticking through my right nipple. Here's how it happened:

To spite the fact that I had already wussed out once (note: I am a wuss), I decided to give it another shot. So I marched in to Bee Cool with my awesomely supportive girlfriend full of more nervousness then I'd felt since my last lobotomy, and since I've never had one, I guess you can say I've never been so nervous. I go up and say to the guy at the desk (Bob), "Pierce my nipple", or something like that. But anyway, that's not the point. Bob is a long haired guy with 4 eye brow spikes, 3 spikes through his lips, two pierced nipples, a pierced tummy button, and more holes in his ears then....well more then I've ever seen before. So Bob gives me some advice. He says "You want to know the trick to it not hurting?" and just buy looking at him, I can assume it's helped him tons, so I'm all ears "Start breathing.... a lot. I mean like, tons of a lot. As if you just ran a marathon. As deep and fast as you can." He went on to explain that this sends so much oxygen to your brain that you actually get high off it. So for about 10 minutes, well my gf talks to him about tongue piercing, I start breathing like mad. Sure enough, after a few minutes I start going REALLY tingly.

Eventually, the moment of truth is upon us, er...well upon me I guess. He asks me to sit in the chair. At this point I feel like I just smoked two big fat blunts, cuz I'm just tinglin from head to toe. I clench my fist as he marks the entry and exit holes. By now I'm actually so tingly I'm havin trouble talking. Like you know when you get your mouth frozen at the dentist, and since you can't feel your lips, you can't really say anything properly and slur all your words? Yah well this is that.

Now here's the part where I'll bring in the pain factor, because I bet anyone out there who's considering having this done, this is your main point of interest. First, I'd like to create a pain scale out of 10. 1 would be slightly poking yourself with a needle. 5 would be falling off your bike and scraping your knee reasonably bad. 10 would be castration. At the insertion of the needle, I'd probly give it about a 5. It hurt but wasn't unbearable by any means, AND it only lasted literally not even half a second. Now when he exited, it gets a bit worse. About 2 seconds after entry, I feel about an 8. Now for anyone that freaked out, calm down, because it REALLY doesn't last that long AT ALL. It's an 8 for about 2/3 of a second, then drops to about a 3. At this point he removes the needle (about a 2) and puts in the jewelry, which I'd score about a 5. After that, it basically goes to a 2, and then throbs every 20 seconds or so up to a 4 1/2, but then drops again.

After all this, I'm still SUPER tingly, and a little light headed, so I stay seated while he explains cleaning. After about 5 minutes, I feel confident to walk. I get up, go to the lobby, and realize walking isn't a good idea yet. I lay on the floor (couch was occupied) and take a second to calm down. To try and prevent my girl from being late, I walk over to attempt to pay, but as Bob comes over, he recommends leaning against the wall, while he goes and gets me a Sunny D. He explains it'll help bring the fluids back to my head and will help my head significantly. I do as I'm told, and low and behold, it works. I pay up, tip the good man, and go to catch my bus.

It is now about 2 hours later and it's still rather sensitive. I would have to most definitely recommend this to anyone considering this. Although it didn't give me that totally sexual turn on I've heard so much about (heard the term light switch to an erection? well it definitely didn't apply to me), but just for the look of it, it's awesome. I definitely plan to get the other nip done as soon as I can afford to. This time I think I'll get a horizontal barbell though...