A bit of an overview. I am seventeen, and I am the proud owner of a number of piercings and a handful of tattoos (my mom gave consent for the ink). It is legal to get pierced here without consent when you are sixteen, with the exception of genitals and I guess nipples, although no one has ever said anything about that when I got my nipples pierced a year or so ago (before I knew who and who not to get pierced by and what was legal and not etc). I am generally the kind of person who would never go near someone who would pierce a minor's genitals, but sometimes things just get out of hand and things happen.
At A Glance Author anonymous Contact anonymous@bme.anon When A month ago
I had been wanting to get a VCH (vertical clit hood piercing) for quite a while (IE a few years), but knew it would never work because of my age, unless I went to a hack (someone who disregards all rules and is only in it for the money), such as the person who pierced my nipples. I asked my usual piercer about her piercing my clit hood, but her boss replied with a firm no when my piercer brought it up. A couple weeks later I decided I'd just go ahead and pierce it myself. This didn't work out; I did not have a receiving tube, and I usually have problems piercing myself anyway. So I kind of gave up on that idea for a while.
Fast forward a few months. I met someone who has a VCH, and it was pierced by the same guy who pierced my nipples. I lectured her about it, as I do to everyone who is pierced by this piercer. I have been there, and I have learnt from it, and I want everyone else to learn from it as well and never get pierced by him again. I could tell you everything he does wrong, but the list goes on and on, and I will cover some of those points soon. A week or so later I am walking through town and I walk past the shop my friend got her VCH pierced. I go in to buy incense, and somehow I end up walking up to the counter and asking if I can get my VCH pierced.
[Name censored] says sure. I pay while he waits for someone to leave the shop and then he goes and locks the door because he's the only person working. He leads me into the small piercing room and pulls the curtain closed. He sets up the equipment needed while I take off my jeans and panties. I lay down on the bed thing, and he tells me he is going to pierce me soon. He examines my anatomy to see that the piercing will work (he probably would have gone ahead with it either way), then gets the needle out of it's packaging. He positions the needle and attempts to push it through. Yes, attempts to push it through. I experience the first wave of immense pain. There is no receiving tube involved, and he has not bothered to cleaned anything before the piercing. He tells me "it's almost done", while I try to concentrate on my breathing. He shoves the needle again, and I think this time it goes all the way through. By this time there are tears involuntary welling in my eyes, and I abandon the deep breathing to give a loud "fucking hell". I mistakenly think the worst is over and comfort myself with that thought. The so called 'piercer' tells me that he's just going to put the jewellery in and makes a comment about it not being so bad and I attempt to nod, all the while thinking something along the lines of 'why the fuck am I here' and 'fuck I'm stupid'. He finally inserts the jewellery, which hurts A LOT. Normally the insertion of the jewellery for me never hurts, if at all. But this hurt. Oh boy, did it hurt. And even worse - the tightening of the balls on the curved barbell. Oh, and get this. He wanted to pierce it with a 16ga CBR which had a diameter of about six millimetres. I told him no way and told him what I wanted to be pierced with, and he said okay. Anyway, back to the tightening of the balls. It was excruciatingly painful, but thankfully it was over soon enough. Finally I got up and got dressed again. [Name disclosed] offered me a bottle off Studex, which I declined. That stuff is terrible, far too harsh for new piercings. Clit hoods are fast healing as it is, and your urine is sterile to you so I think that as long as you have good hygiene, your clit hood piercing will be fine.
My piercing has healed, although I did change it for different jewellery today, which was too heavy for it and kept getting caught or twisting while I was at a boxing class. I changed that after the class, because I could see it wasn't doing it any favours. The piercing is about a millimetre off, and if I could go back in time I would. I still feel like the biggest hypocrite ever, and it's the worst feeling ever.