The almighty labia corset

At A Glance Author piercedpuff Contact eeyore15@iname.com Artist blackdeath Location brick, NJ

I see my piercer often, because I am caught up with so many projects at once that I show up at his doorstep at least once a week to get some work done. I'm currently working on getting the rest of my spine surface piercings done, along with finishing a tattoo. But every time I show up at his house and we start perusing the pages of BME, we seem to find a piercing that gets me craving for something new.

One day he turned to me and asked if I'd thought about getting any genital work done. Now I guess I have a high tolerance considering all the work I've done so far, but I still get nervous every time I get something new. He showed me a picture in the BME archives of a labia corset and it looked gorgeous. Maybe I just have a thing for corsets; I've gotten my back corset piercing twice already...heehee.

He was excited about it, and we talked about it for a while. I asked him how they healed, how to take care of them, and all other related piercing questions. The thing I was worried about was the pain. I heard that genital piercings, female anyway, for the most part were not painful except for the clitoris. The original plan was to get ten twelve gauge rings on my outer labia that once healed could be tied together with some pretty ribbon in a corset pattern.

The original plan changed quite a bit when we actually got around to the piercing. My piercer is a fan of bigger gauges in genital piercings, but I was at first a bit scared and liked the dainty ones better. Well, it just so happened the night I decided to go for the labia corset we had done a play piercing session a few hours before. After getting some needles stuck in my back with relatively no pain, I was feeling pretty brave and ready for something more adventurous. So when he said, "Hey, how about we go with ten gauge for the labia?" I was ready to try something more fun. I asked him to show me the difference in size between the ten and twelve gauge, and I thought to myself that it didn't look that much bigger. So I excitedly agreed, ready to get my first genital piercings.

Originally, we were also going to do the inner labia, but since we were doing so many with a larger gauge, we decided that it would be more spacious and nicer on the outer. I got all marked up, and was still calm although I was becoming less and less cocky. I'm in complete admiration of my piercer, I really don't like being seen naked but he made me feel completely comfortable and relaxed. The first one he did was on the upper (closer to the front of the body) part of the labia. He clamped the piercing, and it was a bit uncomfortable but nothing bad in comparison to other clampings. In my opinion the clamping for a surface piercing hurt worse. I was still pretty calm at that point, expecting to feel the same intensity as a surface piercing. Of course the piercing was quick, but I was not prepared for the pain. It hurt! Now maybe it was because I'm a wimp, or maybe because it was a bigger gauge then most people get, but I was shocked to believe that so many people thought this was supposed to be painless. For me, this piercing was at the level of my nipple piercings, and pain-wise those were the worst.

The next three went well, I had to take a five-minute break after every two because I have a history of getting lightheaded after a piercing. It's just one of those things I can't control. Surprisingly, this didn't happen for this piercing. I began to get a little worried though because I wasn't entirely sure I could go through with the remaining six piercings. I wasn't even halfway done yet and I was dreading the rest. I know the pain is short and well worth it, but it's pain none-the-less. I began to ask my piercer if we could change the number of piercings to six without the piercing looking bad, because I was wimping out. He said that everything would be ok, because the placement of the rings were spaced out enough to accommodate six and look well. I sighed a breath of relief until I realized I still had two more to go. By then I was on a bit of an adrenaline and fear high, so I told him to go ahead with the last two and just get them finished. Soon after, I had six beautiful ten gauge piercings.

I felt kind of disappointed in myself that I couldn't go through with the original ten, although my piercer congratulated me and told me that most people couldn't go through with the experience. It made me feel a little bit better, but I still felt a bit upset.

The next morning I wasn't upset anymore. It hurt to more and I was extremely sore and walking like a penguin. I patted myself on the back for chickening out, I have no idea how I would've been able to deal with healing ten labia piercings at once. It has been three days since I got them pierced, and I can walk and move around with relative ease. I can still feel them when I move, and if I move the wrong way it will send a pinching feeling, but the only thing I have to deal with is the new feeling of weight they give because they are somewhat heavy. I've been taking baths pretty much daily along with showers because it eases the pain quite a bit and taking advil to help things out. I'm really happy with the way they look, at first I was a bit unsure of the larger gauges because I was thinking about something more 'dainty', but I think they look nice as they are.

Even though I didn't get what I originally intended, I can still add the other four if I decide to add some more metal to my collection. Once I'm all healed up I'm going to see how a laced up labia corset with six rings looks, and if it seems a little lacking I'll hide away my fear and go back to add to the rest. I have a feeling, though, that the way things are now are more than just beautiful. It's another addition to my body that's hacking away at all those insecurities I've had for too long about my body and turning it into something I'm not ashamed of that other people can find beauty in as well.