For more than a year now I've wanted a triangle piercing done. Being generally short of money and courage, I compromised with inner labia piercings done at home by a friend.... I ended up having four sets of two, which have worked out really well.
At A Glance Author Chris Contact daftasapost@madasafish.com When A week ago Artist James Studio James Piercing Location Essex, UK My piercing friend refused point blank to pierce a triangle piercing, because it goes underneath the clitoris. If, during piercing, the needle was to cut one of the nerves leading to or from my clit, he said, theoretically at least it would lead to partial or complete loss of feeling. Which is not the point of genital piercing. He commented that to cause a woman to lose feeling in her clit was in his eyes the worst crime someone could commit (I think he was joking... he had a serious look in his eye though). As he was an amateur, he didn't consider himself adequate to the task and wasn't prepared to risk my safety.
I of course did a bit of research. I don't know anyone else with that particular piercing so everything I found out was on BME, which has surprisingly little on the subject of possible loss of feeling in the clit (or was I looking in the wrong places?) after genital piercing. This left me unsure as to how serious the risk was.
But you know how it is. If the idea of a particular hole gets in your head, nothing else will do. The time came two weeks ago when a friend made a group booking at our piercer James and I tagged along.
I've been to James for all the holes I didn't want done at home and wouldn't go to anyone else. He has a particular quality of being very relaxing and reassuring. He is, in his own words, anal about all equipment being sterile and the piercee being informed about aftercare and risks, so I knew I was in safe hands. To my relief initially he agreed to do the piercing. So in I went, with my designated hand-holder Alison (who had just had her tongue pierced and couldn't argue!).
However when I pulled my skirt up and made myself comfy on his medical couch, he took a look and said, "Hmmmmm" in a not-very-encouraging tone of voice. He sat down, trained the extremely bright studio light on my fanny and had a bit of a poke around. Then he sat back and asked me why I wanted a triangle piercing.
I told him it was because I thought it was a beautiful piercing. Also I had 9 genital piercings and none of them were deep - I wanted a deeper hole down there; I was looking forward to stretching it up. I thought it would probably make sex a bit more interesting, too.
He told me that he wasn't prepared to do a true triangle piercing on me - as he put it, my fanny is very "tucked away" - everything is in miniature. He said he couldn't be 100% sure that he was going to miss those all-important nerves. He suggested that he could, perhaps, give me two piercings at an angle either side of my clithood, which might have a similar visual effect... but if I wanted that, then my piercer friend could do that for me for free, as he'd made such a good job of my labias.
I was quite insistent that I'd come all this way and was lying on his couch for a new piercing. Also, everyone else in the group had had their piercings and I didn't want to feel left out on the way home!... but I didn't say that. I was really disappointed that whatever I got wouldn't go right under my clit, but I wanted to walk out there with SOMETHING.
At this he bent over my fanny again (not even my boyfriend has given it such intense scrutiny) and started poking about in earnest. He pinched the flesh gently, sort of squeezed, underneath the clit (where the triangle goes), then the flesh much higher up and nowhere near the clit. He asked what was different about that sensation. I said that pinching under the clit had made a near-tingling sensation, and the other hadn't. He said that the probability was that there were nerves that really shouldn't have a needle going through them where the tingling occurred.
Then together, over about 10 minutes, James and I did detective work over my fanny to see where the closest was to underneath the clit that we both thought was safe to pierce. Alison the hand-holder got very bored at this point. Finally we settled on something that is nowhere near the triangle but was definitely safe - a little lower down than a horizontal hood would be, and much deeper.
When I realised I WAS going to get a piercing, suddenly I was nervous and keyed up (before I'd been quite relaxed, chatting casually with James about the ins and outs of my privates!). I wanted zylocaine slapped on there before anything happened. James told me calmly that it wouldn't make a blind bit of difference because zylocaine only goes 1mm into the skin, but I didn't care. So he put it on anyway, and even put a bit of clingfilm over to stop it evaporating. Alison made a deli counter joke (something about either fresh or ready-cooked) but I was too terrified to care as the entry and exit holes were marked up.
As it happened we had chosen a section of skin that proved very hard to clamp. It took four attempts to get the clamps on right, which the zylocaine DID work on because I didn't feel a thing. At last there was a cry of "got the bastard!" from James. Finally we were ready to pierce.
Because of the anaesthetic I didn't feel the entry of the needle, but I felt it go through. My labia piercings were just... stings, really. This was NOT a sting. James is a very fast piercer, though, and just as he says, "By the time you say oh SHIT it'll all be over"... the needle goes through on the SHIT.
Total elation overwhelmed me as I looked down and saw the white catheter sticking through my flesh. I bore a stupid grin as the BCR was threaded through and it was the same stupid grin I wore for the next three hours. I babbled ananities to Alison all the way home (who was unable to talk back in self-defense).
It's been two weeks, and the outside of it is completely healed. The inside of the piercing is still a little sensitive, but it's getting there. Salt washes twice a day are all it needed. Having sex is possible from about a week and a half onwards... but very very carefully!
I don't wish it was a triangle because I love the deep hood piercing for its own sake (it's beautiful and I am smitten by it) but I still wish I dared to have one of those too. I would say, to any woman wanting a clit or triangle or any other piercing with that risk, to get it checked out by a trusted professional piercer. Good luck and be happy!