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- From: cj@eno.esd.sgi.com (C J Silverio)
- Subject: cj's piercing
- Message-ID: <v5o18qk@zola.esd.sgi.com>
- Sender: news@zola.esd.sgi.com (Net News)
- Reply-To: cj@sgi.com (C J Silverio)
- Organization: SGI TechPubs
- Date: Thu, 21 Jan 93 19:30:25 GMT
- Lines: 93
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- No, I didn't get anything exciting like a nipple or a clitoris
- pierced. I just got my left ear pierced twice. Nothing that I
- would find difficult to explain to my children 20 years from
- now. I'm told that clitoral hood piercings give their wearer
- much pleasure, but I find the idea horrifying. In other people,
- it's pleasant. Pierce *me* there? Squeak! The culture
- acclimates me to holes in my ears. No more.
-
- I know I'm way behind most of the people in t.b in this
- respect. Everyone, even some of the shy nerdoids, has pierced
- ears. My experience is mundane. Nonetheless, here it is.
-
- I had my ear pierced at Leather Masters in San Jose. I had it
- done there because they could do it with a needle, and put in
- hoop-n-bead rings immediately. The idea of going to a mall &
- having some over-made-up teenager do it with studs and a gun was
- dreary. "Would you like the ruby studs or the little hearts? I
- had mine done with the hearts." No thanks. Instead, my
- piercing was done by a man with a leather skull cap and many,
- many earrings. I didn't ask about his nipples and his penis. I
- was so nervous that I forgot to look at his nose.
-
- Leather Masters is a pleasant store, one of the SF Bay Area
- genre of clean, well-lighted sex stores with friendly
- atmospheres. Probably the SF equivalents have more inventory.
- Probably Gauntlet has more jewelry to choose from. But it is
- local and less trendy. It has a roomful of videos that I will
- go back to investigate. It's a closer source of lubricants than
- Good Vibrations is. It's a nicer place to buy magazines than
- Tower Books.
-
- While I waited for my appointment, I watched a man in a business
- suit talk to a clerk about the safe sex seminar he was running
- at his company tomorrow. Then he tried on leather jackets. I
- tried to picture him out of the suit. I couldn't do it-- his
- beard was too neatly trimmed. Another man asked about jewelry.
- His accent was Eastern European. The prices shocked him. He
- was going to get his foreskin pierced, and he wanted a good deal
- on a barbell. An older woman examined an electrical product.
- The bearded clerk told her about his wonderful experiences with
- that product.
-
- I was wearing more leather than the clerks and the customers--
- boots & motorcycle jacket. And I was probably the least likely
- of them all to actually lead a leather lifestyle.
-
- The piercing dude came out from the back to talk to me about
- what I wanted done. I had a hard time deciding between the
- surgical steel rings and the niobium rings. I went with niobium
- eventually. The rings aren't very large. "If you get anything
- heavier, it'll just mess with the healing," the man said. In a
- couple of months I'll get heavier gauge surgical steel rings.
-
- He did the piercing in a back room, on a frightening adjustable
- table. It was up in seat mode. I sat on it & took off my
- jacket and my glasses. He soaked the rings and scrubbed up. He
- put on surgical gloves. He marked two spots on my ear with a
- pen, measured, consulted with me, and confirmed the placing. He
- took a needle out of a plastic package. The needle was large.
- I decided not to watch.
-
- He did the first one.
-
- "Just try to breathe it out," he said. "You'll notice a little
- pinching." I noticed some pinching. It didn't exactly HURT,
- but I felt the needle go through my ear. He swabbed at my ear
- and threaded the ring through the hole.
-
- He did the second one.
-
- I breathed out sharply. "Most people say they notice the second
- one more than the first," he said.
-
- "I'll confirm that," I said. The needle went in & out as I
- spoke. He swabbed at my ear. I looked at his equipment table.
- There was blood all over a cotton gauze pad. It must have been
- my blood. I just then thought about HIV risk, but realized that
- his precautions had been routine. I was a risk to him.
-
- He held up a mirror for me. Two blueish purple rings in my
- earlobe, with blood trickling around them. Don't ask me to
- explain why I was pleased, why it was attractive. I can't
- explain.
-
- The drive home to Palo Alto on 280 in the rain was much worse
- than the piercing. My earlobe felt hot & huge. It ached.
-
- Lance accidentally nibbled at my ear last night. I nearly killed
- him. By the time he learns not to nibble, it'll be healed.
-
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- c j silverio
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