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more on nipple rings

 
 
odd jest on horn
22:07 / 23.02.02
directed to ZoCher but feel free to throw in your two cents on piercings.

what thickness and diameter were your rings? Ganesh's nipple story suggests they were pretty damn thick. assuming they are, are that big rings easily concealable?

has anyone (esp. males) got their nipples pierced at gauge 10 (2.6 mm)? because that is kinda what i'm thinking of. Should be able to take most anything without tearing when healed and i can't be bothered to stretch them when it can be pierced like that initially and i know what thickness i want.

comments?
 
 
Mourne Kransky
20:50 / 24.02.02
Painful enough having the standard ones inserted but it was a birthday treat (literally) for a masochist like me. A friend who'd had his tits pierced said to me afterwards that the anaesthetic the guy used must have been shit and I felt a bit foolish since I hadn't asked and the piercer hadn't offered. Was glad I'd had them both done in one go though, or I might have taken years to go back and have the other done.

You might find the piercer will be reluctant to use a large gauge for the initial piercing but maybe that's just in the UK. I found the enhanced sensation outstanding to begin with but it faded through time. It does also limit your options for using other tit torture devices thereafter too. Not that you can't but it'll be different.

I think it was the whole more and more, bigger and bigger thing which caused me to pause and take another route, OJOH. Before my nipples began to look like the undone laces on smart trainers. As it is I do have the appearance still, just over a year since I took them out for good, of having breastfed hungry & sadistic twins for the last couple of years.

Sadly, they do seem to show when you don't particularly want them to. I'd get into Mr Suit and Tie mode to boost my confidence before addressing an big audience of serious types and one of my colleagues would whisper in my ear, as I was about to take the floor, you've got new tit rings in! I always wore a white shirt though.

Felt moderately aware of them when I'd be on holiday and take to the beach. Just because it gave strangers an obvious excuse for the same dull old conversation.

Very handy for clipping things to, particularly chains, in sleazy clubs. Kind of miss them still when I go to the Hoist or the Block.

But you do your own thang. And hope you experience a whole new world of chest-related pleasure.
 
 
HCE
19:41 / 04.10.04
10 gauge is by no means too big. I've heard the thinner ones feel 'wiry' and unpleasantly so. I expected a quick healing time, being in such a blood-rich area, but not so. Any earling mauling naturally delays this. Never had too much trouble with concealment -- just wear loose tops, and not too sheer. The ring itself generally doesn't show, it's the ball(s), so perhaps take the jewelry style into consideration.
 
 
Char Aina
23:20 / 04.10.04
got some.
did em small and as bars and then stretched them once, into big rings.
i went for 24 not 26 because i felt that my nipples looked less like a pair of bulls noses than they might have had i gone bigger. (it still hurts a tickle getting them stretched up that much but to be honest... its a good kind of pain.)
size of ring depends massively on sice of nipple/chest and effect desired.
for me it was mostly visual to begin with and only once they were mine did i begin to get into the potential for physical sensation.


one thing.
make sure they do the piercing far enough back and that they do them level and symetrical.
it will REALLY hack you off if you look in the mirror and they arent at least pretty close.
 
 
Goodness Gracious Meme
23:48 / 04.10.04
mmm.

Interested, for my part, on stories from women/ppl with mammary-type breasts on this one. Have been considering a single piercing for a while now. Have reliable piercer on hand, but am def interestd on comments on healing/pain/sensation changes....

But am not really thinking of anything heavy guage, just for meself am not crazy about the 'stretching' thing these days...
 
 
Olulabelle
20:46 / 05.10.04
Bengali: A recommendation from me! Mine healed really quickly. I had both done at once and I agree with Xoc about doing them in one go, although actually it hurt far less than I imagined it might. About as much as my nose did I guess but it wasn't over so quickly.

No sensation loss, on the contrary, and I had little bars put in initially but now I'm looking (or rather the beautiful man is looking) for little dorje. Clean your piercing with salt water for the first few weeks, be gentle with it and don't fiddle and you shouldn't have any problems.
 
 
HCE
23:28 / 05.10.04
I have mammary-type breasts (only on Barbelith) and the piercing hurt like hell. I kept thinking it would fade to just feeling warm but not, it continued to hurt for days. If you're thinking of getting a piercing or tattoo, though, the pain is either a plus or at the worst a minor and necessary annoyance. It's a strangely tolerable sort of pain, very much unlike stubbing your toe or getting a papercut.

I haven't noticed any particular difference in sensitivity but nipple erection is pretty much ongoing. Only the warmest weather and most complete lack of movement/friction will cause softening.
 
 
HCE
23:30 / 05.10.04
Meaning, of course, that only on Barbelith would I specify that my breasts are mammary-type. Not meaning that my breasts are mammary-type only when I post on Barbelith.
 
  
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