Genital piercings

In the genital area are possible in both men and women are numerous variations Piercing. The most piercing variants differ due to the different anatomy between the sexes. Some piercings are possible for both men and women: the Guiche and the relatively rare Anuspiercing. In the extended sense, the nipple piercing is counted occasionally the genital piercings.

Some genital piercings have alongside their purely aesthetic function nor the effect of exercising extra stimulation during sex and thus achieve a growth stimulus. While genital piercings for women is only an effect on the wearer even have increased in the male genital piercings (especially Ampallang and Apadravya) the sexual pleasure for both partners.

Genital piercing in men

Among the most popular in men genital piercings include the Prince Albert piercing (PA). It runs from the urethra, starting from the bottom wall and the penis is due to the increased wearing comfort, usually worn with a thicker material thickness. The Ampallang is horizontal, ie across the glans. Similarly, the Apadravya sits vertically. The cross-combination of both is called a Magic Cross. The Reverse Prince Albert (also: Queen Victoria) is as an ordinary PA through the urethra, but occurs up out of the glans, thus forming a quasi "half Apadravya.

A Dydoe sits in the glans rim. While support for the other piercings, the healing process by urine contact, it turns out this somewhat lengthy.

The Frenulumpiercing runs through the frenulum, is one of the easiest male genital piercings. The lengths of the piercings, jewelry for use with high strength wire designed to be especially easy here, and also increases comfort.

The Pubic the area above the penis is one of the surface piercings.

A Oetan sits in the foreskin. It can be installed anywhere and is usually worn with a ball closure ring.

Piercings are on the front of the scrotum called Hafada or Scrotal and are about healing and care is also easy to intimate piercings. Transscrotal piercing the other hand, refers to a body modification of a connection between the front and back of the scrotum produces. Since this is not engraved, but cut with a scalpel and then sutured to today is is the name Piercing technically wrong.

Genital piercings for women

The most common forms of genital piercings for women include the clitoral hood piercing, lip piercing the pubic and the Christina piercing.

The labia piercing piercings in a distinction between the inner and outer lips, which are exposed to each other also with regard to implementation and healing.

The Christina piercing is a surface piercing, which is engraved vertically in the fold, on the run together the outer lips up.

The lower end of the Nefertiti piercing ends similar to the prepuce of the clitoris piercing in skin fold. It runs through foreskin clitoris and mons.

Similar to the Prince Albert in the male runs the Princess Albertina piercing of the urethra opening to the vaginal opening.

With a stimulating genital piercing of women include the clitoral piercing. makes the strong innervation of this tissue by stabbing it in the implementation but also very risky and painful. It can be punched out both horizontally and vertically through the clitoris.

The Isabella piercing is placed vertically below the clitoris, a Triangle horizontally against. In both variants are very deeply engraved piercings.

A centered, vertical piercing the bottom of the inner lips is called fourchette.

Relatively rare and risky, the Suitcase-Piercing, which runs between the anus and vagina.

Body Piercing Hull

Both as jewelry and piercing for sexual stimulation is also the nipple piercing carried relatively common and is now just as popular as the mainly worn by women belly button piercing.

Surface piercings, such as the Madison-piercing in the reactor pit, the Hüftpiercing inclined are the pelvis near the hip bone, and the Handweb between the fingers due to the problematic nature of the body rather rare, the latter mainly because of the limited functionality of the hands. The corset piercing on the back is composed of several symmetrically arranged rows of piercing, but is usually engraved only as a temporary art piercing.

Nose Piercing

Several special piercings are also possible on the nose. established in particular has proved to be Nostril piercing through the nostril, which is usually meant when a "nose ring" is mentioned. From the hippie culture it was first taken over from India in the western culture.

In the piercing scene, however, the septum piercing through the septum is more popular. It can be punched through both the cartilage and below the run.

Among the rare variants of Nasallang, which introduces both barbell through both nostrils and the nasal septum, and the Austin Bar include the cartilage cap on the nose.

The so-called bridge piercing passes through the nose, are usually sits horizontally between the eyes and there must be due to the facial nerve running engraved with extra caution.

Lips and mouth Piercing

The Labret piercing is usually worn with a centered Labret pin below the lip. Not centered, but the side-placed piercings are possible. Runs perpendicular to the branch canal and occurs out of the lipstick, we also speak of an Eskimo. Analog is the traditional labret piercing it with a Medusa piercing a plug centered on the upper lip.

The Madonna Piercing is usually carried by women and is positioned laterally above the upper lip. Visually, it resembles a birthmark painted as it was born artists such as Madonna or Marilyn Monroe.

Relatively rarely finds the cheek piercing, is used for which usually a labret plug. The exit site of the piercing is on the cheek.

In the mouth, tongue piercing is the vertical engraved the most popular. Rare and relatively risky, the uvula piercing, which is stuck through the mouth. Also visible is the rare Mandible piercing. It sits vertically in the lower jaw below the tongue and emerges at the bottom of the chin. To the unproblematic piercings oral piercing area include the frenulum and the frenulum piercing.

Facial Piercings

In the 1990s, especially the eyebrow piercing and the labret piercing became popular. The first, is a surface piercing, and it is minor at the corresponding position and power than traditional jewelry choice other surface piercings.

Ear piercing

Piercing Typs

* Helix: piercing through the cartilage of the ear edge
* Industrial Piercing: This introduces a barbell in two opposite helix piercings
* Rook: Piercing by the anti-helix
* Daith: Piercing through the horizontal bulge in the external ear
* Tragus: Piercing through the cartilage extension at the entrance of the ear canal
* Snug: Piercing through the inner ear Knorpelauswölbung parallel to edge
* Conch: Piercing through the inner or outer ear
* Anti-tragus: Piercing through the cartilage opposite the tragus extension
* Praise: Classic piercing through the ear lobe

Methodologies of the piercing

Despite the increasing dissemination of improved techniques that are explained in the following also pierced ears are nowadays mostly still engraved with a pistol-mentioned device. For this purpose, an existing surgical steel ear plug is inserted into the gun. This ear plug is accelerated by means of a spring and pierces the earlobe. Behind the ear, he engages in a snap. This method is very controversial. They charged one hand, the tissue and carries some risk for infection. If anything, this method should only be used on earlobes, since other tissues provides too much resistance and can lead to complications.

A further development of the gun that are becoming increasingly marginalized, vollverkapselte, sterile systems in which the stud without spring pressure, but the muscular power of the hand that operates the device is pressed gently and carefully through the earlobe. Although the tissue burden is lower here than in the spring-guns, so this method can be applied only on the earlobe. Although the biting rate is low, most people found this newer method is uncomfortable. Examples of such devices are the "Inverness 2000" or the "Studex 75". The medical ear plugs that come with these systems are used, usually a little thinner through-pins (0.9 instead of 1.2 mm) than the older (standard on all guns) models, which smaller holes with the result. In addition to the aesthetically not very attractive surgical steel plugs, models in gold, titanium and other materials are available in different sizes and with different design.

Disposable lancing systems, which are becoming increasingly widespread, are variants of these vollverkapselten systems. Here is the plug into a sterile disposable plastic cartridge is exerted on the pressure, whereupon the sleeve, which is recognized by the ear is broken, and the plug is forced through the earlobe. These systems are particularly suitable for self-piercing of ear holes, but are also used as part of jewelers and hairdressers.

In the past ear holes were punched often with use of a cork. This was kept behind the earlobe to stabilize it with a needle into the front of the ear lobe and into the razor behind it are be cork.

The safest, albeit the most expensive method of piercing. Here the hole with a sterile needle is stung by which you then threading the jewelry into the hole. Although it is not as bad as people usually think ungepiercte, with the sting of the needle is a bit more painful than the gun or the vollverkapselten lancing systems. For the popular holes in the upper part of the ear (helix), or the tragus, and at all other locations other than the earlobe, this method is the first choice.

Diameter

Many indigenous peoples use bone needles or pointed hardwood eels, some thorns to pierce pierced ears and other body piercings. Often these holes (especially lip piercings and ear piercings) is extended for a lifetime, which are derived from the ear lobe very large loops.

In civilization, there are alternative methods to get to large to very large ear holes. In addition to the long stretch of healed branch channels can be used in the method of Dermal Punch. When punching is stamped with a skin punch a usually circular piece from the tissue. Instead of punching circular may also be otherwise shaped stamp used. Thus, for example, the English body-modification artist Steve Haworth already star-shaped punches carried out in the ear cartilage. From the shape of the hole, regardless, this is indeed little more painful than a piercing with a needle, but often it comes to higher blood loss. heal by Dermal Punching holes resulting in generally very good and quickly. This method is particularly suitable for cartilage tissue as it may be present for a clean result, a certain tissue resistor. Although it is also used in the earlobe, this is not recommended.

In the earlobe (and to some extent, the lips, the navel or other places where soft tissue is pierced) Scalpelling can also be used. Here, with a scalpel, a slit cut into the earlobe, through a conical taper is pushed out of surgical steel. At the far end of the taper, the jewelry is usually Flesh tunnels or plugs. Also, the joining of two elongated ear lobe holes in a large hole is practiced by the web is cut between the holes. With a strong magnifying existing pierced ears usually a semi-circular piece of tissue is cut from the ear lobe.

After the Piercing

After piercing the jewelry remains to complete healing in the wound, which may take several weeks to months. It forms a skin tube, the actual ear hole that is connected to both sides of the outer skin.

After healing, the Lobe Piercing are carefully stretched to create jewelry using a larger diameter.

Prolonged wearing heavy earrings can pull out the ear holes, making "slit earlobes" arise. This can be corrected surgically.

Piercing Jewelry and materials

For use preferably screwed Barbells (rods with two balls screwed on the ends) or Ball Closure Rings are used with terminal ball. These are available in various diameters and thicknesses. Normally, a piercing is pierced with a wire thickness of 1.6 millimeters.
Suitable is 750 gold, platinum, niobium, titanium, PTFE, or surgical steel. Recently, should be re-used steel 316L implant for the first use.

In addition, however, is also an ornament from numerous other materials such as glass, plastic or organic materials such as wood and horn available. This should be used only in fully healed piercings.

Piercing Remove

If a piercing taken out before the healing process completed, the puncture channel bonded as a rule first and then grows rapidly and completely back together, so that later, no longer used jewelry. A completely healed puncture channel, however, remains usually obtained, which can continue to form sebum it. Often it narrows after removal of the jewelry and growing together at the entrances and Ausstichstellen, forming mostly small point-like scars.

Piercing Healing process

The wound is kept of a new set of piercing jewelry open, formed during the healing process from the outside in a skin tube along the needle tract, which surrounds the jewelry. This is first conveyed to the coagulation of any bleeding, the blood flow in the surrounding tissue, often resulting in the first to second week of redness, swelling and heat. Blood clots are flushed out through separate wound fluid. With an infection it can to leak bakterienbekämpfendem leucocytes (pus) may occur.

The duration of the healing process depends on various factors such as jewelry materials, hygiene, care and the pierced body part and the overall health and alcohol or nicotine. While well-vascularized mucosa and genital piercings heal more advantageous with regular contact with own urine, the lengthy process designed for cartilage tissue as cartilage does not have its own blood vessels, but is supplied from the overlying perichondrium oxygen and nutrients.

A problem factor is the irritation caused by regular movement or friction, which can, for example, the healing process of a belly button piercing with permanent contact to the waistband or a Handweb between the fingers make as particularly problematic. If the jewelry changed within the first weeks after the piercing, the healing process are also affected by negative and increase the risk of infection.

The following table provides a guide for the duration of the healing process in the various piercings:

Anesthetic Piercing

In principle it is possible to carry out before the piercing of the body piercings a stunning location. This can be done in two ways:

* Regional Anesthesia: This is a subdermal injection with a syringe (in tissue) anesthetic. After a period of about five to ten minutes, the affected area is numbed. However, it raises the following issues: first, due to legal provisions should an injection be carried out by a doctor or health professional, not a piercer. Furthermore, this form is not recommended, because the pain of the piercings are almost comparable only to the pain injection "replaced," and this form of anesthesia with side effects and risks, the pain of the piercing is not appropriate.
* Topical anesthesia (topical anesthesia): this is an active ingredient in the form of ointment or spray applied directly to the skin surface, it is not injected. This products are used primarily on the basis of lidocaine, procaine or benzocaine. In this form, the problem is that the deeper layers of tissue are not met, the sting of piercing it does not hurt less.

For these reasons, it is frequently not an anesthetic before the piercing.

Pain during Piercing

Often expressed concerns make the burden caused by the lancing operation dar. pain The pain stimulus in the puncture needle is connected to the syringe (for example, vaccination) is comparable and may be perceived intense, but lasts only fractions of a second long. How strong and unpleasant than the pain is felt here is both very subjective. However, piercings differ in the degree of pain during piercing: some piercings hurt more than others.

Fundamental importance here are the length of the needle tract and the other the nature and the tenderness of the tissue, which extends through the piercing. Piercings with a long branch canal are painful, the piercer has to travel a longer distance with the needle and pass the needle slowly. A Nefertiti piercing hurts more than the jump-for example, a Christina piercing.

The type of fabric is crucial, with firmer tissue, a piercing can be painful. In particular tissues such as cartilage piercings through the nose or cartilage-containing tissues such as mixing the lips are considered sensitive. Therefore, by piercing the ear cartilage (such as Helix, Rook or tragus), for example, perceived as more painful than running through the ear lobe Lobe Piercing (the "classical" ear hole).

The touch sensitivity of a body part is not to be confused with the similar sensitivity to pain. This is due to different neural pathways and receptors for the different kinds of stimuli. Normal tactile stimuli to the skin surface (such as light touch or stroking) are mechanoreceptors - especially the Ruffini corpuscles, Pacinian the lamellar bodies and the Merkel cells - registered and on corresponding paths to the brain neurons. The insertion of the needle caused by the pain receptors called nociceptors by hand requires that respond to tissue injury and refer the pain to separate neural pathways. The resulting pain at the injection are mainly caused by group A Mechanonozizeptoren and their distribution across the body surface is relatively uniform. This means that, for example, genital piercings are not generally more painful than piercing other body areas, even though the fabric is very touch sensitive there.

Methods of piercing

The piercende to the body is first disinfected to prevent infection. If necessary, the body is first removed by hair. The entry and exit point of the needle tract is usually marked with a pin and fixed with pliers. This has, at the head two annular terminals, through which the piercing needle can be set on the spot and passed. In Europe, piercings are usually engraved with a peripheral venous catheter. In this case the needle through a plastic or Teflon coating is protected. After the needle was stuck through the skin, it is removed. Only the coating remains in the puncture channel. With this coating the jewelry is pulled through the puncture channel.


In the United States typically use a piercer made of surgical steel piercing needle with a special cavity. The jewelry here is directly inserted into the needle and then used in pushing through the connective tissue.

When ear or nostril piercings outside of piercing studios, such as jewelers, mostly used the ear piercing gun. From reputable piercer, this method is, however, rejected because there is a risk that the tissue to tear or split on cartilage bodies. Moreover, the gun is not completely sterilized. In addition, the ear plugs used here for the first use are unsuitable.

Another method is the so-called dermal punch. Tissues are parts with a hollow needle punched to a diameter of eight millimeters out. This applies mainly to larger jewelry insertion into cartilage tissue can be. Because this tissue to heal completely removed and not replaced, piercings punched better as the jewelry exerts less pressure.

Indigenous peoples traditionally perform piercings usually from appropriate natural materials such as spikes or sharp animal bones. In the Pacific islands such as the pointed ends of the sweet potato plant are used.

Current Piercing Trends and developments

The profession of the piercing is constantly being updated. While a large number go back to piercings on age-old traditions (Nostril piercing, Labret piercing, Apadravya etc.) that are in western culture rediscovered only have, on the other hand, in recent years a number of piercings (lip-band, Industrial or Nefertiti been piercing) or techniques (Microdermals invented) new.

Also, the piercing is subject to fashions and trends. Such were the first piercings, which in the 1990s a wider audience responded, eyebrows, tongue and navel piercings, with the first two variants are now running a lower demand. That will also Steve Haworth in the 1990s invented lip piercing band engraved rare these days again. Currently enjoy the laterally offset Labret, the tragus, the Septumpiercing and the stretching of the earlobes and more popular. For women, the issues the Labret emerged Madonna piercing a "trend Piercing" is, the same applies to the nipple piercing, which has been popularized by many celebrities and currently gehört.Auch in the U.S. among the most sought after body piercings genital piercings are pierced with increasing frequency, which in addition to the general growing interest in piercings and to the increasing presence of nudity in the media and the aesthetic of this body region is due. By now the norm has become pubic hair removal can also enjoy piercings in the area on the pubic mound as the Christina piercing or Nefertiti increasing Beliebtheit.Die Leipzig scientist Dr. Aglaia forehead commented:

"So no wonder that more and more women interested in the option to have in the genital area make corrections through surgery or to provide it with a piercing, as this area has become more accessible to the eye"

Piercing Spread europe

In Germany in 2009 a representative survey helped the University of Leipzig, according to nine percent of women and three percent of men have a piercing. Among the 14 - to 24-year-old women, the proportion was 35 percent among 25 - to 34-year-old women at 22.5 percent. Men were most frequently pierced at age 25 to 34 years (9.3 percent). A 2008 study published in the Regensburg area (data collected probably 2005) [9] at 8.6 percent of respondents encountered a piercing: 12.0 percent of women and 4.1 percent of men. More than half of people with piercing (52.8 percent) while younger than 18 years. The most frequently modified the body was the pinna, followed by the navel and nostril.

In 2005 was conducted in the UK by scientists at the Health Protection Agency of the National Health Service and the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, a survey of piercing at 10 503 adults from different regions of the country. It was found that ten percent of those surveyed were pierced (Earrings are not included), the average number of piercings (pierced by the people) was 1.71. The proportion was higher in women and in younger people, about half of the women in the age group of 16 - to 24-year-old had at least one piercing. The most frequently-mentioned body areas for piercings had navel (33 percent), nose (19 percent), ear (excluding 13 percent of ear lobe / lobe-piercing), tongue (9 percent), nipple (9 per cent), eyebrow (8 per cent), lip (4 percent), genitals (2 percent) and other parts of the body (3 percent). In the women was the navel piercing is the most common piercing among men it was the nipple piercing.

Piercings in Western culture

Sometimes they were different piercings, such as the nipple piercing, can be found in earlier centuries in Europe, they remained largely on small, mostly courtly circles limited modes, which later fell into oblivion. Only the piercing of the earlobe was used widely. Pierced ears, however, were accepted until the early 1970s in western culture only in women and were often themselves or engraved on jewelry. An exception was only the profession of carpenters with a potential sting in the traditional rolling an ear hole with a roofing nail. In the 1960s, brought especially hippies ear and nose piercings of her hippie trail to India in the western culture.

The gay community already experimented in the 1970s with piercings, such as an ear ring in left ear lobe gay has long been attributed as a badge. [4] Already in the 1950s and 1960s experimented Fakir Musafar pioneer intensively with body modifications of older cultures, while spiritual to gain experience. The Americans are in contact with him established the Doug Malloy Body Piercing shortly thereafter in a smaller group of gay and fetish scene. The tattoo artist Horst Heinrich Streckenbach resulted in his studio "for skin and body jewelry" in Frankfurt / Main by in the early seventies, the body piercing. Streckenbach met in 1975 in Reno with Jim Ward "The Gauntlet", and they shared their experiences. Although there was with The Gauntlet [5] in Los Angeles began in 1975 the first piercing shop, the dissemination of this fashion in the 1980s in California when the movement was the Modern Primitives. It became aware of the common customs recorded in primitive cultures to modify their own bodies. These included mainly tattoos, piercings or scars (scarification), later also the branding. In 1977, the magazine PFIQ founded and established itself as a forum and platform of the scene.

At the beginning of the 1990s, the piercing was mostly on the punk and especially the Crustcore scene and limits the BDSM scene and spread from there in a few years off. In 1993, the piercing issue was brought to the headlines when the actress Alicia Silverstone in a music video of the band Aerosmith let stand a belly button piercing. The video won the MTV Video Music Awards and provided, also by that time an unusual piercing, for a wide coverage. As a result, there was a strong demand for navel piercings, a trend that was in the years to other piercings passed. [6] From the mid-1990s Piercing increasingly a phenomenon of youth culture, partly through the establishment of subcultures such as punk or techno, which was especially widespread in the face piercing for some time, but also promoted by numerous stars such as Lenny Kravitz, Tommy Lee or the NBA player Dennis Rodman, who responded a broad mainstream audience.

Today, the piercing has been a fashionable cultural phenomenon in modern Western society established.

Spiritual Piercings

According to reports, Spanish conquistadors in the 16th Century, as well as of traditional stone reliefs were pierced in Central America, ears, tongues, cheeks and genitals as a sacrifice and for internal cleaning.

In the Thai city of Phuket is held annually since 1825, the Vegetarian Festival. While enabling the first nine days of the ninth month of the Chinese calendar, the numerous actors in the divine invocation in trance and stab themselves during a procession swords, sticks, metal bars or everyday items with a significant diameter of cheek, tongue or other parts of the body. They act as a medium of the nine protective spirits, and are considered to be possessed during the ritual of those.
A similar tradition is celebrated annually in Malaysia in January and February at the Thaipusam festival.

Participants begin this months in advance to prepare with the help of a teacher at the festival where they put themselves into a trance state, sting hooks or spears through different parts of the body and then brightly decorated with beige led offerings in procession to a temple of the god Subramaniam compete for it to fulfill a vow to cleanse from sin or to ask for health and happiness. Blood is coming from this relatively rare in the wounds, some of which are disinfected with ash.

The sun dance is a ceremony of various Indian tribes of the American prairie and plains, the puncture in which the dancers, the skin on the chest or back and passing strings associated with wood pegs. The cords are tied to a tree to the Indians for four days from sunrise to sunset without shadows dance, food and water. This tradition has been taken up by the movement of the Modern Primitives, under the name Body suspension.

Traditional Piercings

For Native Americans, Africa and Asia are delivered piercings in their ears, the nostrils and the nasal septum, lips and genitals. The jewelry of these cultures were made of wood, quartz, pearl, clay, horn and bone, and simple metals. First ear holes are detected in Egypt about 1550 BC. The death mask of Egyptian pharaoh Tutankhamun shows this with wide ear holes. Even with Buddha statues and relics of the Aztecs enlarged ear holes are shown.

The surviving stone sculptures of the Olmec show stretched ear holes. Furthermore, pierced ears, lip plugs and Septumschmuck of Central American nations, such as the Purépecha, the Zapotec and the Aztecs are known.
Mursi woman with lip plate and stretched earlobes

In the Mursi in southern Ethiopia pierced or cut and stretched piercings are very far in the lips and ears to the beauty ideal, we speak here of cup lips. The larger the plate, the more prestige to his wife. Today, the unusual jewelry is also aware of a tourist attraction. In India, many women wear traditional plug in the earlobes and the nose. According to the Hindu faith children as part of the ritual Karnavedha ear holes are punched in order to protect them from disease.

For Europe, only few references exist on vormittelalterliche Piercing traditions. Among the few surviving relics of an approximately 2600 years old Celtic bronze mask is one of the Hallstatt period, the bilateral ear holes.

Piercing History and culture

The deliberate piercing of various skin and body such as lips or ears than traditional body jewelry has been practiced for millennia by many cultures and ethnicities. The earliest evidence in the form of jewelry or drawings can be up to 7000 date back years. These are in addition to the decorative function mostly to the separation from other tribes to spiritual rituals and the symbolic representation and celebration of a change process of maturity or social status. Most surface piercings, such as the corset-piercing or the Madison piercing place, however, a new publication of the late 1990s, years and outline

Piercing

Piercing is a form of body modification to be applied to the decorations in the form of rings or bars at various points of the human body through the skin and underlying fat or cartilage tissue through.