These Horrifying Piercing Stories Will Make You Want To Cry

Chino Gonzalez, owner of tattoo and piercing shop Stigma Ink in Tampa, Florida, has spent 20 years piercing nearly every corner of the human body. Surprisingly, he says, genital piercings are less painful than nose piercings.

When one of his regular customers asked for a “Prince Albert,” a genital piercing that runs from inside the urethra to the bottom of the head of the penis, he was unfazed; he’d done this before.

“For me, it was like a regular job.”

The only difference? The client was fully erect throughout the piercing.

“He said he was nervous,” Gonzalez says. “Usually, a man will shrink out of fear for piercings. This guy was the opposite.”

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To perform a “Prince Albert,” piercers insert a receiving tube into the urethra and pierce the side of the head with a needle. But the cold steel brought the client to climax. “The moment I pierced him, he actually ejaculated,” Gonzalez remembers. But because he only pierced one side, the release in pressure inside his penis released the fluid “like a volcano.” Gonzalez quickly inserted the jewelry, and the guy was “super apologetic.”

“People get [piercings] for pleasure,” Gonzalez said. “That quick pinch that clamp, that metal.”

Stories like his aren’t surprising when it comes to genital piercings, says Logan Levkoff, Ph.D., a sexuality and relationships educator and author. “Nerve endings, sensitivity, being touched in an erogenous zone, nerves, cold air conditioning, and sterilization tools all make for a potentially heightened experience,” she says.

If you find yourself turned on in the middle of a genital piercing, don’t panic, says Levkoff. “If arousal is totally distracting, she could ask her piercer if she could take a quick break,” she says. “And remember, just because someone is aroused, it doesn’t mean that it will automatically lead to orgasm.”