Question:
My boyfriend wants me to get my genitals pierced. But I'm a bit dubious. Will it add to my pleasure?

Answer:
I can understand feeling ambivalent at the idea of someone pricking surgical steel needles through your labia and clitoris. Any girl would. (Assuming you are a girl.)

In any event, whether you are a boy or a girl, an erotic piercing is sensual to those who find it sensual. In other words, if your boyfriend finds it sexy, and you do too, then it will certainly enhance your pleasure. Proponents of erotic piercing firmly maintain that the extra baubles increase their pleasure because they provide a little extra friction here and there. One popular claim is that people with pierced tongues give better blow jobs, too.

However, from my un-pierced perspective, I suspect that people with pierced tongues and genitalia have higher-intensity sex because they are higher-intensity people who care a lot about their sex lives and direct considerable time and energy to making it as spicy as possible. I don't question that they feel every little steel thing-a-mabob quivering against them, but you have to find that sexy in the first place to enjoy it when it occurs. Otherwise, you may just be continuously alarmed.

If the idea isn't exciting to you, the reality probably won't be much better. Quick facts: 1. It HURTS to be pierced. 2. It REALLY hurts. 3. It takes weeks and sometimes months to completely heal a genital piercing 4. in some cases, the piercing causes some numbness to the pierced area, and 5. diligent aftercare is required to prevent infection. So: do you really want to pierce your pink parts?

Instead, if your boyfriend remains keen on piercing, why not suggest that he pierce his OWN genitalia? The most popular penis piercing style for men (a ring placed laterally through the head) is called a "Prince Albert," allegedly after Queen Vic's consort. By getting himself pierced your boyfriend could spare you the pain, enhance your sex life, AND demonstrate his loyalty to the crown.

Sounds like a solution to me.

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