i've got tattoos and various bits pierced.
never had a problem with any of them at all, but i did mangle a friend's nipple about ten years ago when i worked in a shop for a while helping out a piercer. i did the standard ears and nipples with no trouble -- part of the job is just calming the nervous types, and once that's done it's pretty easy to open up a huge gushing bloody wound and fill it with metal.

the friend had come into the shop to get his nipples pierced but chickened out once, and i was the only one he trusted to jab him. the first one was fine, but the anticipation of the second was too much for him and his endorphin rush didn't compensate. he flinched and ended up with a wonky piercing that was too close to the tip of the nipple. it should have grown out, but it didn't, so he now has a second piercing behind it (where the first should have been), so his left nipple is perced twice.

i got laid there, too, before having my back tattoo done. the acquaintance i'd asked to shave my back so the tattooist could see my skin and i ended up having a quick fuck in the prep room just before i had by back done. good fun, that was.

various medical nonsense unrelated to the piercings made me take them out last year, so i'll have to replace them eventually. i've been working on my next tattoo for a couple of years now, but have yet to finish it (the design, that is. i like sketching these things out first before hopping into the chair).
( postbear has metal knees, Mon 4 Dec 2006, 23:36, Reply)