Hmmmm. I have no experience with this at all, but I follow this thread with some voyeuristic interest.

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Tom Demerly
The Tri Shop.com

that depends. if your a dude, not a big issue, you can just pull the whole unit up and out of the way.

If you're a chick, i'd imagine that you would prob. climax several times over the course of a race. That could be some good motivation to get out there and ride your bike.

I take it you're not talking about the navel thing. I'm with Tom on this one.

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Do you mean like a Prince Albert or similiar? I really don't imagine they could get in the way, but then I'm not pierced so wouldn't really know for sure.

Saw a guy at a tri one time with multiple tattoos and body piercings. He was pierced everywhere so I'd assume probaby under the belt also. Of course I didn't ask him to pull down his shorts to see.

Like, this is where they poke that thing through your dick right?

No way.

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Tom Demerly
The Tri Shop.com

I just don't get it. I have enough natural holes in my body I have to clean. Why make more?

"I just don't get it. "

Neither do I but my daughter has/had piercings in her navel, lip and nose. Her first one was a navel piercing at age 15 without myself or her mom (my ex) initially knowing about it. We weren't too impressed at the time. She got the others at age 18 when it's her legal right to do so.

I never said much since she was an "A" student in high school and is now attending college living on her own. Just a form of self expression I guess. Live and let live.

Yep, you're right, right through your dick. The Prince Albert is a rather minor piercing. (for you really interested do a search). A more "intense" piercing, due to it's placement wouls be a so called Amphallang; this one goes straight thru the head of your dick horizontally. Glad you asked eh? Henk

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Alex Jonker

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Tom Demerly
The Tri Shop.com

Okay, here we go. Cover your eyes, Tom.

I can't see a problem with either an ampallang or a frenum piercing as far as tri-ing goes. Nipple rings are a pain in public, because let's face it, when you have your nipples pierced, man or woman, people think you're a freak. They wince, they gawk, they say, "Damn! That must have hurt." And it did. More than you can imagine.

What I will tell you is this. (Keep them covered, Tom.) If you do decide to get an ampallang, make sure that it is dead level and square. The nature of the equipment, and the operation, is such that it is not easy to get it right, even if your technician is, say, the most experienced piercer in LA.

Furthermore, because of the tissue we're talking about, the healing takes years, not months, and will very likely heal out. Hygiene is critical, but won't stop your body from trying to reject the piercing. The same goes for nipple piercings. They "walk". The holes from mine were nowhere near where the original piercings were done when I finally removed my rings a few years ago.

I eventually removed all but one.

Okay, now for the good part. First, if you do decide to get an ampallang, be prepared for pain. Lots of pain. Out of body experience pain. Second, contrary to popular belief, chicks do not dig it. Most of them, if they don't run in horror immediately, will ask you to remove it, if not before, then definitely any other time, if you ever see them again, which is doubtful. My extremely limited study shows that 100% of woman polled prefer well, anything, rather than a guy with piercings. Unless you find yourself a nice pierced girl.

I've read all the crap about the Sea Dayaks of Borneo, but American women generally respond with, "Get that thing away from me!" or "Ouch! That really doesn't feel good!"

In conclusion, piercings should not cause any problems for you with triathlon training. Piercings hurt a lot more than you think they will. Enforced celibacy is a common side effect of piercing.

Go old school and just do a Sun Dance ritual in your back yard.

Okay, Tom, you can open your eyes now.

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WWhheeww. Thank you. That was horrible.

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Tom Demerly
The Tri Shop.com

 

If you are going to ride a bike you should really stay away from the Guiche. It goes through back of the ball sack and through the perineum, it can take months to heal and is easily (as I'm sure you can imagine) irritated. It is often rejected by body or moves from the original placement.

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"your horse is too high" - tigerchik

Since you are not timid, I will also ask: for those of us who are clueless about this, what is the point of putting a hole through that part of your body (or, for that matter, ANY part of your body)?

How is the likely incredible pain and discomfort outweighed? By what is it outweighed? Is there any parallel to this to "cutting" (teens and other people cutting skin on their arms and other areas) for an escape from a tortured existence?

Educate me.

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Where would you want to swim ?

People into piercing usually ask me the same questions about running and biking.

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"your horse is too high" - tigerchik

But at least I know those answers. Please explain this one to me.

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Where would you want to swim ?

The collective wisdom on such a variety of subjects on this forum never ceases to astonish me. Even if some of the subjects are pretty twisted.

crazy teenagers:

Protest. Refute your material instincts and move in to the forest, where you can smoke weed, cut yourself, and play guitar all day. Stick it to the man before he sticks it to you.

I'll give it a shot. But first, a disclaimer: I'm not pierced, down there or otherwise; and have less than no interest in acquiring any piercings (although I do sport a few tattoos).

I'm a police officer, and as such have had on occassion met (and occassionally befriended) a bewildering array of strange and unique people. For a year, I was assigned to a walking patrol in the bar district of my city, a city with a large state university and military installation. So, we get the college kids and the hooyah GIs. An interesting mix, to say the least.

I became good friends with the city's premier body piercer, a nice guy from Tennessee with a 10 gauge ring through his septum and huge plugs in his earlobes. I never asked where else he was pierced. I can only imagine ...

I once asked the obvious question, "why?" Since we were friends, he gave me an honest answer instead of the smart ass retort he usually proffers. To paraphrase, piercing is a means of seperating yourself from the masses and 'customizing' your body.

In his opinion, some people want to be unique in a manner not sanctioned by society at large. What better way to shock the senses than to stab your wang with a large gauge hypodermic needle? Most people, those of us who are not pierced, don't understand, and probably aren't capable of understanding the rational needed for a genital piercing. I can conceptually grasp the need to be 'different' and flip the bird to the milque toast status quo ... but piercing my penis is beyond me.

What's interesting to me, is how 'extreme' moves to the center. A pierced belly button on a cute little sorority girl is almost cliche ... and damn sexy. But, a decade ago it was subversive.

My friend also told me he pierces a lot of military guys. He said that a lot of them get piercings because its something the Army can't control ... what goes on beneath the uniform belongs to them, and not the US Military. The GIs tend to favor nipple piercings, supposedly.

I used to have my ears pierced years and years ago. But that's as far as I ever wanted to go.

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"In case of flood climb to safety"

"Okay, Tom, you can open your eyes now."

Man, I feel the pain just by your description. Can just imagine Tom, this ex military infantry grunt being sqeamish reading your post!! Well at least he's not alone as I'm with him on this. I did get one of my ear lobes pierced one time and wore an earing or diamond stud for awhile. That's several years ago and the hole is more or less grown over. The piercing experince wasn't really that painful, but was enough for me.

Interesting.

But these days, it seems piercing is just going along with the masses (as in the sorority girls mentioned in your post).

Also, if you pierce where it is invisible to almost everyone (below the belt), ya gotta think that the motivation for that is beyond getting a reaction from others (how can you shock someone if they don't see it?).

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Where would you want to swim ?

Since you feel the need to rebel and do what thousands of other rebels are doing make sure to ware the uniform of the individual getting the dick jab. Trucker hat or floppy velvet 70 pufy hat both wore side ways, $200 Pumas, and aviator sunglasses. There you are with piercing and the new look you just like everyone else. Why not get a Celtic arm band tattoo?

How about a better idea. Stop day dreaming about being on the Real World and realize you parents honsetly don't give a shit that you feel jaded by them. They are probably good people and you just need to relax.

Oh the whole excuse of saying it is a tribal right to manhood is so 1991.

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Dude! You are so totally brilliant. I got all my piercings...in 1991! No, I'm not being sarcastic. May 13, 1991. I got off the midnight shift at Nellis at 6:45 AM, went home, changed out of my uniform, and drove to Gauntlet in LA.

Frankly, I'm amazed that it's become as popular as it has, because aside from the experience of being pierced, the reality of living with piercings is overrated in every way. Frankly, it's moe an inconvenience than anything else.

Kind of like wearing a pony tail. Sure, you think it makes you look cool, and bohemian, and if you're a computer guy people will assume you're some kind of savant(maybe), but the amount of time you spend maintaining it, plus the fact that if you're a triathlete your hair will never be dry again, makes it totally impractical.

Plus, when I cut mine off in December(my pony tail, I'm not into extreme body modifications), the general concensus was that I look much hotter with short hair than with long hair. In fact, one woman told me that the only way I could look any hotter than I do now would be if I hit myself in the face with a hot iron. ;p

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Thanks for the feedback, especially jmorrissey and j-son. So why do it ? Why triathlon? For myself, I do it because it is liberating. When I finish an Ironman, I feel liberated. Strangely I get a similar feeling getting pierced. Am I sticking it to my parents, no. It’s something I do for myself, myself alone.

Last night I "escorted" 4 women to the piercing studio, all were interested in getting their belly buttons pierced. Three of them went for it, one opted out. All of these women (most who are my age, forty-ish, are quite conservative and are triathletes/runners) probably considered this getting freaky, but maybe like some here said, they are actually getting mainstream. I was the instigator…. bad Henk. Thankfully, one of the women called me today; she said she felt a sense of relief and freedom to have done it, it was something she had longed to do for years.

When I started doing triathlons in the late eighties triathlons were quite out there. I’d like to think they still are, but they really aren’t. Piercings are not for everyone, but then again triathlons aren’t either.

Henk

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