Secret Confessions of a Smart Girl

It all started with the butt bow.

My girlfriend had kept it when she’d cut my dress off of me six months earlier, and all of a sudden she was holding the hideous thing over my head… or more accurately over my ass.

“I’m going to pierce you and stick this to your butt,” she said jokingly.

Horrified at the thought of a blood borne fashion faux pas, I tried to forestall her, “If  you wait, I’ll get you some matching red ribbon and you can do a corset piercing with the bow placed neatly at the bottom.”

“Oooh,” she said, “that’s actually a pretty cool idea.”

Thinking it through a little more, I agreed, and we made plans to make art at a party we were planning on attending the next time we saw each other. After all, we reasoned, if we were going to do something that nifty we wanted an audience for it… and photographs.

It worked out great.

Want to see? Click on the more tag below. I didn’t want to freak anyone out who is bothered by piercing or who is used to this being a text based blog and thus marginally safe for work.

Fabulous photo by my friend C

I have to say that I really, really liked the sensations of the ribbons pulling on the needles under my skin. The deep tugging, and corresponding endorphin rush is one of the reasons I like piercing so much. It feels so good**. Piercing with the girlfriend is also a particularly zen-like experience since she does a lot of breathing work during it. It’s a really nice connection. Makes a girl all giggly… and then makes her want to drag said girlfriend off to a private place to go have lots of sex.  Mind you… when do I not?

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**_{Unfortunately, I do have to be in the right headspace for it. When, later at the same party, a friend and I tried to do the googly eye scene, I was so fried that I ended up tapping out after only one googly eyed needle. I have to say, however, that that one creepy little piercing was REALLY FUCKING COOL, and I totally want to try it again at a later date. Bloody, goofy fun… and now we know to glue on the googly eyes after the piercings are in and not before since they make the needles too hard to control.}