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Frenum piercing
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| Location | Underside of penile shaft |
| Jewelry | Barbell, captive bead ring |
| Healing | 2 to 5 weeks |
A frenum piercing is a type of body piercing located on the underside of the shaft of the penis.[1] A series of parallel frenum piercings is known as a frenum ladder. A frenum ladder may be extended to include lorum piercings, hafada piercings and guiche piercings.
Placement
It is almost always pierced through the frenum that connects the head of the penis to the shaft.[2]
Healing[edit]
Curved 14 gauge barbell 24 hours after initial piercing, mild bruising present on right side of penile shaft below piercing due to piercing clamp.
Frenum piercings generally require from two to five weeks to heal fully. Depending on the placement it may be a surface piercing, but due to both the vascular, fast healing nature of the penis, and loose nature of the skin in that area, frenum piercings rarely reject if pierced properly, although they may migrate.
Those wishing to stretch this piercing to accommodate larger gauge jewelry should wait until at least two weeks after the initial piercing has fully healed. It is common for a frenum piercing to start to close soon after the jewelry has been removed. A fairly recent piercing may start to close in less than an hour. Temporary removal and replacement (for example, to accommodate a partner who finds it uncomfortable) may mean reinserting with a smaller gauge and then restretching to get back to the original, larger gauge. This tendency for the piercing to close up will diminish over time.
Jewelry[edit]
Both barbells and rings can be worn in frenum piercings, both as initial jewellery and on an ongoing basis. Sometimes, when rings are worn, the diameter of the ring is specifically chosen so that the ring can be worn encircling the penis. A wide variety of chastity devices make use of frenum piercings to secure themselves to the penis, as part of fetish or BDSM activities.
Frenum piercings of various types
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4 mm curved (banana) barbell
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10 gauge straight barbell
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Ball closure ring
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Circular barbell
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Frenum loop
History and culture[edit]
The earliest literary reference to frenum piercings occurs in 1884 in Zeitschrift für Ethnologie[3] which states: "Amongst the Timorese of Indonesia, the Frenulum beneath the glans penis is pierced with brass rings...the function of the ring is to enhance stimulation during sex." Anecdotal piercing lore associates this piercing (along with many other male genital piercings) with various chastity devices that have been used throughout history, although there is little hard data to back up this claim.
In contemporary society, frenum piercings were primarily found amongst the members of gay BDSM subcultures, until body piercing became re-introduced to mainstream society in the late 1970s and early 1980s.
Frenum piercings are often intended to provide sexual pleasure to both the bearer and the person they are having sexual intercourse with. They may also be used to attach chastity devices to the bearer, denying them sexual pleasure.
Frenum ladder[edit]
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| Nicknames | Jacob's ladder |
| Location | Underside of penile shaft |
| Jewelry | captive bead ring |
| Healing | 2 to 5 weeks |
A Frenum Ladder, also known as a Jacob's Ladder, consists of a series of frenum piercings often extending from below the head of the penis and as far as the base of the shaft of the penis.
Sometimes, a frenum ladder will be accompanied by a hafada ladder and/or a guiche ladder. Due to the relatively easy healing of these piercings it is not uncommon for several, or even all of them to be performed at the same time.
Less common is a lorum ladder which consists of a series of lorum piercings.
Body piercings - Frenum/Frenulum
The frenum piercing is skin surface piercing on the penis shaft, with a series being pierced in parallel being known as a frenum ladder. BCR's & other rings, circular barbells (CBBs) and curved barbells are the most popular frenulum jewellery. You can customise your jewellery with threaded or clip-in attachments too! PTFE jewellery is ideal for this type of piercing and can speed up the healing process.
The picture above shows you the design and finished product, there is a video further down on this blog for you to show you how the pieces open and how it would fit through a piercing.
This design was crafted in platinum, with 2 8mm balls that sit on the underside of the "helmet".
To thread this ring through your piercing you would twist and unscrew one of the balls that house the screw in curved bar press a little opposing pressure on the ring, this will create enough space for the exposed end of the bar to travel through the frenulum piercing.
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