Everything You Should Know Before Getting a Clitoris Glans or Hood Piercing
If you’re a fan of body jewelry, you might have wondered about getting one of your most pleasurable parts pierced.
You can get your actual clit pierced, but getting the clitoral hood pierced is safer and more common. This is usually what people are referring to when they mention a clit piercing.
Genital jewelry can produce some stimulating results, but here’s what you need to know before taking the piercing plunge.
Are there different types?
- Glans. A clitoral glans piercing is the only version that pierces the actual clitoris — generally through the clitoral head if it’s a vertical piercing, or its midpoint if it’s horizontal.
- VCH, The vertical clitoral hood piercing wins the popularity contest among clit decor. It pierces vertically through a thin section of the hood’s peak.
- HCH, The horizontal clitoral hood piercing goes — you guessed it — horizontally through the base of the hood.
- Triangle. The triangle piercing goes horizontally through the base of the hood and underneath the shaft of the clitoris, according to one of the early performers of the procedure, Elaine Angel, author of Piercing Bible.
- Princess Diana. Princess Diana piercings, according to Angel, who named the concept, are usually performed in pairs and may be an addition to a VCH. They’re essentially VCH piercings, but done off to the sides. If you have a VCH, you might flank it with PD, for example.
- Christina. The Christina, also called a Venus, isn’t actually a clitoral glans or hood piercing — but it’s often brought up as an alternative. One insertion point goes through the very front of the vulva, called the cleft of Venus. The piercing then extends through a small portion of the mono pubis, where it emerges.
Are there partner benefits?
Clitoral glans and hood piercings can enhance arousal and pleasure during personal or partner play or partner activity, and even when you aren’t getting frisky.
For your benefit,
The VCH, Princess Diana, or triangle piercings are the most likely to boost sensation for the pierce.
The VCH and Princess Diana piercings typically use a bead that rests on and taps the clitoris, especially during stimulation of the clitoral hood or glans itself.
The triangle can heighten pleasure during direct clit stem or vaginoplasty or anal penetration. That’s because the internal parts of the clitoris itself extend downward to encircle the canal and even reach toward the anus.
The triangle piercing can create a hot button of pleasure,
What does it look like?
with the ring stimulating you from behind your clitoral shaft and even bumping the actual clit with the external parts of the hardware.
While you might think a glans piercing will elicit the most pleasure, it’s not without the risk of nerve damage to the delicate part just from the procedure, even if it’s done correctly.
Although the body piercing jewelry selections out there might seem endless, only a few shapes are best for glans or clitoral hood piercings.
Curved, rather than straight adornments, make the most sense because they move more fluidly with the body’s shape, according to the Axiom.
- A circular barbell is shaped like a semicircle or horseshoe, and it has two balls or beads that unscrew from the ends.
- A captive bead ring, also called a closed ball ring, is a ring that holds a bead or ball between a small opening. The ends of the ring press into two indentations on the ball, holding it in place.
- A curved barbell is a slightly curved bar-shaped piercing with beads or balls that unscrew at the ends.
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