Texas Tech Welcomes Prince Albert

HSC releases genital piercing study
By Derek Moy/Daily Toreador

A team of researchers at Texas Tech University and the Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center have published research on male genital piercings that casts a new light on the men associated with such piercings.

The online study shows the average male who has a genital piercing is 36 years old, white, has some college education, heterosexual, married or in a monogamous relationship, and reported themselves excellent health. There were 445 men who participated in the study across 46 states and 26 international web sites.

Myrna Armstrong, one of the lead researchers and regional dean for the School of Nursing at Highland Lakes, said she has a 20 year history of conducting research on body art. She has published 25 articles with her team since 1990.

“There were three nurse researchers along with two urologists, and we conducted a study using the Internet as a survey instrument to obtain 445 participants who have genital piercings,” she said. “And that is an extraordinary number because it’s very difficult to find them. They have what’s called a hidden variable.”

Armstrong said the Internet provides anonymity as well as acceptability to gather the information needed. The questions in the survey were worded very specifically so the participant could not fabricate their piercing. The data also corresponded similarly with data gathered 10 years ago.

“It’s usually done for sexual stimulation or experimentation, but this is not a flippant decision,” she said. “We don’t believe, from our findings, that this is a flippant decision. These people have thought about it for a long time before they made the decision to do it.”

Because of the deliberate decision making, some men took up to five years to get pierced, she said. Some do it for stimulation or aesthetics, but most wanted to try it and see if it works for them. There are eight types of genital piercings for men and different complications for each.

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Well I'm glad to hear that piercing one's rod isn't usually a flippant decision because if I just had too much to drink one nite and woke up with a Prince Albert the next day I think I'd be pretty upset. Putting a needle through one's junk needs to be a pretty well thought out decision. Unless you're Jason Stackhouse and you have to get the swelling to go down after taking too much V juice. I'm just glad I can now boldly claim that my alma mater is leading the country in penis piercing research.

P.S. - I think the researchers were wrong about the eight kinds of piercings. I found a diagram with more.