According to Healthline, a male genital piercing refers to any type of jewellery that’s inserted into the:
1. glans, the head or tip of your genital
2. foreskin (if your genital isn’t circumcised, this covers the glans)
3. shaft, the length of your genital
4. scrotum, the sac that holds your testicles.
It’s done for all sorts of reasons, from love-making pleasure to aesthetics.
Are there different types?
Male genital piercing is often used as an umbrella term. There are many different ways to pierce the genital, and each piercing has its name:
1. Apadravya: pierced vertically through the glans, from top to bottom or vice versa
2. Ampallang: pierced horizontally left to right or vice versa through the glans
3. Deep shaft: typically an ampallang, apadravya, or reverse Prince Albert done down the shaft toward the genital base
4. Dydoe/king’s crown: done through the ridge at the base of the genital head, running vertically through the ridge
5. Foreskin: done through the foreskin if you’re not circumcised, with jewellery placed where the foreskin covers the glans or down toward the shaft
6. Frenum: done horizontally just behind the glans beneath the shaft, called the frenulum, or in several horizontal rows along the bottom of the shaft
7. Guiche (perineum): runs horizontally through your perineum, the skin underneath your scrotum between your buttocks and anus
8. Hafada (scrotal): done anywhere on your scrotum, often in the middle front of your scrotum along the scrotal raphe
9. Lorum: done horizontally or vertically on the underside of the genital where the base of the shaft meets the scrotum
10. Magic cross: consists of 2 to 3 piercings through the glans, usually with two barbells crossing each other with four beads poking out from under the skin
11. Prince Albert: goes in through the opening where pee comes out, called the urethra, and comes out through the bottom of the genital shaft just behind the glans
12. Pubic: consists of a piece of jewellery through any part of the area around the base of the genital
13. Reverse PA: the opposite of Prince Albert, with jewellery entering the urethra and exiting through the top of the shaft.