I like them best covered in black lacebut thats neither here nor there.
It was my love of my breasts that led me to get my nipples pierced.
We should get our nipples pierced!
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She was totally down.
I was mesmerized by the discreet jewelry.
Over the next five years, I reached a lot of life milestones.
I moved into my first solo apartment.
I broke up with my college boyfriend.
I bought myfirst brawithout the help of my mom.
I went on my first Tinder date.
I read all theFifty Shades of Greybooks (and laughed my way through both movies).
Somewhere along the way, I realized that my breasts were a sensitive erogenous zone for me.
I toyed with the idea of using nipple clamps with my partner to heighten the pleasure of nipple play.
(You know, a step up from a love bite.)
But what if my favorite appendage got squeezed off in a wrong move?
Then I remembered those breast baubles from college.
And unlike clamps, I’d get to keep them in on a regular basis.
She thinks the body positivity movement has a lot to do with the uptick.
I think women, especially, are just becoming more open and accepting of their bodies, she says.
There are also women who get it as a form of self-empowerment.
Thats something I can definitely empathize with.
But I wasn’t guarded about it in the least.
In fact, I wanted to tell everyone about my nipples (hence this whole story).
Ive always been a Goody Two-Shoes when it comes to, well, everything.
The naughtiest thing Ive done is to buysex toysat Babeland.
While that felt like a deep secret, this was liberating.
My liberation started out of necessity.
I got both nipples pierced at once, in a tattoo parlor.
It hurt for about 15 seconds, then throbbed for another day or so.
As soon as I stepped into the house my boobs were freed.
Before long, free-boobing it became less about safety and more about showing off.
I was never shy about being naked in my home.
But soon this boob-positive philosophy started to bleed to the outdoors.
I was walking around buck naked in the gym lockerroom, hoping someone would comment on my nipple rings.
And in general, I felt sexier, more daring when I looked in the mirror.
Ive come a long way since my days as a self-conscious pre-teen sneaking my boyfriend into my bedroom.
My nipple piercings are an outward representation of what’s happening insideself discovery and acceptance.
And a nip slip?
That might just happen on purpose.
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