Quote from: RealLacy on December 02, 2018, 10:37:51 PM
How does nipple piercing compare to Cartilage piercing? I got a helix in each year a few days ago. The worst part was the crunch noise of the cartilage!
Everyone was telling me how hard of a piercing it is. Is is way out of the league of loves, but overall I havent had issues. Mild discomfort when sleeping. Of course that is to be expected with a 6 month healing time.
Lacy
Medically spoken, cartilage it self has no pain receptors. Any piecing would cause the pierced skin enveloping the cartilage to feel pin. Piercing cartilage itself should be pretty pain free, except for the discomfort of the pressure to puncture through it.
The problem with cartilage is it's poor healing, because it has no blood supply. This poor healing can lead to some nasty infections.
Nipples are the opposite, they have a very good blood supply (something has to make them stand up), and quite a few pain receptors (mine feel as if they are not consisting of anything else, but pain receptors), and that makes nipple piercing pretty painfull, but the blood supply helps with fast healing.
But I still don't understand why one would want to poke holes into perfectly nice nipples?