Medical tattoo
Might delete this soon as I don't love posting photos of my dick on here, but I wanted to share a few pics from my first tattoo session. I'm 6.5 years post stage 1 with Chen, and had my tattooing done with Jen Lee in SF. She is new to phallo tattoos but has over 25 years experience with traditional tattooing and has been doing medical tattooing for the last couple years. I saw a lot of areola tattoos that she had done and they look phenomenal, and I'm super with how my tattoo has healed so far. Jen made me feel very safe and was super respectful of my body, never asked about my medical history or made me feel like an oddity, and generally just treated my dick like any other dick. Would highly recommend her.
In terms of pain, this tattoo honestly hurt wayyy more than I thought it would. I have decent tactile and erotic sensation on most of my dick (very little on the tip), but I experience a lot of my erotic sensation in the burial area. So even though I had 5% lidocaine on my whole dick, I felt like the entire tattoo was happening directly on where my cl*t used to be. Very unpleasant, to say the least. I don't know if other people have had this experience; I do have one friend who got medical tattooing at several years post-op, and they said it was painful but not overly so, so maybe it has something to do with how my nerves healed.
For a long time I thought I didn't want medical tattooing because I felt like to get it would be to try to make my dick more like a cis dick; I resisted this because I worried that a) I would end up disappointed with the limitations of tattooing, and b) I really want to accept and love my trans dick for what it is, rather than feeling like it's less desirable or "real" because I wasn't born with it. But ultimately I realized that the uniform paleness of my dick really bothered me, and that pursuing tattooing to feel more connected to my penis can be just that: a way to feel more connected to the body I have. Still working on loving my dick and not comparing it to other people's, but I'm really glad I got tattooing and I'm very excited about how it's looking so far.
Happy to answer tattooing related questions but not into talking about my surgery history. Also, the peeling skin in the close-up photos is from the tattoo healing.
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