I don't know about you but I can get pretty warm in my shorts, and along with chamois butter etc I'd wonder if it might not be the nicest enviornment for a fresh piecing.

Have you considered belly button, nipple or some other area?

After saying all though, that my boyfriend thinks from his distant memory that the down hiller Missie Giove might have a labia piecing. He's not 100% sure ( his memory is not what it was ) but if so, then maybe it 's not a problem after all. You could always check with the piercing place - see what they think too.
i considered asking my piercer-- i'll probably go to the same guy who pierced my tongue-- but unless he's familiar with biking he probably won't have a clue. i'll still ask, take it with a grain of salt... also i was planning to get pierced in december, so i can take a bit of time off the bike without too much crankyness (i expect the snow will deter me from biking, as much as i like to think it won't).

as to the warm, moist environment-- my tongue ring is doing excellently, so that really didn't enter my mind as a concern, though i'm glad you pointed it out. what i was worried about was chafing, saddle sores, etc. i didn't consider piercing another area because i was mostly drawn to the aesthetics of this one. ialso like to keep my piercings to myself, so to speak (this forum excluded ) and when you exclude facial piercing, there's not much left. oddly enough a nipple piercing sounds more painful to me than the one i'm considering. as for a more long term thing, nipple piercings aren't compatible with breastfeeding, as far as i know, and i'm 25 so i'd like to leave my options open.


I've considered it more than once but I don't know anything about the cycling aspects of it. I've done a lot of web surfing educational purposes, (really ) and if you are discriminating there are some very informative sites out there. Theses site discuss pro/cons, how to find a good technician to do it, differnt types of peircings and so on.
i've looked around on the net a bit, including my body mod studio's site and an encyclopedia entry. this location was the best of the genital piercings i read about (for me anyway), and i'm familiar with a lot of the basics from the tongue piercing experience.

good luck, and no you aren't a moron. ;-)
thanks for the reassurance . i was half-expecting a flurry of mother-style "what the he!! do you want another hole in your body for?!" ... which i worried about for no reason. as usual the te women's cycling forum is very supportive.