For many thousands of years, people have their genitals pierced to erotic and erotic reasons. In many "primitive" societies do today. Prehistoric cave paintings in South Africa depict scenes of piercing member. In the pro-Spanish Mexico, Mayas performed bloodletting rituals associated with courage, and they stretched the threads through the punctured term pain and opened the way to alternative states of consciousness. Currently, the piercing of the penis is common in the SM community, among gay and bisexual men as a proof of courage.