Pearling refers to the practice of permanently inserting small beads made of various materials beneath the skin of the shaft of the penis. This supposedly enhances the sexual pleasure of female partners.
The practice seems to have been fairly common across world cultures; pearling is still done today and is seen as a form of body modification. In the west pearling is sometimes done by body piercers, and sometimes by people (who are rarely qualified doctors and often very publicity-shy, for fear of legal repercussions) who specialize in surgical body modification.
The procedure is quite simple and appears to be relatively safe, though as with any surgical procedure there is the risk of infection, rejection, and other undesirable side effects, and even, in rare cases, death (though no case of death attributable to pearling has been reported).
A series of small incisions is made in the skin of the shaft of the penis, and small beads, often of plastic, are inserted. The skin is then closed and the shaft is bound to promote healing.
The beads "float" under the skin of the shaft and are supposed to provide additional stimulation for female partners during penile-vaginal intercourse.
Pearls of different colors are often associated with their place of origin; Persian Gulf pearls are creamy white; Sri Lankan are a paler white; Australian are white or silvery; Tahitian and Mexican are gray-fl to reddish-brown; West Indies are rose red with wavy lines; "Indian" (actually Sri Lankan) may be a faint rose color.
In modern cultured pearls the nucleus, which is a bead composed of freshwaterclamshell wrapped with a strip of the mollusksmantle, is placed within the mantle or gonad of the bivalve, away from the shell, allowing it to grow freely.
Dying cultured white pearls to pink is also a practice that has seen widespread use, but can be detected in drilled pearls by examining the drill hole to look for an uneven concentration of color.
Pearl is valued as a gemstone and is cultivated or harvested for jewellery.
Freshwaterpearls are characterized by the reflection of rainbow colors in the luster.
The value of the pearls in jewelry is determined by a combination of the luster, color, size, lack of surface flaw and symmetry that are appropriate for the type of pearl under consideration.
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