There are many holes in the procuring of evidence of the rate of complications that are associated with these kinds of practices. What we now know is that there can be a wide array of problems that are linked to pearling or genital beading from simple infection and abscess formation, to sexually transmitted infection, injury to partners, and even malignancy.

Celebrities with Pearling or Genital Beading

It made headlines when Demi Moore’s boyfriend, Will Hanigan, came up with his version of pearling or genital beading. According to the news reports and hi interviews in various magazines, Will Hanigan went through the procedure of pearling or genital beading.“He had a pearl inserted in his penis when he was in his late teens. It is pearl farming tradition and he would always joke about it in Australia. He’d boast it’d give girls extra stimulation in the bedroom,” said an unidentified source.

He was asked many questions, especially related to how his family and friends took the news of getting a pearling or genital beading. He responded that it was definitely a crazy move on his part. In his words, “Oh no, my dad disputes that. I’m the only one who’s crazy enough to do it in my whole family. It’s a pearling tradition, and it was started originally by the Japanese pearl divers, and it’s been adopted by mainly the Yakuza back in Japan. So it’s a really small market of people. Apparently, Polynesians have been known to do it as well. I got into it through being around all the other pearl divers. I grew up on the pearling boat. And so, guys did that, and I thought it seemed like kind of a funny thing to do.”

In fact, how and when he did it has a very interesting story behind it too. According to his statements, “I witnessed it happening on the pearling boat, and the boys would just do it to each other. They’re using a sharp knife, and pearl opening tools, or the tools that the Japanese were using to operate on the pearl shell. I didn’t think that that was very sanitary. When you’re pearl diving, you’re wet all day, and you’re in a wetsuit, and very prone to infection. So I waited until the off-season, in the summertime, and I found a doctor in Sydney. I started selling him pearls to do the procedures on other people, and then I decided to do it myself.”