The magic cross is a combination of piercings, consisting of both an

ampallang The palang ( iba, crossbar), or ampallang is a male genital piercing that penetrates horizontally through the entire glans of the penis. History Penis piercings of proto-Malay origin predated European contact with tribes in (among others) the ...

and an

apadravya The apadravya, like the ampallang, is a piercing that passes through the glans. While the ampallang passes horizontally through the glans, the apadravya passes vertically through the glans from top to bottom, almost always placed centrally and p ...

. These two piercings together form a cross through the

glans The glans (, plural "glandes" ; from the Latin word for "acorn") is a vascular structure located at the tip of the penis in male mammals or a homologous genital structure of the clitoris in female mammals. Structure The exterior structure of ...

of the

human penis The human penis is an external male intromittent organ that additionally serves as the urinary duct. The main parts are the root (radix); the body (corpus); and the epithelium of the penis including the shaft skin and the foreskin (prepuce) ...

. Although each piercing is usually done during separate sessions, some people have had them both done in the same sitting.

External links

"Magic cross"
at the BME Encyclopedia Penis piercings {{Bodymodification-stub