Jonathan is the senior piercer at Art Throb and has been a full-time body piercer since 1994. In that time to the best of his ability, he has been providing North County San Diego with superior service and a friendly smile. All of the procedures at Art Throb are preformed with the least amount of trauma to the system as possible. "The average client is usually nervous and that is to be understood." says Jonathan. "The techniques that I use help to calm and relax the client. The feeling one gets when being pierced is never as painful as one thinks it's going to be." Whatever he is doing, people seem to keep coming back for more! In the time that he has been honing his craft, Jonathan has recieved advanced instruction from Fakir Musafar, one of the pioneers of modern body piercing. Fakir, along with Jim Ward and Doug Malloy, created a lot of the techniques still used in body piercing today. Jonathan admires Fakir for what he has done for the industry. "He has made it possible for people like myself to safely practice the art of body piercing for a living. He and his crew of wonderful instructors have given me a level of confidence that I could not have gotten anywhere else. Thanks, Fakir!" You can read more about Fakir at www.bodyplay.com. But that's not all... Not only can you be rest assured that you will have a pleasent piercing experience at Art Throb, you will also be given thorough after-care instructions so that your piercing will be happy and healed in the least amount of time necessary. "How your piercing heals depends primarily on how you take care of it." says Jonathan. "We at Art Throb make sure that you are supplied with the knowledge to help expidite the healing process." So, if you are in Southern California and you are the kind of person who cares about how your piercings look and feel, then Art Throb is the place to go.