Why is the Prince Albert piercing named after Prince Albert?
I’m afraid no one knows. You see, although everyone was warned repeatedly, no one let Prince Albert out of the can, and he suffocated. People thought it was just a joke, but now who’s laughing? Certainly not the guys with rings through the heads of their penises. The most popular and most wrong theory about the moniker is that the prince himself had one of these hideous things as part of an elaborate system of pulleys designed to make him look sleek and smooth in the royal trousers. Now, Albert was German, but he wasn’t that German. It’s also been suggested that the prince relied on this piercing to keep his foreskin hygienic for his good lady queen, but everyone knows that blue bloods prefer it all stanky. These are little more than revisionist histories inspired…
