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ORIGINAL: CelticDawn The question is what long term physical or mental negative side effects of extreme pain/torture/bleeding etc have people suffered during prolonged and frequent play. As in over years or months, I have noticed that while many people talk about this no one will talk about long term potential problems may occur. I can speak to this. Because of my enjoyment of cutting and blood play and the mistakes I made in doing so when I was young, ill-informed, ignorant, and inexperienced, I am now, and will always be, anemic. I also have physical scars that will never go away. I have been in hypovelemic shock twice and received a few blood transfusions. All before I was even at the age of majority. I count myself lucky as hell that I didn't contract any diseases 15 & 20 years ago. There but for the grace of a higher power go I. Others are not so fortunate. To this day I will not live by the mantra of SSC, and I still adore edge play, cutting, scarification, and other bloody bod-mod play, but I have learned over many years and countless seminars and classes, how to go about doing my type of play more appropriately. What I do is not "safe", but I have learned ways to make it "safer" and less risky. Education is essential in eliminating (or at least reducing) health and safety risks. Huge kudos to those who take their time, effort, money, and skill to teach others. Be it teaching sterilization, barriers to pathogens, proper use of impact toys, cleaning up play stations, first aid, CPR, whatever. These people offer such valuable information to others who do WIITWD. I simply can't speak highly enough of health and safety seminars, demos, workshops, articles, books, etc... If I go to an event, and there's a health and safety workshop offered, I do my best to sign up for it, and encourage others to do the same. Even if it's information I already know, a refresher course never hurts. I hope I *never* get to the point where I think I know all there is to know on the subject. I also took the time to find a kink-friendly physician, which has been a priceless addition to my life. When the occassion arises that I have to work with a medical practitioner who is not kink-aware, I go to the measure of giving him/her and the office staff a copy of a few good lifestyle books (Moser's "Healthcare without shame" being one of such.) Just like any "risky" activity we engage in during life (sky-diving, rock climbing, drag racing, casual sex, etc...) BDSM activities have precautionary measures we can take to help protect us from (or help us minimize) potential harm. It's just a matter of learning those measures and insisting on practicing them each and every time. If I had known at 10, 11, and 12 years old what I do now about bloodplay, I wouldn't be popping an iron pill every morning.
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IMO, IMHO, YMMV, AFAIK, to me, I see it as, from my perspective, it's been my experience, I only speak for myself, (and all other disclaimers here).
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