LadySonelle -> RE: knife and needle play (11/6/2004 11:31:10 AM)
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I've done cutting, but I use sterile, packaged, disposable scalpels, one use and gone! Cutting and needles (sharps play) is best done ONLY by someone trained "hands on" by another skilled person. I was fortunate enough to recieve training professionally (as a Physician's Assistant, I was trained in injection techniques) *and* in-scene by Good Dominants, such as Tony deBlase and Donny Rice. At a minimum, the Top must have been trained and mentored, not only in sharps play but in sterile-field technique, wound care/cleansing, site preparation etc. All sharps (scalpels, dermatome blades, needles, etc) should be discarded in a sharps container suitably marked. The old standby of dropping stuff into a Coke can might be good for a scene, but that can had better find its way into a hospital dumpster later on. Any sharps play whould be done at the end of a scene. NEVER... EVER... whip over or touch an area that has been pierced or cut. In fact, before the scene, even before the party or event, the sub must be told to bring a freshly laundered pair of pants or undershirt (depending on area pierced or cut) to put on AFTER the scene. Also, if the area is small a light, non-stick dressing can be applied to prevent contamination of the site. Once the sub is home, the dressing can, and ought to be, removed so that the area can heal in the air. Clean underthings are important as well as antiseptic salves until the area has healed. Something the Top in training needs to be prepared for, when learning to do a sharps scene, is the *feel* of human flesh under the blade! Human flesh is reasonably strong and the feel of the 'drag' when bringing the belly of the scalpel blade through it can be quite a shock. While we first practised on gelatine (made with 4X water to 1X gelatine for 'artificial flesh') and on oranges for the needles, the actuality of severing skin, and piercing the epidermis was quite a shock for us medical students! You really *do* "cross a line" when you first make a pierce or an incision! My rating: same as Tony DeBlases. Advanced Play, NOT to be done without training! Lady Sonelle
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