While you study different aspects of , you find a lot of activities arousing and interesting. With every other play you try you realize a true meaning and reality of the kinky way to relate with your partner. With every limit you break, you discover something new and absolutely unconventional. What seemed harsh and absolutely out of this world, may in fact turn out to be your favorite one in the end. But the question that usually arises is more about "how far can you go or let it go".Talking about the edge play, one should put it right to himself whether he or she is ready for experience that is basically balancing between the life and death either physically or psychologically.
In reality, the border of what is acceptable for you in terms of S/M experience may not only vary from one person to another but also from one scene to further experiences. Of course, every person has it's own borderline and what seems very risky for one may become a slight tickle for another. In S/M practice an edge play is usually defined as:
Breath play - a form of restricting one's breath with the help of different techniques and devices.
Blood play - a play that involves intentional cutting, canning and other activities. Blood play can be particularly an exciting experience for those who get aroused on sight, smell or taste of blood.
Fire play - a play that is mainly about creating a burning sensations for a while with the use of materials that can be burned on one's body or hot wax, fire cupping and others.
Scat fetishism- a play that involves activities with human excrements, like defecating on your partner's body parts or eating feces.
Of course, these are not the only forms of plays that can be considered on the edge - on the edge of your inner limits or physical boundaries, but they surely beat the list of the "heavy" experiences. It is important to know that there cannot be another chance to try it once again if you take no account of safety rules.
Another thing is about actually finding a partner who you 'll be able to entrust your safety or to be more precise, your life(isn't it romantic?) or on the other side to take a great responsibility.
Safe words that are used in one scene may not work their best in the edge play. As most edge plays do not allow a person to move or utter any words, the should be a room for alternative ways to let the other side know where to stop. So there should be a secure method to provide an escape for a sub.
You may ask- why on earth you need to play on the edge? It's risky, it's life-threatening and it's scary. All this is true. But those who took the chance - know that edge play can turn all your vision of life and emotions upside down, when you touch the ground but later feel like flying.
Surely, edge play requires great guts and self-confidence you needn't approach it like "let's try and see what happens". Taking into account fatal cases are frequent among hundreds of edge lovers in America, and the fact that almost all of them were a result of auto-erotic stimulation gives some food for thought. That's why a reliable partner becomes extremely important in these circumstances. In case a very serious problem arises - your partner is the one who will apply first aid understand your subtle signals and react immediately.
