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This excerpt from The Soc.subculture.bondage-bdsm FAQ list Rob Jellinghaus
Some people enjoy playing with cutting off their air during
heavy scenes. This can be as simple as squeezing someone's neck
while you kiss them deeply, or as complex as a full-head latex
hood and gas mask over a straitjacket. As your air is cut off,
you can feel sensation more intensely; it is also a deeply intimate
thing to allow someone else to be in control of the very air
you breathe. One simple explanation is that the body's natural
reaction as orgasm approaches is shallow, rapid breathing--just
like in breath control.
Needless to say, there are many things that can go very wrong;
if you pass out and someone isn't there to cut you loose and
make sure you're breathing, you can die. Not for novices. One
simple way to start is to try squeezing your lover's neck gently
as you make love to them. If it feels good, they will let you
know, most demonstratively. And you can stop instantly just
by letting go. In _any_ form of breath control, it is critical
that all equipment be fail-safe, and that the bottom's breathing
is only impaired by the top's _direct_ action--not by anything
(noose, gas mask, etc) that would continue to obstruct air if
the top (for example) fainted suddenly.
Many people die each year practicing "autoerotic asphyxiation"--wherein
someone will masturbate while restricting their own breathing,
and one night they wait too long to take the bag off their head
or release the pressure on their neck, and they black out and
die. Some think, "Well, just play with a partner, then,
if you want to black out." However, losing consciousness,
even for a moment, _can_ trigger cardiac
arrest. This is why making your bottom black out is almost
certainly a much riskier idea than you would think.
The same goes for anesthesia. Sometimes people think, "Hmm,
it'd be hot if I could drug my play partner--like in the movies--and
she'd wake up all bound!" Even if your play partner likes
this idea, don't do it. There is no safe way to force someone
into unconsciousness; anesthesiologists spend their lives learning
how to do it, with the best equipment, and still mishaps occur.
Don't play with ether, or chloroform, or suffocation to unconsciousness...
unless you and your partner really want to take a substantial
risk of death. More experienced people
than you have died.
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Created 10 August 1995, last updated 10 August 1995, and
copyright by Rob Jellinghaus.
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