Other edgeplay practices include self-bondage - when done alone - water-boarding, and regressive age play. 'In auto racing, they talk about 'the ragged edge of control.' Edge play could be considered analogous to that.'īut what types of activities constitute edgeplay?Įdgeplay practices can involve electricity, knives, suspension bondage, fire, asphyxiation, guns and humiliation.

'Edge play is play along the lines of, 'Ya know, this just possibly could really go horribly wrong with serious real-world consequences, and we might not see that coming in time to do anything about it,'' he says.

In fact, Wiseman, who is also trained as an emergency medical technician, approaches the subject of edgeplay from the perspective of both a seasoned BDSM player, and a skilled medical professional. The titles are exotic and saucy, as is the subject matter, but one of the most important things these books offer is their dedicated attention to issues of safety with kink play of any kind. Greenery Press has published kinkster coffee table favorites including: When Someone You Love Is Kinky The Mistress Manual: The Good Girl's Guide to Female Dominance Flogging and Intimate Invasion: The Erotic Ins & Outs of Enema Play. Jay Wiseman, author of SM 101: A Realistic Introduction, defines edgeplay as 'play above-average in terms of its physical and/or emotional risks and below-average in terms of its predictability.' Wiseman is an author, educator, and activist with over thirty-five years of experience in the BDSM scene, and he is credited with being a pioneer of the SM community in San Francisco, where he is the founder (merging with prominent BDSM author Janet Hardy) of Greenery Press, a BDSM and GLBT-friendly publisher. This term is subjective, as what is considered safe, sane and consensual (SSC) or risk-aware consensual kink (RACK) varies with each player. For people not involved in the BDSM, or kink scene (the subject of this week's cover story), most forms of sadomasochistic or SM play would be considered edgy, but within the scene there are certain activities that are generally recognized as being high-risk, even for experienced players, and these are categorized as edgeplay.

Sm 101 by jay wiseman