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From: wendyt@CS.WASHINGTON.EDU (Wendy Thrash)
Newsgroups: alt.sex.bondage
Subject: Re: sounds and shocks
Message-ID: <9001192130.AA28200@june.cs.washington.edu>
Date: 19 Jan 90 21:30:33 GMT
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Reply-To: wendyt@june.cs.washington.edu (Wendy Thrash)
Organization: University of Washington, Computer Science, Seattle

In article <1079@male.EBay.Sun.COM> harryu@warpten.Central.Sun.COM (Harry Ugol) writes:
>
>Btw, the SM people in your
>audience are also well aware that sterile technique must be used for
>invasive procedures, and of how to do that - sterile technique is no
>great mystery; hundreds of thousands of less-than-totally-competent
>hospital staff have been trained to use it).

Although many SM people are quite competent, careful, aware of sterile
technique, etc., not all of them are, not even all the ones who
play with dangerous things.  One may not accept Flash's injunction to
avoid play with sounds completely, but one would be well advised to be
_really sure_ that one's tops or teachers know what they are doing.
I've seen unsafe technique in many areas from professional dominants
with ten years of experience.  (No, I don't mean just sterile technique.)

Often in SM play one is, wittingly or unwittingly, placing one's life
in another's hands.  I don't think that most people would realize that
sounds are potentially life-threatening, and I thank Flash for reminding
us of that.  My choice would be to stay away*;  yours may be different.

*Having had the delightful experience of many series of dilations at
the hands of a urologist, my choice would be to stay as far away
as possible. ;-)

P.S.  My apologies if the headers are strange.  When I post to asb
from here, my postings are eaten by a great black hole somewhere, so
I mail them through ucbvax.  I'm still experimenting with the technique.
(I hope it's safe. ;-) )