Edge Play

About Edge Play

In BDSM, edge play is a subjective term for types of sexual play that are "on the edge" of the traditional safe, sane and consensual creed. These forms of BDSM activity are regarded by many as inadvisable and dangerous, and it is nearly universally held that they should not be attempted without proper training, supervision, safety precautions, etc. as appropriate.

Edge play may involve:

• the risk of serious, even permanent harm or death (such as branding, body modification, breathplay, gunplay)
• increased risk of spreading disease (E.g. cuttings, bloodplay)
• psychological danger (from such practices as humiliation play, incest fantasies)
• social taboos (for example, ageplay, scat fetishism, racial slurs)
• controversial topics like Total Power Exchange, anonymous forced sex fantasies and abduction scenes

What constitutes edge play varies with the persons involved, and also over time.

Limits

In BDSM, limits refer to those activities that participants in a BDSM scene feels strongly about, and to which special attention must be paid.

Before a BDSM scene, it is common for participants to negotiate an outline of what activities will and will not take place during the play session. At that stage, the participants outline what they desire and what they will not tolerate, and limits are determined. For example, it is common to set a time limit on the session, to set a safe word and to prohibit activity involving non-consenting 3rd parties, besides other things.

Both dominants and submissives can set limits. Limits can be agreed to verbally or they can be incorporated into a formal contract.

Though the terminology can vary, common types of limits include:

• Hard Limit - something that must not be done. Violating a hard limit is often considered just cause for ending a scene or even a relationship. Examples include “scat is a hard limit for me” or “I have a back injury, so striking on the back is a hard limit”.
• Soft Limit - something that someone will do only in special circumstances or when highly aroused. Example - “I will only do anal sex with a very experienced partner”.
• "Must" Limit - something that a person will not do the scene without. Examples include “lots of hair pulling is a must-limit for me” or “If you’re going to flog me, I’ll need lots of aftercare”.
• Time Limit - an amount of time after which play ceases.
• No Limits - the dominant may do anything he or she cares to with the submissive. This is usually a sign of an inexperienced player who does not yet know what their limits are. In reality, even the most hardened and experienced players have limits. “No limits” play is more the stuff of porn and thriller movies than in actual, real-life BDSM. This is also sometimes used as a term for TPE or Total Power Exchange.

Safeword

A safeword is a codeword or series of codewords that are sometimes used in BDSM for a submissive (or "bottom") to unambiguously communicate their physical or emotional state to a dominant (or “top”), typically when approaching, or crossing, a physical, emotional, or moral boundary. Some safewords are used to stop the scene outright, while others can communicate a willingness to continue, but at a reduced level of intensity.

Safewords are agreed upon before playing a scene by all participants. Many organized BDSM groups have standard safewords that all members agree to use to avoid confusion at organized play events.

Safewords are generally used by those whose practice of BDSM falls under the guiding philosophy of safe, sane and consensual. Those who practice the more permissive philosophy of risk-aware consensual kink may abandon the use of safewords, especially those that practice forms of edgeplay or extreme forms of dominance and submission. In such cases, the choice to give up the use of safewords is a consensual act on the part of the bottom or submissive.

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