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background for - Fire Play demos and classes
Fire play involves having flames on and/or near the skin of the bottom and top.
- Fire play is always an advanced and dangerous technique.
- Fire can only be learned from a hands-on mentor, after you understand the ideas.
- Any safer fire scene has three or more people � bottom, top, and spotter.
- Even with full protections, assume that everyone (bottom, top, spotter) doing fire will get burned sometimes, just as doing impact play will sometimes result in bruises, and singletails sometime cut.
- A good top or spotter would prefer to get burned themself rather than let anyone else get burned.
- �There are old pilots, and there are bold pilorts, but there are no old, bold pilots.� Successful fire manipulators behave cautiously at all times.
- Different dodies react differently to fire. The bottom should safeword "yellow" when any area seems to be overworked. This allows the top to move on before damage is done.
- The bottom should also safeword, yellow or red, if the scene becomes too much.
Note that our Fire Play demos, at e.g. LDG Fetish Fair, are not typical of our private scenes. In a private scene we take our time and linger between moves. We focus on the connection. And we focus on how things feel more than how they look.
In a public demo, we try to show many different styles and techniques of play. We try to keep the pace brisk. And we try to show each technique dramatically, near the limit of what's possible safely.
Here (in alphabitical order) are some fire players whom we have seen enough to be able to recommend them as mentors or teachers. Each has different styles and specialities. There must be other excellent fire tops as well, but we haven't had enough opportunity to study them.
- Domina Corwin
- Sir Jag (Pacific Northwest)
- Jeff Tucker (south bay)
- Iain Turner
- Sir William
We don't endorse all the content on the following sites. Some points we disagree with. However, these are among the better sites available. More coming soon.
Some related websites:
Books:
To see a way NOT to do it, watch this short vid several times.
dumpalink.com/videos/Chick-On-Fire-d5a5.html
These idiots were very lucky. Everyone screwed up, even the spotters and model. Don�t do this at home.
Watch this clip for an untrained, clueless stunt going bad. Count the mistakes.
There seems to be more fire play safety info in the (vanilla) poi and circus world than in the BDSM fire play world, including:
Some basics on some peripheral topics:
When doing teaching or demos, I provide my Fire Play handout.
Here's my Fire Spotter checklist.
�That froogy guy really knows where his towel is.� - Douglas Adams
Sample questions for bottoms include:
- How much fire play have you done before? What types? How did it go?
- What other forms of sensation play, and/or psychological play, have you done before, how much, and with what outcomes?
- In any part of life, tell when you been burned before, or had any other issues with fire.
- Fire play produces some smoke and checmical byproducts. Any respiratory (breathing) problems?
- Any neurological or heart problems or epilepsy? (A violet wand will be used on you to ignite fire.)
- One way of putting out some fire is with a leather or kevlar flogger. Any issues around that for you?
- Any skin damage?
- Any difficulties with circulation or healing?
- Hair burns easily. Other than hair on your head, body hair may/will burn off, but should regrow. How do you feel about this?
- Do you agree to wear no fuel during the scene - no artificial fibers (nylon, rubber, elastic, etc), no hair products, no body products, no nail polish, etc?
- How do you expect to react when flame is burning on your skin?
- Any parts of your body you're unwilling to try flame on?
- Despite all precautions, there is always a chance that you, the top and/or spotters will get burned or damaged in other ways. How do you feel about this?
- During this scene, is there anyone else you want able to safeword or intervene, besides yourself, the top, and the pre-designated spotter(s)?
- Anything else the top(s) or the spotter(s) should know?
- Why do you want to do this scene with me?
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