MATT NICHOLSON'S BREAST PUNISHMENT PRIMER - Part 7
Nipple Piercing, Breast Cutting, Hot Wax, Fire and Ice Tit Torture
Discusses breast and nipple piercing, wax, fire and ice on breasts, and cutting tits
(Continued from Breast Punishment Primer - Part 6)
Just Poking a Little Fun
Needles and pins and skewers, oh my! I bet that Dorothy never did any of this in Oz. But if she did, let's hope the Scarecrow did his homework first. For you lucky folks, I have a few pointers... get it... pointers... Oh, well, anyway...
Let's talk about sterility, shall we? Regardless of what you poke into her perky little pink buttons of joy, you need to make danged well sure that it's sterile, that is, free from germs, dirt, and other microscopic nasties. If not, she could end up with infections, tetanus, or in the case of pokers used for similar activity in the past, hepatitis, AIDS or STDs - some of which might be worthy of a retaliatory letter-bomb in your mailbox or underwear.
In the case of hypodermic and acupuncture needles, they are typically purchased sealed, usually sterile and, if left that way until it's time to play, will remain safe until you use them, as long as you just use them once.
There really isn't a need to re-use these. You can get them in fairly large
quantities and they range from extra-fine - the kind that would make a bee sting seem like amputation in comparison - to damn near PVC pipe-sized. Needles are measured by guage. The smaller the guage, the larger the needle diameter, the bigger the "ouch" factor. In order to give you an idea of what I'm talking about, most hypodermic needles run from 32 guage (extra fine insulin needles, for example) to 16 guage (tetanus and Hepatitus-type shots.) Piercing needles, used for actual body piercing, are typically 14 to 8 guage, though some really adventurous types have gone as large as 4 and 2 guage. That, friends and neighbors, is about half to two-thirds the width of your typical love bud and should more than meet the needs of even the most die-hard hole-punchers out there.
My point is, whatever look or effect your stabbing for is possible with sterile needles made for the purpose of poking through skin, so it's really not necessary to use things found at the local Ace Hardware store or railroad supply yard.
If you do decide to re-use any of these, or to use anything else - safety pins, straight pins, tacks, nails, barbecue skewers, railroad spikes, or sharpened PVC - at minimum you should always make certain that you swab them down with diluted bleach. Boiling them for twenty minutes or so is even better, and putting them in a pressure cooker for about half an hour before you slip them into some wanton nipple is about the best. Some folks that are really big into piercing body parts buy something called an autoclave. They generally do this right before they start medical school and after they've taken out a rather large
loan, but if you really want to be safe you'll know you're in good company.
The safest thing to do after you've used them once, though, is to dump all your little pokey things in a needle-proof location and trash them. If you still choose to hang on to your gold-plated railroad spike of joy, wipe it down after you use it and then boil it like the dickens before you use it again (have I said this already?) and only use it on the same person.
Not only should you sterilize your implements of torment, but you should also sterilize the skin that will be the bull's eye for your love darts. You can use iodine, rubbing alcohol, benzalkonium chloride (BAC), or any number of new disinfectant agents that have come out in recent years. Iodine tends toward coloring skin a sort of putrid yellow, so don't think it's jaundice.
Ok, now that I've hammered on sterilization for a chapter or two, I'll talk about the Matt Nicholson Continuum of Needle Pain and Agony - The MNCNPA for short (pronounced em-en-cee-en-pee-aye). Basically the MNCNPA works like this:
The bigger the needle thing, the worse it will hurt, and the longer it takes to push a needle thing through the skin, the worse it will hurt.
So, if you have a teenie-weenie acupuncture needle and you poke it straight in and out of a shallow fold of skin there will be almost zero pain; while if you take a heavy gauge needle twice the thickness of those old tetanus shots and run it through the skin for several inches before letting it see daylight, she'll likely need a gag, a thick one.
At the moment we are just talking about needles and needle things, stuff that's less than about 1/8 inch in diameter or so. If we were to graduate to your garden variety gold-plated railroad spike of joy and proceed to pretend that her breast is the last railroad tie in the Trans-Continental Railroad, you can pretty much bet that you and the neighborhood will all be deaf by the time she's through screaming.
Since we've eliminated railroad spikes and whole breast skewering from this discussion, I will lower the high end of the MNCNPA scale to a term I refer to as just "Holyfuck!"
I refer to the zero pain low end of my continuum as "What, is it in yet?" I refer to the railroad spike end of the continuum as:
"Holyfuckwhatthehellgoddamnareyoudoingthat'smytitnotagoddamnrailtoadtie!!!"
This will soon be acknowledged as the longest word in the human BDSM lexicon, by the way. Unfortunately for you railroad engineers out there, I do not advocate the use of railroad spikes, nor do I suggest piercing through anything but skin or nipple. Repeat after me... "Booby is only..." There you go.
"Holyfuck!" refers to such things as barbecue skewers, twelve penny nails, ice picks, Baby Hughie diaper pins, hypodermic needles meant for piercing elephant hide, and the like. When engaging in "Holyfuck!" of your sub's nipples, you might want to consider having them pierced by a professional some time in advance so that you already have a round hole in which to put the round peg. Otherwise your partner's response to a bit of innocent "Holyfuck!" play may be quite similar to...
"Holyfuckwhatthehellgoddamnareyoudoingthat'smytitnotagoddamnrailtoadtie!!!"
Also keep in mind that the red flowing stuff that is likely to begin seeping out from around anything much larger than a "What, is it in yet?" sized hole is called blood. Remarkably, there is not always a lot of this to be seen, at least until you begin to remove the fifteen rows of pink and blue hypodermic needles you've inserted in artistic symmetry up and down the length of her bound tit. You should expect some in the least, and more the closer to "Holyfuck!" you go.
Most modern practitioners warn that you need to wear specialized protective garments when dealing with blood, body fluids and politicians. Some recommend nitril gloves, others recommend gloves and face masks, and a few recommend full decontamination suits of the variety used in dealing with the African Ebola virus. Frankly, I find these suits a bit cumbersome, and they play hell with whacking off while you admire the newly created work of art that is tied, pin-cushions forward, in front of you. If you pay the extra $450,000.00 for the built-in remote controlled life-like pussy vibrator, you might be just fine. Regardless, when dealing with politicians, always get the suit.
Politicians aside, if she's a regular partner I would assume that you swap all sorts of body fluids anyway, so you might ask, "Who really gives a flip?" Well, your every day body-fluid swapping doesn't usually involve blood. Stuff like spit and cum doesn't have quite the transfer potential that blood does, so even a partner previously believed to be safe as mom's apple pie could be more dangerous if she does happen to be harboring some bug. If she's not a regular partner, or you use a condom more religiously than you recite your hourly prayers, some precaution might definitely be a good idea. It's up to you to choose how much of a daredevil you want to be, but keep in mind that some of these things won't go away with antibiotics.
Now, if you've got it all covered and she's still willing to let her tits be the main course in your next shish-kabob, you have my e-mail address. I'll RSVP.
! - There has been no long-term research into the effects of these types of activities. Chances are there never will be. The threat of infection at the puncture site should always be a concern. Sterility of the site and the instrument is not an option, so give strong consideration to using instruments created for that purpose. In addition, not only are sealed hypodermic and acupuncture needles sterile, they have beveled points designed to puncture flesh and decrease resistance and, thus, the possibility of scarring.As a rule, we recommend that you do not re-use hollow needles under any circumstances. Hollow needles are nearly impossible to properly sterilize. Also the hollow space in the middle can carry tissue from one piercing into another regardless of any method used to sterilize them. This carries enormous risk of abscessing or transmitting disease. In short, nothing with a hollow center can be considered reusable, even for those who are risk tolerant. (Thanks to Durllwynd at Dominance and Submission for catching me on this one!)
As we've already tried to emphasize, going any deeper than the skin should be avoided. Finally, effects on nipple piercing are being constantly debated. If you plan on nursing a child any time in your life, you may well want to research piercing options in advance or stick to decorating the areola and goodies further from the nipple with your artistic talents. Oh, and needless to say we really don't recommend railroad spikes, sharpened PVC, barbeque skewers, and the like. Confine your play to the smaller guages and leave the big stuff to professional body piercers.
On The Cutting Edge
When I start talking about stuff like blood, some folks begin turning a little green and find that their stomach has decided that it actively dislikes having anything inside it. The common term for this is "squicking." If you squicked about the stuff I talked about in the previous section, then you might want to skip down to "Waxon, Waxoff..." or go start supper, unless it was the talk of needles and not the chatter about blood that made your guts do an end run.
Like needles, heavy flogging, and other fun things that can cause bleeding, blades can offer up a tremendous endorphin high.
Because of this, some folks use knives and razors not only to make shreds of pesky clothing or to play antagonist in some sweet thing's rape fantasy of the day, but with the specific intent of carving happy faces, initials, or runes into a pair of fleshy round canvases. They may like playing vampire to their partner's pert tits with the expectation that, not only was it great fun for Vlad, but it's a whole lot cheaper than most drugs and booze, is generally legal with consent, and takes garden variety-sex to Jack-in-the-beanstalk-level highs.
This is an especially popular practice with many gothic BDSMers and with folks that
love their sex like they love their music, cutting edge style. One thing to remember, though - Dracula never had to worry about AIDS; you and your partner do.
Don't worry, I'm not going to go on another sterility tirade. You're all fast learners, I'm sure, so I'll save space by putting ditto marks here. If I said it about needles and railroad spikes, I'll say it double here, maybe even triple. You're talking a totally different animal when you start slicing, folks. Keep that animal tamed by keeping it sterile or both you and your lady could end up getting bit hard and fast on the butt - or the boobs.
The first watchword for edge play of this type is "sharp." New razor blades or scalpels are best as they make the finest cut and are less likely to scar.
As much fun as they might look, most knives will leave a ragged cut that generally tend toward scarring, and serrated edges cut way too ragged and deep. Scissors are nice and threatening, particularly if you pin a rising nipple between their jaws, but one sneeze and "oops!" won't begin to cover it. They can be used, if they are extremely sharp and if you draw them backward like a blade, but I wouldn't suggest using them in their designed fashion unless you also play Russian roulette on a regular basis.
If you do that, there are some psychiatric-type folks with lots of capital letters on the ends of their names you might wanna chat with first.
Watchword number two is "shallow." Really shallow. Really, really shallow. In this case, "Booby is not even skin deep; booby is maybe like the very top layer or two of cells deep."
If you're after blood, then you'll get it pretty quickly with a sharp, shallow cut. Go too deep and you can really run into trouble unless you happen to be a medical school wizbang with a thorough knowledge of breast anatomy. Even breasts have arteries, veins and nerve clusters running through them. As much fun as playing Dr. Kildare with a pair of perky nipples might sound, cut nerves are the dickens to repair and make for a lousy end to those great sensations she used to have when you did other things to her nipples.
Also, cut too deeply, and she either gets obvious scars or, with proper surgical care and suturing, she gets smaller scars with little dot scars running up and down both sides of them from the sutures. For women who don't mind their breasts looking like hemispherical maps of World War II battlefields - and for partners that like reading such
maps - I guess you can go to town, but if you change your mind afterward, don't say I didn't warn you.
! - I've pretty much said it all here. One slip and you're looking at stitches at best, or a missing nipple at worse. One infection and no telling what you're looking at. Edge play like this isn't for everyone. Make certain that you know what you're doing before you decide to try.
Waxon, Waxoff and Other Japanese Sayings
The use of hot wax as an instrument of tit torture is generally one of the first things on a fledgling tit torturer's list of things to do, though not quite as high up the ladder as "Find tits to torture," "Get consent to torture tits," or "Find Pliers."
Playing with hot wax can be tons of fun, but you need to remember that hot wax is nothing more than molten chemicals, and molten anything can play havoc with the mood if you don't do it right - pretty much like everything else I've yammered about. It's important to know that there are different kinds of waxes out there, some that work quite well for this type of venture and others that will end your play time rather abruptly. Your primary consideration, aside from playing with titties, is temperature.
Because of this, I strongly suggest that you play with an unscented, white, paraffin candle first, for a couple of reasons. First, paraffin is a very soft wax, which means it has a pretty low melting point.
"What's that got to do with the price of nipple clamps," you ask?
Nothing, but if it melts easily, that means the wax temperature is lower, so you can coat your lover's tits like Shake and Bake pot roasts without cooking them the same way. Natural waxes, like beeswax, have really high melting points, so the molten wax temperature is a whole lot hotter. If you decide to start off with something like beeswax, you might as well get the soldering iron out and go for the gusto, because you're probably going to burn her any way it goes. If she's into that, you go, guy! Otherwise, you might keep the silver nitrate cream handy.
Another reason for white paraffin has to do with the white part. White paraffin has no dyes or colorings. Again with the price of nipple clamps question? Well, dyes and colorings cause wax to hold heat longer. If you're using paraffin, it probably isn't a big deal if you want your breasts to look bloody red, and there are ways of controlling the temperature that I'll toss at you in a bit, but it's something to consider.
The third reason has to do with the unscented part. Scents act the same way as dyes do. Again, if you want her paraffin coated knockers to smell like vanilla, you can probably dribble away without leaving first-degree burn marks spattered across her titties, but pay close attention to my next point. You can control the temperature of the wax by adjusting the distance you let it fall. If you're close enough to her nipple that the wax is still mixing with the flame as it splatters, it'll be a hell of a lot hotter - pun intended,
than if you let the wax fall from somewhere near the ceiling. A couple-foot drop gives the molten stuff time to cool, but not harden. You'd be amazed at the difference a foot or two can make. Besides, the further away you are, the more fun it is. Consider her nipple as the bull's eye and make a game of it. <>
Oh, and you might want to do the baby formula trick by first testing the wax temperature on the inside of your wrist.Other hot stuff folks seem to like spread over a pair of delectable breasts includes any number of edible sauces, from hot caramel to candied apple coating. I, for one, would have a very hard time resisting a bound boob coated with a hard candy shell. If only you could get them at the state fair, huh? But, let's consider the fact that the sweet red candy that coats those delicious apples starts out as a molten goo that is much akin to hot lava, and that the red delicious on a stick is dipped in said boiling glue which then cools far too slowly until it is hard enough for you to crunch into it. Ya think your favorite tit tormentee would really go for dipping her tits into Mount St. Helens? No, I didn't think so. Like hot wax, make sure that anything else you might want to dribble or dump across a willing chest is suitably cooled so that it won't send her screaming for the meat freezer.
Now, while I'm talking about hot stuff (other than the babe that's tied and helpless at your disposal), I think maybe I'll get to the heart of the matter and talk about fire itself. Like other edgy forms of BDSM, fire has a place in some folks arsenal of goodies. Most of us really don't want to cook things other than in the figurative sense, however, so if you want to tease your little plaything, give the flame a little distance. The further from the base the cooler the fire - as if any fire is really cool. More important is to make sure the flame is moving. Practice on yourself by moving your hand back and forth over a burning flame, or moving the flame under your hand. Once you're confident that you understand the thermodynamics of a flickering flame, then you can move on to the fun stuff.
If, on the other hand, you should decide that you don't want to heed this advice, maybe you ought to practice on Mr. Happy first. That should cure you of any really sadistic ideas.
I'll close the section on temperature play with a couple quick words about ice. Ice is a really cruel way of doing nasty things to your slave's tender parts without risking a whole lot of damage. Combining wax and ice can wonderfully confuse her and her nipple's little nerve endings like nobody's business. One thing to be careful of is using ice straight out of the freezer, as it could stick a bit. The other is a no brainer - make sure you don't freeze her nipples by keeping them under ice too long - say, just a few minutes, then warm 'em back up. That in itself will drive her nuts, and as an added attraction will prevent frostbite.
Oh, and just use frozen water, people. That would be regular ice, snow, and such. Things like dry ice (frozen carbon dioxide) or liquide nitrogen will burn just as badly as fire and may actually tear the skin away. Another frequent mistake made by those into such things is the use of aeresol coolants. Canned dusters and blowers are made for cleaning inanimate objects, not the crevices of your playtoy's nipples. These things contain propellants that'll burn a nipple raw in no time.
Like the hot stuff, many people fantasize about smothering a pair of breasts in ice cream and then licking them raw. We all know how nipple react to the cold, and we love it. You're probably safe in going for the gusto here, provided that you remember the "ice" part of the name and don't drown them in Rocky Road for any great length of time.
The bottom line on the cold stuff is, if ya can't eat it, don't rub it on the tender bits. Frostbite sucks, and they'll only get so hard, folks. If you thump the little love bud after a couple of hours of icing and it shatters, you probably played too long.
! - Wax is generally one of the safer methods of breast torture, but it doesn't come without risk. First degree burns can and do happen, and if you choose to try hotter waxes, you could even risk second degree burning if you're not careful. As for edible liquids, 120 degrees (49 degrees centigrade) is considered to be the hottest temperature any liquid should be when applied to the skin. Anything hotter left for any length of time at all may result in burns.Flame play steps up the caution level considerably, since fire can easily cause burning. Though it would take almost a deliberate act to cause third degree burns (that's charred flesh, folks), you could get lesser burns very quickly, so be very careful. Something I didn't mention in the primary set are cigarettes, and there is a reason for this. Snuffing a hot ember out on flesh is guaranteeing a second degree burn and playing fast and loose with worse. We may write about it in fantasy stories, but I don't suggest it in reality.
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