13. What is it about breath control? Is it safe to make someone passout?
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This article is from the Bondage FAQ, by numerous contributors.
13. What is it about breath control? Is it safe to make someone passout?
Some people enjoy playing with cutting off their air during heavy
scenes. This can be as simple as squeezing someone's neck while you
kiss them deeply, or as complex as a full-head latex hood and gas mask
over a straitjacket. As your air is cut off, you can feel sensation
more intensely; it is also a deeply intimate thing to allow someone else
to be in control of the very air you breathe. One simple explanation is
that the body's natural reaction as orgasm approaches is shallow, rapid
breathing--just like in breath control.
Needless to say, there are many things that can go very wrong; if you
pass out and someone isn't there to cut you loose and make sure you're
breathing, you can die. Not for novices. One simple way to start is to
try squeezing your lover's neck gently as you make love to them. If it
feels good, they will let you know, most demonstratively. And you can
stop instantly just by letting go. In _any_ form of breath control, it
is critical that all equipment be fail-safe, and that the bottom's
breathing is only impaired by the top's _direct_ action--not by anything
(noose, gas mask, etc) that would continue to obstruct air if the top
(for example) fainted suddenly.
Many people die each year practicing "autoerotic asphyxiation"--wherein
someone will masturbate while restricting their own breathing, and one
night they wait too long to take the bag off their head or release the
pressure on their neck, and they black out and die. Some think, "Well,
just play with a partner, then, if you want to black out." However,
losing consciousness, even for a moment, _can_ trigger cardiac arrest.
This is why making your bottom black out is almost certainly a much
riskier idea than you would think.
The same goes for anesthesia. Sometimes people think, "Hmm, it'd be hot
if I could drug my play partner--like in the movies--and she'd wake up
all bound!" Even if your play partner likes this idea, don't do it.
There is no safe way to force someone into unconsciousness;
anesthesiologists spend their lives learning how to do it, with the best
equipment, and still mishaps occur. Don't play with ether, or
chloroform, or suffocation to unconsciousness... unless you and your
partner really want to take a substantial risk of death. More
experienced people than you have died.
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