Medical Play

Medical play often involves an intimate examination, where the dominant partner performs quasi-medical procedures on the submissive patient. The patient may also be restrained, gagged, stripped naked, or dressed in a humiliating costume. Some key types of play that might be found in medical play include:

• Gynecological exams
• Rectal exams
• Enemas
• Injections
• Electrical play
• Bandaging
• Cutting/blood play
• Speculum play
• Cupping

Medical sex toys like Wartenberg wheels and speculums may enhance the examination. The examination may culminate with an enema or the masturbation of the submissive patient. In more extreme cases, medical play may involve the acting out of an anesthesia fetish, piercing, skin stapling, or the insertion of urethral sounds.

Medical play may appeal to submissive partners since it picks up on the vulnerability they feel when they're sick or hurt. During medical play, submissive partners might also endure tests that may be painful or humiliating, while trusting that their doctor knows best. Dominant partners also enjoy medical play because it puts them in control of their patient's pleasure, and in some cases, their pain.

While the patient/doctor scenario is one of the most common in medical play, it is not the only option. Sometimes medical play will also experiment with steamy relationships between doctors and nurses, or a naughty patient taking advantage of a naïve candy-striper.

Because medical play can be a more extreme form of play and can encompass edgeplay (although it doesn't have to,) the safety of participants must be of utmost concern. Safewords and signals should always be established prior to a scene. Because each type of medical play has its own safety concerns, it's important that participants do their research on the types of play they are interested in and ensure they they pursue it safely.