Breath Play

I absolutely will never do breath-play. It is the number one cause of death in BDSM play.

Yes, I know people do it safely: but it is beyond my tolerance of risk. Even without fatality there’s too much danger of brain damage: I’m meat, not a vegetable.

An ABC News article cites:

A Canadian college professor spent three days in a coma over the weekend after losing consciousness in a New York sex club where he was left alone with a dog collar around his neck and a leather hood over his face, according to a report in the New York Post.

And a report that reminds me of the accidental suicide of underground cartoonist Vaughn Bode:

Last October, a medical examiner determined that the Rev. Gary Aldridge, a 51-year-old Baptist minister from Alabama, died from accidental asphyxiation while pleasuring himself. He was found wearing two wet suits, a face mask, diving gloves, slippers, rubberized underwear, two ties, five belts and eleven straps, according to the medical examiner’s report.

In April 2006, British national Adrian Exley suffocated to death in the closet of a Rhode Island man whom he had met online. Exley was wrapped tightly in heavy plastic and bound with duct tape, and a leather hood was over his head.

And there’ve been cases where an experienced professional dominatrix was in the room.

Man Spends Three Days in a Coma After Kinky Sex - but Unsafe Play Can Result in Death