edge play?

been looking around net on the subject of "edge play". found different definitions or variations. wondering what you think edge play is? is there a web site on this game? i have a very personal interest in this subject. thankyou for your help. crazy dave

I think edge play is pushing at the limits, or edges, of what's safe for you. When people talk about edge play, a lot of times they mean at the edges of what's objectively safe. So, blood play, fire play, breath play, gun play, drowning, possibly suspension - these might all be edge play.

In addition, some people refer to pushing the limits of what's personally safe for you emotionally to be edge play also. Cuckolding or cuckqueaning might fall into this category, extreme humiliation or degradation, realistic incest play... This will vary from person to person. In a way it's by analogy to the idea of playing on the edges of physical safety, but I happen to believe very strongly that non-physical play runs a risk of being really damaging, and therefore can be quite edgy.

Edge play also refers at times to knife play and intersetingly enough Ive seen the term used to refer to the act of 'edging" (a type of orgasm denial play (where orgasm is ultimately withheld or given depending on the situation) when one is taken repeatable to the verge of orgasm several times.

Context is important dave, so to help address your 'personal interest' you need to give us your definition.

Do you mean pushing boundaries and limits? If so, physical or emotional?
Do you mean cutting, scarification, or the opening of wounds?
Do you mean being forced to masturbate but not allowed to cum?

leah and denuseri have offered up the most oft used definitions. We need to know what you are actually asking about.

good question. thinking about it, combination of risk for physical and fear for emotional. so would that would put me in boundary and limits area. the other stuff doesn't apply.
basicly what i'm try do get a better idea of what drives me to do what i do! when ever i do the water one and go under i tell myself," this insane,i'm not going to do this again!!" then maybe a month or so later, i really want that rush again. maybe addiction to the emotional high? another part of the puzzle is that have done risky things all my life!(such as water sking on lake michagan after midnight about a mile or two out).
i never thought about the emotional end before.
thankyou for your help everone. more to think about. i hope more people answer the question. crazy dave

I've heard edge play discussed as taking people to surfaces they feel are unsafe making them believe they are actually on the edge of a roof or road etc when really its just the yellow pages, then subjecting them to different things to make them fall, they feel falling is really dangerous where actually they're only a couple of inches above the ground

thankyou for your input!
idea of edge play: more mental then physical. so, the more vivid the imagination the more intense the edge play. the physical part would just props for the game.
i personly think it is more mental then physical, which would expain why the edge is farther and farther away as you play.
what do you think?
thankyou. crazy dave

I think almost any kind of play is more mental than physical. What's going on in your mind is everything. Think about it: things that feel delicious when you do them with your partner might be gross or horrible or frightening if you did that same thing with a stranger or a person you didn't like. Physically it's the same nerve endings being triggered in the same way in your body, but because your mind interprets it differently, it feels completely different.

thankyou. yes, i can relate to that very well. another thought to think about. i never thought about the mental part before came here! always the physical part before. i just thought of it as just something i do.
what i find really interesting is how many different things/actions could be consistered edge play in another persons mind!
so please keep coming with thoughts on edge play.
i finding this very interesting. really have to sit back and think about your ideas.
thankyou, crazy dave

Dont get me started on the metal vs physical aspects of bdsm, when one is just as important as the other.

The human body...includes the mind, anything that consentrates on one to the exclussion of the other, looses 1/2 of its meaning in translation.

When you blindfold someone and confuse their sences you are confusing their body as well as their mind, so when they fall the few inches that their sences have been decived into believing is 10 feet high, the body reacts as if it if falling.

Like you can "imagine" all day long that your jumping out of an airplane while you sit and type at your keyboard...yet no wind will you feel in your hair, and no adreniline will you feel surge through your viens when you only sit and imagine it as opposed to doing it.

i think you missed the point. if someone shows you a knife, says they going to cut you. then blindfolds you or goes to area your body where you can't see them. then says here we go, i'm going to bleed you now. then drags a pin on your skin. wouldn't you think they cut you? all depends on how you do it. it works, I KNOW!! the imagination is a worderfull thing! but it needs a little help to get going.
thankyou for your imput.
crazy dave

Yes indeed...a little help...from the body. lol

aaaaaahh!! using both makes life so much more fun!! crazy dave