Medical Play
One kind of power-exchange role-playing scenario is medical play, in which sexual partners pretend to be doctors and their patients. In medical play, the dominant partner usually pretends to be a doctor, tending to their submissive patient. A couple can use medical play to add intriguing role-playing to their sex lives, or it can be a component of medical fetishism. Another name for medical play is a medical kink.
Despite the lack of study on the prevalence of this kink/fetish, its frequent occurrence in popular culture allows us to estimate its relative popularity. More than 750 "sexy nurse" outfits were for sale on Amazon alone as of 2022! It appears that both BDSM practitioners and more conventional players share an interest in the medical play instruments and examination tables seen in many BDSM dungeons.
There is a clear and noticeable power exchange in this kind of play. The medical professional has the training, equipment, and license to carry out specific procedures in a medical context. After all, who will we dispute with a doctor when they say we need a rectal exam? When one partner (the patient) agrees to be at the mercy of the other (the medical practitioner), this power structure works well for D/s play.
Many factors contribute to people's enjoyment of medical play. Still, some of the main ones are that it can include intense physical and mental sensations, pain, humiliation, and many creative opportunities for those who genuinely enjoy assuming the role of the mad scientist.
More About Medical Play
Intimate examinations are standard in medical play, in which the dominant spouse treats the submissive patient in a manner akin to performing quasi-medical operations. The patient might also be gagged, restrained, undressed, or wearing a degrading costume. Medical play may involve several essential forms of the game, such as:
- Gynecological examinations
- Exams of the rectal region
- Enemas
- Injections
- Play with electricity
- Applying bandages
- Playing with blood and cutting
- Speculative play
- Cupping
Wartenberg wheels and speculums are examples of medical sex toys that could improve the examination. The submissive patient may masturbate or receive an enema at the examination's conclusion. In more severe situations, medical play can include insertion of urethral sounds, skin stapling, piercing, or acting out an anesthetic fetish.
Because medical play recognizes the vulnerability that submissive partners have when they are ill or injured, it may appeal to them. Because they believe their doctor is the expert, submissive partners may also submit to uncomfortable or embarrassing tests during medical play because it gives them power over their patients' enjoyment—and occasionally their suffering—dominant partners also take pleasure in medical play.
There are other possibilities in medical play than the patient/doctor scenario, one of the most prevalent. Occasionally, medical play will also experiment with sexy doctor-nurse interactions or a mischievous patient taking advantage of a gullible sugar stripper.
Participants' safety must be the top priority because medical play can involve edgeplay and be a more intense kind of play, though it doesn't have to. Before a scenario, safe words and signals should be permanently established. Participants must research the types of medical play they are interested in and ensure they pursue it safely because each form has unique safety issues.
