 Safer BDSM - Golden Shower
Golden Showers (GS) (also known as Watersports (WS)) is a quite often mentioned and
many questions are asked about it, esp. concerning health issues.
First of all, what is it about?
GS is a slang term for the practice of erotic peeing in order to enhance sexual intimacy.
It is sometimes involved in D/s play as an act of humiliation also.
Why do people do it?
There are mainly two aspects - some consider it a "dirty" act and esp. that
makes it so exciting. The second aspect is that you share something very intimate with
someone you are very close, something you wouldn't do with a stranger.
Urine is dirty, isn't it?
Urine has a peculiar smell that we seem to instinctively shrink from. Our bodies balance
our dissolved minerals by eliminating excesses. We also need to rid ourselves of a
compound called urea. We instinctively know from the odor that, no matter how thirsty we
are, drinking urine will render our elimination strategy useless. But that doesn't make
our urine dirty - in fact - urine is nearly sterile when it leaves our body and one of our
medically cleanest body fluids.
But "nearly sterile" doesn't mean it is completely innocuous - the urine can pick up bacteria from a urinary infection
along the urethra (urogenital tract) (an infection you sometimes even
don't notice).
This might be a health aspect to be considered when you intend to drink
another persons urine. Whether Hepatitis Virus can be transferred or not
is still unclear.
Urine of women, who use the birth control pill, contains female hormones,
which can lead to a partial feminization when being consumed by a man (a
strange case has been documented, Source: Datenschlag.org - Papiertiger).
Urine is a compound of 99% water, some minerals (mostly salt, some magnesium, calcium,
potassium and phosphate), uric acid, little ammonia and some vitamin C and B complex.
Nothing harmful or toxic.
Yikes, but it still smells!
To prevent any "offensive" smell you or your partner shouldn't drink any
alcoholic beverages, coffee or tea a few hours before you want to do it. Also food with
lots of protein causes a lot of byproducts which can cause the odor. Best is to drink a
lot of simple table water a few hours before you want to play.
A small amount of alcohol can be useful for dissolving inhibitions over what you plan to
do. But large amounts of alcohol detract from the sexual pleasure and ability.
The use of your own morning urine is considered a great method of healing wounds and
often recommended by healers/MDs lately (see
Backroom article about healing & care of piercings).
Some people even drink their own morning urine as healing portion every morning.
All in all one can say it is much safer than for example anal sex which has more risks
of infections and injuries.
A warning anyway, urine is a rather bad environment for HIV viruses (Human
Immunodeficiency Virus), but an HIV/AIDS test should always be done if you consider things
like GS with your (new) partner. An HIV test can be done rather anonymously (without
visiting your local doctor) when making a blood donor. They check your blood for HIV
viruses and other STDs and infections and you'll get a document.
© Nov. 1998 Ashtarot, Revised: 05/25/2002
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