Water sports or golden showers (commonly abbreviated g.s.) is defined as playing with urine/pee/piss. It can be urinating on or in the submissive, making the submissive drink urine or any other urine oriented BDSM activity.
There is debate as to whether water sports qualify as “edge play”…It may or may not, depending on the practitioners but whatever its classification, water sports has elements of extreme BDSM and D/s at its core. Although we cannot say that water sports is BDSM play, more often than not it contains within it a form of extreme submission.
There is relatively little danger in water sports. What is “relatively little danger” you may ask? That is debatable. But water sports do not, by definition, present the physical safety risks that breath play, knife-play or fire-play does but urine-play is still a very extreme form of BDSM play as there can be serious elements of humiliation and other serious psychological aspects involved.
Thus, as with all other play, it must be consensual.
*Personally, I believe that the submissive must have a safe word in place if he/she decides the play is too much to bear…Be it physically or mentally.
Obviously, where there is no intake of pee, there is no danger of bodily harm…Other than staining a sheet or a rug, a pee bath is pretty safe.
One of the most basic forms of water sports is where the Dominant orders the submissive to urinate and watches. Another form may be where. The Dominant enjoys giving their submissive a good urination bath or urinating in their slaves’ orifice, often with a funnel as a show of his/her Dominance.
Just like all other BDSM scenes, combination scening can add variety to your play…Like vanilla relationships, even BDSM ones can suffer from boredom…
“Oh, no! Not piss again! That makes 30 days in a row!”
Therefore, one must be inventive. Bathtub bondage, for example, is where a bound submissive is immobilized in a bathtub, as is urine/enema play. I have even heard of players combining piss and wax play.
Now, here is where we circle back to “Relatively little danger”…
Once actual ingestion of urine is contemplated, health concerns do arise. Fresh urine is generally sterile and safe to drink…In small quantities. Hell, the reason most genital piercings heal so rapidly is due to their being flushed with urine…However, ingested in larger quantities, urine can pose a health risk. It does contain harmful chemicals…Uric acid comes to mind as well as bodily wastes in it. So use caution if you get the idea to substitute urine for their Pepsi or Gatorade.
Moderation is the word here…As is drinking water for days so the urine is mostly water.
The range of water sports is very wide. And although it can be seen as a very extreme from a BDSM from some point of views, if one uses a modicum of caution and common sense, it is generally safe.
