What is needle play?

The fascinating practice of needle play

Needle Play involves piercing the skin with sterile needles.

There are many different techniques.

How does Needle Play feel?

Surprisingly, the sensations of needles simply applied through the skin are relatively painless.

It is always possible to make the practice more intense, or even very painful. More on this later.

The sensation is not really the same as when taking a blood sample or a vaccination, as the aim is not to penetrate the skin completely, but to cross it perpendicularly, stimulating its sensitivity.

Does Needle Play make you bleed?

Needle Play can cause bleeding, but this is usually very minimal, barely a drop of blood.
To stop the bleeding, press gently with a compress for a few seconds.

What equipment do I need for Needle Play?

Minimum requirements:

• Sterile needles, to start with, usually 22g needles with gray tips.
• Saline solution and soap, to clean the skin before disinfection
• Skin disinfectant: Dakin, used by piercers.
• Sterile non-woven compresses, to apply disinfectant and clean the skin.
• Soap and hydroalcoholic solution for hands.
• Needle collector, known as DASRI.
• Single-use gloves

Best of all:

• Sterile medical gloves.
• Sterile felt-tip marker, especially for making drawings or corsets.
• Ribbon, to be disinfected beforehand, for corsets in particular.

What precautions should I take with Needle Play?

• Skin infection

The main risk of Needle Play is the risk of infection at the puncture site, since the skin barrier is penetrated.
It is therefore essential to disinfect the skin before and after the procedure, to wear single-use gloves, and to use sterile, single-use needles.

• Blood exposure accidents

The other major risk is the transmission of infection through exposure to blood. Mainly for the Top person.
The main blood-borne infections are hepatitis B (30%), hepatitis C (3%) and HIV (0.3%).
To reduce this risk, vaccination is possible for hepatitis B, and blood tests prior to practice are recommended.

Transmission will only occur if there is contact with a wound or mucous membrane.
Wearing gloves is therefore highly recommended, as is frequent hand disinfection during practice.

In the event of exposure to blood (on injured skin, wounds or mucous membranes), rinse thoroughly for 5 minutes, then seek medical advice.

How to practice Needle Play?

• Preparing the skin

After washing and disinfecting your hands, and putting on your gloves, wash the area to be pricked with saline and a dab of soap.

Then disinfect with Dakin, still on a compress. Disinfecting 2 times is better.

• Pricking

There are a number of different techniques for pricking, but one that’s simple and not too risky is to pinch the skin slightly to create a bulge where you’re going to prick.

• Removing needles

Gently grasp the needle by the non-pricking part, and pull just as gently to remove it.

Dispose of it directly into the needle collector.

• Disinfection

You can disinfect with Dakin on a compress, then move on to after-care. 

What areas are suitable for Needle Play?

Needle Play can be used on most areas of the body.

• Classic areas

The preferred areas are generally the back and chest/breasts.
For CBT enthusiasts, it’s also a classic for intimate parts (the penis bleeds much more than the rest).

• And more

Many other areas can also be explored: arms and thighs, for example, are ideal for bondage with a ribbon.

• High-risk areas

Avoid areas where the skin is too thin, such as knees and elbows, and areas with many nerves and tendons, such as the hands.

How to learn Needle Play?

It’s highly recommended that you take the vanilla “Hygiene and Health” course, which is essential for piercers and tattoo artists.
It will provide you with a sound basis for avoiding the risks of Needle Play.

Needle Play advanced level

Pain button

Place one needle on top of the other. By pricking slightly below or slightly above the first.
This button aspect releases a good dose of endorphins, and is more painful than simple needles.

Sadistic variations on the pain button:

• Cross the two needles, swapping the base of the top needle on the base of the bottom needle.
• When it’s time to remove the needles, remove them at the same time, crossing them at the same time.

Topstitching

When it’s time to remove the needle, pull it back just a little, press the point into a new area of skin, and so on, until it’s completely removed.

Mix electricity

With an instrument such as a high-frequency device (also known as a Violet Wand), you can give small discharges into the needles.

Needle zipper

You’re probably familiar with the “zipper” principle, but in this case it’s made from needles to which a ribbon is attached.
To remove the zipper, simply pull on one end of the ribbon, which will remove the needles.
This technique is quite painful and causes bleeding.

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