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Health & Safety
General BDSM Safety Advice
- Facts and Myths About BDSM Safety by Hans Meijer
- Some Notes on Safety for Meeting Online and Off by Ambrosio (from the "Dating and Communication" section)
First Aid
- Order the "Standard First Aid & Personal Safety" document (http://www.redcross.org/pubs/) published by the American Red Cross (http://www.redcross.org/)
- Visit the "First-Aid Guide" (http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/FirstAidIndex/FirstAidIndex) from MayoClinic.com (http://www.mayoclinic.com/)
Dungeon Monitoring at Parties
Please see the articles under the "Dungeon Monitoring" category in the Community Service section of this site.
Medical Advice
- Coronary Heart Disease: Angina & Heart Attack: Its Impact Upon the BDSM Lifestyle by Mistress Tammy, RN
- Diabetes Mellitus: Its Impact Upon the BDSM Lifestyle by Mistress Tammy, RN
- Information from the Safer SM Education Project at The AIDS Committee of Toronto
- "D/s Medical Advice: Prevention and Treatment of Injuries / Adverse Conditions" attributed to Yaldahtvah
- "Emergency Training for SM Practicioners" by Jay Wiseman
- Jay Wiseman on Safety
- How to handle a seizure by Jay Wiseman
- Physiology of alcohol enemas by Jay Wiseman
- The Medical Realities of Breath Control Play by Jay Wiseman
- blossom's Suggestions for a First Aid Kit
- Medical Advice from the subDOMinion Note: It's not clear if this information was provided by medical professionals.
- See also Anatomy for Flogging: The Back in the General section
Emotional Health and Psychological Issues
- Ask the Therapist: SM and Kids by William A. Henkin, Ph.D.: A Therapist answers the questions "How do you know when your children are ready to discuss SM, and how do you do it?"
- How to tell your children: part of BDSM Background Information, a series of articles from the POWERotics Foundation
- Help! My spouse is into EPE: part of BDSM Background Information, a series of articles from the POWERotics Foundation
- Ask the Therapist: Alternate Personas and Multiple Personalities by William A. Henkin, Ph.D.
- SM And Child Abuse: For Some, A Difficult Connection With The Past by Guy Baldwin (April 23rd, 2007)
- The web site for William A. Henkin, Ph.D.: http://www.drhenkin.com/
- For material on BDSM relationship break ups visit my list of "Breaking Up" links in the "Dating and Communication" section.
"President Bush has pushed to fund abstinence-only sex education, saying that is the only 'surefire' way to prevent unwanted pregnancies, sexually transmitted diseases, and immoral, nasty, hot teen sex."
"Abstinance, of course, does prevent all of these terrible things. Abstinence education, however, does not."
- Al Franken
"Abstinence Heros"
Lies And the Lying Liars Who Tell Them
Sexually Transmitted Infections Including Hepatitis
"Life is a sexually transmitted disease."
- R. D. Laing
Sexually Transmitted Infections (STIs) -- also called Sexually Transmitted Diseases (STDs) -- include Herpes, HIV/AIDS, Chlamydia, Genital Herpes, Gonorrhea, Human Papillomavirus, Genital Warts, Syphilis, Vaginitis, and Hepatitis.
- American Social Health Association (ASHA)
URL: http://www.ashastd.org/ - "STD Prevention": Information, statistics, and treatment guidelines for sexually transmitted diseases from Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Division of STD Prevention.
URL: http://www.cdc.gov/std/ - The "Sexually Transmitted Infections" section of The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) web site.
URL: http://www.niaid.nih.gov/dmid/stds/ - HSV2/Genital Herpes Mailing list: Genital Herpes is not a pleasant STD (Sexually Transmitted Disease) to have to tell your partner or potential partners about. There are many in the BDSM lifestyle who have partners who, or they themselves are infected with HSV2/Genital Herpes. Many of these people are in the closet about it because they feel that they will be discriminated against or turned away from by potential partners because of their condition. This list is a support network for those who have a partner who is or are themselves infected with Genital Herpes and are active in the BD/SM Lifestyle. If you choose to join this group you may want to create a new e mail address to protect your anonymity. Anyone found to be harassing others on this list because of their infection will immediately be removed and reported to Yahoo. To subscribe, send an email to : Doms_and_Subs_with_Genital_Herpes-subscribe@yahoogroups.com.
URL: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Doms_and_Subs_with_Genital_Herpes/ - The "Hepatitis C" section on the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention site
URL: http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/diseases/hepatitis/ - "An Important Message Concerning Hepatitis C" from Dr. C. Everett Koop, the former U.S. Surgeon General. This site was designed and developed by the C. Everett Koop Institute at Dartmouth College.
http://www.epidemic.org/ - "Safer Sex" by Sir Bamm!
URL: http://www.EvilMonk.org/A/bamm01.cfm
More Support Groups
- Diabetes and BDSM (Diabetic and Living An Alternative Lifestyle): For anyone who has diabetes or is insulin resistant who following the bdsm lifestyle to what ever degree, be you sub, dom, slave, switch - all who have diabetes and who have partners with diabetes are welcome here.
URL: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/DiabetesandAltLife - Diabetes_and_BDSM
URL: http://www.smartgroups.com/groups/diabetes_and_bdsm - DisabledLifestylers: This is a place where LifeStyle Dominants and submissives, with any type of disability, can share their experiences and knowledge, as well as seek a partner.
URL: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/DisabledLifeStylers/ - disAbledpervs: This list intended for discussion of issues related to BDSM and disabilities. It is for leather/BDSM people with disabilities.
URL: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/disAbledpervs/ - NVAA: A closed A.A. group for those in the lifestyle of BD/sm. An A.A., topic based group that shares it's experience, strength and hope.
http://twistedjourney.com/mailman/listinfo/nvaa_twistedjourney.com - PCOS and BDSM (PCOS and Living An Alternative Lifestyle): A group for women who have Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome (PCOS) and who are into BDSM
URL: http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/PCOSandAltLife/
Medical Sites on the Internet
- "Medline" from the National Library of Medicine.
URL: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/ - WebMD.com
URL: http://www.WebMD.com/
Find a Doctor
- The "Kink Aware Professionals List" is a national list of Doctors, Lawyers, and Professionals who are knowledgable and friendly toward the scene. It was started by Race Bannon but is now maintained by the National Coalition for Sexual Freedom.
URL: http://www.ncsfreedom.org/kap - Gay and Lesbian Medical Association's Physicians' Referral Network: There's no guaranty that a GLMA referral for "practitioner who is sensitive to LGBT healthcare needs" will be (BDSM) kink friendly as well but it's more likely.
URL: http://www.glma.org/programs/prp/index.shtml
