In BDSM, edgeplay is a somewhat subjective term for types of sexual play that are on the edge of safe, sane and consensual. These forms of BDSM activity are regarded by many as inadvisable and dangerous.
Edgeplay may involve:
- the risk of permanent harm or death (such as branding, body modification, breathplay, gunplay)
- increased risk of spreading disease (E.g. cuttings, bloodplay)
- psychological danger (from such practices as humiliation play, incest fantasies)
- social taboos (for example, ageplay, scat fetishism, racial slurs)
- controversial topics like total power exchange, anonymous rape and abduction scenes, zoophilia
- use of alcohol or drugs (e.g. ecstasy, amyl nitrite)
- legal issues