"In human sexuality the most profound taboos are often counterbalanced by intense longings to transgress the fragile borders between the permitted and the forbidden."

Contents:

What Are Water Sports?

Why Do People Do It?

What Do They Like?

Quick cuts from our interviews:

Joseph Bean...
...is 44 years old and was raised in the Ozarks. He now lives in San Francisco. At the time of this interview he was the editor of Drummer and Mach magazines, Tough Customer books, and the managing editor of Dungeon Master and SandMutopia Guardian magazines. He is a nationally known S/M spokesperson. Mr. Bean is "very nearly exclusively homosexual" and has a life partner.

"For some people, just going from the fantasy of water sports to the reality can be a great extreme; for [many], once they've established what their water-sports repertoire is and are able to make the right connections to be allowed to fulfill their fantasy precisely, it can be an ecstatic experience."

"Urine has always been a substance of some mystery--and cultural schizophrenia: it is at once naughty and nice, sacred and profane."

Victoria B...
...is 35 years old. She works in publishing, with a second career in acting and performance art. She is in a longterm relationship.

"Though I was actively exploring lots of different areas of S/M [with men], the intimacy of water sports was not something I was prepared to [share] with a male partner. It wasn't until I came out with women that it felt accessible to me.... I definitely play with other people, but I've only really done water sports in love relationships."

Tony...
...is 38 years old. He is an attorney who is married and has children.

"My true sexual desire is to please a woman in any way, shape, or form. I think of myself as a valuable person because I will do that to please her. I can't say that it necessarily makes logical sense in an asexual analysis--but it's not asexual."

"The enema is a regular practice in the lives of people who neither suspect the erotic role it has played in human history nor realize that the eroticization of enemas (klismaphilia) is a widely known sexual variation."

Contents:

To Purge or Not To Purge

What Do They Like and Why?

What About Contact with Feces?

Quick cuts from our interviews:

Kevin C...
...is 37 years old and works as a research- and statistical consultant. He is the founding leader of the Water Sports Support Group on Compuserve.

"A typical [enema] scenario might involved some roleplaying where you have one person [exercising] power over another. It could be a teacher-student, a parent-child, a master-submissive-type relationship, and the person who is submissive has done something which deserves punishment, so the enema itself originates out of that."

Nancy Ava Miller...
...is 45 years old. She founded People Exchanging Power (PEP), a national network of S/M social groups.

"With my husband, I give him the enema, and sometimes I dress him like a woman or tie him up.... Now, personally, I'm an enema addict. I do two, three, four enemas a day."