March 1st, 2013 -- by Bacchus
Kink, In The Language Of Arson
Embedded in the reasonably kink-sympathetic story in Wednesday’s New York Times was this odd little description of fire play:
Tucked away in one room, a man and woman were sharing fire play, which involved accelerant placed on strategic points of the woman’s body and set ablaze in short, dramatic bursts.
Who uses the word accelerant except fire fighters and arson investigators?
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The paper probably did that because they didn’t want to admit the “accelerant” was probably just isopropyl alcohol, thus running the risk that someone might try it on their own without proper research and injure themselves.
Apparently vanilla’s do.
Anyone who works with fire regularly, actually.
Note to TXVoyagerJ
If you ask me (I guess you didn’t…), isopropyl would have been safer to say in the article than would “accelerant”.
When I was a kid in junior high school, I would dip my index finger in denatured (wood) alcohol from the alcohol “lamp” (burner…), and light it on fire, and then quickly wave it around in the air (when my science teacher was in the chemical store-closet), just to hear the girls gasp.
Sometimes it would singe the hair off of my knuckles, making the room smell like a slaughterhouse, but I would extinguish it before I got burnt. I didn’t realize how dangerous this actually was.
Isopropyl is already watered down right off the shelf, and burns at a much lower temperature. In fact, if you water it down a bit more, it’s even safer. Most other accelerants will not allow water to actually mix with them.
At any rate, fireplay should be thoroughly researched before first attempts. If your bottle of alcohol accidentally gets set on fire, don’t panic and toss it across the room, or you’ll burn your house down.
It almost seems unconscionable to leave readers thinking that perhaps gasoline is the “accelerant” being referred to.