6 Responses to “Needle Play”

1. solum said (on July 1st, 2009 at 3:25 pm)

   Semantics? A pin is a type of needle?

2. Adriana said (on July 2nd, 2009 at 8:03 am)

   Interesting question. When I think of needle play, I think of syringes.

3. Harold said (on July 2nd, 2009 at 6:27 pm)

   My mother always told me that I should needles rather than pins because they sterilize better. I’m not sure if that’s just an old wives tale or not…

   On the more hardcore sites they often use what looks like the tip of medical needles, that’s probably the safest of them all.

4. K said (on July 2nd, 2009 at 6:42 pm)

   The real people I know use sterile, one-use acupuncture or piercing needles, which seems like the safest route… They don’t have quite the aesthetic simplicity of a pin, though, do they?

   And Harold, my mother told me that, too! Whenever we got splinters, she’d make use get a sewing needle and hold it over a flame, telling us that the metal in pins was impossible to sterilize. I’ve mentioned it to a few people and they looked at me like I’m nuts.

5. Dr.Whiplash said (on July 4th, 2009 at 12:15 am)

   The typical sewing needle is made of a finer grade of steel, and is sharpened more acutely than the typical pin, and therefore may be inserted with a lesser more controled force.

   Perhaps it’s “needle” play because of the confusion one might encouter when speaking, if one mistakenly heard “pin” play as “pen” play, or perhaps because of the double entendre “to prod, goad, provoke, inflame, tease, torment, taunt, incite, arouse, or bedevil”…

6. Dr.Whiplash said (on July 4th, 2009 at 12:19 am)

   Sorry about the typos Bacchus. You may certainly make that “controlled” and “encounter” if you wish…

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