Doms and mistakes

[Miner]

I had put some 70% isopropanol on his back and lit him up with the letter X. It looked so beautiful that I stared at it admiring the X I'd made like about 2 seconds too long. There was an audience and I wanted them to admire it as well.

Not to make too much of an issue about it, but it is never a good idea to pour the alcohol on the person and then set fire to it. The alcohol can go all sorts of places you don't want it to and cause a nasty burn. The best way, if you want fire on the skin, is to use one of your unfired 'fire wands' to draw on the skin with alcohol, then fire the drawing it before it evapourates. Mix the alcohol with a little liquid soap as well, to colour the flame.

Or, if you want spectacular, but little chance of damage to your submissive, use flash paper.

One of my favourite things is the wrappings from amaretto biscuits - make a loose cylinder and place it on the skin - light it, it will lift off the skin as it burns. There is little sensation to the submissive from that one, but it is a spectacular finale.

[Fiera]

Not to make too much of an issue about it, but it is never a good idea to pour the alcohol on the person and then set fire to it. The alcohol can go all sorts of places you don't want it to and cause a nasty burn. The best way, if you want fire on the skin, is to use one of your unfired 'fire wands' to draw on the skin with alcohol, then fire the drawing it before it evapourates. Mix the alcohol with a little liquid soap as well, to colour the flame.

Or, if you want spectacular, but little chance of damage to your submissive, use flash paper.

One of my favourite things is the wrappings from amaretto biscuits - make a loose cylinder and place it on the skin - light it, it will lift off the skin as it burns. There is little sensation to the submissive from that one, but it is a spectacular finale.

Well miner, I am sorry I thought I was in a BDSM forum so of course I didn't think I had to tell you that I used fire wands. Of course I used fire wands!

[Miner]

Well miner, I am sorry I thought I was in a BDSM forum so of course I didn't think I had to tell you that I used fire wands. Of course I used fire wands!

I presumed you did use firewands.

From the tenor of your post, it sounded as though you had poured the alcohol onto your sub's body to get the x-shape. Pouring alcohol onto someone is iffy (as you pointed out, this is a BDSM forum, but it doesn't mean you are careful, either). Poured alcohol can pool and cause burns in some odd places, it can also soak into the furniture when poured and set fire to the bench the sub is on. In addition, in reading posts here and on other forums, there appear to be folk on here who think SSC and RACk are for wimps, while I'm not implying you think that, someone reading these posts might, and might think I'm being over cautious, and where fire is concerned, I think people should be overcautious. I've seen people do some pretty chancy things with fire. I tend to be very careful with fire - I love doing fire play, but was badly burned as a child, and tend to take a very cautious when using flames anywhere near anyone else.

And lol - you could have been using kevlar flogs, rather than firewands.