I definitely need a long, slow root canal.

Here’s an unusual scene – dental torture. Mouths and gags show up all the time in BDSM imagery and play, but it’s rare to see an explicit dental scene. Even Whitehead gags, which crop up fairly often and were originally designed for dental work, are rarely used in their original context. In contrast, regular non-dental medical scenes are a fixture of both play and BDSM porn. It’s interesting to speculate why that difference exists.

One answer might be simple practicality. It’s fairly easy to learn to do basic medical play and not risk significant damage. Things like needle play, enemas, plaster casts and suturing can be done for real, provided the domme has done the relevant training. With dental work it’s hard to imagine what basic stuff could be done, outside of straight play acting. Nobody should be drilling teeth or poking gums without serious certificates on their wall.

The other answer might be a more psychological one. In hospitals we feel more out of control, where in dental surgeries we just feel uncomfortable. If we’re sick or even just being tested for something, the work of doctors and nurses seems somewhat unfathomable. They tell us they need to do some thing and we have to accept it and lie back. Where with dentists, we’re typically very aware of what they’re doing. Drilling and scraping teeth seems necessary, but boring. From a psychological perspective a dental procedure doesn’t feel like giving up control to me, despite the obviously vulnerable position, it just feels like a unpleasant chore.

Dental-Femdom-11aThe watermark (assuming there was one) has annoyingly been cut off this image. I found it on the Femdom Times, but I’m afraid I don’t have an original attribution.

Author: paltego

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6 thoughts on “I definitely need a long, slow root canal.”

  1. You’re right about dentists, unlike doctors or nurses they’re just not erotic. I once had a very attractive dentist with a wonderful voice but never fantasied about her at all and that’s weird considering that paying quite a lot of money to an attractive woman with a lot of specialist equipment who is going to inflict considerable pain is something I do regularly.

    1. It’s definitely a lot more unusual to be turned on by dental stuff. I once had an attractive doctor for back issues, and it was challenging for me *not* to turn that into a fantasy scenario. Particularly when she started doing some electoshock testing of nerve responses! I’ve never had that kind of response to dental work. And when I have tried to reduce the pain via that approach, I’ve ended up feeling guilty, as I wrote about in another comment.

      -paltego

    1. I’ve tried that, but I always feel slightly bad about it. My dental hygienist is demure and very quiet, and I end up feeling guilty about involving her in my perverted brain 🙂

      -paltego

  2. I do lots of dental role-play scenarios that don’t ever involve drilling for real. Lets face it a lot of what we do is not for real so you just have to be inventive in how you approach it.

    What needs to be understood is that this particular type of fetish can and often times develops as a child or adolescent when in a situation that is both frightening and has a loss of control. In the real scenario the person is very much out of their comfort zone but usually has a nice dental nurse there to talk soothingly to them, even if she is the one doing the harsh treatments. She nurtures as well as takes control and looks after the dental patient. Sometimes added to this is the dental anaesthetic which in times gone by was done by the dentist themselves with an assistant, usually a nice dental nurse. So again the dental patient has no control, sometimes was restrained for their own safety, often they were put into a pair of plastic pants in case they urninated whilst under the anaesthetic. These incidents were very frightening and sometimes people eroticised them just like others have eroticised a spanking or bullying incident from the past. Human behaviour is all very fascinating don’t you think?

    1. Human behavior is undoubtedly fascinating! This would be a really boring blog if it wasn’t 🙂

      I’m intrigued to hear the idea of restraints in a dental practice or plastic pants. I didn’t realize that kind of thing ever happened. The protocol around that must have been interesting/traumatizing.

      Pretty much any childhood event can get turned into an erotic trigger it seems, from sweaty feet to medical treatment, so I guess it’s really no surprise that dental treatment would be. Although I still stand by my statement that it’s generally relatively rare, given what I see from a lot of pro-dommes. I’m not aware of too many clinics on the West coast that have the kind of expertise and facilities that you can boast of!

      -paltego

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