With the adjective medical or clinical, a portion of BDSM practitioners refers to sexual or erotic practices involving the use of tools, methods, and environments that have a medical or nursing appearance. Generally, these types of practices involve a significant degree of physical pain or at least emotional discomfort, to the point of potentially constituting actual torture. However, it should be noted that in this type of activity, the consent of the individual is paramount, as they voluntarily submit to what they themselves find exciting and pleasurable. Numerous practices fall under the medical genre, among which we can cite:
intimate inspection, which involves a thorough and humiliating examination of the intimate parts, necessarily exposed in nudity. This inspection also includes rectal and gynecological examinations.
the insertion of a catheter, as an alternative method for urine expulsion;
the practice of enemas, which can be more or less prolonged and can entail, for the person subjected to it, the necessity to evacuate publicly or in particularly humiliating situations, often after having endured severe cramps resulting from the enema itself due to an inability to release.
saline injections, or injections of saline solution at various points on the body, often however on the genitals or breasts, applied with the intention of causing temporary distortion due to the liquid inserted under the skin.
prostate massage, performed on submissive men during a rectal examination, with the aim of inducing ejaculation independently of achieving orgasm (a practice known as milking).
subcutaneous needle insertion in various parts of the body, particularly in delicate areas such as genitals, breasts, nipples, etc.
suturing, which can be performed on female genitals, simulating a partial and temporary infibulation, sometimes followed by penetration made even more painful by the presence of stitches that reduce the opening of the vagina (this practice is quite rare, in any case). Due to the type of practices that require the execution of more or less invasive acts on the human body, it is absolutely necessary that those taking an active role in this type of sexuality are knowledgeable in medicine, which makes the spread of these practices still rather limited.