By Ej Dickson. The video features a slim, dark-haired woman who is totally naked, her ankles, wrists and neck bound by thick rope. A burly man subjects her to garden-variety BDSM torture — light flogging, bondage, forced orgasm — before tying her to a large wooden plank.
Her body starts convulsing, her extremities flopping wildly. When the man removes her cloth, her shrieks and grunts turn into sobs. For even the most seasoned kink connoisseur, the clip can be disturbing to watch; for a brief moment, it appears to cross the already-blurry line between pain and pleasure, into genuinely terrifying, life-threatening territory.
Although waterboarding has its roots in the fourteenth century and was used during the Spanish Inquisition , it is perhaps best known as an interrogation tactic used on al-Qaeda suspects during President George W.
In , President Obama signed an executive order banning all forms of torture by U. When Elise Graves, the dark-haired woman in the clip and a Bay Area bondage enthusiast, first agreed to be waterboarded for the Kink.
For the most part, she says, she found it a turn-on. In the BDSM and kink community, consensual waterboarding is alive and well. When done improperly for instance, if someone is not properly elevated or for an extended period of time, waterboarding can result in vomit aspiration or oxygen deprivation, which can result in brain damage or death. There are also many psychological consequences of waterboarding, ranging from long-term memory issues to depression and post-traumatic stress disorder, says Dando.
