Dark Greetings.. I would like to speak to speak about a subject that many of us have had difficulty with and that is safe blood play. How do we handle the bloodlust we experience? Some of us have this bloodlust and we must all take care in how we handle it. First most vamps do not even require or want the blood energy. For those that do, consuming too much of the blood energy is not good for you. It takes small amounts to satisfy the deep hunger. Blood is energy. You can use a lancet device or some other stainless steel device with perhaps peroxide for sterialization and then make small incisions somewhere on the body. This is one way to approach safe blood play. Amounts vary. For some it does not take much, it just depends on how strong the bloodlust is running. Some need just a few drops every so often. Others say more of it and more often. If there is an open wound in the mouth, don't ingest anothers blood. This is a good guide to go by. Your stomach acid will kill most things, but there is always a risk in anything, so great care should be taken here. There are too many ills that blood can give, most notably Aids, which has killed to many. The virus scurge is among us and we must take care or we would be fools like so many. Blood play is indeed a sensual experience between two consenting donors. It has always been so in my experience and I believe most will enjoy it much more this way. Love is important in most safe blood play for many and in order to accept another's blood. Then there is combining the blood fetish with other energy sources such as the life force or pranic energy from sex, makes for a great energy transfer. Vampires have unique powers, empathy and magic being among the strongest. The blood, the life force we crave is the power within it. Through the years, many vampires learn a control to handle the bloodlust. Yes we drink of the blood of others but do not require it for life and some do not care for it at all. One learns to control this craving to a certain degree. By ingesting to much blood, one could get throat infections, and also become very nauseated. Consuming large amounts of blood, could cause you to become sick and vomit because blood is a natural emetic. Each Vampire is different on the amounts they consume. In small doses, as I imagine is true with blood, there is a need to feed more frequently. But a strong and well learned psi-vamp has a unique advantage over a blood vamp, they can feed on an unlimited supply at one sitting without any real harm. All vampires are psi- vamps to a degree, they use their mind and body energies to manipulate the life energy they absorb from others to fill the energy deficit that all vamps have. This often includes controlling humans and reading minds, and using the emotional energy to gain the energy needs of life. Most vampires have these abilities, so they could all be referred to as psi-vamps to some extent as few actually drink blood and those that do seem to psionically absorb the life force and energy within the blood. Psi-vamps seem to become a little more energised by draining/contact, but they experience none of the benefits of the blood or sickness as well. Feed well and be safe about it.. In the faith.. Damien Daville