Blood fetish Regarding blood fetish please don t suggest to people that a common way of finding out whether a person would be safe to engage in bloodplay with is for them to go to their local blood donation organisation who check blood if it is safe and contains no diseases before it will be stored Using a blood donation organization as a proxy STD test is highly irresponsible if the testing is not 100 perfect and in never is and the person trying this is positive and presumably anyone who is considering doing this considers this to be entirely possible they will almost certainly because of pre test blood pooling and the very large blood volumes involved infect one or more unwitting third parties with a potentially lethal disease Instead they should get tested at their local sexual health clinic People just wanting to make sure are no more likely to have an STD than other first time blood donors I don t see your point If that kind of carelessness goes on things would happen anyway It s reasonable to assume that people who take part in high risk activities are at higher risk than other members of the population In epidemiology terms it s assortative mixing among people with high risk tolerance people who take part in one high risk activity are more likely to take part in others including taking part in these activities with multiple partners and no you can t trust your partner who tells you I ve never done anything like this before either Consider the outbreaks of HIV in the regularly tested adult movie industry this in a population that take part in high risk activities and yet are all tested monthly Hmm I guess that makes sense kinda I would be interested in reading if you feel like creating articles for assortative mixing and risk tolerance maybe or I m not familiar with the article or the subject of its concern but I fail to see how saying X does Y constitutes an actual endorsement of Y If such a method is indeed commonplace then regardless of the advisability of such method for practitioners of said activity it should be included as part of the article on that activity Karada I think you miss the point here Just because certain behavior is inadvisable does not mean Wikipedia should not state that people engage in it if indeed they do and describe it Certainly the encyclopedia should not ENDORSE it but then again neither should it endorse anything elseNPOV and all that but simply stating that it happens and describing what it is hardly constitutes an endorsement If we were to remove all content that describes inadvisable behavior then we would also have to remove Collectivism Fascism Socialism Christianity Communism Totalitarianism Anarchism Democracy New England Patriots Detroit Pistons and Houston Astros It s also worth noting that there are some bloodborne diseases that we can t yet test for Prion diseases like Creutzfeldt Jakob disease comes to mind In addition to spreading these diseases to one s blood play partners one would then potentially infect one or more innocent bystanders each time one donated blood Most jurisdictions also bar donations from individuals who have recently in the last 12 months come in contact with another person s blood Lying to the nurses when they ask about this stuff could conceivably make you civilly and or criminally liable for any morbidity or mortality resulting from a tainted blood donation talk The question is is it actually a com