Role Play – A form of play where partners act out scenes or fantasies while pretending to be someone or something they are not.
Common roles:
Teacher/student
Angel/Devil
Spiderman/Wonder Woman (sacrilege, combining Marvel and DC, I know)
Cop/Criminal
Prison Guard/Inmate
Or in my experience:
Wench/Tentacle Monster
Why do people use role play in their play? Because it means we can be anything we want to be. Of course, there has to be a suspension of disbelief involved. As Wonder Woman, I don’t really have a lasso that makes someone tell the truth. That’s where pretending comes into play.
When I was a wench being flogged till I told where the treasure was, or I’d be given to the Kracken…there wasn’t really a tentacle monster involved. But, with the sound of water and the slimy/sticky hoses that were wrapped around me during the scene…..I pretended and the tingles were real.
Or the time I played a witch in a witch hunt.
Or when I was the prisoner being interrogated by the prison guard
What fun to be able to live out some naughty fantasies.
I’d love to be Wonder Woman, but before I can get my lasso out, Spiderman webs me and has his way with me. Yep. Tingles at the thought.
