Aswad
Posts: 9374
Joined: 4/4/2007 Status: offline
|
zindygirl, My own experience have been that if the exposure is significant, and it has been very long since the last time, I get an uneasy stomach for a few hours at some point after the exposure, but otherwise nothing. And nephandi hasn't been experiencing any problems with her exposure either. Admittedly, though, we haven't done any serious A2M stuff yet, so we're talking accidental exposure here. The corprophiles could perhaps chime in with regards to this, although I kind of get the impression that not many of them are particularly safety-minded. Hopefully, this impression is wrong. As for research... This is a sensitive topic. Not because of the kink; there's been lots of studies related to kink. But because there are ethical guidelines for human research that the subject ordinarily cannot consent to waive. And testing something that is suspected of posing a risk to the participants is one of the things you cannot do unless the benefit outweighs the risk, and even then it requires a very high standard of informed consent. For instance, although admittedly a more severe example, an elderly Catholic priest offered to be contaminated with an injection of radiolabeled HIV-virus so that they could study the progression of the disease in detail, and was refused despite being rather insistent. The ethically dubious way of doing this, of course, is to inform him that a particular syringe contains radiolabeled HIV and that he should under no circumstance inject it into himself while you're gone, and then leave the room to fetch something. Then you could probably study him. But the doctor who did it would still risk repercussions. A doctor can use him/herself as a research subject with no limits, but I don't think you'll find enough pairs of doctors that would be willing to practice A2M with each other to study this in a meaningful way. If you know any researchers that would be willing to set up a study of something that would involve related measurements, then you could get together some people that are willing to do A2M in the interests of kinky science, and set things up so that you can bypass the ethical guidelines in the interests of helping the community and advancing the cause of the Right to Consent. I know a few who might be willing to set up such a study, and indirectly quantify the effects of A2M on health to publish this result as well, but that would be here in Norway, and I don't know enough kinksters here that one could set up a meaningful (quantitative/representative) study.
|