male heartsound

These are the reasons from my point of view. It cannot be generalized ;-).

1, We love physical contact.

Cuddling and touching are a necessity and a passion for them (earstething, feeling the heartbeat by touch, etc. ...).

2, It is not difficult to find a gift for us :).

There are many types of stethoscopes, echocardiograms, heart-shaped things, etc. on the market.

3, We are grateful.

The fact that you accept us as we are is the most important thing for us. We will always cherish it and never forget it.

4, We don't judge others.

By nature, we are tolerant (most of us :D) of others and their interests. We ourselves know what it's like to be judged.

5, No one has to "force" us to have sex.

Heartbeat is a big (really big...) turn on for us. All you need is to press our hand, stethoscope or ear to your chest and you can do whatever you want with us :).

Please care for your heart.

As many of you know, someone here has very recently died of a heart attack indulging in risky heart play including needles and electricity. May he rest in peace. My deepest condolences to those who loved and knew him. I want to address some of my own experiences and hopefully we can band together as a community to discourage this kind of dangerous activity.

I realize the attraction and appeal so many cardiophiles such as myself have towards the darker side of the fetish and irregular rhythms. Only a few are privy to this information, but I myself have used needles and electricity on my heart. Originally I turned to needles in a very depressing part of my life after my fiance left me and I wanted an edge in my sexual life. It slowly advanced to more needles, longer needles. Eventually I felt better, but for someone like me this behavior was already an addiction. A few months ago, I added electricity to the mix and have been slowly advancing to more risky things. I like to think I'm being cautious, but this has been a wake up call that it's a dangerous road I'm walking on.

I never shared any of this publicly because it was something I knew was risky and I didn't want to encourage anyone else. To those I have shared private videos with, I apologize if I made my actions appealing even if I did advise against trying yourself.

I will be quitting this cold turkey, and I have some people I can talk to if I the urge to try again comes back.

As a community, we need to come together and discourage needles and electricity. Advancing to this level needs to be treated like an addiction, because for many of us it is. Sharing the content also gives others ideas. The first time I saw someone stick a needle in their heart I thought it was madness. I would have never dared to try it if I didn't see so many videos over and over.

I will continue with things such as pressure/ poppers/ breathplay, although my pressure sessions will be less intense than some of the ones you've seen in the past. I can't say pressure is without risk either, generally I would say it's safe for someone with a healthy heart. I have heard of some people with heart problems such as murmurs/ valve issues having strange reactions to pressure. If you have heart problems, please be very careful with your ticker ❤️

Seeing a lot of needle and heart shocking content coming up again and I wanna speak on dark cardiophilia briefly.

I love dark cardio stuff. I've made no mystery of that. I'm not here to yell or shame folks for engaging in it; I do myself, up to limits I'm comfortable with. But anyone doing it, from mild breath play through sticking needles into your heart and shocking it, needs to remember that dark play is dangerous and can have serious consequences. It's not that people do it, but that people new to it may be naive and putting their hearts at serious risk without realizing. Back when I was a teenager someone put out excellent videos of what turned out to be fake heart shocking and I nearly electrocuted myself trying to recreate it, not knowing it was fake and with no idea that what I was trying would have literally cooked me. (I was trying to use an outlet. Yikes.)

Per needles in particular, here are a few big risks. An unsanitary needle can cause an infection. An overly thick needle can cause structural damage to the heart. But even if you're using a clean, thin needle, if you get it in the wrong place you can damage valves. I have seen this happen to folks.

The biggest risk though is inserting a needle into an artery on the outside of the heart and causing bleeding into the pericardium. This is a medical emergency that can only be treated with urgent open heart surgery. You have hours to minutes to get into the operating room if this happens or you will die. Folks *have died* at least twice that I know of.

This lives in tension with the fact that you actually aren't likely to hit an artery. They're small. However you can't be totally sure where they are either; the location of the heart in the chest is slightly different in everyone. It's like that game minesweeper, there aren't many mines but if you hit one it's game over. Again, a lot of people have done this tons of time and are perfectly fine.

With electricity, there's a similar level of risk for a different issue. This time it's instigating dangerous rhythms by shocking the heart in particular vulnerable windows. These windows are small, so again, plenty of people do this without issue. I know a guy who would go for a hard run, then stick needles into his heart and shock it. He did it for like a decade and then one time he got unlucky and went into a vfib arrest which he luckily recovered from pretty rapidly. I know another guy who arrested his heart at least 3 times, who has since removed his content and gone quiet, leaving me to wonder if he went too far.