That special feeling of squelching delicious mud between your toes is not just for farm-dwellers and outdoorsy types. Lots of city folk can't get enough wet and messy action both inside and outside the home. This is a window into the sexy world of WAM for those who might get off on watching the foamy marshmallow explosion from "Ghostbusters" and already have some idea about what kind of slime they want to get slathered in and further their mad experiments. Take note: Wet and messy action is all about fluids from outside the body. You can mix it up with your watersports and saliva love and anything else you wish, but for the purposes of gunge play, it's all about introducing gooeys from without, not within.

But where do you start? If you're not ready to go public with your love of gunge and jump out of a cake during a bachelor party, start with a few simple types of play you can do in your own home. If you're just starting out, a reasonable question to ask is, "How am I going to clean up afterwards?" Start with finding a place to play that you can hose down later. The bathroom is a great launch pad for your wet adventures, since hopefully you have a shower you can use right after. The W in WAM stands for "wet," after all, so start with water on your clothed or naked body and move up in viscosity from there. When you've gone through a few different sessions in a safe-to-clean spot, try more dangerous areas of your home. I don't recommend WAM play on any carpeted areas, but of course it's up to you.

WAM is all about getting off on being covered in mess, be it liquid or more solid, so the decision to be clothed or unclothed is yours. Why not try both? There are those who prefer to be nude when they get started and there are those who specifically get off on ruining something that is seemingly pure, like a sterile, white uniform or elegant gown. Start with what feels natural, be it lathering your whole body in the tub naked or standing under your shower in clingy clothes. Enjoy the feeling of the fluid sloshing over you and take as long as you want to smooth your fingers over every inch of your wonderful skin. Then squeeze suds through your fingers or splash in the water and revel in the abandon that comes with getting really, really messy.

Once you're beyond this point, you're probably going to want to get out into a larger area and use other substances to make your gunge session as sexy as possible. In this case, it's often a group activity. There's no particular reason for this, but sploshers, gunge groups, wammers, anyone who loves wet and messy sexiness, tend to join in the fun with one another, often in large groups. It doesn't mean you're not really into it if you're alone, but it is luxurious to have treacle, sparkly oil or thick slime poured all over you by another person. A well-appointed kitchen, garage or dungeon are great places for indoor WAM fun and, of course, if you're going outside, you can make yourself a messy playground just about anywhere you find yourself.

If you do prefer your messy fun away from prying eyes, find a riverbed or quarry runoff to play happy, happy hippo in. These are ideal outdoor wet and messy places where mud is deep and generally free from rocks, but, of course, with so much debris and pollutants everywhere, make sure you step in with your boots before going barefoot. Use Google Earth to find decent spots near you and then give them a smell and touch test. Try to avoid miasmic places like swamps and ponds where the water doesn't move. You're looking for mud that is free from bugs and dog droppings, so secluded riverbeds are ideal. When you find a decent spot, get yourself hip-deep in thick, heavy mud and enjoy the resistance against your skin as you move around in it. It's a wonderful feeling that is no longer reserved only for the spa! You can also make your own mudpond if you have a back or front yard. Get a wading pool and instead of filling it with water, fill it in with clay mud. If you're really adventurous and into the DIY scene, you could probably dig out a pond for something more permanent, but those inflatable pools are not to be sniffed at, especially if you live somewhere with inclement weather for some of the year.

The next reasonable question to pose for yourself is, "What am I going to use?" There are literally gallons of different fluids to douse yourself in, ranging in viscosity from water to foam to slime to pudding and all the way to pies. The food angle is a very popular one, but it isn't the only thing out there. Start with something well-known in the sex world, like non-dairy whipped cream, and work from there. You can find non-dairy products in sex shops and it's a good idea not to go with any actual grocery-store creams. They don't mix well with the human body and though the play is supposed to be messy and sexy, it's not supposed to give anyone a yeast infection. Cool Whip is actually a cheap alternative and it's fairly easy on the floors. It also takes well to food dyes, so when you're ready to start getting messy in technicolor, this could be a fun way to get started.

So what should you use indoors when you've exhausted the possibilities from soapy suds and whipped dessert topping? The sky literally is the limit and you've likely considered one or two things you'd particularly like to try. Food-wise, syrups are a wonderful place to start, as are frozen cakes (thawed), pie filling, beans, oatmeal (cold) and puddings. A simple rule to remember when your wet and messy play is food related is: Never mix play foods if they wouldn't mix in a recipe. Some players might find puking sexy, but it's often a turn-off. Remember to test foods first. Some pie fillings, blueberry especially, will stain your skin or hair and mixes for cakes and pancakes are great fun until they dry in your body hair and make for impromptu and quite painful hair removal afterwards. If ruining clothes and costumes is your thing, the stains come in handy. Ketchup will leave you and that crisp white suit you used it on smelling like vinegar for days, but the feeling of leaving a sullied mark on a piece of clothing is often worth it.

If you want to experiment outside the culinary sex world, try pouring oils, paints, gels and grease all over yourself and your partner. Remember that motor oils and cleaning products are replete with disgusting chemicals that will sting or even irritate your skin. Not a sexy feeling. Try for old-fashioned petroleum greases, shaving cream and non-toxic oils that can safely be used on the body. Save these products for when you've got a good handle on what you like in your messes and be sure to keep in mind what properties these wonderful sludges might have. If you're using something like shaving foam, for example, be sure you're not just spraying everywhere since it can irritate eyes. The same goes for non-toxic body paints, so you might want to start off slathering rather than just going for it and pouring buckets of this stuff over your partner's head. Heavier oils and petroleum products are best used in fully clothed play and should not be used near the face.

The toxicity of certain non-food substances is a factor not only in play, but in clean-up as well. Generally, if you wouldn't use it on your body, there's no reason to put it in the ground or down a drain. If you're using liquid latex - or playing mechanic and using oil - get informed about how to properly dispose of these liquids in your city. It is not okay to put them down a drain, even a large one, and most municipalities have safe disposal programs. Because of the drain issue, be very careful when removing these substances from your or your partner's body. There are lots of non-toxic degreasers out there and you'll need to rinse in the shower, but only after you've gotten as much as you can off your skin. Never ingest or command anyone to ingest any petroleum or potentially toxic grease products. If you like licking or being licked clean, everything used must be edible.

Mud is a favorite for swarthier sploshers, even the indoorsy type. You can make it yourself from grog or modeling clay powders and relive that amazing but far-too-short scene from "Ghost." If you're careful during clean-up, you can often salvage more than half of it for use later and that's definitely worth doing if you're indoors and don't want to clog up your drains. Glutinous, glorious mud can keep you and your WAM friends up for days having wrestling matches or just lounging like happy beasts. Work your clay between fingers and toes or if your credit card can take it, get a few buckets of cosmetic seaweed mud that a spa might use and go for a full-body immersion with a much happier ending than the one you get at the health club.

Slime, of course, is a well-known staple in the wet and messy world. It's a glorious, gooey substance used on television shows to play jokes on celebrities or contestants on gunge gameshows and, of course, give sexy sloshers a serious orgasm. To buy in the quantities you'll need for a good session can be prohibitive, but it's easy to make your own slime. There's more than one way to make slime, some recipes involving Borax mixed with glue and others requiring methyl cellulose. Either of these mixed with water and your favorite food coloring will give you as much sexy slime as you like. If you're not sure about the chemicals involved, start with equal parts cornstarch and water. Methyl cellulose will give the results closest to what you see in movies and television: a thick liquid that sluices everywhere when poured on someone. It takes a long time to get to the consistency you want, but the results are worth it.

A lesser-known offshoot of wet and messy play is clown play, with the biggest emphasis placed on grease paint and creamy pies in the face. It's not yet as well known as wet and messy play or sploshing, but the babes don dangerous-looking Joker faces and smush thick cream into each other's faces and pussies. Blowjobs are loads of fun, especially when a facial cumshot lands squarely on a bright-red nose. Whitewash is poured down pants and pies are thrown willy nilly, so some out there might want to get a bit of whiteface and see where your slapstick fantasy takes you.

When the desire for glam meets the fetish for WAM, it's time to get some plastic sheets and set up the cameras. Be aware that using professional lights will likely dry out whatever your smooshing in, so have lots on hand to keep sluicing yourself and your partners with as the shoot unfolds. Start with covering each other and, before long, you'll all be rolling around in cool, delicious mud, slime and whatever else you've concocted. A fun part of clean-up time can be the sluicing down of each other's bodies in showers and with hoses after a sticky session. When the soap starts sudsing up, you might just find yourself in round two and the cameras can still keep rolling as long as there's enough room. It's not easy to reuse plastic sheets once you're done with them and often what's nice about them is that you can easily gather up all your liquids and dispose of them easily. A gunge tank is also a worthwhile investment for your long-term WAM needs, since these are dedicated specifically to slime, mud and all things gungy for your favorite part of playtime. If you have the wherewithal, make a gunge tank yourself, replete with room for a ducking stool. If you're really industrious and building from scratch, think about adding a sump-pump in the drain. Be sure to join the drain to a separate tank rather than connecting it to the sewage line at your home and for either type of tank, clean it regularly to avoid mixing fluids that should remain separate.

Whether alone or with partners, make sure your wet and messy play is all about the joy of sexy sluicing and not about the dangers of toxic substances. Slime each other, have pie fights the way they should be hand, get into mudbaths, wrestle in pudding and do everything a strict clean freak tells you is a terrible idea. WAM is a recipe for great fun alone or with friends, clothed or nude, indoor or outdoor and everywhere in between, as long as everyone stays safe, sane and consensual.

References:

Messy Directory

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