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So everyone’s talking about #WaterSportsGate.

But what exactly are watersports?

And what is a golden shower?

#WaterSportsGate refers to claims President-elect Donald Trump watched sex workers perform golden showers in a Russian hotel room.

The allegations are entirely unproven and, on Twitter, Trump denied the reports, calling them ‘fake news’ and a ‘political witch hunt’.

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All well and good – unless you don’t actually know what golden showers are in the first place.

Here’s your handy guide by journalist and professional dominatrix Margaret Corvid.

What is a golden shower?

A golden shower (also known as watersports) is an act of fetish play where someone will urinate on another person.

That can be directly, or poured into a glass and poured onto them.

Usually it’s urinating direct from body onto a person.

That sounds messy

It can be but generally when I’m performing one I do it in a bath tub.

Some people spread a tarp on the floor but pee can go everywhere.

Sometimes people will want to combine pee drinking with it – that reduces the mess.

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Are there different types?

There can be a lot of things combined with it – humiliation, or you can have it in a specific area like the face.

Some people will combine peeing with oral worship or play (administering oral sex at the same time).

Other people will just want to watch the peeing.

In the case of Donald Trump it was an alleged pee show.

Why do people like golden showers?

Sometimes it’s a humiliation thing – pee is associated with dirty things, private things.

Also there’s the senory aspect to it – it’s warm, it’s part of a person, there’s that intimacy and sense of connection.

Some people just like the taste or smell.

Some people pick things up in their formative years.

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How popular are they?

Golden showers are quite a popular fetish – I get a lot of requests for them, so do a lot of sex workers.

I can do it because I work from home and have a big bath tub.

Are they unhygienic?

No – the cool thing is it’s quite a clean way to play with the idea of dirtiness.

Common wisdom suggests that pee is sterile when it leaves the body, but that’s not actually true. All substances from our bodies contain bacteria – ideally natural, good flora that keeps it healthy rather than the bad sort. Plus the urine will be further contaminated as it passes the skin on the way out of the body. However, unless you have some sort of infection, the levels of bacteria we are talking about are low.

Are they safe?

Golden showers are no more unsafe than any other sort of sexual contact.

But you should avoid them if you have, for example, a urinary tract infection, a bladder infection, a yeast infection or HPV – that just makes sense.

Like any other fluid bonded play it’s worth being careful.

As a sex worker I regularly get tested even though I don’t have sex with my clients. Peeing is generally a low-risk activity.

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