I have never been very connected to having a body. For trauma reasons, I got really good at existing almost entirely in my head, and the meat suit just carries me around. In my trauma recovery I had been looking for a somatic practice in order to try to heal that broken mind/body connection.

Turns out, covering myself in shaving cream or cool whip or cake batter is a really intense sensory experience and puts me very much into my skin. Having a partner who's so turned on by it helps make me want to stay there in my body and just feel. Afterward there's this full body euphoria and calm. I've never felt anything else like it.

I know I'm not alone, but who relates?

Absolutely, but for different reasons. My mind has 20 coroutines going at once, all of the time. (More than 20 sometimes). Pie play and absolute coverage reduces that to 1.

"Turns out, covering myself in shaving cream or cool whip or cake batter is a really intense sensory experience and puts me very much into my skin. Having a partner who's so turned on by it helps make me want to stay there in my body and just feel. Afterward there's this full body euphoria and calm. I've never felt anything else like it. "

This. Exactly. And vice-versa -- being with someone who feels the same, and watching them have bliss creates a real compersion experience for me.

It's almost indescribable, but you have done a wonderful job at describing it.

Thank you for that deep and for this forum quite unusual post.

Yes, actually for me it's not just fun but also deep connection to myself and my body. Especially messing around in nature with wet earth, mud and clay and being fully submerged in dark thick tidal mud connects me more to my body, my eros. I can feel myself deeply. A bit like an embodied erotic meditation. I can just be.

I'm not carrying a lot (capital) or even sexual trauma from my past. Some years ago there was some shame on some kinks - but also I worked trough that. But my sexuality developed a lot. It's not bypassing anymore. WAM It's not driven anymore, but a conscious invitation for me to connect to myself, my senses and my playfulness. Alone or with others.

Lots of love
Marc

While I do feel connected to my body, that hasn't always been the case. I do use WAM to help in that connection. I once described it to a friend as wanting just to feel something because I felt so numb to everything else. Over time though have felt more, but I still use WAM connect and feel a different sensation. I don"t get to be my kinky self too often which is why I have filmed my sessions this to heightens my aware in a small way as I connect to those moments.

100%! I'm a pretty vanilla person in my normal life, and horribly shy and insecure. This is my outlet to explore parts of me that I never have before in a way that's safe and fun. And getting super messy has been a way for me to find new confidence in myself and feel powerful almost.

I saw someone else said it helps calm their mind, and I totally agree. As someone with anxiety and depression, when I'm doing what I do, I forget whatever that may be worrying me and just connect to the camera and the mess and the way it feels.

I think I have quite good connection with my body but get the best connection through WAM - the sensory aspect and fact that when in the middle of it there's no way of doing anything else, it provides full immersion and calm for the mind which I think enhances the physical sensation. It has provided me with my most blissful and ecstatic experiences, both alone or with another.

I can definitely relate to this. Getting messy is absolutely a sensual experience for me, and I'm not just saying that because I am a guy. I know of some guys out there who only see getting messy as pleutonic and just for fun, and do not see it for any sensual/sexual reasons, but I definitely have to admit it is absolutely sensual/sexual for me, the thought of being completely covered head to toe in mess is extremely sensual and makes me want to properly connect and experience my body, and afterwards (somewhat like yourself) I do feel a real sense of euphoria (nothing to do with self pleasure though, although that too also helps hehe).

I can also somewhat relate to yourself as well, Creamy. I myself am also somewhat shy, I am always worried that when I am in a room of strangers how those people might perceive me and I'm always afraid of being judged (because I have been in the past) by who I am on the outside, but when I feel comfortable talking to someone I can really open up and speak freely.

I definitely find it easier to hide behind the internet and feel more confident talking about messy fun than doing so in real life, even with friends sometimes, although thankfully I confessed my fetish to a couple of close friends and they didn't judge so that gave me some self confidence.

I too also suffer with depression and anxiety but definitely find it easier to chat on here about it and other things especially if I don't really know the person, I would not openly confess to a stranger of my messy fetish unless they happened to confess they enjoyed it also. I can admit that like yourself, when I've had solo messy fun in the past I was able to forget my worries and just enjoy the sensations I get from the mess.

I didn't have trauma or a disconnect with my body. I don't have Dysmorphia or Dysphoria or anything like that. I can still relate to this feeling though.

I feel like I was deprived of touch. Getting messy can somewhat feel like touch. A substance oozing down the body can feel like a hand or finger caressing my skin. I don't think there have been many scientific studies on wam, but there has been a lot of studies on touch. I've asked the the AIs and it can cite a bunch of information about why mammals like touch. I have a theory that a lot of us that like wam for the sensory feeling or sensual aspect of it like it because of the same way mammals like being touched.

I can understand that a lot of people get nothing from the feeling of getting messy, and some people are repulsed by it. I also understand that some people like wam because of the humiliation factor and could care less about how it feels. There are plenty of other reasons to be into wam including the playfulness, naughtiness, and exhilaration. For me, the sensory feeling of getting messy is what I like the most. It is unusual for me because I have rarely been messy, so it is also about the visual factor, imagining what it feels like, desiring the feeling, and desiring to give others the feeling by making them messy.

As always, it is interesting to read people's perspectives on this forum. Thanks for sharing.

Thank you for OP's astute observation from someone who's neurospicy and also carries trauma.