How I fell in love with sploshing

I didn’t know what sploshing, or wet and messy play was until I was watching a bunch of  7 Days of Domination videos, where Darla Devour gave a presentation about it. Darla does these amazing gamefied sploshing cam shows that look so colourful and fun. In the talk she gave, she said something she loves about it is the sensory aspect of it, and the feeling of play. When she said that, I knew I wanted to try it.

My boyfriend and I went to Superstore and bought a cake. I don’t remember what kind exactly it was, but it had a bunch of strawberries on top. We drove out to a windy field and set up the camera. Before the cake sitting, I played with a whipped cream canister, spraying it all over my chest. Then we got the cake. We had one shot to do it. I straddled the cake and slowly lowered myself down over it, until I was hovering in a squat. Finally, I sank into it. It felt cold, squishy, soft. I nestled my butt into it and smashed into it repeatedly. I took fistfuls of it and rubbed it all over myself. I licked it off of my fingers and accidentally ate some grass. I don’t think I was a kid who played with their food, but this is something I knew I wanted to try again. I cleaned myself off as best I could with paper towels and drove back into the city, sticky and happy. 

I ordered kid’s paint off of Amazon and I’m going to do a paint sploshing video soon. I’m excited to have found this niche that I had no idea existed until a few months ago and I can’t wait to pour paint over my head. Today I did a cake sitting video in my basement studio. It felt satisfying and fun. I bought some chocolate sauce. More sploshing and wet and messy stuff is coming soon. 

I liked that it feels playful and feels like a way to explore new sensations that are not accessible very often. It had elements of what I love about clowning (yes I am also a clown). What I mean by that is, it’s an opportunity to explore play in a way that adults are not encouraged to play.  After being taught our whole lives not to play with our food, it felt cheeky and slightly rebellious. I’m only in my second month of doing spicy content creation in a serious way, so I’m still finding my footing in terms of niches and specialities, but I’ve discovered that I love sploshing. It feels silly and unserious, which I am all about. A trap I sometimes fall into is feeling like the stuff I make needs to be serious. But I love watching people having fun, so why wouldn’t other people want to watch me have fun? I can see the creative potential in it as well. Now when I buy groceries I wonder what else I can sit in, or dump over my head, or rub all over myself.