{{short description|Form of consensual BDSM edgeplay involving knives, daggers, and swords}} {{about|a form of BDSM|the Xiu Xiu album|Knife Play|the band|Knifeplay (band)}} {{more citations|date=December 2025}}
'''Knife play''' is a form of consensual [[BDSM]] [[edgeplay]] involving [[knife|knives]], [[dagger]]s, and [[sword]]s as a source of physical and mental stimulation.<ref name=T>{{citation|first1=Miranda|last1=Austin|first2=Sam|last2=Atwood|date=2005|title=''The Toybag Guide to Erotic Knifeplay''|publisher=[[Greenery Press]]|location=San Francisco|isbn=978-1-890159-66-5|oclc=60419183}}</ref>
Knives are typically used to cut away clothing, scratch the skin, remove wax after [[wax play]], or simply provide sensual stimulation. Knife play can also be a form of [[temperature play]] or [[body modification]].
==Kinky Women Research Study== In 2015, the scientific journal ''[[Archives of Sexual Behavior]]'' published the "Kinky Women Research Study" by author Jennifer Eve Rehor, a San Diego relationship therapist. Rehor conducted the study at [[San Francisco State University]] while in the Human Sexuality Studies graduate program. Rehor surveyed 1,580 women within the kink community and questioned them about 126 sexual behaviors.<ref name=M>{{cite web|magazine=[[Men's Health]]|title=1,580 Women Reveal Their Surprising (and Sometimes Frightening) Erotic Fantasies|author=Spitznagel, Eric|date=September 11, 2015|url=https://www.menshealth.com/sex-women/a19547669/crazy-sex-kinks-explained/|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20201019163320/https://www.menshealth.com/sex-women/a19547669/crazy-sex-kinks-explained/|archivedate=October 19, 2020}}</ref>
A 2015 article in ''[[Men's Health]]'' magazine written by Eric Spitznagel about the kink study stated that, "38 percent like "Knife play," which I’m going to assume means they like being on the receiving end of a knife."<ref name=M/>
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