‘Like the WWE…kids don’t try this at home. I just want to be treated like every other extreme performer,’ Santos told Dailymail.com
Daily Mail
There is a fine line between what’s acceptable and taboo in the practice of S&M in which partners consent to test one another’s limits.
And now an anesthesiologist named Dr. Edwin Perez is defending his right to perform a controversial bloodletting practice at an event called Cirque De Plasir in New York, after an anonymous party attendee has demanded that he stop.
The party guest witnessed Edwin Perez engage in a practice called ‘arterial tapping’ at a recent event and it chilled her to the bone.
The S&M act is performed by the dominant party who hits his submissive partner’s artery in such a way that he can control his or her blood flow.
‘Some people just do blood play where they just get some kind of rush out of releasing blood from their arteries,’ said the fetish party attendee to NBC.
She criticized the demonstration in which Santos, a name Perez uses when he is performing, splatters his submissive partners blood onto a canvas.
She said that because Perez is an anesthesiologist the act of bloodletting is disturbing.
‘I think there’s definitely more of a shocking aspect that [he is] a doctor who took a Hippocratic Oath to help and heal,’ she said.
‘It just seems so contrary to his profession.’
DailyMail.com spoke with Dr. Perez who said his activities at parties have absolutely no place in his professional life. Perez is an anesthesiologist who practices in Newark, New Jersey.
Perez is active in the S&M community and says he and his submissive partner don’t just do arterial tapping at parties but they do it at home as well.
Perez reiterated the fact that his partner enjoys the activity and that he would ever hurt any of his patients.
‘Basically I present myself as Santos to the public and perform with others. I never present what I do for a living except to people that ask me privately,’ said Perez of his sex party alter ego.
‘I also perform with my personal partners. The girls that I date or have dated. We do these things in our personal life as well,’ he added.
Santos says that the blood splatter painting from the party has been hanging in his date’s room since the event.
He also says that he warns other against doing what he does, especially if people do not know what they are doing.
‘Like the WWE…kids don’t try this at home. I just want to be treated like every other extreme performer. It just turns out that I have a day job.’ …