What Is Primal Play?

What is Primal Play?

Primal has various descriptions and meanings from the primal play community as a whole. Each rank also tends to mean different things or behaviors for many other primal play individuals or they do not believe in ranks at all. The biggest misunderstanding that I’ve seen about primal play is that it’s always animal play. That’s not true. I would classify animal play under the umbrella of being “primal.” But you don’t have to be animalistic at all to tap into your primal side. Many people have trouble acting on their instincts in bed. They’re too concerned with protocol. They frequently overthink and find themselves unable to relax. The resulting sex is often awkward and stilted. Acting on instinct is a very powerful thing. We reject the “shoulds” in favor of raw emotion and physical desire. Raw instinct can be rough, and it’s not for the faint of heart for when it does. It’s also not for partners who haven’t established the foundation of trust necessary for such an intense experience with their Alphas/Hunters/Predators etc. For some folks it’s wrestling, hair pulling, biting, nipping, or guttural/growling/mewling/chirping like sounds. For others, it’s laughter, tears, body-to-body massage, mutual masturbation, or licking each other everywhere. Power play, chasing, hunting down each other either one on one or as a pack or group establishment. It’s free from shame. It’s joy. And I don’t think there’s anything else in the world quite like it. The main types of play play in behavior is hair pulling, clawing, biting, scratching, hickies, scent marking (rubbing your faces against the other person to get your perfume/natural scent on them, if your into water play using fluids ,not everyone does this, or sharing your perfume/cologne with others to 'wear their' scents on your clothing or body. Other types are power displays by stalking, hunting, chasing down, wrestling till submission or who can be worn out first into submission, providing their strength that they are the best for that person (this often comes out during breeding kinks).