If you’ve seen season 4 part 1 of You, then you’ve already seen the scene in episode 2 where Adam (played by Lukas Gage) steps into a closet, gets on his knees, and receives a golden shower from an employee. Yep-like, he puts on swimming goggles, takes off his clothes, and says “Piss on me” while a club staff member unbuckles his pants and does, in fact, pee on his face.

Call it piss play, water sports, or the aforementioned (and more widely known) golden shower-this fetish is nothing new. Remember when Carrie refused to pee on Bill Kelley (aka “the politician”) when he revealed his pee kink and offered to “dribble warm tea” on him instead? And lest we forget, in 2017, 10 days ahead of his inauguration ceremony, a highly detailed 35-page dossier was typed completely from the BuzzFeed that revealed surprising allegations about then–president elect Donald Trump-including one that he hired “a number of prostitutes to manage a beneficial ‘golden showers’ (urination) inform you in front of him” at a hotel. Case in point: Some people are into urine! And it’s a fetish just like any other.

According to Samantha Manewitz, MSW, a sex therapist with the Institute for Sexual Education and Enlightenment who specializes in working with alt-sex and kink communities, “There are far more people who are interested in this sort of play than are willing to disclose it,” as is the case with any kink or fetish. As to the *why* behind it all? “Water sports can foster trust and intimacy,” she said. “There’s vulnerability both in having a partner pee in your presence and allowing yourself to be peed on. There is also something about exchanging bodily fluids in general that can be hot for some. The fact that it is ‘wrong’ and ‘dirty’ can be a turn-on in and of itself.”

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