ABSTRACT Wet and Messy (WAM) is a sexual fetish that involves the use of food, water or other messy items and has a number of elements in common with bondage-discipline, domination-submission, sadomasochism (BDSM). WAM pornography contains elements associated with slapstick comedy as well. In this article I illustrate how Williams’ work on pornography, Peacock’s work on slapstick comedy and Hills’ work on affective play can be used to analyse power and play in WAM videos. I argue that awareness of consent, safety, participant enjoymentand the oscillation of subject positions by the viewer are key tounderstanding audience engagement, and that WAM pornography - likeother forms of pornography - is capable of interrogating orsubverting sociocultural norms around bodies and pleasure.