The biggest piece of advice that people new to kink get is “use a safeword” – a special word to mean “no, stop”. Safewords are extremely important for most scenes, but for people who fetishise power exchange, especially those who fetishise it intensely, safewords can… get in the way. Having the power to stop play …
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Consent Is Impossible (but we should aspire to it anyway)
Consent is the bedrock of healthy sex. There are many different frameworks to consider consent in, but my personal favourite is FRIES: Freely given: consent is given without pressure, coercion, or manipulation Reversible: consent can be withdrawn at any point Informed: you should know what you’re consenting to Enthusiastic: if consent is reluctant, it is …
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