Negotiation Checklist: Consent, Boundaries, and BDSM Planning
A negotiation checklist is a structured tool for discussing BDSM or sexual activities, limits, safewords, risks, privacy, health concerns, and aftercare before participation.
Hard Limit: Firm Boundaries in BDSM and Sexual Consent
A hard limit is a firm BDSM or sexual boundary identifying an activity, behavior, or situation that a person does not consent to and does not want negotiated or crossed.
Soft Limit: Negotiable Boundaries in BDSM and Sexual Consent
A soft limit is a BDSM or sexual boundary that someone may consider exploring under specific conditions but that still requires clear, specific, and voluntary consent.
Personal Responsibility, Informed, Consensual Kink: PRICK Explained
Personal Responsibility, Informed, Consensual Kink (PRICK) is a BDSM consent framework emphasizing informed choices, personal responsibility, communication, and voluntary participation.
Traffic Light System: Green, Yellow, and Red in Consent
The traffic light system uses green, yellow, and red as simple signals for continuing, slowing down or checking in, and stopping during intimate or BDSM activities.
Risk-Aware Consent: Informed Choice, Boundaries, and Sexual Safety
Risk-aware consent means agreeing to an activity with a reasonable understanding of its important risks, limits, possible consequences, and available safety measures.
Child Marriage: Age, Consent, Gender, and Human Rights
Child marriage is a marriage involving at least one person below the recognized minimum age, raising concerns about consent, education, health, autonomy, and gender inequality.
Forced Marriage: Coercion, Consent, Family Pressure, and Rights
Forced marriage occurs when one or both people are pressured, threatened, or coerced into marriage without free and full consent.
Virginity Testing: Myths, Consent, and Bodily Integrity
Virginity testing is an unreliable practice that attempts to determine sexual history through genital examination, despite no physical test being able to prove virginity.
Corrective Rape: Sexual Violence Motivated by Anti-LGBTQ+ Prejudice
Corrective rape is sexual violence committed with the claimed purpose of changing, punishing, or suppressing someone’s sexual orientation, gender identity, or gender expression.