Edge Play: High-Risk BDSM, Consent, and Safety
Edge play is a BDSM and kink term for consensual activities considered unusually intense, psychologically demanding, physically risky, or close to personal limits.
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.
First Sexual Experience: Consent, Readiness, and Sexual Health
A first sexual experience is a person’s first encounter with an activity they consider sexual and may involve questions of consent, readiness, health, and personal meaning.
Virtual Sex: Digital Sexual Interaction, Consent, and Intimacy
Virtual sex is sexual interaction through digital technologies such as video, messaging, virtual reality, audio, or remotely controlled sexual devices.
Video Sex: Live Digital Sexual Interaction, Consent, and Privacy
Video sex is live sexual interaction through a video call or webcam and may involve sexual conversation, nudity, masturbation, or other consensual digital activity.
Digital Intimacy: Online Closeness, Sexuality, Trust, and Consent
Digital intimacy is emotional, romantic, or sexual closeness created through messaging, video, online interaction, and other forms of digital communication.