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Cookie Consent
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Cookie Consent

Guys! We are all working diligently on a culture of consent by reminding each other in workshops and beyond that we don't take physical affection for granted; that we don't just assume anything about what the other person wants; that we respect personal boundaries and support each other in finding out, in a self-determined and collaborative process, what we want to do naughty things together; that we can move into surrender above all when we create safe spaces of trust; that a "no" is not a drama but a valuable hint for navigating the love zone and so on. This is all a huge project, a humanistic education project if you will, because there is much more at stake here than simply securing yourself in a legal contract-like manner when you become intimate together in order to arm yourself against accusations of assault. This is much more about deconstructing paternalistic structures, about new self and world relations! It's about learning to respect each other, to respect others and...

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Eclectic attempt at un/security (work in process)
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Eclectic attempt at un/security (work in process)

risk, safety, conflict, consent - what drives sex-positive scenes usually has something to do with these key terms. It's complicated. Insecurity is not bad per se and safety is not good per se and vice versa. In my personal experience, I have found spaces that strongly emphasize consensus to be both empowering and enriching, as well as constricting, school-like or tamed and therefore simply boring or not doing justice to issues that are fundamentally ambivalent grey areas. Sometimes these spaces led to frustration when the very people to whom I could give myself completely because of their trusting nature always backed down when things got interesting so as not to push 'my' boundaries...

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