NSFW RP: consent, minors, and other boundaries

Kay. It'd be helpful if you could go through some questions to answer them later, at least.

 

Not being able to know if someone is or is not a minor is still a problem, and if even fade to black is no longer ok, or appearantly any relationship that has even entirely unwritten sex in it, then this will become a major problem so I don´t think you can blame us for being pretty concerned and upset.

 

So two characters in a relationship without even fade to black scenes but with it being clear they are having sex sometimes is a 'big yikes'.

 

Keltka has said as much, broken quote because they tapped out and i don´t want to ping them:

And I still disagree on your definition of fade to black as being sex because I see it the way PR does: They might as well be eating icecream.
In fact your definition upsets me so much because the entire PUROSE of a fade to black in my eyes is so there there is no sexual involvement, so just deicding clearly is just the same as writing as sex scene is pretty not ok with me.

 

Kay, I think I removed the ping but idk if that'll help much now.

 

would it be an acceptable strategy if like
RPs started actually tagging their thread(s) with content warnings? A la AO3? Because what I'm seeing (eta: read 'reading between the lines') is like 'A minor accidentally stumbled upon age-gap-with-legal-minor-involved content in an otherwise innocuous RP thread! Sudden distress!' which like super sucks, no doubt about that but uh. I'm really super not about content policing so at most i'd be willing to get into a tagging system thing?

 

Clarification: Basically saying fade to black is the same as a sex scene is telling us "This tool you use to give people maximum freedom of play as well as comfort doesn´t matter and has never mattered because its still sex"

 

Seen, please be aware I probably won´t be entirely able to stop myself from still pushing against it because you Are a mod, so someone with some ability to form policy, and it´s an issue I have a strong opinion on. (In case you somehow failed to notice. /joke)

 

fade to black is not sex, it just implies that sex is happening. sex that isn't played out, and that no one actually knows the details of.

 

So as far as I can tell, the only example we have is some controversy about spiky cat dicks five months ago.

Unless someone comes forward with a bit more, my inclination is to label this whole thing as a moral panic and toss it in the "Sounds Like a Personal Problem To Me" drawer.

 

Present the evidence.

 

I just got done setting up an aggregate tag/CWs post for the Dramatis Transformae subforum which I would recommend for all the big subforum-having-RPs at least just to minimize unfortunate collateral!