{"id":58189,"date":"2014-09-24T11:24:48","date_gmt":"2014-09-24T19:24:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=58189"},"modified":"2014-09-24T11:24:48","modified_gmt":"2014-09-24T19:24:48","slug":"the-atlantic-at-group-sex-parties-strict-rules-make-for-safe-spaces","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=58189","title":{"rendered":"The Atlantic: At Group Sex Parties, Strict Rules Make for Safe Spaces"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>How do you create a place where nobody gets hurt? You make lots of rules. In traditional Jewish life, people usually know the rules and this creates a safe space. The same principle holds true for swinging. <\/p>\n<p><A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/health\/archive\/2014\/09\/at-group-sex-parties-strict-rules-make-for-safe-spaces\/379572\/\">The Atlantic<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>Inside an unmarked warehouse in downtown San Francisco, a woman greets guests with a riding crop. She is not there to beat them, but to initiate them with a set of firm and binding rules. A chart posted on the wall reads:<\/p>\n<p>State your boundaries.<br \/>\nPlay safely and consensually.<br \/>\nHave sensible safe sex practices.<br \/>\nRespect our space and each other.<br \/>\nDon\u2019t linger unaccompanied in play spaces.<br \/>\nDon\u2019t cruise aggressively.<br \/>\nDon\u2019t get too intoxicated.<br \/>\nDon\u2019t take photographs.<br \/>\nDon\u2019t use your cellphone.<br \/>\nDon\u2019t gossip about what goes on here.<br \/>\nUsing the riding crop as a pointer, she lays out the basics for guests entering Mission Control\u2019s Kinky Salon, a monthly San Francisco sex party that dates back to 2003. \u201cKinky Salon is a global movement that promotes sexual liberation by hosting community gatherings where sex is integrated into the social fabric of the events,\u201d reads the Kinky Salon manual, a guidebook to on how to safely construct a sexual play world where no one gets hurt. That means a strict set of boundaries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How do you create a place where nobody gets hurt? You make lots of rules. In traditional Jewish life, people usually know the rules and this creates a safe space. The same principle holds true for swinging. The Atlantic: Inside &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=58189\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58189","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sex"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58189","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=58189"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58189\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58190,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58189\/revisions\/58190"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}