Edge·play
noun
Kinks considered challenging to the kink slogan "safe, sane and consensual," characterised by activities that contain/are
- short or long term harm: fire play, cutting, erotic asphyxiation
- STI/disease risk: blood play, barebacking, scat
- innate consent risk: consensual non-consent, erotic humiliation, total power exchange
- unethical/oppressive: race play, sissification, age play, financial domination
- otherwise depicted as unappealing by media: watersports, fetishism, fisting
Is consent the only watermark we have for "okay"?
How do people who have these kinks feel about it?
How do you go about edge play safely and ethically?
What resources exist?
Thursday 7pm in Old Union 200
Unfamiliar with some of the words in the definition above? Don't worry, we'll define them at the event. Of course, this list is of examples and is a non-comprehensive list.
When people talk about kink, sometimes they draw a line--"I'm into this kinky thing, but it's not a big deal, it's nowhere near the crazy stuff other people do" (paraphrased from 50 Shades of Grey). Even in the kink community, people would write disclaimers on how they'd never have anything to do with "children, bestiality, and watersports." While that's obviously okay for anyone to define as limits, let's face it, one of these things are not like the others. What does some people equating watersports to rape mean for people who are into watersports? How about concretely dangerous kinks? What do we do about racist, sexist, ableist, or transphobic kinks?
Join us this Thursday at 7 in Old Union 200 to listen in on a panel of your peers about their experiences with edge play, whether personally or in the greater kink community. You'll be welcome to ask questions anonymously (or non-anonymously), talk to Kardinal Kink leadership, and hear all sorts of stories.
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This is the last event of the Kardinal Kink Lecture Series. Thank you to all who showed up to our events this quarter. Keep an eye out for our events next quarter, including
The Vagina Monologues April 24-26, with ticket sales going to the
Lyon Martin Clinic, a clinic in San Francisco that provides health care for low-income locals (esp. queer women and trans people) regardless of their ability to pay.
If you're interested in working with us on topics such as racial/trans fetishisation, opening the dialogue on open relationships, consent on college campuses, narratives of marginalised sexualities, or sexual shame, please contact us. We can co-host events or have you work as anonymously as you are interested, which can be pretty darn 100% anonymous.
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This is a public Kardinal Kink event. We also hold events exclusively for members, such as workshops, social events, and carpooling to other local Bay Area events. Most members are concerned about their anonymity, so we don't list these events publicly.
Want to join Kardinal Kink? Talk to us at Office Hours!
Mondays & Fridays 2 pm - 4 pm in the LGBT CRC
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No Kardinal Kink events include any form of nudity or sexual activity.
