Health & Safety Links


Rules of thumb
  1. Know before you go. Learn about and practise what you want to do before you accidentally hurt or kill yourself or your loved ones.
  2. Keep your wits about you. What we do can be very dangerous and have legal consequences. People have died during scenes and it's not at all fun.
  3. Use a safeword if you're not sure. It's better to end a scene because you're worried than than regret what has happened.
  4. If you need medical help, get it. Don't be too scared or embarrassed to tell the doctor exactly what happened. If you need it, there are Kink Aware Professionals who will understand.
  5. Get off.

Links
The first link: AIDS resources: you are not immune. Poppers BDSM Safety:

Required Reading

Forty-two Things that You Can Do to Make the Future Safe for Sex -- because it can't all be work.

Alright, so I'm low on required reading... I deleted a couple that were here, mostly because I'm jaded.


Kink Aware Professionals

Anyone in the United States or Canada wishing to receive the listing of kink-friendly professionals should visit the KAP website. The list is no longer available via postal mail or email. For your information, their street address is:

Kink Aware Professionals (or "KAP")
c/o Race Bannon
584 Castro Street, Suite 518
San Francisco, CA 94114

Many thanks to Orlando, ~Lady L~, Lady Erotica, Goddess KALI, gossamer, and Barrister's little o for their contributions to this page.

If you have any comments or suggested links, please send them my way. redox@workline.com or msg me at the State.