Safe, sane and consensual

And today, we are going to talk about something that gets people often into some spirited debates, um, whether you're into BDSM or kink, or you get a group of those people together.

Those safety frameworks that are out there designed to keep us safer, um, like SSC and RACK or even PRICK.

Uh, you gotta love it, only in BDSM and kink can being a prick actually be talking about something being safe, um, rather than, well, just being a dick.

So while these are often spirited debates, um, hopefully we're gonna remove that bit of spiritedness, spiritedness from the discussion today and just talk about what they mean, what they are, um, what they meant, and also, of course, what people who are critical about them have to say about them.

So that way you can have a full picture and make a better decision on what works for you and what doesn't work for you.

So we're gonna start with the, the oldie but a goodie, and this is safe, sane, and consensual, or SSC.

It, uh, started way back in 1983 in New York City.

A group called the Gay Male S&M Activists, um, otherwise abbreviated as GMSMA, almost sounds like the abbreviation for Good Morning America, but, you know, a little different.