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LadyPact -> RE: Why "all inclusive" doesn't work (11/9/2015 10:51:16 AM)
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ORIGINAL: LordxRapture
It would seem that most people who are participating in this discussion agree with the thread's title.
First, thank you for bringing the discussion back to the topic.
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Here's the real question then : How do we resolve it?
That is the big question. Unfortunately, what tends to happen when it starts to be discussed is a number of people want to play the 'we can't solve all of it, so let's not take any measures to curtail any of it' approach. In other words, we can't catch everybody who sexually assaults someone at a play space, so let's not bother to toss the ones that we know have done it.
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There's been a lot of talk about background checks and criminal records, but that's not practical until America's sex laws and "morality" changes.
This is another problem that comes up when we start talking about things like should we use the sexual offense registry. The way some folks talk, there's nobody on that list except for people who urinated in public or got swept up in having encounters that now would go under the Romeo and Juliet areas that are changing.
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A certification board or organization of some sort *could* work, but who would it be comprised of, and how many of us surly and opinionated Top/Dom/Master folk would agree that it held merit, let alone to be tested/certified.
Every major convention in the USA already has this. At minimum, a producer pulling the event off. GKE (the geeky kink event) was just last weekend and the producer of that event does a pretty good job.
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I don't claim to have an answer, but given that at least some of us are intelligent, we should e able to come up with something of a solution.
What does it look like?
In my view, some of what it looks like to me isn't always popular because some of it requires actual work, courage, and conviction. Instead of meekly saying that we don't know for sure certain things are happening and there's this horrible wrongly convicted percentage, (not to mention that huge 8% false reporting thing that people like to throw around) we focus on the majority of convictions that we know do happen. Pending case in court? The perpetrator doesn't come back until the case has been settled.
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As an aside, I insist any submissive wishing to meet with me check my references and set up a safe calls. Its not a full solution but its the best I've found.
These days, the same thing works with checking the reputation of kink events, groups, and dungeons. If they have a crap pattern of not handling issues, it's probably not where you want to spend your money.
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