The consensual kinkster/paraphile (CKP) flag! This flag does NOT include nonconsensual kink practices or attraction to beings that cannot consent, but is otherwise inclusive of all kinks, fetishes, and paraphilias. CKPs consider consent of the utmost importance and work to keep kink spaces safe, accepting, and inclusive, and promote learning about the shared history of the kink and queer communities. We also work to protect those who are vulnerable, like children and animals, from being exploited sexually under the guise of “kink”. This label is only to be used by adults.
Stripe meanings:
The diagonal stripes are meant to call back to the earliest kink pride flag (and one of the earliest pride flags in general), the Tony DeBlase leather flag.
The navy stripe is from the modernized leather pride flag. It represents the BDSM community, its subcultures, and all consensual kinks and paraphilias falling under the BDSM umbrella. It also represents trust.
The purple stripe is from the (cheshire) mad pride flag. It represents those with sexual neurodivergences such as those with sexual intrusive thoughts from OCD, sexual trauma survivors, hypersexuals, and disordered paraphiles*. It also represents acceptance.
(*it does not represent non-consensual paraphilic attraction, as CKPs do not condone or encourage attraction to nonconsenting beings, or engaging with this attraction in any way. People with these paraphilic disorders are not excluded from the CKP community as long as they are pro-recovery, anti-contact, and do not consider their disorders to be kinks or their attraction something to be proud of, but this flag doesn’t represent that attraction. It can, however, represent recovery from that attraction and supporting the recovery of others.)
The pink stripe is for partialists, morphophiles, and other body-related kinks and paraphilias. It represents those who are attracted to certain specific parts of the body, certain body types, body parts of certain sizes, body modifications, transformation (tf), macrophilia, microphilia, etc. It also represents desire.
The red stripe is from the objectum flag and is for fetishists and objectophiles (and kinky objectums who prefer to just use objectum). It represents those with fetishes for/attraction to objects, including certain materials, certain clothing, certain toys/apparatuses, and other object-related kinks. It also represents liberation.
The black stripe represents consensual kinks and paraphilias that may be considered “gross” or “weird” or “scary”, such as ones related to bodily functions, CNC roleplay, and potentially dangerous kinks (e.g. knifeplay, breathplay etc). It also represents solidarity.
The white stripes represent commitment to keeping the kink community safe for those in it, keeping minors out of it, and prevention of those who promote or engage in nonconsensual acts or feel attraction to beings that cannot consent from co-opting the kink label/community and trivializing the damage those things cause. They also represent consent.
CKPs are PRO:
RACK (risk-aware consensual kink). An alternative to SSC (safe, sane, consensual) that isn’t ableist or exclusive of potentially unsafe consensual kinks- many “safe” kinks such as bondage have safety risks and shouldn’t be labeled as safe as this is misleading and potentially dangerous misinformation. Risk-awareness requires knowledge and implementation of all possible safety measures, and recklessness and irresponsibility aren’t acceptable in the kink community.
Kink pride/kink at pride. It is against sexual acts at pride (or with non-consenting viewers in general), but supportive of kink gear and pride flags being displayed at pride parades, as they have been from the beginning.
Harkness test. For those unaware, the harkness test is a guide to ethical attraction involving fictional beings. It requires that the being must be sapient and of an age that is capable of consent (or adult-equivalent ageless beings such as demons), and that as long as consent can be communicated and established, it’s ethical.
Inclusion. CKPs are inclusive of aspecs, mspecs (including mspec gays/lesbians), ethical non-monogamy/polyamory, objectum/conceptum, cupiospecs, autospecs, xenogender, neogender, nondysphoric, intersex, altersex, aldernic, gender nonconforming, agab nonconforming, pronoun nonconforming, and all system (and other alterhuman) origins/types.
Sexual health, including inclusive sex education, freely available contraception, freely available abortion, freely available HRT, freely available sex/gender confirmation surgery, and freely available preventative medication (like PrEP). It also uplifts and supports those with STIs and sexual disabilities/dysfunctions and does not shun or shame them for having them. It also supports those with non-sexual disabilities that cause difficulty with sex, or causes others to infantilize them/take away their sexual agency.
Reclamation. Beings should be allowed to reclaim slurs against them and the sexualization/fetishization of their identities/bodies.
Having safe, accessible, inclusive spaces for kinky adults to socialize and play in consensually without fear or shame.
CKPs are ANTI:
Sexualization of non-consenting beings, including drawings, writings, and any other depiction- real or fictional- meant to be sexually attractive to those with non-consensual paraphilias.
Incest/consanguinamory.
Proship/profic/“fiction doesn’t affect reality”.
Radqueer.
Kinkshaming. A consensual kink squicking you out doesn’t make it bad or worthy of ridicule. (This doesn’t refer to jokes between friends and the kinkshaming kink as long as everyone’s cool w it).
Calling people pedophiles or zoophiles when they are not (e.g. furries, petplayers, ABDLs).
Harassment, bullying, grooming, and all other forms of abuse.
Slut-shaming and prude-shaming.
Cops. Cops can and will arrest you for consensual kink!
Whew… this is long and it took forever to refine, as I took this very seriously. Sorry for no image description, I’d appreciate it if someone could make one for me to reblog, or I’ll add one myself later when I have the spoons. I’m very proud of this!!! :3
DNI with this post or account if you intend to be an asshole and insert your shitty anti-kink or pro-ship opinions where they aren’t wanted or needed. (Or if you’re a minor, of course).
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