“Hazard Consent

A flag and emoji code for the hazard consent(link) stance.

Emoji code: ⚠️🔐

Hazard consent is for:

• Explicit and informed consent
• Harm reduction, and understand the difference between hurt and harm
• Non-offenders and recovering offenders, paraphilic disorders, moral OCD and intrusive thoughts, and those who want to participate in harmless contact
• Acceptance of every paraphilia, kink, fetish etc and creating a safe community
• Fighting and dismantling ableism and sanism targeted at paraphilic individuals

Hazard consent is against:

• Non-consensual contact including with animals, children and unconsenting individuals
• Contact for pedophilia, zoophilia, biasophilia, incestophilia and non-consenting necrophilia, somnophilia, inibriphilia, or anything else that can be pre-consented to. Roleplay doesn’t fall under this
• Attaching inherent morality to any type of paraphilia, kink or fetish or deeming something as inherently “gross”, “wrong” or “weird”
• Ableism and sanism

For more information on hazard consent, refer to the original coining post (link) or feel free to ask questions in my inbox.

I was originally hesitant to make a flag or emoji code because it’s a stance and not an identity, but I’ve come to view it as a matter of accessibility and making this stance more well known, as I think it could be valuable for many people.”

Original Coining Post

“Hazard Consent

Hazard consent, or hazard-consent, is a contact/consent stance based on harm reduction, explicit and informed consent, and understanding the repercussions of one’s actions. It is inherently against contact for any paraphilia, kink or fetish that involves a lack of, or otherwise dubious, content- *as well as situations where even if one believes a group or individual can consent, the negative impact it would have on either party outweigh what pleasure they could get out of it.

What is hazard consent FOR?

• explicit and informed consent
• harm reduction and understanding the difference between hurt and harm (link)
• non-offending or recovering offenders, those with paraphilic disorders, moral OCD and intrusive thoughts, and those who want to have or participate in harmless contact
• acceptance of every paraphilia, kink and fetish, and form a sense of community
• fighting against ableism and sanism targeted at those with paraphilias, kinks, fetishes and other atypical interests, as well as destigmatizing them
• engaging with paraphilias, kinks and fetishes with full knowledge of any risk involved and doing so as safely as possible

What is hazard consent AGAINST?

• sexual or romantic contact with children, animals, or non/dubiously consenting adults, or exposing them to sexual or explicit content
• contact for pedophilia, zoophilia, biasophilia, incestophilia and non-consenting necrophilia, somnophilia, inibriphilia(link), or anything else that can be pre-consented to. roleplay for any of these does not fall under hazard consent
• attaching any inherent morality to any parahilia, fetish or kink, even if one personally think its “gross”, “weird” or “immoral”
• harassment, bullying, doxxing, abusing or otherwise unnecessarily cruel behavior to anyone of any stance
• ableism and sanism

What does NOT fall under hazard consent?

• when topics such as consent or boundaries are discussed beforehand, and can be revoked at any time (pre-consented to necro, somno, inibri, etc.)
• risk aware consensual kink & BDSM
• engaging in consensual roleplay, including CNC
• engaging with objects or non-sentient creatures (plants, robots, etc)
• anything not explicitly stated on the post

Hazard Stances

One can express their stance on hazard consent through the typical “pro/neutral/complex/anti” system that is used for other stances. Ex. pro-hazard supporting hazard consent, or anti-hazard being against hazard consent. Anyone can be any stance for any reason, and is at their own discretion to explain why. Nobody owes anybody an explanation.

QnA

QnA section to get ahead of any potential questions, and clarifying anything that might not have already been made clear.

Q. Why does this exist?

A. Historically, contact stances were something used in the MAP community to express one’s personal stance on contact with minors, but now that it is used to indicate one’s stance on multiple/all paraphilias, it has become unclear what falls under being “pro/neutral/complex/anti-contact”. Meanwhile stances like “pro-consent” or “anti-harm” have a similar vagueness to them, as what counts as “consent” or “harm” can be subjective and up to the user. This is to serve a clear and explicit stance of things that often seems to be shared between these beliefs.

Q. *What does this mean?

A. This stance believes that, even if an individual thinks groups like children or animals can consent, the negative impact sexual contact with them has on these groups psychologically outweighs the pleasure gained. This also means that if an individual is distressed by their attraction, they shouldn’t engage with it if/until they can do so without harming themselves mentally.

Q. What is dubious consent in this context?

A. Any coerced, unenthusiastic, uninformed or otherwise unclear consent.

Q. Why the name “hazard consent”?

A. “Hazard” is supposed to reference the understanding of the risks, potential danger, and, well, hazards associated with non/dubious consent, as well as those related to informed consent. It also is intended to invoke a sense of danger. It is intended to promote a thorough understanding of the risks and benefits associated with sex, consent and paraphilias, kinks and fetishes.

Q. Who can use hazard consent?

A. Anyone. Even if someone disagrees with me and my beliefs, or if I disagree with them. This is a term for anyone and everyone who shares this specific belief, and anyone can be any stance on it.

Any other questions, concerns or thoughts can be sent to @hazard-consent”

Both posted by hazard-consent in September 2024 (one with flag) and August 2024 (original post) respectively.

Archive of Original Post: https://archive.md/nAtQf

Archive of Flag Post: https://archive.md/jGNoJ