Safe, Sane, and Consensual/Playing With

Basic Trope: If no one gets seriously hurt, no one's under the influence of anything, and everyone wants to do this, then it's fine.

• Straight: Bob is a sexual sadist, but before he does anything with Alice, he talks with her about limits, Safewords, and consent.
• Exaggerated: Bob consults several experts on the safety of every single detail of what he wants to do to Alice, gets a psych evaluation, and obtains consent in writing.
• Downplayed: Bob tells Alice the Safe Word is thermos. Alice nods and they get started.
• Justified: Bob has a strict code of ethics about harming people without their consent.
• Inverted: Bob is a sexual sadist who rapes and tortures Alice.
• Subverted: Bob gives Alice a Safe Word, but when she uses it, he ignores it.
• Double Subverted: Because he didn't hear it. She says it louder, and he stops and apologizes.
• Parodied: ???
• Zig Zagged: ???
• Averted: Bob is vanilla.
  • Bob follows Risk-Aware Consensual Kink instead.
• Enforced: The author is into BDSM, and is tired of such people being demonized.
• Lampshaded: "BDSM is not abuse. It's about inflicting intense sensations in a manner that is Safe, Sane, and Consensual"
• Invoked: Alice will only play with Doms who follow this philosophy.
• Exploited: ???
• Defied: ???
• Discussed: Bob and Alice, more than likely before Their First Time, have a detailed but intimate bedroom discussion, covering likes/dislikes, medical issues, Safeword(s), etc.
• Conversed: ???

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