So, as we navigate this unknown world with these new relationship challenges for kinky folks, how can we protect and nurture the valuable D/s structures in which our relationships are held up by?

Protecting children from exploitation is a laudable goal, but the EARN IT Act does not do that.

“The core concept is consent,” she says. “I get to choose my partners, I get to choose how I express my sexuality. We all carry bias, and most of us have been on the receiving end of bigotry, exclusionary tactics and ‘othering’ at some point in our lives. Race play gives me the opportunity to explore this within the safer context of a controlled environment, and see where my mind and heart takes me.”

"The Thai state has had this ambivalence towards sex work and sex workers. This is a factor that explains why so many of them can't access any assistance from the state."

Sex workers (as well as people who use and/or sell drugs) have always known they can’t rely on police for protection because cops regularly use laws that criminalize prostitution, drug possession, and living outside to harass, coerce, extort and arrest them.