When you’re starting to talk about the more complex layers of collaborating on a scene, you need a deeper understanding of consent itself. Thista Minai starts this series by describing how consent is more of a process than an object, and the idea of “inner” and “outer” boundaries. You need to understand the ways consent can change, even during play, before you take on some of the edgier kinds of kink.

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