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MsSaskia -> RE: Mistress Payne on Bill O'Reilly's Show (11/20/2007 7:03:36 AM)
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ORIGINAL: Leonidas
I think that you have to separate a private activity between consenting adults from a business based on the same activity. I have never had a health inspector in my kitchen to check that the fridge is kept at the proper temperature, etc. to ensure that the meals served to my family or guests are safe, but they do so routinely at resturaunts. It's the same activity (fixing dinner) but in one case it's completely unregulated, and in the other case there are many regulations involved. There is generally an expectation in our society that when you offer a service to the public for money that the public has a right to an expectation that you will do so professionally and to acceptable standards of safety.
The real question is whether there should be minimum levels of training and standards of practice for someone holding themselves out as a pro. If there were, and this woman (Asher) was in non-compliance with them it would come down to a matter of her non-compliance, rather than an issue of whether offering BDSM services for a fee should be legal at all. Just about every professional service, from engineering to medicine, to investment services has had to regulate in order to separate the professionals from the snake-oil salesmen over time. Maybe the time is approaching for pros in the BDSM biz to do the same.
I heartily agree, although this thread is several months old and it's me posting, not my boy. In the absence of licensing or regulations, I have as a goal at my house of domination that we all get CPR and First Aid certified (some of us actually are and the rest of us are working on it - gotta get the esteemed Mr Wiseman out to larn us some more), and I work with each and every new person to make sure they know where to hit, where not to hit, what to look out for with flatlanders (bondage play creates changes at higher altitudes), proper breathing, aftercare, respect for your bottoms and what it means to give value for money. And then we begin work on esoterica like skin prep, medical play and wound care.
There are people I've seen in the scene, pros and non-pros alike, who are highly respected (and personally loved) but appear to think nothing of spinal cord, kidney, neck shots and nasty wraps with floggers. My house does a lot of public events and the last thing I want to see anyone in the audience doing during one of our performances is wincing for the wrong reasons. I want to see jaws dropped and I want the bottoms in our scenes (or classes or whatever) be be transported to their happy place. That doesn't happen without excellent training and personal dedication from each of us.
Just for fun, but also because I do enough teaching that I'm beginning to think about what an academy would look like, what kind of categories do you think would be good on a course schedule, and how would people qualify for graduation or certification in a range of subjects or a single category of expertise?
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