Given the horrid reality that child abuse DOES exist, and is heinously encouraged by the facilities of cyberspace, we feel it ethical to understand the sensitivities of those who don't *feel* these things as we do, and can't know how healthy and positive, and harming no one, it is for us.

We must understand it at least to the degree that we take above-board care to remove ALL potential for misunderstanding about what this place is, and is not. Both to assure that we can continue our explorations here safely and without worry over such things -- but also to help, as much as possible, the outside world understand why healthy Adult Ageplay is not something they need to be worried about.

I've put a lot of thought into that issue, over the years, and how to focus on Ageplay, given the concern out there about kids on the Net, kids and sexuality, etc.

Like with most things, about a third of that concern is hysterical silliness, about a third is naive glossing-over of a real problem, and the middle third is reasonable and sane, and trying to deal with something that actually IS a problem.

Okay... So we're NOT going to give even the remotest suggestion here that any iota of sexuality involving an actual "Biokid" is acceptable.

"So guys... What about the artwork with children in it, all over the place? I see some naughty bits there sometimes... I see some naked bums there! One time, I even read about..."

Okay, well, here's our carefully thought-out ethic for Adult Ageplay: We'd love you to consider it, and give us some feedback.

More than most other alternative relationship-styles, Adult Ageplay has a responsibility to be very clear about ethical issues: we face the complication of existing very near some easily misunderstood, understandably loathed, societal problems, to the eye of the outside world.

For example, often, descriptions of thoughts, feelings, fantasies, etc, will use pronouns and language that might lead an outsider, or a novice, to assume they refer to a Biokid (biological child).

There will even be times when remembrances, roleplay, or fantasy material will indicate a persona which IS a minor, albeit not an actual person who is biologically not yet an adult. It must be made very clear, always, and at the risk of redundancy, then, that ALL such language refers only to the alter-ego persona, or childhood remembrance, of an ADULT.

The ethical approach then, is extreme *diligence* in the way we explore Adult Ageplay here. It's not enough that we have a tacit understanding that NO depiction, of any kind, is EVER that of a Biokid. We must be consistently conscious that depictions also cannot be misunderstood by anyone visiting here, who may have missed that tacit agreement.

Depictions (verbal, visual, whatever), must *always* be of a physical adult, being reParented or regressed, or otherwise being treated as a child.

Despite how realistic we all wish this to be, it is simply unethical to leave open the door of misunderstanding, squandering the resources of those who are out there valiantly fighting *true* child abuses by alerting their attention, and jeopardizing GI's continuance as a place where you can explore all of this profound fulfillment among we who understand, by depicting Innerkids who are physically small, or in other ways which can make it appear as if we are talking about real children here.

Sensitivity to the reasons behind the outside world's hesitancy about our lifestyle, is Ageplay ethics.

Real child abuse is too heinous for us to wish that folks not give second looks at anything that might be hacking away at the hearts and futures of Biokids somewhere.

Our diligence and clarity keep us ethical, and renders moot any sideways look, borne of misunderstanding, I feel.

--UB