Are you a Child? Or Are You An Innerkid?

Of course it's very powerful for an emotionally-real Innerkid to shrug off as many trappings of adulthood as possible, and feel as completely like a Biokid as she can.

We understand why that's therapeutic and fulfilling. And a very laudable goal for your feelings, for what you want to feel like.

Our belief is that either recreating the special things of childhood which you miss, or creating childhood feelings which you didn't get to experience safely, are wondrous things -- and we understand why you crave to create (or re-create) those things as realistically as possible.

So the temptation is to depict yourself as if you were a Biokid. And while we do understand why this is healthy, positive, fulfilling and harmless for you, unfortunately the outside world often doesn't, and we have to balance that desire for purely realistic regression, with the realities of the world which our adult selves live in.

Pedophiles, and the authorities whom we support for pursuing them, both make tragic use of their misunderstandings about what Ageplay is, and we must guard against feeding either of them accidentally.

The upshot is that we mustn't allow ourselves to depict Innerkids here as if they were physically young, or actually real children. So here are the rules regarding how Innerkids can be depicted on GI:

 Discussion

We've carefully honed the terminology of Ageplay online here, over time since before one could even find the term "Ageplay" outside of obscure indexes of obscure psychology textbooks discussing the "deviant" personalities of BDSM.

We try to consistantly use the term Innerkid (and ask that you avoid using terms like "kids", "children", etc.) both because it's actually the most accurate term (after all, you may want to feel like a "child" inside, but you're by definition not one -- the "child" side of your psyche resides within you, within the outer adult that houses her, so "Innerkid" describes pretty clearly and accurately what we're talking about here -- a child within an adult), and because it's not used in the outside world in any context to ever mean anything remotely related to Biokids.

So we humbly ask that you adopt our terminology here, because we're a public community, and the outside world can see us -- we've learned over time that the harm done by rebelliously refusing to give in to the perversions of others, and insisting on calling ourselves whatever we feel we are (such as saying "I'm a little girl", or "I'm looking for a little girl") can be significant, attracting oily guys who just want to get off on seeing that kind of thing spelled out, and distracting the authorities, forcing them to waste time pouring through docs like this to realize how harmless we are, when they could be trapping and squashing more of those oily guys, instead.

We must insist that you not depict an Innerkid as if she were a real child -- that you remember to say (for example), "I have an Innerkid who's five years old" rather than "I'm a five year old child." Or, "I'd love to find a woman with an Innergirl I could take care of," rather than "I'm looking for a little girl."

 Imagery (including avatars)

 No depictions or discussions of actual Biokids can be permitted anywhere on GI. Of course, GI is very friendly toward the Innerkid within adults, and both understands and encourages their emotional expression as realistic for their "age" as is possible.

But due to the evils which lurk within too many, and the authorities whom we support in their effort to crush that evil, we've found that it only invites either confusion, or misunderstanding, or (even worse) can fuel the evil within too many men, which can lead to even more actual children being horribly hurt, just as many of GI's residents were.

So there can be no photographs (including avatars) of actual children, and no physical descriptions of Innerkids which doesn't make clear that it is an adult roleplaying as a child, and not an actual child.

 Roleplay

No depictions of non-consensual treatment can be permitted, no matter the context. While it's (of course) true that Biokids often have no say about how their Guardian treats them (e.g., most of the time a child's punishment is administered without their "consent"), that's one of the compromises which makes this Ageplay and not a place devoted to actual children.

Here, you are expected to remember that each Innerkid is part of an adult, and that adult is the primary Guardian for her Innerkid, who must sign off on any treatment of that part of her. Use the Private Message system to talk to an Innerkid's Bigperson before expecting to have any authority to decide things for them, or to press an close connection with them.

 Sexuality

No depictions or discussions of sexuality or physical intimacy can be permitted outside of the Kittery. Other areas of GI are used by Innerkids who strive for fulfillment via being treated just as any Biokid of that are would be, and for them, those kinds of adult themes are as inappropriate as they'd be if you were talking to a very young Biokid.