I Hereby propose an amendment to administrative bylaw D.3.x

Current wording:

3. Sexual Encounter Plot/Scenes

1. Sexual interactions of any IC nature require the written OOC consent of all parties involved, including STs if NPCs are involved. 

2. This OOC consent must be obtained before any scenes of this nature, regardless of their IC consensual / non-consensual nature, can be run.

3. This OOC consent may be revoked by any party involved at any time.

   1. The player revoking the consent may choose one of the following re: the IC situation:

4. Fade to Black (sexual encounter happens, player is not involved)

5. Retcon the sexual encounter (sexual encounter does not happen)

New Wording:

3. Sexual Encounter Plot/Scenes

1. Sexual interactions of any IC nature require the written OOC consent of all parties involved, including Volunteers (Storytellers, Coordinators, Subcoordinators) if NPCs are involved.

   1. Sexual Violence as active RP, active plots, scenes or descriptions is disallowed, even with consent. This includes both player to player and volunteer to player scenes and/or plot. While Sexual Violence can be part of a background plot or background for characters (both NPC and PC), this topic cannot be run as a current plot or scenes run either in an online medium or at live games.

      1. For the purpose of this bylaw, Sexual Violence is defined by the United Nations Definition of Sexual Violence which is as follows:

         1. Sexual violence is a form of gender-based violence and encompasses any sexual act, attempt to obtain a sexual act, unwanted explicit sexual comments or advances, or acts to traffic, or otherwise directed against a person’s sexuality using coercion, by any person regardless of their relationship to the victim, in any setting. Sexual violence takes multiple forms and includes rape, sexual abuse, forced pregnancy, forced sterilization, forced abortion, forced prostitution, trafficking, sexual enslavement, forced circumcision, castration, genital mutilation, and forced nudity. 

         2. Sexual Violence as defined by this bylaw does NOT include:

            1. Acts that some Countries/Regions/States have created laws against to target minority groups (such as laws that target the LGBTQA+ community) nor does it include flirting, dating, or other normative relationship behaviors.  

            2. Acts that would fall under the overarching umbrella of the BDSM/kink community. Provided that consent is obtained for these types of relationships and the interactions therein, they are permitted for interpersonal RP.

         3. Sexual violence in Background Story for PCs/NPCS:

         4. While sexual violence can be known to exist in the World of Darkness and may be part of the backgrounds of characters (PC and NPCs), and graphic notation of this background must be clearly and explicitly labeled as such. Use of all PCs or NPCs for such backstory must be agreed to in writing by the related Player or ST staff who controls the character or approves the background in the case of player-created NPCs for the purpose of backstory.

   2. Characters (NPC or PC) under the age of 18 may not be actively RP’d in sexual scenes or in a sexual manner. (this number is determined by the age of consent of Canada,  wherein OWBN is based as a nonprofit organization.)

2. This OOC consent must be obtained before any scenes of this nature, regardless of their IC consensual/non-consensual nature, can be run.

   1. Volunteers running scenes with sexual content: 

      1. Consent given to Volunteers by players for sexual content does not carry from one scene to another and must specifically agree to prior to the scene by all parties involved, every time. 

      2. Before executing a scene where consent is required, the volunteer running the scene must first state or otherwise tag the reason for requiring consent.

         1. Examples: “In order to engage in the following scene, all parties must first give their agreement and consent to participate in a scene which involves the following themes: “Sex, BDSM, etc”

   2. In-Person Games - Consent rules apply to all those players who witness events played out in live games, regardless if their PC is directly involved. 

   3. All chronicles must have guidelines for physical RP, touching, etc that is allowed during live play, as well as types of scenes allowed during in-person game play posted clearly in the House Rules.  Sexual RP cannot be conducted at live games without prior ST permission, and in the manner allowed by each chronicle.

3. This OOC consent may be revoked by any party involved at any time.

4. The player revoking the consent may choose one of the following re: the IC situation:

5. Fade to Black (sexual encounter happens, player is not involved)

6. Retcon the sexual encounter (sexual encounter does not happen, or the PC is was not in the scene when sexual content occurred - however, all non sexual elements of the scene remain)

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