Hosting a Play Party

A Basic Set of House Rules

 

This document began as a set of "general guidelines" for the first-ever EhBC play party. EhBC is a kink-friendly social community in the wilds of Southwestern Ontario. In 1997, after several years of operation, they finally became brave enough to organize our first play-party. Because of the relative inexperience of a number of people in the EHBC community, they felt we might benefit from putting some simple guidelines in place for that first party. The guidelines were drawn from many sources and assumed at least a basic knowledge of BDSM practices, regardless of actual level of experience.

This information has been grouped into several categories, and for simplicity, it is assumed that most of these rules apply equally to both private play parties (which typically use their own brands of "house rules") and to public fetish nights. We would suggest that you try to learn the "house rules" of either a play party or a fetish night before you attend.

(These were the House Rules set up for the first EHBC Play Party)

A few simple guidelines for your safety and enjoyment; if this is your first play party, we advise you to read these very thoroughly. These are FINAL and NON-NEGOTIABLE rules.

The rules will be posted at the party. Non-compliance results in a warning; continuing non-compliance results in ejection from the party.

  1. The DM's word is final.
  2. Anyone dissing the DMs or Security, or hassling other attendees, will be given "an invitation to the world".
  3. No: genital nudity, sex/penetrative play, bodily-waste-products scenes, alcohol, or drugs - if we can get busted for it, it doesn't belong here.
  4. DMs and Security reserve the right to refuse admission to anyone under age or under the influence.
  5. There has been private space set up for those wanting more "intimate" public space. Please do not abuse the space by using it to break any of the guidelines. Keep loud or volatile scenes somewhere where they won't interfere with other scenes (where possible).
  6. DMs and Security will not interfere in scene-space unless they absolutely feel they must . We trust all players to respect limits and safewords. Attendees should not join a scene-in-progress unless specifically invited by the scene participants to do so.
  7. We respectfully request that you don't use other players' toys without permission, and without an offer to clean them afterwards :-)
  8. You are not required to play if you don't want to.
  9. Please leave the rear entrance locked. This is as much for our security as the building's!
  10. No smoking in the building.

(Optional: Players with known medical problems might want to make note of them with [med staff] and the DMs).

© copyright Bernie Roehl and arnora, 1997
All rights reserved; this material is freely redistributable provided this copyright notice remains intact.
For permission to use, contact Bernie and arnora via the EhBC group
Reprinted with permission