Consent Counts

Consent Counts and EOP have merged into one quarterly meeting for the foreseeable future. Both committees’ current goals are aligned, and we cover the same topics in each, so to streamline operations, we will combine the two.

The newly combined Consent Counts and Educational Outreach Committee meets quarterly on the 3rd Tuesday of the month at 5:30 PM Eastern.

The MPC on Sexual Assault will be published by the end of this year.

Other Updates

Lobbying

We will provide a lobbying booklet and explain how we will go about it at our next meeting in January. We won’t have time to lobby in the early 2027 session, so we’ll be aiming for 2028. We will host trainings for State lobby teams in between our general quarterly Consent Counts meeting.

Publicity

Due to the shadow-banning of words like “kink” “BDSM” and “swinging” and the negative impact on NCSF’s outreach since June 2022, we are rewriting the mainstream press release: Press Release for Explicit Prior Permission. A few thought the title of our EPP card from “consent to kink” to: EPP for Consent.

Education

Here is the list of professional conferences where we’ve submitted workshop proposals or requests for Consent Counts to exhibit. The APHA Conference is coming up in a couple of weeks, and NCSF will present our poster on Recent Trends in “Consensual” Sexual Choking.

New NCSF Resources:

• Organizing Adult Events in Hotels
• Protecting Custody: A Guide For Kinky and Polyamorous Parents
• Legal Protections Checklist for Consensually Nonmonogamous Families
• Navigating Medical Emergencies at Events: Best Practices – National Coalition for Sexual Freedom
• Legal Status of Consensual Adult Kink and Consent Implications
• Kink Aware Therapist: How to Tell Consent From Coercion – National Coalition for Sexual Freedom

Projects

Choking Project

• NCSF’s Choking Survey Report
• Why Sexual Choking Is Not as Safe as You Think: A Call to Action from Sex Researchers and Kink Educators
• 6 Ways to Create Intensity Without Choking

Articles

‘Choking porn is causing real life harm in London’ says council as it praises national ban

From November 6, possession or publication of pornography showing choking or incest will be illegal in England and Wales, after the Crime and Policing Act 2026 officially became law in April this year.

Police investigate death of teenage girl two days after alleged ‘sexual choking’ act in Sydney

“There is no safe way of choking someone. I’m pleading with parents and schools today to use every opportunity to have really direct conversations with young people. Kids are getting their sex education from pornography before they’ve had their first kiss.”

Notorious race swapper Rachel Dolezal is my sex coach — her outrageous advice may just fix my love life

“I’ve talked to friends married for 15 years, who never knew the other person liked to be choked a little,” she said.

Everything You Need To Know About Young People And Choking During Sex

Once reserved for a very small subset of the BDSM community, sexual strangulation has become so mainstream among young adults that many now consider it vanilla.

Title IX

We are sending letters to colleges in Maryland and New York, which have had a change of law and a call to review their sexual assault procedures.

Links to Key Information

• Public Policy Papers – Let us know if you want to join your State’s lobbying group.
• State-by-State database – Fill out any information you have on state law.
• Choking Laws, Liability and Health Risks – Creative Commons power point slides.

o   Sample email to send to organizers with the current research on choking and liability risks.

• Tabling Training for Consent Counts and EOP committee members. Please view the Tabling video and the rest of these links and then contact us for a Q&A Session. 

  • o   Consent Counts Tabling Training

    o   Tabling page

    o   Material Order Form (include in the Notes if you’d like a Consent Counts table runner)

    o   Shirts

Our next Consent Counts committee meeting is Tuesday, January 19   at 5:30 Eastern, 4:30 Central, 3:30 Mt, 2:30 Pacific.