the traumatized transharm line between "I want someone to continue my trauma" and "I want to inflict this trauma on someone else" is truly a thing to behold
my hot take is that “consensual” ≠ “ethical, healthy, and immune to criticism & complexity”
an alcoholic and an enabler might consensually engage in worsening the alcoholic’s addiction, but that doesn’t make it ethical or healthy. an abuse survivor might consent to being reabused by someone new, but that doesn’t make it ethical or healthy. a chronominor might consent to having sex with a chronoadult but that doesn’t make it inherently ethical or healthy.
obligatory disclaimer that i acknowledge there can be nuance and gray area in both the example scenarios listed and any others that you may think of. there may very well be those who could engage with certain risky dynamics or activities and do it in a healthy and ethical way. your mileage may vary! but i feel like there is not nearly enough emphasis on risk-awareness in this community, and neither is there an understanding of nuance or complexity
a lot of risky dynamics and behavior are also presented as genuine and/or potentially long-term engagements rather than Risk-Aware Consensual Kink scenes that would involve check-ins and prior discussion and aftercare and debriefing. when risky scenes are discussed in a kink space, there’s the implication that the behavior would be part of a scene or established dynamic that all parties have discussed and made safety measures for. but the rqc isn’t a kink space (despite involving SO many sexual topics), so there’s no way to know if when a user posts something related to a risky dynamic or action if they mean “i want to roleplay this in a scene and/or set up a thoroughly-discussed kink dynamic focusing on this” or “i want to do this for real and i haven’t properly considered the impact this might have on me or others involved”
consent alone isn’t enough. there have to be safety measures and concern for one another’s wellbeing and consideration of possible consequences. (and even if those things exist, something consensual still might not be ethical or healthy.) “consensual” is not the universal code word for “this is okay”. just because all parties agree to something doesn’t mean the thing they’re agreeing to is ethical, healthy, or moral