Below is the excerpted article about Seattle kink, BDSM, and bondage educator Max Cameron, The straight guy who teaches queer folks how to have wild sex. The article was published in the June 22 2016 edition of The Stranger, volume 23, number 43. The article is referenced by the Seattle Relationship Anarchy Ethics Committee intervention group response email to Max Cameron dated 11/13/2016, posted here. The RA Ethics Committee intervention with Max Cameron summary and timeline is posted here.  Return to the RA Ethics Committee Intervention with Max Cameron Summary and Timeline. Return to the Seattle Relationship Anarchy Ethics Committee intervention group response email to Max Cameron dated 11/13/2016. 

Following is the transcribed content of the RA Ethics Committee intervention group response email to kink, BDSM, and bondage educator Max Cameron dated 11/13/2016. This references the RA Ethics Committee intervention with Max Cameron summarized and outlined here.  Hi Max,  Thank you for sharing your concerns. We understand and empathize with how excruciating this process has been for you and for those who are close to you. We don’t believe an email exchange is likely to produce increased understanding between us, so please understand that we may not address each of your concerns here. If you would like to further discuss this in person, we remain open to doing so. We understand you have concerns about meeting with us. While we can’t promise to meet all your needs, we will continue to do our best to create a safe enough space when possible. We do feel a responsibility to address your concern about our disclosure of your name in connection with this process and your request that we not name you in our statement. Marty’s disclosure was made after your April 11 FetLife statement  disclosed your work with us and connected you to allegations of consent violation. The RA discussion events were held April 12 and April 13. At those meetings, Marty shared nothing beyond what was explicitly consented to by the reporting parties or was already explicitly self-published by you. Since then, Suspended Animation has published two open letters  regarding their inquiries, you spoke publicly about the consent violation allegations inRead more

This statement regards the Seattle Relationship Anarchy (RA) Ethics Committee (EC) intervention process with kink, BDSM, and bondage educator Max Cameron. The RA Ethics Committee initiated this intervention after a community member reported personal experiences with Max that raised concerns regarding the safety and ethicality of Max’s practices. The purpose of this document is to summarize our process, to share our learning with the Relationship Anarchy community, and to invite accountability for our choices. Summary (November 2016) Ethics Committee Intervention Group participants: Drew Burlingame, Valerie Burlingame, Marty Dinn, Modessa Jacobs, Kellie Kawahara-Niimi, Preston Morgan, Sarah Schneider, Amanda Woodard. In early 2016, the Relationship Anarchy Ethics Committee (EC) responded to a concern raised by a member of our community regarding Seattle bondage, kink, and BDSM educator Max  Cameron.  Specifically, the reported concerns were: Max picks up partners for private play from the students attending his classes, Max has transgressed the boundaries of some of these play partners, therefore Max’s advertising to the RA community may constitute a danger to RA community members. Our hope was to offer a process of accountability for all of the parties involved assuming that one such process could be consented on. To support privacy for the persons involved, the EC created a closed process container (the intervention group) such that: only the individuals present for the initial report continued to participate in future process regarding this issue. Each individual in the intervention group was responsible for holding a dynamic tension: that we each bring conflicting biases toRead more

This statement regards the Seattle Relationship Anarchy (RA) Ethics Committee (EC) intervention process with kink, BDSM, and bondage educator Max Cameron. The RA Ethics Committee intervention with Max is summarized and outlined here. Following is the transcribed content of the 04-11-2016 post on FetLife acknowledging reports of consent violation by Max.  Max Cameron  to FetLife 4-11-2016 https://fetlife.com/users/72176/posts/3689611 All relationships, and especially BDSM relationships, are based on mutual trust. It’s a profoundly vulnerable place for both partners. And as most folks in our community know, I’ve spent the past two and a half decades learning and teaching about this trust, how to play safely, and how to negotiate and communicate. In both my professional and personal lives, I believe that consent, trust, and openness are the backbone of not just our ability to connect, but of our entire community and what it stands for. I’ve done scenes with a lot of people over the last 25 years, and I’ve done hundreds of workshop demos. It is my belief that I have acted ethically in all of these interactions. I’ve recently been made aware of allegations that I violated the consent of two or more individuals within the scope of private play. These individuals have shared their stories with three local organizations: Relationship Anarchy Seattle (“RA”), Suspended Animation, and the Foundation for Sex Positive Culture. I have told all three organizations that I am willing to work through them, and/or with the parties directly involved, to understand and address their concerns in anRead more