Contracts?

Does anybody have a contract or form they have their play patients sign the receives them of responsibility should damage be done during Med Fet (or any other ) games?

I'm sure that some form of contract exists.

What are your thoughts on this?

There are such contracts, but they won't necessarily protect you from what a liar, I mean lawyer will conjure up as assault or practicing medicine without a license.

Interesting slip of the tongue!

If you spend enough time getting to know each other, then I see no need for a "contract". Trust counts more than anything and if you feel that you need to use some form of written consent/agreement then to me it would give some doubt as to the integrity of the other party (or visa-versa). If in doubt, as ever, don't proceed. Trust your judgement.

Some people use a contract as part of their role play itself to discuss limits beforehand.

There isn't much that will protect you if you do actual physical damage to someone else but I do have a form that I've asked a few people to sign. It states that we are both consenting adults of legal age, blah, blah, blah and that we are engaging in mutually agreeable role play, that no diagnosis is being made and that neither of us are medical professionals, yada, yada, yada, and that no money or other consideration is being exchanged for services. I'm not sure how much good it would do if push came to shove, but it might protect both of us if someone should have to make a trip to the ER or Urgent Care center.

On the other hand, it might leave both of us hanging in the wind. That's part of the risk we take when we play and it's just another reason we need to play safely and know what we're doing.

That's why I like RACK (Risk Aware Consensual Kink) instead of SSC (Safe Sane Consensual) because so much of what we do is neither safe or sane.

In the USA no such contract exists. Well, that may not be true, they probably exist but are not worth the paper they are written on, pun intended.

In order for someone to have a contract that might even be considered "legally binding" a person would need for that to be written up by their lawyer, and I am guessing no lawyer in their right mind would write a contract like that because in a sense, he would be putting down in a legal document that HE was giving you a green light to "practice medicine" without a license, which in fact is a big no no. In turn opening him up to a lawsuit of his own and even possibly losing his license.

Just my 2 cents for the day.

Mashie

What you say is partially true, but a contract between two parties does not need to be cosigned by a lawyer.

Binding contracts between two parties without the involvement of lawyers are accepted all the time in courts. However, that does not mean an injured party (submissive) gives up a right to sue you, but like an informed consent, which is a contract, where there is no lawyer involved, the accused (the Dom) has less responsibility because the other party basically made an informed consent.

There are other contracts where the person causing the injury is held harmless, such as boxers or mixed martial arts fighters in the ring. They know they may be injured or killed in the fight and they cannot sue their opponent. It's just like RACK.

Yep, that's true, I never thought about that side of it and was thinking only in the context of actually getting a lawyer to sit down and wright a formal contract. See, I always learn from you, lol.

Mashie

I like your line, ". . . contract has been signed which clearly states "Informed Consent" as roleplaying for adult entertainment purposes, with no medical advice intended or expected."

I think contracts are only usefull with "strangers"