Safety, Boundaries, Consent

Like any community or subculture, there are a set of ethics that keeps the community safe. Here you will find various documents created by the VC. These resources encompasses how ethics can keep you safe. But first lets review ways we can be safe within the VC.

Boundaries:

Boundaries is the very shield that protects you from outside influences. Being able to harness these boundaries can prevent you from being susceptible to manipulation and harm. Boundaries can be practice in not only an online sense but in person as well. Whether you are surfing the various vampyre spaces or engaging in an in person donorship or house gathering. Boundaries should be things you are actively participating in.

Examples of setting boundaries: Turning off permissions for people to contact you privately, being vocal about your comfort level, and participating in the donorship consent contract we have crafted that gives you a space to communicate your boundaries in writing.

Consent:

While Boundaries and Consent are similar, they are different. Boundaries are personal rules and limits that define what someone is comfortable with and how they expect to be treated, while consent is an active agreement to engage in a specific activity. Consent is one of the most important ethics within the vampyre community. When participating in feedings we require consent.

Ethics and Code of Conduct:

Code of Conduct: Is the standardization of an organization or house/court. This is not for the entire VC but for the VC spaces.

Ethics:
Ethics are greatly influenced by religion, country laws, and even cultures. The VC is no different; each community may place itself under a specific set of ethics they may follow, such as the black veil, the donor bill of rights, The Totum Lex Vampyrica, etc.

You do not have to follow either. You do not need to take a code of conduct out the door with you. Nor do you need to follow a set of ethics because that's what everyone else follows.

Resources

Boundaries and Consent

Donorship Agreement Form By Anarcho:
https://www.projectvampyre.org/_files/ugd/a6152b_3af20114bf664c6dbebaadb828da3e1b.pdf

The Donor Manual By Lady Nova: https://www.projectvampyre.org/_files/ugd/a6152b_cb2b3ca3d00b416e80c698225cd81642.pdf

Ethics and Code of Conduct

The Honour-Code of the Sanguinary Society by Jeanette of Nexus Noctis. Translated By BRS:
https://blackrosesociety.sauromatos.com/the-honour-code-of-the-sanguinary-society/

Donor Bill of Rights By Belfazaar Ashantison, with a support of Demoness Barbie, Maggie Bones, Spooky, and Des:
https://www.neworleansvampireassociation.org/donor-bill-of-rights.html

The Black Veil Ethical Code By Father Sebastiaan(1997) revised by Michelle Belanger (2000):
https://thevampyrecoven.com/the-13-rules-of-community-a-k-a-the-black-veil/

The Totum Lex Vampyrica (TLV) By House Valur:
https://housevalur.wordpress.com/about/house-projects/the-totum-lex-vampyrica-tlv/

Vampyric Ethical and Moral Code (CVEM) By Vampyric Court of Buenos Aires, written by Dián Mory and Reninna:
https://noctalium.wordpress.com/textos-vampiros-reales/codigo-vampyrico-etico-y-moral-cvem/

The Pax Vampyri: the 7 blood covenants of the Order of the Black Marble and the Court of Lazarus NYC, and the Black Trinity Covenant:
https://viprathemystic.wordpress.com/the-pax-vampyri/

The 13 nightside Commandments by Goddess Rosemary:
https://viprathemystic.wordpress.com/the-13-nightside-commandments/

The 4 Tenets of the Sanguinary