The Phoenix - Eros' Rising

dollMaker​(dom male) - Of the most recent newly added I think FRIES is a worthy addition and ‘goes a bit deeper’ - Freely Given, Reversible, Informed, Enthusiastic, and Specific. This works for kink, bdsm and vanilla activity. I have never heard of S.H.I.C.K.

ErosRising​(dom male){Hekate} - OOO I do like that. I will give it a bit more time and tell you all what SHICK is, if no one else knows.

ButterfliesAndCuffs​(sub female) - I’ve never heard of S.H.I.C.K. I could make up some fun words for the acronym but I’ll keep my smart ass-ness out of the conversation for now. 😝 I am interested to know what the letters actually stand for though.
As to your discussion with this educator, I agree that when you’re starting out it’s best to keep things simple. As you learn more and eventually get into a dynamic, you get deeper into the meanings and how they apply to your unique relationship.

ErosRising​(dom male){Hekate} - 100%. Knowledge comes with time. The more time, the deeper it becomes.
As I said to dollMaker, I will give the post a bit more time to see if anyone knows what it means. It does pertain to lifestyle though. And I didn't make it up. :)

ButterfliesAndCuffs​(sub female) - I have a guess as to what it means. I’ll hold off posting it too then. I did tell Sir my guess. Curious to see if I’m right!

Literate Lycan​(dom male) - Good discussion really. Not with the educator because he apparently wasn't open for discussion. But for all of us (especially the young or young at heart and new to the world) simplicity is the best while learning. Too many words and it's hard to memorize or grasp the concept while opening your eyes.

Sounds to me like the individual you spoke to had shades of virtuous signaling . . . "Look at me, I have much deeper thought than the rest of you." I don't think he would make a good educator. It's a shame he wasn't open to discussion. As you point out, just the three you mention are more than enough for a newbie to unpack and heed caution while learning. I would add many don't listen to those so why make it any more complicated?
Thank you for sharing.

Literate Lycan​(dom male) - And this evening I am enjoy a Glenlivet aged in a Caribbean Rum Barrel. Quite a nice end to the day.

ErosRising​(dom male){Hekate} - Ooo. Nice choice!!

And I always believed in the K.I.S.S. Rule. Just Kepp It Simple.

Thank you L.L.

Six Foot Four - My favorite acronym is KISS -- Keep It Simple Stupid. I'm of two minds about what you described.

As LL said, it sounds like this 'educator' was engaging in virtue-signaling mental masturbation. If someone can complicate a thing enough, then you have to rely on the person or group responsible for said complication to explain it to you, possibly repeatedly, and thereby get their message sunk deeper into your head. 'Me so good, me so smart, it so complicated! Just do what I say and let me handle it for you!' A good educator should be able to go pretty deeply into each & keep abreast of developments in their field. I'd sort of expect someone who fancied themselves as such to keep on the cutting edge and know what SHICK stands for. I sure don't and I am suddenly very glad that I do not use that razor anymore. ;P

On the other hand, each of the terms you mentioned except SSC was an outgrowth from and response to a perceived insufficiency of the prior one. SSC was a way to draw a line between BDSM and abuse.

I'm one of those who has always had issues with SSC because nobody's ever managed to convince me that vast swaths of what we do falls into the 'Safe' or 'Sane' realm, but that was all there was back when I was a newbie. I experienced cognitive dissonance every single time I heard or talked about SSC, so I latched onto the 'new hotness' of RACK like a drowning sailor to a good-sized board. It felt appropriate and true in ways that SSC never has.

As for P.R.I.C.K., I feel like everything it does was already implicit in RACK, but then I'm also not down the club looking for new partners all the time. Some people clearly think it's useful, and maybe whatever this educator comes up with will someday become common parlance. Then someone won't like the new thing and come up with their own acronym and so on and so forth. I worry sometimes about the segregation of the community into a bazillion tiny little slices, all speaking their own acronyms past each other. CCC! 4Cs! I heard a new one this weekend and it did not stick. Something about Loving and Consent and Informed and...heh. Ease of remembrance is very much key.

I'm having an unsweetened Iced Tea after a long day on the road. I know. WILD MAN!
*takes a big gulp and runs around pretending to have a sugar high*

ErosRising​(dom male){Hekate} - As I said to L.L. I am all about KISS just keep it simple. To much, especially for a newbie, is going to detract from the message and base of what we are trying to convey.
Side note - Part of the reason that SSC went to RACK was that it became to “commercialized” outside of the community and it lost its meaning. It is bad when you start seeing t-shirts and other things floating around with people not even in lifestyle. It became a fad in the vanilla world.

Hope you enjoyed your unsweetened tea. Everyone has there thing and no judgements from me. 😁