Off The Traxx — Safer-Sex Policy

Version: 1 · Last updated: 2026-05-14

What this policy is, and isn't

We don't ask about your STI status, your testing history, or what kind of sex you have at home. None of that is the venue's business, and no membership decision at Off The Traxx will ever depend on it.

What we do ask is that everyone playing at our events follows the same baseline. The point of a shared baseline isn't to enforce a particular choice on you — it's so that when you negotiate with another member, you both know what the venue's floor looks like, and can build the rest of your agreement on top of it.

Universal precautions, on premises. Off premises is your call.

The baseline

These rules apply at all OTT events — public and private, in-house and elsewhere — for anything we'd reasonably call sexual contact.

1. Barriers for penetrative contact. Condoms for penile-vaginal and penile-anal contact. Gloves for fisting and for fingers going inside. Dental dams or cut condoms for oral on a vulva or anus. Whatever barrier is right for what you're doing.
2. No fluid bonding by default. Unless you and the people you're playing with have an explicit prior agreement to skip barriers with each other specifically, assume barriers are on.
3. No sharing implements between partners without cleaning. Toys, floggers with body contact, anything that's been on or in someone's body. Bring your own when you can; sanitize between partners when you can't.
4. Bleeding play stays on impermeable surfaces. Sharps, needles, cuttings, and heavy impact that breaks skin go on cleanable surfaces (vinyl, leather you own, sheets you own). No bleeding play on shared soft furniture.
5. Aftercare your own gear. What you brought in, you take out — and you sanitize before it touches another person.

If something you want to do isn't on this list, the question to ask is: "What's the equivalent precaution my partner would want me taking?" If you're not sure, ask a DM or a host.

What we provide on site

At every OTT event with play space, you'll find at the supply station:

• External (penile) condoms, latex and non-latex
• Internal (vaginal/anal) condoms
• Dental dams
• Nitrile gloves, multiple sizes
• Water-based and silicone-based lube
• Surface wipes for furniture and toys
• Sharps container, where appropriate to the event
• A small first-aid kit

If we're out of something and you need it, find a host. Don't proceed without the barrier you need because the box was empty.

What's strongly encouraged (not required)

These aren't gateable, but they're how the community looks out for each other:

• Get tested regularly. Once a year as a floor, more often if you play with multiple partners. The frequency that's right for you depends on what you're doing; talk to a clinician or sexual-health org you trust.
• Talk to your partners about status. Not because the venue is asking, but because the people you play with are the ones it matters to. Your status is their context for negotiating with you, and theirs is yours.
• Know what PrEP and PEP are, and where to get them locally. PrEP is daily medication that prevents HIV; PEP is a 28-day course that can prevent HIV after a possible exposure (start within 72 hours). Both are widely covered.
• If you're poz, undetectable, or on PrEP, you are welcome at OTT without disclosure or asterisk. The barriers above are the venue's floor, not a statement about who's "safe" to play with.

Testing and resources

We list current local testing resources at /safer-sex-resources (page coming) and refresh the list yearly. A few that don't change often:

• CDC GetTested: gettested.cdc.gov — find free or low-cost testing by ZIP code.
• Planned Parenthood: sliding-scale testing, treatment, PrEP, PEP.
• State / county public health: look up your local department; many offer same-day or anonymous testing.
• 211: dial 211 for connection to local sexual-health services.

We can also connect you privately with sex-positive clinicians in our local community. Email the vetting team if you'd like a referral — that conversation never goes into anyone's vetting record.

When something goes wrong

Mistakes, breaks, exposures — they happen, even when everyone's doing the right things. If you have a possible exposure at an OTT event:

1. Take care of yourself first. That includes considering PEP (within 72 hours) and emergency contraception (within 120 hours) where relevant.
2. Talk to the people who were involved. They have the same exposure question to consider, and the conversation is easier to start than to put off.
3. Let us know. Not because we'll do anything punitive — we won't — but because we track patterns. If supplies were missing, if a surface wasn't sanitized, if a piece of furniture turns out to be harder to clean than we thought, we want to fix it before it happens to someone else. Email This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..

What we will and won't do

Will:

• Provide the supplies above at every event.
• Take incident reports seriously and confidentially.
• Pause or end a scene if someone is visibly distressed or incapacitated, and provide aftercare resources.
• Ask members to leave who repeatedly disregard the baseline rules after being asked to follow them.

Won't:

• Ask about your STI status, testing schedule, or sexual history.
• Make any membership decision based on those things if they happen to come up some other way.
• Disclose to other members anything you tell us in confidence about your health — including in incident-report follow-ups, unless you explicitly ask us to.
• Pretend that the baseline above protects against every possible exposure. Risk-aware play means accepting that no policy makes risk zero. It means making the risk shared, informed, and small.

Disagreement, edge cases, questions

If part of this policy doesn't fit a scene you want to do, talk to a host or DM before the scene — not after. Almost everything has a version that works within the spirit of the rules; we'd rather help you find it than have you guess.

If you think the policy itself should change, we want to hear it. Email This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. with your suggestion and reasoning. Policy updates are reviewed at least yearly and any time a member raises something specific.

When this policy changes

Any change that affects what's required, or what we provide, triggers a version bump and a request that current members re-confirm their agreement on their next login. You'll see a short page summarizing what's new, and a checkbox to acknowledge it. Cosmetic edits (typo fixes, formatting) don't bump the version.