Netiquette

Community moderation shifts

With a few exceptions, our team monitors the messages and comments on the organization’s various online platforms from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., Monday to Friday. So, don’t despair if we don’t reply to your comment or message over the weekend or in the middle of the night; we’ll get back to you, we promise.

Our platforms

You can find us on the following platforms:

• Social media (Facebook, Instagram, and LinkedIn… maybe also on TikTok one day if we ever figure it out)
• Our online Confessional

Social media

Users who wish to take part in a conversation on Club Sexu’s social media must respect the following rules:

• Any posted content or comment must be relevant to Club Sexu or its content (we too are big fans of The Last of Us, but this is unfortunately not the place to bring it up).
• Non-offensive language should be used.
• Content must not harm any individual, group of individuals, or organization or their reputation. No form of discrimination will be tolerated. As our primary school teacher repeated on the playground: “Don’t do unto others what you don’t want others to do unto you”. Well said, Linda!
• Being respectful is not only mandatory between internet users, but also when interacting with members of the Club’s team and when referring to the people mentioned in the articles and other content that we post online. Accordingly, comments that go against our codes of online conduct may be deleted. So, basically, let’s just be polite, OK?
• Club Sexu reserves the right to delete comments if they contain links to websites whose authenticity or credibility cannot be verified. In other words: if it’s fishy, we flush it!
• It is prohibited to publish content likely to offend or that risks exposing a person or a group of people to hatred or contempt on the basis of their sexual orientation, gender identity, religious beliefs, ethnicity, age, or marginalized status (go back and read what Linda said again, we’ll wait…).
• Any content or comment may be rejected or deleted if it contains any of the following:
  • Illegal material (if it violates a court order, for example)
  • Hate speech
  • Threats or harassment
  • Personal attacks, insults, or defamatory content
  • Incitement to commit a criminal act
  • Invitation to rally for a cause or an event outside of Club Sexu
  • Content or arguments that convey beliefs that are not based in science or a rigorous and nuanced approach (e.g., fake news, personal opinions presented as facts, etc.)
• All content must respect privacy by not including any personal information (such as a phone number or email address) or private conversations. What happens in private should remain private.
• All content should be personal, and not commercial in nature. Commercial promotions and press releases are not accepted. Club Sexu? Yes! Repentigny space-punk-rock horseback riding club? Also yes, just not here.

Club Sexu reserves the right to remove any post or comment deemed inappropriate. Does it violate netiquette? If yes, then into the trash it goes.

Anyone who violates netiquette will have their content deleted or rejected and their account could even be suspended or blocked. Club Sexu reserves the right at all times not to open a forum on a given subject, to close a forum without notice, and to refuse to publish any content.

In addition, it should be noted that the comments and opinions appearing on Club Sexu’s platforms solely belong to their respective authors. The views expressed on its platforms do not necessarily reflect the opinions and values of Club Sexu, its management, or its staff. Do you disagree with a user’s point of view? Before burning them at the stake, come talk to us!

Online Confessional

The Confessional is a judgement-free online space where you can read and submit anonymous confessions. Careful, it’s hot!

Keep in mind that:

• Club Sexu does not endorse the posters’ words.
• Given the nature of the posts, the Confessional has the potential to (re)trigger psychological trauma. For the sake of benevolence, an additional warning (trigger warning) will be issued to warn the readership when a confession includes text or concepts that are associated with particularly sensitive topics (e.g., sexual assault).
• Not all confessions will be posted. Confessions will be screened and some will be posted on the Confessional’s page. This is to help us moderate the content and ensure a diversity of topics.
• You may submit confessions in the language of your choice.

Selection and publishing

Confessions that may be selected to be published on the Confessional’s page are those that reflect open, positive, respectful, inclusive, and empowering attitudes relative to sexuality. It’s a slam dunk if they’re titillating, touching, impressive, educational, or all of the above.

Confessions may be published and/or used in the following places:

• On the Confessional page of our website
• On the Article page of our website (confessions might be used to support a train of thought, an opinion, or data in a given article, or they might be used to further tease apart a phenomenon. For instance, sex researchers or sexologists might annotate the confession to add additional information, definitions, research findings, or contact information for external resources)
• On our social media (as is or annotated similarly to how they are annotated in our articles)
• On our podcast (as is or commented on similarly to how they are commented on in our articles)
• On any other platform or media project developed by or in partnership with Club Sexu, in compliance with the Terms and Conditions regarding the use and confidentiality of users’ personal information

Editing

In some cases, Club Sexu might modify the selected confessions. Don’t worry, we won’t change their narratives. Here are ways we might modify them slightly:

Language editing

Writing errors (typos, spelling, grammar) may be corrected.

Censorship and anonymization

Automatic censorship

• In general, the names of products or services of private companies will be censored. As stated above, we favour ad-free spaces.

Automatic anonymization

• People’s names (or other information that can identify people) will be anonymized
  • Note that fictional characters will not be censored.

Non-publication

Your confession hasn’t been published? Sometimes we reserve the right to not publish confessions when they contain:

• Hate speech, that is, speech expressing prejudice, abuse, contempt, or denigration towards a particular group of people, notably on the basis of sexual orientation, gender identity, religious beliefs, ethnicity, or age, even in a humorous context (e.g., homophobic, misogynistic, racist, or transphobic remarks)
• Elements that could be interpreted as being harmful to certain groups
• Violence (i.e., that which describes non-consensual sexual encounters)
• Commercial promotions
• Descriptions of criminal acts
• Statements that describe or allude to sexual acts involving minors (while we believe that minors should have access to content about sexuality and be able to talk freely about sexuality without taboos, we are under the legal obligation not to produce or distribute on our website material of a sexual nature that includes or concern minors)
• Moralizing, conservative, guilt-inducing, and discriminating attitudes that can harm psychological, sexual, or moral development