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Guardian Island --> Snuggery --> Welcome Center --> Mission Mission Statement Guardian Island is an Adult Ageplay resort. Our mission is twofold: (1) Providing a safe haven for ageplay personae to express themselves and explore their needs; and (2) Helping people sculpt their ageplay needs into healthy, fulfilling, committed relationships -- the most powerful sorts of relationships we've ever known. Adult ageplay, of course, NEVER involves real children in any way, whatsoever. Guardian Island is a safe zone for either re-experiencing childhood feelings which one craves, or rewriting events and feelings which were experienced traumatically. It often involves discipline and sexuality between the ADULTS in such a relationships, and often overlaps the spanking fetishists in the D/s community. Guardian Island is a virtual place, and endeavors to be a real-world Place one day soon -- a resort where the community can exist at the next level of realism.
Our mission is to maintain a safe zone for the expression of the "Inner Child" in healthy, committed adult relationships -- whatever depth or degree that expression is craved; and to encourage the exploration of these needs, and fulfilling ways to express them, in meaningful parts of their life. For many, Adult Ageplay is most powerful as the nurturing, discipline, "reparenting", and protection of the Inner Child as an alter-ego in an adult relationship with a Guardian figure. Usually misunderstood within the BDSM culture (but also craved by folks who have no other BDSM interest at all) sincere Ageplay often helps to repair, or at least sooth, the emotional traumas of childhood. For others it simply allows them to combine the two most fulfilling sorts of relationships we generally have into one: that with a "parental" flavor, and that of devoted romantic love. But there can be few absolute rules in relationships as powerful and complex as these -- We try to describe things in as inclusive a way as possible, and embrace all variations on the theme, provided they're ethical, as we define the term. More than most other alternative relationship-styles, Adult Ageplay has a responsibility to be very clear about some ethical issues: and we face the complication of existing near some easily misunderstood issues. Often, descriptions of thoughts, feelings, fantasies, etc, will use pronouns and language that would lead the outsider to assume they refer to a biological child. There will be times when remembrances, roleplay, or fantasy material will indicate a persona which IS a minor. It must be made clear, then, that ALL such language refers only to the alter-ego persona, or childhood remembrance, of an ADULT. Given the horrid reality that child abuse DOES exist, and does occur in cyberspace, we feel it ethical to understand the sensitivities of those who don't *feel* these things as we do, and can't know how healthy and positive is is for us. EMAIL: GI2Crew@GuardianIsland.org
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