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SAFETY Body modification carries risk of injury or death. Consult a qualified professional. BME publishes no how-to.
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The safety system
2026-06-23
The safety system / Section 08

Three tiers.
One standard.

Safety here is not bolted-on compliance. It is the design. Every experience in the archive sits in one of three tiers — a record of how openly it can be shown, never a verdict on the body it documents. We state what is behind a gate plainly. No euphemism, no shame.

OPEN
PUBLIC
Visible to everyone

Healed work, craft documentation, culture and history. The front of the archive. No barrier, no account required.

ThresholdNone
MediaShown
ExampleHealed septums
COMMUNITY
MEMBERS
Visible to signed-in members

Personal diaries, fresh work, and galleries shared within the community. Authored by members, for members who show up under their own name.

ThresholdIAM account
MediaShown to members
ExampleBeam suspension
GATED
EXPLICIT
Age-gated · click to reveal

Graphic and freshly-healing documentation. Shown only behind an explicit age-gate and a monochrome-blur cover. The reveal is a deliberate act, never automatic.

ThresholdAge-gate + reveal
MediaCovered by default
ExampleFresh scarification
The line we do not cross

No how-to. Ever.

BME publishes no instructional or procedural content. The archive can tell you that a thing was done, by whom, and what it cost. It will not teach you to do it to yourself. This is editorial principle and enforced community policy — and it is why the safety bar is permanent on every page.

How a gate behaves

Covered by default.

Sensitive media is never surfaced ungated. By default it is shown as monochrome, blurred, behind a typographic warning that names what it is. The reveal is one deliberate click — and it can always be covered again.

"View with respect and intelligence, or don't view at all."

Standing policy — carried forward from 1994