“Let’s do a kinky roleplay where we’re a cop and a prisoner.”

“OK, but that would be a really bad power imbalance and shouldn’t ever happen in real life. I want to make clear that we both understand this is fiction, and you and I are not a cop and a prisoner, and our actual relationship is nothing like that, and we would really disapprove of it if it happened for real.”

“Agreed. I acknowledge this fully. The roleplay will be totally fictional, as it should be.”

“Okay. Now, did you say you wanted to be the cop, and I… wait. Before we start, I have to make sure that we’re clear, the characters in our roleplay aren’t, like, REALLY a cop and prisoner. They’re just two kinky people pretending the scenario, because if they weren’t, it would be totally problematic.”

“O…kay. Sure. Why not. I’ll roleplay the kinky person pretending to be a cop, and you can roleplay the one pretending to be–”

“Ooh. Wait. One more thing. The characters in our roleplay aren’t pretending to really be a cop and prisoner, are they? I wanna be sure first– they’re just pretending to be a couple who are acting out being a cop and a prisoner, but actually are regular people in a healthy relationship like ours. Right?”

“…How many layers deep are we going to go on this?”

“…Infinite recursion is my kink, okay?”

“You didn’t go over this kink with me in detail before we began. I feel like you aren’t respecting my consent.”

“NoooooOOOOooooo….” (logic paradox crash)