ethics

[Etonman]

As always, Hayley's "waffling" has summed up what I was trying to get at, far more clearly than my own waffling!

I think the difference is exactly, as Hayley says, between an "adult" or "innocent" event, and not to try to mix the two ideas. It may be that you particularly enjoy seeing the attractive person getting involved at the "innocent" event....that's natural and probably unavoidable ....but it would be morally wrong, IMHO, to set up the event with that hidden aganda as your plan or purpose (which, I think, was what was meant by Matty81's original question).

[DungeonMasterOne]

I see several takes on this:

1. Arranging something where the person with the fetish is the one who's getting gunged. So someone who is into sploshing sets up an event where the public can pour buckets of beans over the splosher for a fiver a go, with the proceeds to charity. I think that'd be fine, as no-one bar the splosher themselves is getting gunged. From the public's POV, whether the sploshee enjoys the gunge or not doesn't really matter.

2. Arranging an event where several sploshers splosh each other, in front of a paying audience, with the proceeds going to charity. Again, no problem, the participants all know about the fetish side, the public are getting the entertainment they've paid for as advertised.

The problems only start, as Hayley said, if an event is arranged that encourages members of the public to get sploshed, by someone who's main objective is to "trick" people into being gunged without realising that the organiser is enjoying the results for reasons other than fundraising.

This is where it does get into proper ethical territory - while the outside world probably wouldn't notice, there's a subtle difference between someone with a splosh fetish organising a messy participation event and a non-splosher doing so.

[Squelch]

morally do people think its wrong to get sexual kicks out of fundraising?

- In a private splosh type fundraising with consenting adults..no
- In a public event where other people might be unaware of an ulterior motive I would feel uncomfortable as an organiser. Someone with a different personality would doubtless feel differently.

Funnily enough, if I came across a splosh type fundraising event say whilst on holiday, like a ducking stool or bean bath, I would happily chip in a quid to tip in some beans or dunk a poor wench