1. Purpose of This Statement

This Adult Content Statement exists to make one thing unmistakably clear: cnhalden.com is an adult-only, unapologetically queer fiction site. It does not host “general audience” material, and it does not attempt to present queer content as neutral background noise. Instead, queer characters, queer bodies, queer relationships, and queer mythologies are the focus and foundation of the work presented here.

This page explains that focus in direct terms, so no visitor can claim confusion about what kind of space they have entered.

2. Audience & Age Restriction

The Site is intended solely for adults who are legally permitted to view mature and queer-themed content in their jurisdiction. By using the Site, you affirm that:

• You are at least eighteen (18) years old, or the age of majority where you live, whichever is higher.
• Accessing material that includes adult themes, queer desire, and artful nudity is lawful where you reside.
• You understand the difference between fiction and reality, and you accept responsibility for your own reactions.

If you do not meet these requirements, you must leave the Site and refrain from accessing its content.

3. Nature of the Content

The works presented on this Site include, but are not limited to:

• Queer speculative fiction, including fantasy and science fiction with adult themes.
• Erotic and sensual narratives centered on queer characters and perspectives.
• Artful depictions of adult bodies and nudity, primarily in stylized or illustrative form.
• Explorations of power, intimacy, myth, identity, and desire that may be emotionally or psychologically intense.

The Site also uses two creative brand pillars to signal tone and heat level across its fiction: Smut with Soul™ for emotionally grounded, character-driven queer stories that blend sensuality with narrative depth, and Erotica with Endorphins™ for explicitly body-forward, high-heat work where desire drives the scene. These markers may appear on individual stories in both the Calder’s Shorts and Calder Bare sections to help readers understand the intended intensity and focus of each piece.

The Site does not depict minors or minor-appearing characters in sexual situations, and requests for such material are prohibited and may be reported. The focus is adult queer experience, rendered through fiction and illustration.

4. Visitor Responsibilities

By continuing to use the Site, you agree that you:

• Will not allow or facilitate access to the Site by minors using your devices, accounts, or networks.
• Will take reasonable steps (such as device controls or supervision) to prevent underage access.
• Will not misrepresent your age or status in order to access adult content.
• Will not attempt to twist, mischaracterize, or weaponize the existence of queer content here to harass, defame, or threaten the author or other visitors.

If you disagree with these responsibilities, your appropriate remedy is not to remain here and complain; it is to leave the Site.

5. Author’s Queer Manifesto & Statement of Intent

What follows is not a legal clause. It is a declaration from the author whose name is on this door.

This space is queer by design. Not as a compromise, not as a background flourish, not as a single “diverse” side character, but as the spine and bloodstream of the work. If you arrived expecting that queerness would stay politely in the margins so as not to disturb anyone, you misread the invitation.

Some of that work carries the pulse of Smut with Soul™; some steps deliberately into Erotica with Endorphins™. Both are queer by choice, not compromise.

The stories here do not apologize for centering queer lives. They do not hide their mythic, erotic, or emotionally intense edges so that someone with a passing discomfort can remain unchallenged. Queer readers have spent lifetimes being asked to translate themselves into invisibility. This site is a refusal to participate in that ritual.

If you are offended by open, unapologetic queer presence, then yes, you will likely be offended here. That is not a bug; it is a signal that this is not your space. If you find yourself more scandalized by the existence of queer joy and queer heat than by the forces that tried to erase them, the discomfort you feel belongs to you.

To queer readers, writers, and creators: you will not find an apology for taking up space on this page. If the stance here makes you uneasy because it refuses to shrink, that unease is a mirror held up to the lessons we were taught about survival. You may step back if you wish, but this site will not step with you. It is not interested in becoming smaller so anyone else can feel taller.

To everyone who chooses to stay: you do so with clear eyes. You acknowledge that this is an adult queer environment. You understand that the work here is not gentle background noise; it is deliberate, mythic, sensual, sometimes sharp enough to cut. You accept that you sought it out, and you are responsible for the choice you made in reading it.

This is an adult queer fiction site. It will remain unapologetically queer. It will not dim its own flame so that someone else can pretend not to see it. If that unsettles you, then the boundary is functioning exactly as intended.

Enter with intention, or leave with haste. There is no obligation on this side of the threshold to make you comfortable with what was never built for your comfort.