Part Two — Constitution
Human goodwill corrupts easily the moment power concentrates. The eight articles below are the floor that no city, no generation, and no leadership may lower at will. A city may add stricter rules atop this Constitution, but it may never loosen what lies beneath it — the door tightens in one direction only.
Article 1 (Philosophy and Spirit). ZAVOS stands upon the two values of Truthfulness and Freedom. Members pledge together to be honest with themselves, and to watch that this honesty never violates the freedom of another. A gathering that loses this spirit is ZAVOS no longer.
Article 2 (Age). No one under nineteen years of age may become a member through any path whatsoever. This boundary is kept without exception, without compromise.
Article 3 (Confidentiality). Everything seen and heard here, and the very fact that any given person exists within this place, is protected by a lifelong silence. This vow does not expire after one departs, nor after any bond is severed. Silence has no term.
Article 4 (Health and Safety). Before any meeting in which bodies are shared, a member must undergo the full standard panel of STD/STI testing as practiced in their country, and the results must be no older than one month from the date of testing. To ask a partner for their results is not suspicion but the deepest courtesy one can pay to honor another's body, and this culture of confirmation is, without exception, mutual.
Article 5 (Consent). All contact takes place solely upon affirmative and explicit consent. Consent may be withdrawn at any time, without need for a reason, and the instant that withdrawal is signaled, contact stops immediately, unconditionally. Silence or ambiguity is never interpreted as consent.
Article 6 (Nonprofit). Leadership serves without pay. The costs of gathering are borne equally by participants as a rule — though where the host has given notice in advance, the scope of that sharing may be set otherwise — and money changes hands under no other pretext whatsoever. No one profits from this community.
Article 7 (Limits of the Official Party). At gatherings officially convened by leadership (an Official party), acts classified at the highest risk tier (Red) are forbidden. Any freedom that crosses the boundary of risk may be discussed only outside these official gatherings, and only upon each individual's own responsibility.
Article 8 (Authority and Evaluation of Leadership). Members respect the manner temperature and mutual-evaluation system, and accept the trust formed through it. Leadership's decisions rest not on arbitrary will but on this system and its procedures, and members bear a duty to respect those decisions. Leadership, too, is never exempt from evaluation.
Addendum — The One-Way Ratchet. Each city may add its own regulations atop these eight articles, but only in the direction of greater strictness. No city holds the authority to loosen this Constitution.