Do you all think that the golden age of the internet and people writing candidly and creating stories of their fantasies and real life events has
now gone? Back in the 1990s and very early 200s, it seemed that the Usenet area was a place one could be yourself in a sexual sense. More recently though, we seem to have realised that everybody and their friends are watching and so the tendency for this sort ff thing to be done has reduced and gone underground to a certain degree.
I had hoped that the liberation of those times might have educated
everyone that no matter how weird the fantasy, that most people were not
axe murderers, and employers and family would just see it as a natural extension of ones recreation with consenting adults, but it seems to me
that this has not happened. At every turn it seems that the don't do as we do, do as we say merchants want to control it all, so that although Amazon sells bondage equipment, its all a bit like the version of an old ranch
one gets as tourist attractions. Dude like not real or anything like it.
I just wonder if those growing up today can still be brave and say, yes,
I'm turned on by this or that any more and expect to be employed or taken seriously and not put on some sex pervert register by people who are
probably more perverted than those actually on it.
Certainly predatory sex addicts should quite rightly be exposed and some attempt be made to sort them out, but I feel that at this time anyway, we have lost the baton to the rich and powerful once again and are being repressed.
Brian
"Brian G" <mildew_spores@blueyonder.co.uk> wrote in message news:nroapv$5fo$1@dont-email.me...
Do you all think that the golden age of the internet and people writing
candidly and creating stories of their fantasies and real life events has
now gone? Back in the 1990s and very early 200s, it seemed that the
Usenet area was a place one could be yourself in a sexual sense. More
recently though, we seem to have realised that everybody and their
friends are watching and so the tendency for this sort ff thing to be
done has reduced and gone underground to a certain degree.
I had hoped that the liberation of those times might have educated
everyone that no matter how weird the fantasy, that most people were not
axe murderers, and employers and family would just see it as a natural
extension of ones recreation with consenting adults, but it seems to me
that this has not happened. At every turn it seems that the don't do as
we do, do as we say merchants want to control it all, so that although
Amazon sells bondage equipment, its all a bit like the version of an old
ranch one gets as tourist attractions. Dude like not real or anything
like it.
I just wonder if those growing up today can still be brave and say, yes,
I'm turned on by this or that any more and expect to be employed or taken
seriously and not put on some sex pervert register by people who are
probably more perverted than those actually on it.
Certainly predatory sex addicts should quite rightly be exposed and some
attempt be made to sort them out, but I feel that at this time anyway,
we have lost the baton to the rich and powerful once again and are being
repressed.
Brian
I do not think there is less "liberation" now.
I think that sadly, the two of us have not moved
on to the currently popular technology.
Kind'a like the persons that bought a bunch of
Beta tapes for watching recorded movies and TV
shows, then everyone gave up on that and went to
VHS. Then everyone abandoned VHS also.
a425couple wrote:
I do not think there is less "liberation" now.
I think that sadly, the two of us have not moved
on to the currently popular technology.
I blame cheap broadband.
No, really. Usenet was a great text environment (anybody remember ASCI art
or even the dozens of little code blocks on your sig lines?), but the introduction of inexpensive broadband made it possible for everybody to
get into web forums, with their flashy graphics, MIDI files, etc. People migrated over to small forums, which became big forums, blogs, and
eventually Facebook, Fetlife, and the other places.
Hell, many ISPs don't even bother carrying Usenet access anymore.
I check in once every few months just to see if anybody I knew from years
ago is still around. I used to hang out mainly in soc.sexuality.general,
but I lurked here for many years.
Some groups survive, but most of the sexuality discussions have moved elsewhere. The thing is, even though kinksters generally aren't axe murderers, the way web groups are archived, it's still risky for people to admit it because employers, family, neighbors, or whoever may stumble
across it. It hasn't freed anyone up as much as we once hoped.
--
Tom Allen
I do not think there is less "liberation" now.
I think that sadly, the two of us have not moved
on to the currently popular technology.
That is because the estabilishment employers and almost everyone is now able to look at all sites. In the old days we tended to be able to use annon servers etc, buut to hide who you really are now is much harder, amainly
due to the mainstream use of the internet by crooks.
The fact has always been for me that the use of rich content on web forums no common interface and the hard to navigate by keyboard nature of forums
for us blindies means I'm basically locked out.
Its a much harder thing to do than just read and write text.
Brian
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