"It Was Twenty Years Ago....."

[fitzjameshorse]

It was 20 years ago today....Sgt Pepper.....no it was 9th August 1998 that I took delivery of my first computer. The Internet and going online in those days was highly expensive and cost a lot of frictin between my wife and me. The thing is that it changed my life...in the same years I started some therapy and the combination of counselling and the

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[greeneyedsadie]

After I left Mal, who I was with for 5 years and lived together (it was like a marriage), I was manic for a long time due to a medication I was taking, and I had lots of sex with a lot of different men, and I tried kink and discovered that I loved being tied up and flogged, but I hated being a "sub" as I did not like being submissive and the doms saying nasty things to me and being dominant in an asshole way, so I discovered I was a "power bottom" and Doms don't really like those so I gave up when I couldn't find someone who would tie me up and whip me and fuck me and have fun with it and not be so serious.

This was over a decade ago. Last year I finally took my bag of bondage gear out from under my bed and took it to a dumpster in town and got rid of it. I didn't want to die and have my parents find it. So that was cathartic, actually.

When I was 21 and got the internet, I was an overweight loner nerd who had been celibate 3 years, and first AOL chat and then IRC after I got rid of AOL (after the first $600 bill, we switched to an unlimited ISP) and I LOVED the chat rooms and the relationships made there and like you, I now had friends and was considered witty and funny and attractive for my brain, and people got past my weight, and it was so freeing, so I totally get it.