Hey everyone.. i got an email from a lush member explaining all about her time on lush and that shes sad about leaving.. this got me thinking...
do you come here just to get your kicks? Or do you actually get so involved you think people actually are your friend and its like another world??
i personally come to mainly get my kicks.. there is times where its good to drift off into fantasy land.. but i dont think people truely care about whats going on in my real life..
whwts your thoughts??
I have yet to engage in any single person in conversation or communication outside of forum or blog posts. I'm not unwilling to I just haven't, and have always found making "friends" strictly online rather odd. However while I do enjoy the stories here and most certainly get my kicks from that, I also enjoy the forum topics and the discussions that can ensue. I would tend to think of Lush as leaning slightly more toward a community based on this simply for the fact that we are all here looking at, talking about, discussing, etc... sex, and doesn't a group of people with a common interest who gather together in one place make it at least a loose internet community? I would say yes
You can do a lot on this website. You can get your kicks but you can also make friends. I made a few friends on here who I would probably meet face to face and develop more of a friendship with.
I lurked for a while, enjoying stories and the banter on the forums
Joined and started making friends - are they as close as those I see in Real Life? No, but I do try to provide support when they're down, cheer when they have something nice happen and just enjoy hearing about their interests and special things, and hope they feel the same
They are friends and I consider them such - so I can understand someone feeling sad about having to leave here
I mostly come on here to entertain myself with the stories and forums. However, I do interact regularly with a few people who I would call friends.
Lush is what you make it. It's a community if you want it to be, or there's plenty of stuff to get you off if you don't.
My latest story is a racy little piece about what happens when someone cute from work invites you over to watch Netflix and Chill. i love the writing
i think the talent here is so amazing!!
but i adore the people
the wit, sexiness and intelligence is beyond compare
if you get your kicks well then what a bonus!
but where else can you get companionship perhaps some fun and critical help with your writing
no where.....
exactly mrs rabbit exactly love what you wrote!
It's a little bit of both for me. I came for the stories. I'm still here for the people...and I just believe in the site as a whole. It's come such a long way in just my time here, and I feel as if I'm a part of that. And being offered the opportunity to be a moderator has made me appreciate the hard work that goes into running a site like this even more. It's definitely a community to me. But at the same time, I'm not disillusioned. I rely strongly on my instincts and I take most everything with a grain of salt. There are people here that I'm friendly with. And there are people here that I trust and consider close friends...it's not a large number of people, but they're my friends nonetheless.
I definitely think that whatever your reason is for joining or not joining, there's something here for everyone.
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It really depends on what you are looking for. I originally came to read the stories and maybe write a couple. But I soon found the community side (chatrooms) and have meet some great people. I agree with Mrs_Rabbit that it is another social media website like facebook but with a underlying theme.
The site is what you want it to be. I read stories for almost a year before I joined. Since then I've made several friends that I correspond with. I'll keep them for as long as I'm able and enjoy sharing thoughts and ideas.
One will be in my life for as long as I am.
Some Day, we'll be in it together.
I've discovered that all of life is what each one makes of it.
I agree with those who say it is a bit of it all. Depending on the member (or even NON-member) LUSH is what they want it to be. It has porn, it has erotic stories, it has a fantasy element, it has a social network portion, etc. It is also why so many people have problems. They are running into others who don't use, or see, LUSH the same way THEY do.
I'm here to meet others with similar interest and to practice my prose.
It's both porn and a community of like minds and it's great.
I came for the stories but have been finding the Forum good entertainment. Much of what is said here reminds me of my erotic and highly sexual teen years. I was obsessed with boys and sex and later boys,girls and sex.
I have matured a lot but the boys and girls have been replaced with men and women and sex.
I have written a couple of stories from both the female and male perspective as I feel I have lived and loved so many. I have 3 male FWB and we talk and chat a lot about what we do and what we have done before we met. The girls also have their history and its not hard to gain ideas for stories from listening to them. In fact many of the stories here can remind me of an earlier life.
I just really love the stories and people here. For me it's a community.
BUT quickly found the community side of it, there are great people here! I see this site as a sort of adult FB, another social website, where there is a theme. I don't see Lush as a porn site at all, it is an erotic reading site with a great community!
