Not quite the same, but I never even kissed a girl until the summer between college and grad school, and I had an 18-year dry streak- a combination of natural introversion and a crappy security job that was mostly nights and weekends, and paid peanuts. Sometimes, it's just the situation you find yourself in. Virginity or the losing thereof is highly over-hyped- that first kiss made a far bigger impact on me than my first actual sex.

On the other hand, I too got pretty good at sex chat once I discovered it, and I enjoyed it. There are a few times that I don't remember as me typing, but got so immersed that I really recall the events happening. Of course, there was also a point where I was dreaming in chat screens, so...

There was a time when any sort of erotic content was banned from "respectable" writing, so people who wanted it would settle for anything they could get, so low-effort, cliched stories would still sell. Which is not to say that there were not skilled writers in the field. Robert Bloch, the author of Psycho, supported himself early in his career by writing those smutty little paperbacks, and said that he learned a lot about writing in doing so. He could whatever he wanted with characters and storylines- as long as there was a sex scene every ten or fifteen pages, his editors didn't care about the rest.

So, what is going on with these gray stripes appearing across the chat rooms? I have never seen them before, but today I saw two, in The Lounge and Eye Candy. Are they visible to everyone, or just me? In both cases, I hadn't even posted anything yet. One was a reminder of no role-play in The Lounge, which kind of made sense, because a couple of people were starting up, The second was a very dire warning about photos looking 18+ and 2257 compliance. I scrolled back up and didn't see anything which would merit such a warning. There wasn't a mod available at the time to ask. How do I prove that a pic I scrounged off the Internet 10 years ago, that had probably been circulating for years before that, is 2257 compliant?

I don't read the forums much, so late to the party

Belated congratulations to Nika S. and Elise! Wishing you many years together, and much happiness!

Unfortunately, those large files mean I sometimes have to shorten the GIFs, which was a pain to do one by one, especially with hundreds of frames. Managed to write a GIMP Python-fu script to do it automatically, which is much simpler. Also wrote one that deletes every other frame- the motion gets a bit worse, and you have to fiddle with the delay time, but you gotta do what you gotta do....

How do I look at a profile in a new tab? That was default in old chat, now I lose the chat room completely, and can only get back with the back button. Even tried "open in new tab, but that just creates another copy of the chat tab.

GIMP is a free Photoshop alternative. Very easy to open a webp file in GIMP, then save as a gif. The drawback is that the gif file is usually much larger (smaller file sizes are the whole point of webp.) I'm self-taught with all of this, but, unless it's a REALLY huge file, I can usually get it down to a reasonable size, although I might have to edit out a lot of frames to do it. Always a trade-off.

Very odd- when I enter a chat room, I no longer see the usual box at the bottom where I can type and send to post to the room. Except for The Lounge- that one works fine. I have tried logging out and back in- still happens. Anyone else having this?

I just click on a random avatar on the members list, then go to their profile. That brings the top menu bar back.

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I cant find an 'announcement' by reblogme on the web but the view is, rather like BDSMLR early last year, they have stopped hotlinking from their site.

Which is why I switched from BDSMLR to reblogme in the first place. Great.

Why, yes they are. The fact that you are asking that tells me this isn't going to be good news...

I suddenly seem unable to post image links in the chatrooms. I just see a "Link Removed" message. Has something changed? I have reached out to the site I am linking from, as well. Just trying to figure out what's going on.

@Liz: Laughed 'til I cried!

Love the banner, BTW!

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What is wrong with the chatrooms?