I’ve certainly never used the group messaging feature, but I get at least one of these annoying messages a week.
I understand that the mods have good reason to use it … not sure if there are non-mods also using it and the cure would be worse then the disease, but what about making it so only mods or admins can create mail groups? Or make it a Paid-only feature like unlimited messaging?
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Here is a related forum post for your perusal.
https://www.lushstories.com/forum/ask-readers/new-user-question-saving-a-story-to-my-computer
That’s an extremely relevant thread, and its OP even stated the same intent: to make changes to the story to make it more relevant, in that case to read it to his wife. The answer is still a hard NO.
It’s not just plagiarism (which is not generally illegal). It’s copyright infringement (which IS). I’ve invested thousands of hours of blood, sweat, tears and cum into writing my stories, and although I don’t expect to ever make a dime from it, they remain my intellectual property. You may read and enjoy and masturbate to these stories, but your rights end there.
There are so many tens of thousands of stories on here, covering every possible kink and quirk. If you’re still unsatisfied and feeling the need to customize, then you know what you need to do. Start writing your own. And the important part of that is your own. If you’re not confident in your abilities, there is a whole writing-tips forum dedicated to helping you learn. And if the formal publishing process is too much, you can always post something to one of the groups.
If your story is already fully published, you will see Edit and Delete buttons between the story stats and the comments. Click Edit, and you can make any changes you want, including what Mit described, and then you’ll hit Publish as usual.
If you are only changing tags, genre and/or series, 90-95% chance it will republish immediately with no moderation required. Every once in a while it will send your story back for your moderation, and no one knows why, but that’s fairly rare. Also, if you change anything in the body text, caption, author’s notes or the cover photo, it will get sent back for moderation, obviously.
Congratulations to the winners and everyone else involved! I am embarrassed to say that while I kept up with the entries for a while (and have read well over half), I don't think I've read half of the thirteen yet.
Of those I have read, all are excellent but I was particularly taken with Kimmi's spin on fluidity, GreyMatter's tale of immersion in a great sea, and WannaBeWordsmith's ... well, more-than-just-wannabe wordsmithing, which still has me chuckling over "name Toblerone." Can't wait to read the others.
Browsing the groups, you can see how many members and how many posts, which can give you some idea of how active a group is, but would it be possible to see the date of the most recent post? That would really useful.
Also, is it ever possible to combine closely related groups? I only subscribe to 2-3 dozen, but even that includes a number of duplicate, low-activity groups that would be livelier if combined.
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Well, ok, ignoring stupidity and politics, who is hotter?
Maybe some can ignore stupidity, but intelligence (or lack of it) is an integral part of hotness for a lot of us.
But to Pierce's point, I'd take Tulsi (wouldn't have to be younger) over either one.
Bumping this one up, because I'm starting to work on a story that involves a gay bathhouse/sauna type of establishment, and I want to hear about everyone's experiences. I've been to a number of adult video stores (even sucked a cock at one of them) but never a bathhouse.
Coincidentally, Minneapolis, my neighbor to the north, is holding hearings about re-legalizing them. It's a famously queer-friendly city otherwise, with lots of other gay establishments, but they banned bathhouses early in the HIV crisis for public health reasons. Oddly enough, much smaller Duluth, 150 miles north of Minneapolis, does have one that's been there for decades.
If you've been to a gay bathhouse or sauna, did you have sexual contact with anyone, or did you just watch?
If you just watched, did you jerk off while watching? Did you feel like that was encouraged?
If you had sex with someone, did they approach you, or did you work up the nerve to go up to someone?
How long were you there? Did it feel like guys were more coming in for a cum fix, or staying for hours, or a mix?
Did the establishment have multiple spaces (rooms, showers, hot tubs, steam rooms, etc.), and which did you use?
Did it feel friendly to you as a first time visitor, or did it feel "clubby?"
If it was your first time, either at a sauna or with a man generally, did it feel like anyone perceived your newness and made an effort to "welcome" you, or did you feel kind of ignored?
Did you feel like people were being mostly safe, mostly unsafe, or a mix when it comes to unprotected anal sex?
How did you feel? Was it thrilling? Scary? Empowering? All of the above?
What was the mix of ages, races, body types, gender expressions, etc.?
Were the guys mostly cool, or did it feel like there were some creeps there?
OMG, that is a lot of questions. Sorry. Just trying to get an idea of what the vibe is like, so I can write a realistic story. Maybe I'll have to go to one someday.
For me, it was all of the above. The texture, taste (which was mostly skin, maybe a touch of precum), the smell, the feeling of a man's cock in my mouth ... the outer silky softness of the sheath, the spongy softness of the glans, the inner hardness. And then the warm deliciousness of him spurting his load for me to swirl around in my mouth and then swallow.
Of course you asked this on "Ask the Guys," not in the LGBTIA+ forum, so you'll get lots of "I wouldn't know" responses from the straight guys too.
Oh, I didn't realize the dark mode feature worked now! Have now enabled it on both my phone and my desktop.
One glitch: when you Like a comment or a photo, the heart symbol doesn't turn red, so if it's a page you've visited before, you don't know if you've liked it before - except by clicking Like again, and seeing whether the counter goes up or down. Minor but mildly annoying. Happens on both mobile and desktop.
No such luck in my case. Can't say I ever had a girlfriend who was quite that adventurous, although, I did have a friendship (and occasional FB relationship) with a woman who was pretty open. I believe I could have had either an MMF or MFF (or both) with her, had I played my cards better.
There was also a time I stayed with an old college friend and his male roommate while traveling. It didn't occur to me at the time, but In retrospect, I have come to believe they were probably lovers. We even watched some porn together the second night I stayed with them. It was straight porn and only went on for a few minutes, but had it gone on longer, I wonder if some bi or gay porn would have "accidentally" slipped in there to test my reaction. So there's a missed MMM threesome opportunity on top of the others above.
Although I've since broadened my scope, the reason I started writing erotica was to document my missed opportunities.
Pretty clear there’s a lot of (at least attempted) catfishing going on here. Even though my story readership is probably 80% male, I regularly get unsolicited “Hi” messages from female-identified users I’ve not otherwise had contact with. The are almost always new to the site, claiming on their profile to be looking for love, showing off a handful of too-good-to-be-true sexy photos, and giving no evidence that the intend to ever read or write a story here. I ignore these messages, or block them upon a rare second offense, and since I do not look to Lush as a dating site, it never goes anywhere and I rarely have anything to report. But probably somebody is falling for it.
So far, despite the flood of AI images in general, I personally haven’t yet noticed a lot of obvious AI in people’s photos purporting to be of themselves - though it's obvious that many members have been doing that with non-AI images for a long time. IMO the AI image generators are mostly not quite good enough to fool me into thinking the image is of the member in question, but based on the “you are so hot” comments people make on what to me is pretty obvious AI fakery, I am disturbed by how many are fooled. We may not survive the incoming slop-tsunami if we don’t all grow bigger critical-thinking balls. The bar is about to get raised again with the character-permanence features being rolled out on some sites, which will allow you to generate multiple images of what appear to be the same person.
I understand that it’s caveat user, mostly, as far as the catfishing and other scams go. The advice in Jen’s link is good. I don’t know what else the site can do other than issue stern warnings to the community. This is the enshittified state of the world we live in.
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"large hardon collider," amiright?
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Let me know if they need volunteers! Always looking for a fresh depositary. And I bet the suction feels amazing if you stick your dick in partway. Only partway.
In any event, better keep the jerk train running. The folks on the other end are peeing into their end of the wormhole.
What seeker4 said, but then I tend to prefer human bodies as God made them, and find bodily modifications of most kinds (piercings, large-scale tattoos, breast augmentation, hair removal, Mar-A-Lago face, labia removal) to be profoundly UNsexy and hard to comprehend why people do such things. So my opinion won’t carry much weight here.
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I find Lush a place to try things I wouldn’t likely try in RL I find quite of few people act like this is a dating site and have serious romantic expectations. Occasionally there are opportunities to have a civil conversation but I would never entertain meeting anyone I made contact with in cyberspace. Far too many emotionally confused people with unrealistic expectations. The simple answer is NO!
It is amazing how many people come here for the dating and chatroom services, not for the stories. I'm far from a blanket NO, but I agree that there are a lot of people with unrealistic expectations on here. Not to mention questionable motives in all too many apparent cases.
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What he said. Got plans for the weekend, Joe? 😉😁
Like my profile says, not currently looking, but as I said on the previous page, if that time comes I would consider some of the guys I've met Lush. You'd be on my shortlist for sure! ;)
Oh, you mean with another person?
My date let me touch her breasts, then we touched each other down below, I went down on her for a while and she jerked me to climax. First vaginal intercourse was a couple of months later. It would be almost a year later that I came in a woman’s mouth for the first time.
Given my recent gay male stories, you may have forgotten about my amazing kinky girlfriend Daphne. Well, she's back! Bringing a third party into the bed, making me guess whose cock I'm sucking, penetrating virgin territory (as it were), and causing a very special, very big revelation in the process. Daphne's Rubber Ding-Dong is only my second strap-on story, and continues the wild ride that started two weeks earlier with Dating Daphne.
Two weeks into our relationship, Daphne sticks it to me.
Strap-On Sex Contrarian here, apparently. Not being turned on AT ALL by shaved pussies, and having never understood the appeal in the thirty-two years or so since pube-shaving went mainstream, my lizard brain still needs to see at least a little hair on a woman. Trimmed is fine.
Likewise, I do not shave myself down there. I fucking love pubic hair! My one concession is that mine started getting longer with age and I do trim now. I leave the fuzz above my cock long enough to be soft and luxuriant rather than scratchy and scruffy, but I trim fairly close below. And that is as far as it will go unless forced to for surgery or something.
By the way, I run a brush through if I’m expecting to receive oral sex. That neatly solves the whole loose-hairs-in-the-mouth problem, and it stupefies me that the world has lost its collective knowledge of this simple tip.
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