Sorry for bring a bit slow at putting together this weeks edition of That Traditional Schoolboy's Dorm but you know no sooner than you come back that there are other Real World issues to deal with so my time has been spent rather more on them.
One issue I did kind of mention a few weeks ago was this whole question of mentions of actual Children and experiences on websites about age play, age regression and spanking.
To be honest I don't feel people understand just what the problem area of taking debates around child raising to what are 18+ "adult sites", the way it may look to outsiders, how it may leave people who whatever they may be doing on such sites are dealing with traumatic childhoods that touch the issues never mind how it can be a site is seen as endorsing a point of view on behalf of its users.
Those discussions simply don't belong on age regression or spanking related sites just for "adults" never mind having users imply a refusal to support any individual point of view supports or condones another that takes you completely out of the mindset and purpose of being on such sites.
On age regression sites in particular, we are going very much into working with our child-like sides with the mindset of our younger selves writing stories, drawing having role playing stories rooted in our pasts that had no part in grown up discussion of the issues at the time and where the attempt to takes us out of it. For some of us it is a coping mechanism that we badly need - it's not Adult News Central - with all the headlines and debates on the screen distracting us.
It is our place away from all that.
They belong in the relevant discussion forums for politics and parenting issues for those most affected by them.
Let's keep our spaces just for us and the reasons we need them.
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