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glowingfish) wrote2026-02-09 11:32 am
glowingfish) wrote2026-02-09 11:32 am
Are there adult communities on Dreamwidth?
Okay, I have been here for a year, so maybe I should have checked this out before.
I am not asking this for purely prurient reasons!
I was talking with a friend, who I was on Livejournal with over 20 years ago...and we were talking about the early, wild west days of the internet, before there was much social media, and when there were only a handful of blogging platforms, most of which were not really commercialized or monetized.
So anyway, about sexual content: it wasn't that I was naive to it, but I was naive to how it might fit in with normal life...because, as a teenager in the 90s, what I knew about other people (specifically women's) experience of sex came from obviously fake pornography (Dear Penthouse Forum, I never thought this would happen to me...) or from advice columns in women's magazines, which were slightly less fake. So there I was, 23 years old in 2002, and I go on Livejournal and read about women's real sexual experiences, and thoughts, and desires, and it was very revelatory.
Of course, now, I would probably yawn at a lot of that stuff. But half my lifetime ago, it was wild!
I am not asking this for purely prurient reasons!
I was talking with a friend, who I was on Livejournal with over 20 years ago...and we were talking about the early, wild west days of the internet, before there was much social media, and when there were only a handful of blogging platforms, most of which were not really commercialized or monetized.
So anyway, about sexual content: it wasn't that I was naive to it, but I was naive to how it might fit in with normal life...because, as a teenager in the 90s, what I knew about other people (specifically women's) experience of sex came from obviously fake pornography (Dear Penthouse Forum, I never thought this would happen to me...) or from advice columns in women's magazines, which were slightly less fake. So there I was, 23 years old in 2002, and I go on Livejournal and read about women's real sexual experiences, and thoughts, and desires, and it was very revelatory.
Of course, now, I would probably yawn at a lot of that stuff. But half my lifetime ago, it was wild!
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