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alecdom -> RE: Is our life style disintegrating so fast that there is no hope? (1/29/2008 4:38:59 PM)
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I suppose that the only constant is change. I remember my first inkling of what was to be my path in life after asking my mother why the sheets on her bed were black. "So the blood won't show." It started there and now some of the paddles I use today are several hundred years old and will be passed on to my son who began borrowing my "traveling bag" when he was 16. Our lifestyle is evolving. How many crime shows openly talk about BDSM as a lifestyle? I just watched an episode of Criminal Minds on Tivo and there were endless scenes of graphic drawings so complex and detailed as to invoke my memories of the family diaries. Everything is changing. My father found my mother by dating endles women and I found my current wife on alt.com in 1999. My oldest son found the woman who will become his wife online 3 years later. What I learned reading diaries in the attic my yougest son will learn watching in front of the television. I am happy that the secrecy is fading, for I have always felt that I am as normal as the next person and I get no added thrill from hiding who I am, and what I do. The way I live my life is as essential as breathing and eating. We should neither lament, nor rejoice, in this changing face of our private passions, we should simply do everything we can to be sure they do not fall backward once again into the hidden folds of our society. We have an opportunity, let's not lose it, waste it, or use it poorly.
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