Anachron
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What the hell. My customary reclusiveness with respect to the BDSM scene suits me most of the time, but it won't hurt me to announce myself. And I suppose I could always use a slightly-expanded circle of high-quality, sexually-alternative friends.
I am Joel, AKA JT of JT's Stockroom. If you're a Collarme junkie, you may have noticed the prominently-featured Stockroom.com link on their main page... I believe my company had the honor of being the first advertiser to sign up with their still-fairly-new advertising program. I signed us up because I created my company to serve exactly the same community that Collarme does, which I knew because I was and am a Collarme user myself.
Other subsidiaries of The Stockroom, Inc include Daedalus Publishing (publisher of kink-oriented books, mostly non-fiction), the community site SandM.com, and our very recent acquisition, Syren, which is a fetish fashion company that mainly focuses on latex wear (see Syren.com). Besides accelerating our expansion of our fetish wear offerings, the Syren deal also gives us our first real retail store location, which will have a reopening soon.
So... although I've kept a low profile personally with respect to "the scene" in recent years, I do share the same interests that you all do, and I think my work to serve and provide value to the various alternative communities sort of speaks for itself. I'm posting here just to say hello to all of you, and wish you luck with whatever "alternative" visions you are trying to realize. I do understand.
The name I picked for myself on Collarme was Anachron-- a reference to the idea of "anachronism," something out of its place in time. The day I created that profile, I was thinking about how, in relation to the mainstream culture of the developed Western world in the 21st century, my sexual and romantic interests and inclinations could be given labels like "kinky" or "alternative." However, in many other places and times (ancient Greece, Ancient Rome, tribal societies, and even aristocratic circles a few centuries back) a lot of what seems natural to me would just be How Things Are Done, and not kinky or alternative.
But we are where we are... where there is homophobia, there is a gay community; where there is racism, people come together on the basis of race; where there is ethnicism, there are ethnic subcultures. If so-called kink is "weird" to the mainstream, there will be a kink community of people who band together to associate with others who understand. And so I support that community. But there isn't really a People-With-Brown-Hair community, because that's not one of the key ways that we sort and judge each other. People with brown hair don't feel a great need for support groups and political lobbying to protect their rights. They're just people. Part of my mission is to do what I can to show that a lot of these divisions based on sexuality (as well as race, gender, ethnicity, etc) are just illusions, even though they may be powerful and influential illusions. To the extent that we can dispel them and see through and past them, the character of our society, and our individual experiences within that society, will change. So I go about my personal, public, and economic life with that vision and mission in mind.
Joel
< Message edited by Anachron -- 4/29/2006 11:17:49 PM >
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So much for my anonymity.... - 
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