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LadyPact -> RE: The Lifestyle and the Internet? (7/31/2013 9:01:46 AM)
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It's both. Just about every positive that's been related to the internet also brings a negative with it. Two of the biggest advantages, being accessibility and education, also bring the issues of misinformation and the problems associated with the 'open cattle call' approach that has led to so many difficulties in our clubs and groups.
Like MC, I wasn't on the internet first before I was associated with kink. It was a much different learning environment. That's why I'm a bit backward when folks come here asking for net resources on how to learn some topping skill or another. Before I ever knew what Google was, we had books from Greenery Press and folks who would teach you whatever kind of play you were interested in and show you how to do it. A lot fewer accidents that way.
The last couple of years, in My opinion, there's also been an increase in problems in a particular area that started out innocently enough. It's what I've been calling the extension of the feteratti. For those who don't know, the "feteratti" is what some of us leather folks used to call those who would give the impression that S/m stood for 'stand and model'. In other words, the folks who dressed in the leather outfits and went out clubbing mostly to show folks how hot they looked in the outfits and pretty much staged kink. There's been a huge escalation on the net in this area about who's got the most impressive looking play pics and the dangerous things some folks have done to capture those shots where the picture is sometimes more important than the safety aspect. The gal in Florida who scarred a woman for life because she wanted a neat shot of birthday candles on a woman's back because "it would look really cool on Fet" (those were her words after the incident) is an example of this.
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