Anyone from the UK?

[Biggalute]

I'm guessing that a much higher proportion of lit members would be aligned with our views than the general public? Do you think?

Maybe, but increasingly not I think, particularly for younger people, which probably isn't us, lol

 

[positiveflirt]

Anyone got a spare couple of hours to help me with all the garden pruning and veggie bed weeding I have to do? There's a cuppa tea or coffee in it.... and maybe a bacon sarnie...

I'm game!

 

[RosewoodTulip]

I'm guessing that a much higher proportion of lit members would be aligned with our views than the general public? Do you think?

It's really hard to tell. There's a definite effort by the media to portray anyone who is different as being a threat even if that's not really how the majority of people feel.
There are also people who say one thing to fit in but perhaps feel a separate way.
Or people who, as far as they are aware, don't know anyone who is LGBT+ and so have a biased opinion not based on reality.

I choose to believe that most people are good and are happy to live and let live but have been conditioned to think a certain way by their peers or religion or family.

However I also know people who have so much hate and fear in their hearts that they have disowned their own child and don't feel any guilt.

 

[Yesok1]

I don't get people who yuck someone else's yum. If they're not hurting anyone then who cares?
As long as it's not illegal.

Not my business.

I thought you were talking cream pies.

But, I agree.

Oh not about cream pies, that is yuk. I don't want that anywhere near me or my girl!

 

[Yesok1]

this should be a t-shirt slogan

It's a lot to read over a nice set of boobies.

 

[orangecurious]

It's a lot to read over a nice set of boobies.

excuse to keep your gaze there

 

[Yesok1]

excuse to keep your gaze there

No one sees where I'm looking behind my coloured aviators!

 

[Biggalute]

As a young lad in East London, (yep, that London ) my mum used to let me stay off school and take me to bingo, as she didn't like going on her own, there were gay men and transvestites there, as well as these tough East End women, everyone would mix and chat. it was a mad house and a complete hoot and a good childhood experience, definitely more educational than school

 

[lingus60]

So a positive story........ I have a relative who was in a lesbian relationship for a few years; totally open to the rest of the family. Her sister married a guy and they.had a couple of kids. A few years later, the "lesbian" sister got together with her sister's husband and they subsequently married and had kids. And all of them are totally happy.... and the family accepted everything....

 

[Wriggle]

I often feel like if I wasn't extremely monogamous I'd be like Frank Booth in Blue Velvet.

https://media1.tenor.com/m/wXT9JazeABcAAAAC/frank-booth-ill-fuck-anything-that-moves.gif

 

[Yesok1]

Again anyone should be who they want! It's nice that the family including in-laws are OK with that. However, sexuality doesn't really come in to it, more so about the relationships between the different people involved.

The fact everyone was accepting is really positive.

*****
My issue, and something I really don't understand and can't get my head around is bisexuality.

It's my problem and my issue alone. But, I do not understand it. I wouldn't say I'm not accepting of it, but... it's hard for me to explain. I think you have one preference or another.

Maybe controversial, and I don't mean to offend, if I have.

 

[Lonely_Scot]

I often feel like if I wasn't extremely monogamous I'd be like Frank Booth in Blue Velvet.

https://media1.tenor.com/m/wXT9JazeABcAAAAC/frank-booth-ill-fuck-anything-that-moves.gif

Me right now. Horrendous dry spell.

 

[orangecurious]

As a young lad in East London, (yep, that London ) my mum used to let me stay off school and take me to bingo, as she didn't like going on her own, there were gay men and transvestites there, as well as these tough East End women, everyone would mix and chat. it was a mad house and a complete hoot and a good childhood experience, definitely more educational than school

my family were east enders and i had a gay uncle... the area had loads of drag clubs. this was in the days of a certain brotherly pair who ruled it... it was acceptable, but not.
My family would make jokes about gay people... but no one outside the family could, they were protective of their own. I never knew any different, yes, they would tease (maybe even mock) him and the lifestyle, but it was always talked about, never hidden.
The east end was (is) the wildest place as it was cheap and it attracted the artistic, strange, displaced, the immigrants and lost
Growing up i assumed every family had a gay member. same as every family had non-white, non brit friends.
Quite a shock when i found out otherwise

 

[Wriggle]

I actually think bisexualality is the default if we weren't conditioned by nurture.

 

[Yesok1]

I love the east end, the vibe you get from the area. I think it still has a certain amount of attraction, but is more gentrified now.

 

[Wand3rlust]

I think sexuality is a spectrum. You will have preferences in everything conditioned by society, upbringing and loads of other factors.
For me.. I like who I like. Fancy who I fancy.
Why would I ignore an attraction just cos they have the same bits as me?
I don't fancy every man. I don't fancy every woman.
I just .... like who I like.

 

[Wriggle]

I think all humans have the potential to be beautiful

 

[lingus60]

So a question for you Londoners....... my son's in a house share in Bermondsey. What reputation does that area have? Just curious....he's perfectly happy there....

 

[Wand3rlust]

But again. That's me. Everyone is different. And that's ok.

 

[Biggalute]

I actually think bisexualality is the default if we weren't conditioned by nurture.

We could be like the Romans, fuck anything on two (or maybe more ) legs

 

[Yesok1]

I actually think bisexualality is the default if we weren't conditioned by nurture.

I'm not sure, I think I was always gay and suppressed it. I never was attracted to men. I made my through them to make feel, look straight.

But, I wonder if that's more me looking back and trying to justify myself. I'd never enjoyed it, and never went beyond masturbation or full sex.

 

[Yesok1]

So a question for you Londoners....... my son's in a house share in Bermondsey. What reputation does that area have? Just curious....he's perfectly happy there....

Bermondsey is lovely, I think it's certainly not a bad place to live, gentrified again.

 

[orangecurious]

So a question for you Londoners....... my son's in a house share in Bermondsey. What reputation does that area have? Just curious....he's perfectly happy there....

every bit of London has good and bad... it can be a street away. Even my bit, i live in a cheap council property... the next property is multi-millionaire!

London is safe and dangerous. It's London - sounds silly, but when you live here you just accept it. I've been more scared walking down a street in a respectable seaside town.

Bermondsey has good and bad bits. It's close to the centre (which used to be bad as it was more run down) but gentrification is everywhere. All that area was originally the docks and the like, so not great, but they are long gone and the building have now been done up and are super expensive.

I'd say it's a good area... i prefer to be further out, but that's because i always have been.

 

[Yesok1]

I think all humans have the potential to be beautiful

I am the most beautiful. But I obviously traded intelligence for my fucking grace and beauty.

 

[Wriggle]

I am the most beautiful. But I obviously traded intelligence for my fucking grace and beauty.

I've seen how beautiful you are with words as well as that face.