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[djrip]

I wouldn't mind turning gay just long enough to tone my body up in the gym

Juuuust long enough to decorate this living room...

 

[KeithD]

I don't think you should worry about reading anything here you don't want to--but if you do some checking on the writing of other preferences, kinks, and fetishes, you might find something that turns you on and you'll want to pursue.

 

[ElectricBlue]

I wonder what Robert Baden Powell, the founder of the Boy Scouts, thought of that. He many not even believed that lesbians existed; I have no idea. He did know about male masturbation, and he was very much against it.

https://imgur.com/nSEcfMr

Oddly, he doesn't mention blindness, another big one. He was also against "wet dreams." By the 1960's, my Handbook (I still have it) said that wet dreams were inevitable and thus okay. The had dropped all of the physical disabilities but they kept the emotional ones ("worry," as if that was my biggest problem then).

My God - the mouth, eyes and nose body rot thing! Holy fuck, Batman, glad that's not happened to me!

 

[gunhilltrain]

I can pretty much guess what his take is on gayness. It's a sin against the future, like the heteros weren't making enough offspring to be overly fruitfully and overflowing the earth.

I don't know enough about the guy to say for sure but, like Calvin Coolidge supposedly said about sin, he was probably agin' it. The topic was definitely not mentioned in my 1965-vintage handbook (which I bought in 1967).

Something of note:

https://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-boy-scouts-evolution-2017-story.html

Baden-Powell himself seems to have been a contradictory figure:

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/1999/08/scouting-for-boys.html

https://gayscribe.com/scoutingfounder/

I've known about him for decades, but this is the first time I've tried to find out anything about him.

 

[gunhilltrain]

My God - the mouth, eyes and nose body rot thing! Holy fuck, Batman, glad that's not happened to me!

The weird thing is that by the late 1960's, the Handbook had been toned down so all of those physical symptoms were no longer mentioned. In the two years I was in the organization, I never heard the topic discussed.

 

[MillieDynamite]

I don't know enough about the guy to say for sure but, like Calvin Coolidge supposedly said about sin, he was probably agin' it. The topic was definitely not mentioned in my 1965-vintage handbook (which I bought in 1967).

Something of note:

https://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-boy-scouts-evolution-2017-story.html

Baden-Powell himself seems to have been a contradictory figure:

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/1999/08/scouting-for-boys.html

https://gayscribe.com/scoutingfounder/

I've known about him for decades, but this is the first time I've tried to find out anything about him.

Often, we are hardest on others with a predilection we consider bad and have ourselves.

 

[Trionyx]

I should have said, she won the August 2022 story of the month for her story Autumn.

Where does one find the story of the month results? Used to be on the home page but now…?

 

[Smuttyandfun]

Where does one find the story of the month results? Used to be on the home page but now…?

Wanda is one of the authors I follow, so I got a notice about her win.

I don't think many of the results show up on the home page anymore. I've gotten more recent contest results by googling.

 

[RoperTrace]

Where does one find the story of the month results? Used to be on the home page but now…?

Wait, what? You mean, there's a story of the month on Lit, and I'm finding out 20 years after becoming a member? An online friend recently asked if I've been living under a rock, when she told me about a show on Netflix or some other venue that is popular. I'd never heard of it.

 

[ElectricBlue]

Where does one find the story of the month results? Used to be on the home page but now…?

I don't think there's been a monthly winner for quite a long while.