Well, times have truly changed around here.
I first registered with the forum back in 2001 and went through several (required)
re-registrations as the ownership and servers changed.
It's true from what I understand that this forum began as somewhat of a joke--a "take-off" if you will on other similar "support groups" being launched on the (back then) new cyberspace frontier. I mean think of it--a "support group" for men with big penises? LOL :biggrin1:
What occurred though in 2001 thru about 2005 was this forum became a very unique venue of information exchange. We DID have rather serious discussions and interpretations of living with larger endowments. Issues like yes, clothing, relationship challenges, health concerns, questions from young people fearing their size (or wishing for it). We listened, we offered advice from experience, we had a genuine caring environment for several years, frustrated only by site ownership changes, servers going down and the "black out" periods where there was
no LPSG for a number of weeks. Many of us went into serious "withdrawal" pangs!
We've allowed, even encouraged women to join us in our discussions. I recall wonderful posts from now "legend" female participants offering us men insights into female sexuality and their responses to living with larger men and relating to them emotionally and physically. These women pioneered the way for those we have here today.It has been great reading and learning for all of us around here. Then, we added photos and vids. Maybe this had a good purpose for this forum, or not? --It all depends on why someone comes here and what he/she wants to take away from the experience. I don't believe many of the early LPSG members really wanted or needed to see other's big sizes necessarily. After all, we already
HAD seen them....our own. But all these changes I mention have brought us to where we are today. And it's quite a mix of people in our membership. Why, we even have "trolls".
--Ask us back in 2001 and we couldn't have even defined the term!
Today though, what I'm seeing is a change in the "tone" of this place.
There IS much more frivolity. This is not all bad perhaps, but for those seeking a haven for getting serious encouragement or insight into finding their way around sexual matters, really meaningful information is more difficult to pick out. Oh, we still have brief moments of useful information. But it often doesn't occur daily. Often, whatever serious dialogue does materialize around here gets followed by jokes, inuendo, "put-downs", or the embedded "wisdom" is brutally scorned, questioned, or worse yet, totally dismisseed and ignored. But today's culture (American especially)
is changing and that fact is reflected in this place especially. ---I'll just stop right there. :wink: )
I've written from my heart almost 1,000 times now (hard to believe) and of late, much of what I have said as encouragement gets "shot down" or challenged. I've learned in life it takes two to argue. Consequently, I've found it better NOT to respond or follow my most fierce critics or even offer rebuttals to what I've said here in the LPSG.
The best consolation I get these days at the LPSG is whenever I hear from other guys who relate to what I say and have experienced in life. They send me emotionally revealing IMs and I can sense my remarks really have struck a common cord with them in my posts. Apparently, I have been able to offer some encouragement to them. --THIS week especially in my remarks made earlier in the "Young and Hung" section when I offered comments on "sexual confusion". I lost count of how many guys who have written me thanking me for what I had to say. It wasn't "me" saying what I did in those on-line posts. It was my own life's experiences doing the talking, really.
But for all my criticism of where the forum was six years ago and where it is today, I know one thing: I would have given my eye-teeth to have had the internet in my adolescense. And, to have had this forum!
At least we have a place to gather (as anonymously as we can:wink: ) and "speak" about a subject we wouldn't dare EVER mention in otherwise polite company. And this...HAS to be good.
