So what's going on?

Oh, not much. I've been revisiting some other BDSM-related interests while away from the chat rooms.

I connected with at least one BDSM boy I knew from back in the #irc days, and learned that having known someone a long time ago is no promise he won't be as shallow and manipulative as the current crop of gay.com chat whores. Sigh.

I'm re-reading excellent older fiction by Robert Payne and Larry Townsend, but some of those stories I almost have memorized. :-)

In the "stretch your mind" bit, I've had a couple of hypnoslaves in the past few weeks, but it's more of an intellectual exercise than anything else - they're straight. (A couple of others were fakers, which I should have expected, but I didn't have much emotional investment in them.)

I'm 40 now, and I've been a BDSM dominant for close to 20 of those years; it's been suggested that I give no recognition at all to people who profess an understanding or interest in BDSM yet fail to call me "Sir." I'm considering that, too. I don't have all the answers, and I don't wear leather much, but by God I've earned the right to do so if I choose. Humility does not always avail one with today's shallow gay boys.

Oh, and the local boy to whom I was talking? I still think he is sweet, but he's not ready. He's chosen not to pursue things by inaction, and I respect his choice, though he talked a better game than he was ready to play.

So...what next? Fiction from me? IML? Letting some people who aren't on the permanent black list back in? (I got E-mail from one of those a few weeks ago. I didn't reply.) Dunno. We'll see how things go.

Thanks to a little bird...

...I learn that the asshole mentioned in a previous post is back on gay.com after deleting his last profile within a day of my post.

His new profile is here.

Oops! Just a few hours later, that one's gone too. The little shit really doesn't like being exposed, does he?

Update: Now he's here - any guesses if this one lasts longer than 6 hours?