Are there ANY personals ads on this board?

[Guest]

Members of the PERSONALS community

Please, voice your objections here:

http://literotica.com/forum/showthread.php?threadid=71301

 

[impulse]

WHAT MORE COULD YOU ASK FOR?

OK, so I'm kinda new 'round these parts, BUT relative to regular personals this takes the cake. One can speak freely and regularly about their tastes, tendencies,perversions and needs. One can observe others in an environment that promotes "letting it all hang out". Does anyone really stand a better chance of finding what they're looking for through a more conventional medium?
I haven't listed myself as looking for a specific type of relationship or encounter because my needs are absurdly complicated. Oh, what the hell. Here goes:


32 y.o. EWM (the "E" is for engaged) 6' tall 160 pounds long blonde hair, smarter than your average bear - ISO- 18-38 year old female sex object. No experience necessary but it won't hurt either. You don't have to be gorgeous, but fit is nice. You don't need to cook, clean, or do chores. Just good conversation and a willingness to explore sexual fantasy. Must be willing to meet and eat my fiance. I will never fall in love with you. We will never get married and the relationship will be of finite duration. Must live north of Richmond, south of Albany, east of Charleston and west of the pond. Must be Bi and need to be fucked.

Now, wonder why I never posted that before.

I like this board. I hope it doesn't change.

 

[AzureSky]

I honestly don't see what all the fuss is about

I post on the Aussie thread, It is in the personals
Ok it is not a thread of personal ads, However we are close knit and like a family, we openly discuss family problems, personal problems, share in triumphs and losses. I don't think you can get more "personal" than that.

Our lovely Dragonette keeps a list of all members and a honours list of aussies ( people who are not from Australia but post regularly and are part of our family)

Perhaps a lot of people want a friendly place to go with regulars, A place they can relax and not have to be faced with conflict.

There are many good threads on the general and personal boards, I wander through a lot of them. It really doesn't matter where they are..does it?

 

[vlademir1]

re: Everyones Personals Board Rants

First a little personal backstory:
I came to Lit about 10 months ago looking for free erotic fiction, i liked what i found here in that department
about 6 months ago or so yahoo, which to this time i had used for my main e-mail and message boards, went to https to log in, this is important because im on a 486DX 33MHz with 4MB ram, in other words ancient, and cant run the most recent browsers, and so i use lynx, which hasn't until recently supported https (legal reasons having to do with us laws reguarding encryption software)
all this brought me to start a lit mail account. at that time i also signed up for the message boards and read through them ALL, which is my wont when coming to a new site like this
then my ISP went out of buisness right after that so i had to stay IRL for a little, when i came back the boards had the same nature as they do now, which they had 2 months prior
this all leads me to the present after getting my isp situation fixed, and reading the backlog of stories that interested me that had been posted since i left, i started posting here, which wasn't too long ago because this is my 25 post (*starts getting excited about being no longer a virgen again*)

i know this was a lot to read, but it makes sense of what im about to say

normally i wouldn't post in a personals site, or put an ad in the paper either, because you end up having all the crackpots comming out of the woodwork, here all the discussion groups allow me to filter them out, and talk to the people who interest me, likewise the discussions of favorite position etc are ON TOPIC in my mind, because they are people looking for the same exact things they would in a personal add, its just a slightly diffrent way of looking for it
now i have to say i do miss seeing traditional personal ads(and i think i speak for most everyone else with this), but not so much that the comunity should be disbanned
as for those on the GB i hate to say this, but it sounds like many of them have become hidebound to their habits of not looking at the other boards occasionally, this comunity has never tried to hide itself, and infact fits the spirit of this board, being that every post is about sombody looking for sombody else in one form or another, also realize that many of us still read and post when we feel the need to in the other boards, also realize that traditional personal ads look the way they do is because of the space limitations given them, and the lack of public replyability, if most personals sites allowed people to reply to publicly reply to other peoples personals they would over time become just like this comunity has, a discussion forum
now i've just added another page and a half to what was already a VERY long chain (46 printed pages according to lynx)
in fact, here's an idea to appease EVERYONE leave the discussions as are, and make a sticky thread called "Traditional Personal Ads" or somthing like it, that way anyone who wants it can have them where you don't have to wade through everything else, and the rest don't have to feel like they're being repressed
*gasp* i havent felt that kinda rant in a long time, oh and BTW this entire thread would have been more appropriate on the GB *giggles* so stop throwing the mud all, because you just made me waste 49 minutes typing and semi-proofing this, my fingers are now NUMB!

 

[sexyspank]

Because looking at the first page, I sure don't see any.

Seems like a huge misnomer to me.

Well you have only posted just over 10000 times. When you become really experienced you will understand. I have not posted a "personal " as such but have met so many wonderful people here. Give it a try





Wendy

 

[Cheyenne]

Re: Re: Re: There is no sign.....

Now think about this. Your posts and those of Cheyenne on the GB and here have now drawn attention to the kinds of threads that are in the personals. Yay...right? Not so...the kind of attention they have drawn, while alerting others to a new 'community' as you decribe us to be, have given a negative flavor to us and our posting and driven a division even further between the GB and personals forums. So, instead of waving to the others on the GB and saying...'Hey, guess what...there are some really neat threads over on the personals, you might want to check out what you are missing' you have instead said,'those damn people in the personals forum are hiding out not wanting to talk to us old timers. What have they got to hide?'

If you're going to put words in my mouth, please make them MY words. I don't like the taste of yours.


http://www.literotica.com/forum/newreply.php?s=&action=newreply&postid=1270001

This thread, and my original thread, are essentially editorial comments on how Laurel and Manu choose to run Lit. They own it and they can do whatever they want, of course.

My original thread pointed out that the Personals board was no longer what it had started out to be. That surprised me since when it first was started, the stated purpose of each board was held to by the moderators. Threads WERE moved if they were posted to the "wrong" board. My assumption was that the stated purpose of each of the boards was still being enforced by moderators and I was very surprised to discover that it wasn't. I never went to the personals board in the last 10 or 12 months, at least, because the stated purpose of the board didn't interest me at all. That was what my thread was about- something labeled as one thing is really another. People on THIS board are missing out on the potentially popular threads which are started on THAT board instead. My editorial comment would be that it seems silly to me to have two general boards and sillier still to try to get people to post to both of them. If that is the goal, why not combine them in the first place since the topics are now the same on the two boards?

I don't run the site. No one asked me for my opinion. But I'll give it anyway, of course. I'd either rename the personals board so that the title matches the content (maybe general board II), or I'd eliminate the board completely and combine current threads with the general board. Then at some point in the future, if the general board is again over run with personal ad type posts, the personals board could be reinstated. Just my 2 cents, same as everyone else.

 

[jamor9]

I post most often in the Hoosier thread because that's where I'm from. I have made wonderful friends there and am very happy I have it to go to.

I also post very often on the GB's. I hop back and forth between the two.
I think this is a great community we have here. Wherever we choose to post we have the freedom to do that. I know this is a personals Board...but I think that location threads are personal. We meet people close to us location~wise. It's a very good thing.

I vote for leaving the Boards as they are. I have friends both places and I love the way things are.

I agree wholeheartedly. I'm new to lit, but I'm really enjoying myself here!!!!

I've been with other groups that keep way too stringent rules about their threads and you see where I am now!

I love the flexability!!

 

[vlademir1]

I'll be brief(at least i better be after that last one)

im not sure anyone here understands the real problem they're looking at, though IMAO i feel that i dofirst some facts:
1. this board started because there were too many personal ads popping up on the general board
2. at some point later a comunity similar to the GB comunity has sprung up on the personals forum, and been discovered by the GB comunity
3. most personals sites don't allow direct public replies like message boards do, this place IMAO shows why

now for my speculation:
1. when this board first started it was to the letter of the traditional definition of "personal ad"
2. since people could reply to questions like "Any one here from Spain?" they did, which started discourse between all those people
3. sombody seeing speculation #2 thought "Why cant i do that?" and posted somthing like "Germany Directory" which seems like a good idea if you want to meet people, but don't want a long distance relationship, and succeeded in getting people to post to it
4. speculation #3 repeated through several iterations, causing a whole comunity of friends to spring up
5. other new people, fed up with the general board stumbled on to this comunity, as did others recently, and some decided it was a perfect alternative to the GB
6. other borderline off topic threads poped up in this comunity such as "POLL: Do you prefer Cyber to IRL sex?", this kind of thread led to similar ones. BTW i say "borderline offtopic" because these are questions you would ask someone in a personal ad if you could

conclusions:
1. just moving the "off topic" threads will solve nothing because it removes the symptom, but not the underlying cause
2. eliminating this board alltogether solves nothing, because the original problem just goes back to the GB along with everything else
3. changing the underlying program to prevent replies on this forum would either be a massive expenditure in time/money for the site owners (time if they can legaly and technicly make those changes themselves, money if they can't), which would probably piss the comunity that has developed here off ROYALLY
4. short of enacting conclusion #3, the only, and probably least offensive to the overall Lit comunity, is to let it be, and possibly,as i said in my other post, put in a sticky thread for traditional personal ads
well, it looks like i ran long again, oh well this is an important topic to the literotica comunity in general, and those of us who come here to the personals forum in particular :|

 

[The Dipsomaniac]

Re: Re: There is no sign.....

Dawn, I couldnt have said it better myself!!!

I mean come on people, we are all adults and it is almost amusing that people are not liking the fact that there is socializing going on here and a "hidden community". Let's be realistic! There is nothing hidden here, its right there for all to click on and read and post. There is no secret password to be allowed to post here. Nope, no secrets. No one is going to hold anyone's hand and lead them to places they are and are not "ALLOWED" to post. This forum is all about free speech, utilize that verbage and post what you want, where you want it! If anyone is feeling "left out" of a "community" they have no one to blame but themselves for not being more social. Sure, this is a personal ad board, but come on people!!! Like it is really hurting someone THAT badly because friendships are formed, love is being found, lust is being satisfied and laughter is being had. By all means, speak your opinions but why try to start conflict where there is no NEED for it? I read different boards on this forum and post to what *I* want to reply to etc... If using the personal ad board has feathers in a ruffle, then don't you think that the owners or the mods would have done something about it BY NOW??? I am sure they are as amused at the junior high banter going on. Real life is stressful enough, there is enough hate and anger to go around. Why can't people just go about their business and make friends from any board, regardless of its title?? I think you can get to know someone in some of these threads that are casual conversation. If someone is PMing people about how upset they are that this board is being used as a social society, then have the balls to post your own thread stating your anguish! Or better yet, keep bumping your thread so it stays on top!

Gawd, I need to shut up now....but just be happy people...***** IS TOO SHORT to worry and be upset about trivial issues especially on the internet!! Smile, be happy, be safe!!!

Lixx and love to all!

Well summed up Jewelz, and also Georgia Girl. This is no "hidden" forum. Ok, sometimes subjects/threads may be posted that might be better suited to the general board, but as long as people are responding and communicatiing and enjoying it, what is the big deal. There is always plenty going on in the GB to have to worry about what is going on in here. You will still get your genuine personals in here, and if someone is TRULY looking for that special someone, then having to wade thru a few pages to find that one shouldnt be a problem im my opinion. In fact they will probably find themselves ditracted on the way, posting to other threads and who knows, you may still find someone you like, in a more indirect manner. Does it really matter how these things happen - as long as they do.

All the boards get stuff on there that is not always 100% relevant. Look on the amateur pic feedaback board, and you will still find threads that dont have pics in there... so what...

Dont alianate yourself by just sticking to the one board. Cruise and peruse around, see whats going on. By having more and seperate boards you can break the online communitys into smaller groups and people can get to know each other easier. I think that is a good thing, not a bad one...

Good day all...

DM

 

[Jewelz]

aww SMOOCH! thanks DM darlin! and you add words of wisdom too!

 

[on_the_verge]

Here is another *real* ad!

Here is an ad I posted at another site and now I present it on Lit!

Age: 32 Ethnicity: Asian / Pacific Islander Religion: Prefer not to say / No Answer
Education: College Employment: Full time
Profile: Slender/Average, Occasional Smoker, Occasional Drinker, No children,
Interests: Arts & Crafts, Community Service, Dancing, Dining, Family, Movies Music Outdoor Activities Theater, Travel.

Description:
a WOMAN that could be equally as ROMANTIC. As I caress her SOFT skin, EMBRACE her WARMTH in my arms, KISSING LIPS EVER SO TENDER and then gaze at her LOVELY EYES. OK, it all appears as a book, but... ME? Interests vary from the unostentatious to the elaborate. From the Arts (photography, painting, theater, and poetry), cozy dinners at lavish restaurants to quiet diners at home (I love cooking), nights out on the town, exploring the city for all it's little treasures, the beach and the ocean, reading to a cozy book with the pitter patter of rain outside, billiards, movies (especially foreign films), outdoor activities, seeing a local band or a concert, to laying in bed all day as the world passes outside the window. Everything and anything there is to do. I am somewhat complex at times as well as simple. I enjoy things that are sophisticated and things that are jaded. I have no problem going to a pricey restaurant and then going to see a low-key band in a narrow bar in an alley. I view life romantically, but not just towards a person. I am always giving and warm hearted and at times it gets the best of me, but it is something that is forever a part of me. I am very open and caring when life is grand and when days are full of triste. I am very passionate with my work and my life and would like to share it with the right person (well, maybe not the work aspect of it). I work as a professional while going to school full time. I am doing it to finish school next year! I am looking for a woman who understands that I have a busy schedule, but will always find the time for her. She is also intelligent, humorous, a little cynical, honest, caring, thoughtful, affectionate, intricate and down to earth.

 

[welshman]

Personal ads......

I think the system they have at yes room is very good, where the 'penpal' listings are seperate to the stories, they can only be read not commented on, and only ammended by the poster. Goto www.yesroom.com/penpals/index.shtml and have a look. I really hope Literotica do a similar system the one they have now is no good for genuine personal ads.

Are you listening Literotica?????????

 

[Angelofsex]

I am a 45 and married, but looking for fun........Male or female......I am a very horny woman........who likes to play alot.

 

[sandy211]

Wanted Mature Housewife for Pleasure

Calm my burning loins while I slowly and carefully clean your pot with loving care, no matter how juicy it is. I will work hard to give you the same pleasures which I receive. I prefer to be oral and verbal. Love to read the stories aloud to a lover. When face to face, I let my tongue do the talking.

 

[Angelofsex]

Re: Wanted Mature Housewife for Pleasure

Calm my burning loins while I slowly and carefully clean your pot with loving care, no matter how juicy it is. I will work hard to give you the same pleasures which I receive. I prefer to be oral and verbal. Love to read the stories aloud to a lover. When face to face, I let my tongue do the talking.

You have me hot and horny already.

 

[Richard49]

I like to play

I am a 45 and married, but looking for fun........Male or female......I am a very horny woman........who likes to play alot.

I like to play a lot........I can be reached through email,ICQ or Yahoo im.........to bad you and so many women on this list live so far away <beg>

Richard

 

[sandy211]

Angel, check your mail.

Your profile has done the same to me. Are you real? You seem too good to be true.

luv ya Sandy

 

[Angelofsex]

Re: Angel, check your mail.

Your profile has done the same to me. Are you real? You seem too good to be true.

luv ya Sandy

I am very real.............and hot............andhorny.

 

[sandy211]

check your mail Sweet Angel

I have looked in awe at your avitar, wondering if that is really you. I want to believe that it is. Luv ya already.

 

[Angelofsex]

Re: check your mail Sweet Angel

I have looked in awe at your avitar, wondering if that is really you. I want to believe that it is. Luv ya already.

Sorry hon, it is only a avatar. Could have been younger.

 

[flashyfish]

Angel...

I'm sure the real thing is much better than the AV...Ap how do I apply to help you out with the hot and horny issue...


Fish