Hi all.

I've been reading this forum for the past week or so, joined yesterday, came back tonight to post an introduction, spent two and a half hours just reading the Introductions thread, then half an hour composing an introduction, lost that introduction when I clicked Preview because I was no longer logged in, and am trying again.

I'm a Brit (Hi to all the folk from the Colonies here!), fat, hairy, entering my mid-50s, divorced, living alone, intelligent (Master's degree ), funny, literate, hate housework, every subbie's dream !

I have very limited experience as weekend dom to a fine girl who, after a few months, dumped me because of my lack of ambition, and then, in quick succession (at least it seemed quick to me), got a very well-paid job in Brussels, married an Austrian aristocrat, and phoned me up to tell me she'd submitted to him. I got over it. In the past five years my health has deteriorated sufficiently that any further sexual relationship BDSM or otherwise would be awkward, certainly painful (my heart), possibly dangerous (I guess my heart could literally break). While I probably won't get over that, I am at least resigned to it.

I've been reading BDSM literature since the Story of O came out, so I found the story side of BDSM Library very soon after I got a home internet connection but I only recently realised there was a forum too. My, what a big one you've got . Recently I've been reviving my writing ambitions and as many of the story ideas I've been getting lately fall within the general BDSM area, this seems to be the place to be.

So I've joined for conversation on stories, insights into real BDSM psychologies, and just to have somewhere to mouth off about the subject, not to solicit partners for any kind of real-life nookie. Hard luck.

Spike