Take it easy Steve, and good luck. And I hope you've stopped smoking!
You can still get cough candy in quite a few places.
Maybe those that don't put a preferred age range for their contacts are not too bothered about age, and are willing to judge people on other criteria.
Also, sorry but I fail to see what your post has to do with ageism.
Have you tried the "lingerie" link in the menu on the left of your screen, under "shopping"?
I can't offer any other advice I'm afraid, but I'm sure other members who can will be along later.
Watching the Olympics opening ceremony again - still superb!
Apparently some men fear that if their feet become cold during sex, more blood will flow to their feet, and that consequently less blood will flow to the todger area, leading to a bit of a "letdown", as it were.
But I've always thought that socks on men in porn films or on cam look dead naff. I'm not sure I've ever worn socks during sex. Not even in swinging clubs with floors that might not be superclean do I wear socks - I just can't.
Hi Suze, it's good to see you around again on here.
This is not in the same league as the nazi uniform episode. He's only doing what most of us do or have done. The fuss will quickly blow over. And I agree that he's been badly let down by whoever took the sneaky pics.
How often do I take a second look? Oh gosh, nearly all the time. Unless there's something else I must concentrate on, like crossing a busy road or checking my change in the supermarket, but I'm constantly looking at females and find myself very easily drifting off into thoughts/fantasies/scenarios of unmitigated raunch involving them. And it's not necessarily those women who are to some extent striking a pose of some sort, in fact that can be a ...well, not a turn-OFF exactly, but less of a turn-ON than women who seem to be unaware of what impression if any they might be making on people around them, although of course, they could be just as pervy as you but just hiding it well. In fact, I hope I hide it well too!
If pervy points were all scored in the brain, I might have a gold medal!
I was a member on this site for 15 months before I got my first meet, even though I went to several munches and socials, and posted a lot here in the forums. So there's no magic formula that works for everyone. But I agree with the others, an incomplete profile and no public pics does not help your cause.
Good luck.
Just a few observations: London is a huge and very diverse place with a vast range of events, interests, and activities on offer. When SH was a a much smaller community, a munch in Manchester once attracted over 200 of us, and in the same month a munch in London attracted just 33. That says something.
I'm not suggesting that Manchester, Leeds, Newcastle etc have little else to offer, but just that swinging seems to have caught on more in the north and midlands, both with the number and popularity of clubs and seemingly the membership proportion on here, as Winey says.
I think there other activities and pastimes which catch on much more in some areas of the country than they do in others. That's just the way things happen sometimes.
"Kinky" is not a word I use at all. The dictionary I looked up defined the word as:
"Slang. Marked by unconventional sexual preferences or behaviour, as fetishism, sadomasochism, or the like."
The word means different things to different people (if it means anything at all) and is probably changing all the time. Who can define what's conventional and what's unconventional? Honor Blackman's long black leather boots in "The Avengers" were the first thing I remember being called "kinky". I'm not sure whether they still are!
One stereotype which springs to my mind immediately is the "he keeps/kept himself to himself" (or herself) which is sometimes very unfairly used in the media to label someone as odd or even sinister. Being an introvert is no crime, not yet anyway.
I have a friend who sometimes avoids contact with others, ignores greetings or maybe just gives a grunt, and whom some other people call (behind her back) miserable and stand-offish. I know she doesn't mean it, it's something beyond her control. And it's something I can understand to some extent, I love being with people, but sometimes I've just had enough and can be desperate to be on my own, although I'm a less extreme example than she is.
Recently I found an article which explains these things very well to those who find this behaviour difficult to understand. It's written in 2003, but still gets quoted and linked to quite a lot.
War chest: exclamation of admiration on seeing a fine pair of boobs.
Kumquat - telling someone what they said during an orgasm.