What is wrong here?

[allisonrn06]

I've entered searches for pantyhose online in hope of finding a better selection of colors and styles than what I find in stores these days, and while I do find a handful of shopping sites, the great majority of what shows up are links to porn magazines and pictures. I don't like that kind of stuff, but guess you have to live with it when shopping on the web.

[Maia Saturn]

Quite honestly I see nothing wrong with the porn...
I don't honestly think it really sends any real message about us as a group, but the fact that 80% of the internet consists of porn, says volumes about human nature and the drive to procreate. Sex is the driving force of civilization after all.

Well said Jody. Let's just roll with it babe

[Christina Nicole]

Porn admins scan the domain registries for expiring domain names. When the name expires, they register the name and stick a porn site redirector on it So when someone at www.techgeeks.com forgets to send in his renewal or lets the site lapses, it quickly flips to a porn site owner and sends all those techy geeks to www.pornbeus.com.

Warm regards,
Christina Nicole

[AllieSummers]

I have a new blog on blogspot.com and was doing some research into tags for the blog. I searched for Crossdressing, etc and almost all the blogs have some form of pornography on them. I was hoping that I could put together a blog that would offer good information and help others with their crossdressing/transition. Maybe that fact that my blog is so different I'll be able to differentiate myself and attact viewers. I'm hoping all the porn doesn't make someone give up before they find mine.

Kisses,

Allie

P.S. Take a look at my signature if you want to check out my blog.

[Bethany_Anne_Fae]

But over the years, new staff, new rules, it's all gone I think people join hoping to see that kind of stuff here, sadly, they are mistaken.... we don't have no porn here I don't mind it at all, but that's not what we're about

THANK YOU! (and everyone else for making this a porn free place to visit!)

The amount of "ASL's" that other places bombard one with, the overtly pornographic photos, and the assumption of those that visit any of our sites is the reason I don't do "sexy" pictures. Of course "sexy" is subjective to the viewer so my idead may seem prudish to some.

I like the hinted at, beautiful pictures that can be seen here. They don't go over that boundry because of good moderation.

my two cents

Zarabeth

[JulieK1980]

Well said Jody. Let's just roll with it babe

Thank you! agreed!

[Crissy Kay]

I agree with all the other posts. Another reason I hate porn myself, is the stuff will do a number on your computer. A buddy of mine, noncd, told me he went to surf porn sites, and got his computer infected with every virus out there. He had to have an IT friend of his fix it. Thats another good reason, maybe the best, to stay away from that stuff.

[boardpuppy]

I agree, this site is great without the porn. Any individual can go somewhere else for that junk. I don't need to have a house full of GG's having access to my commputer that is located in a common room, that was used to view "junk". TKS

Hugs,
Alice

[Jean Ann S]

just visited your blog
It is great
keep up the good work
we need more "clean" places likethis

Jean Ann

[TJ Tresa]

That is one of the main reasons I joined this site. That and so everyone here has been really nice, careing and willing to share thier strengths as well as thier pains. It seems to me that the people here are more intune with themselves and other and also they seem to really want to be supportive of each other.
But then that is just my oppinion.

[Cheshire Gummi]

Type "gay" into a search engine, you'll get pornography too.

Hell, type in "Feet." Third link down is "Celebrity Feet Magazine."

Ultimately, this isn't about us and what we've become, it's market forces. Some people don't want to be like us or support us, they want to throw us on the pinball machine. For those people, there are sites.

Besides all that, cross-dressing in the mainstream is still a "fetish."

SO!

Whatever.

Personally, I find this far more offensive.

[Stephanie Stephens]

Cathy: Good topic. I think it is up to us, right here, to create our own network, free of pornography, and with purpose. You have the option on your links page to only link to non pornographic sites and sites which do not link to pornography. When I link a site I make sure that it is a good site (responsibility).

[Emma England]

I agree with all the other posts. Another reason I hate porn myself, is the stuff will do a number on your computer. A buddy of mine, noncd, told me he went to surf porn sites, and got his computer infected with every virus out there. He had to have an IT friend of his fix it. Thats another good reason, maybe the best, to stay away from that stuff.

When younger, I looked at porn.

But too much of it gets boring after a while.
Besides, the amount of times I had to re-install windows because of viruses, was frustrating.

After not looking for porn, my computer runs fast as it should.

[Ze]

I gotta ask: What's the connection between porn sites and viruses? I know it's true, I just don't exactly get why. Does the maker of the site, like, add in these viruses himself (yeah, I'm stereotyping) as some additional way to advertise and track somebody on their own hard drive? Or does some outsider make the connection under the assumption that's he'll strike the most people on a porn site, since so many people look at porn?

I'm confusing myself. I'm not tech savvy. At all.

[eight]

With respect to the topic on this post,(I'm not sure who to say thanks to but) “thanks” for the work you do to keep the site focused on the issues directly related to the crossdressers.

[Kiera]

I think the reason for all the porn is much more simple.

Advertising pays the bills.

When it comes down to it, it seems that most of the cd/tg related sites do not have a huge pull when it comes to enlisting advertising clients. Perhaps as people do learn more about our lifestyles this trend will begin to change.



Hugs,
Kiera

[docrobbysherry]

I have BAD NEWS for those of u that think most folks on this site dress for reasons NOT sexual in nature!
I'm guessing sex is involved, at least in some small degree, with MOST of the dressers here!

That being said, this site is the ONLY place I have found intelligent conversation about CDing, and many other topics!
While Tamara SEEMS to be tough, this site IS like a bubble away from the rest of the CD world!

And it is because Tamara and others run such a tite ship, that this site stays a cut above all the others! Thank u, mods!

I feel confident when I receive a PM here, it won't say, " Wink wink"! Like I commonly get at the OTHER CD sites!

If u don't like chat rooms, stay out of them! I do.

If u want sex or porn, ( and I like them both), there's MILLIONS of other sites where u can find them! Just NOT HERE!

[Ze]

I'd like to agree with you on most of that, doc, but rather change "most folks" to "some MtF CDers." The bulk of FtMs and MtF TGs (and probably some MtF CDers) don't associate with a fetish. And we're all still part of this same site.

[Michelia]

And I think the biggest largerst reason for this is our own doing. We as a group do not get out dressed and let the world know that we are good nice family people. We let the extremist elements amongst us ( I am not berating them, they have their rights, too) represent us in the entertainment industry and the reality shows. There is plenty of money to be made with porn and it is not just crossdressing porn so do not take it personally.

It does get me when quasi-public service liberal corporations like Craigslist act the same way. Have you ever tried to post a Craigslist ad to meet another CD for friendship? The category does not exist. It exists for gay and women and men. Platonic ads apply to all. Yet if you look for any tg categories, they are under casual encounters and only advertising for sex with men or couples. It is almost as if Craigslist is promoting this type of behavior and/or profiting handsomely from this, although they claim they do not profit from these ads. The assumption is that we do not exist as a group except as sex toys.

I have emailed Craigslist twice about this and have yet to receive an answer. There should be a tg category under platonic ads. Also for tg to meet other tg and tg to meet women - we are not all gay and only interested in sex!

Please join me in emailing Craigslist about this.

[Crysten]

AHEM.......WHY WAS I NOT INFORMED THAT THERE IS PORN ON THE INTERNET??????

I must have missed that e-mail.....

Please post some links.......

And no, old episodes of the Julia Child Show DO NOT COUNT as porn you sick puppies!!!

[Nicole Erin]

It's the porn industry. Type in BBW see what you get. Try making a typo in URL see what happens .

Doesn't take much does it?
Even with phone numbers, some of the more used ones like 1-800 ones, phone sex companies often have their number that would be like one number different so instead of hearing your bank, you hear from dial-a-****.

But yeah it does bite how the porn industry has made it look like TG-ism is about smut. The vast majority of TG people are not about random sex.

[Emma England]

AHEM.......WHY WAS I NOT INFORMED THAT THERE IS PORN ON THE INTERNET??????

Because you are still innocent?

[Crysten]

Because you are still innocent?

Er....

I would use a lot of words to describe myself.

But not that particular word.

[Joselle3]

Who need cyber porn anyways?

i must admit I've looked at a few of these sites..curiosity but I've found them to be most boring. I prefer the real thing

[battybattybats]

I wonder though if the increase in availabilty of such erotic material will help more overcome there issues with being TG or being TG-attracted and thus result in more acceptance and less violence and discrimination?

Lets not forget 1 in 3 porn-viewers are female. Hopefully this will encourage more women to admit openly to being TG-attracted helping out the single CDs here substantially.