Does this usually happen?

[kellibra]

forums are by definition platforms for people to express their feelings. those change over time and so does the nature of the forum. just look at topics from years passed and see how many girls from then are still active today. very few. yet those folks then had the same concerns and questions we have today. history just repeats itself. new girls, same issues.
are there more active users today than before? that is a question for mods with a historical perspective going back to 2005. but it could also be that many of the we grapple with issues are becoming more mainstream today and the courage to express them has sufficiently increased for some of us to come out of the shadows and seek answers?

[Bria]

I joined in Sept after lurking for several months, I haven't started any threads as others seem to pose more questions than I know to ask. When I get to the point of going out of the house I will post that. I post to a thread only when I think I can make a real contribution to make to the discussion. Otherwise I absorb the wisdon of those who do post. I think is is fine to start some thread that have been discussed before as there will always be new prespectives, maybe its a little like why do we get a new cataloge in the mail every month from the same retailer, it gets our attention anew!! Bria

[Lorileah]

How many here shave their legs in the winter? Who likes wearing tights or pantyhose in the winter? I like to dress on Halloween. See the link? That is why I think there are more new members now, tiz the season. People and indoors more now and at the computer too

[michelle60]

iam very new to the forum I joined after reading post for a time and there for as new I am still learning and will only post if I can add some thing that will be helpful so far after reading it it helping me come to terms with things I have to thank the forum

[Iris_Luna]

I know this forum since 2007 and i have been checking it frequently... Now i feel like i need to participate

[MichelleinEugene]

I came to a point where I needed to share and learn. I googled cross dress forum and wah-la! This place seems so fantastic that I get excited and post a lot. I also am not very social in my daily life so this is an outlet where I hope I can make some friends.

[chrissy111]

As a new member myself, I just felt the time was right for me to join in the conservations.

[donnalee]

I believe a kind of resonance accounts for it. For example, toss a rock in the center of a round pool. The ripples are quite regular, but slow as they reach the edge; as they reflect of the edge and head toward the center, they modify the regularly of the outgoing ripples by attenuating or amplifying them into irregular ones dependent upon frequency, amplitude and phase.
Now toss 2 rocks in quick succession into the same calm pool. These effects on the ripples are cumulative, adding and subtracting from them, 3 rocks even more so and so forth.
The incidences of human behavior act similarly to a greater or lesser extent. Why are things in and then out? Why do attempts to predict the future never succeed if based on the assumption the things will continue the same but more so? 8 billion different rocks thrown into the pool at different times and places; who would know and who would know what data to use, not to mention what occurred in the past.

[katssun]

I've come to these forums a few times over the years from search engines when looking for information.

But I joined because I felt I could contribute and provide answers to a few questions based on my own experiences.

[Tamara Croft]

So far this month we've had 130 new members, yes this is normal. Some won't get let in because of username/email violations or they have old accounts etc... The actual total registrants from when the site first went live is 111,326. Obviously we delete accounts that aren't used within a year because they take up usernames and space in the database for no reason. If we left them, that's how many members we'd have

We don't have a slow down time, it's always busy, there's always between 30 and 50 new members every single day (on average) and not all of those will get in. We had 518 new members last month, those are the ones that got in, there were probably another 150 that didn't

[Valarie]

Well I am pretty new. My wife and therapist encouraged me to find a site like this for support. After finding a lot of crazy porn/sissy stuff (which freaked me out) I found this site. I have to say I really love it, I get on here more than facebook now. I think more people in my age group 21-30 are becoming more open to who we want to be and who we are, and just don't care what society thinks. I really love reading everyones post it makes me feel like I have a community that I belong to.

[TokyoLily]

I'm here now because I got a divorce over the summer. I'm a little bit freer!

I make sure to read the new threads, but I (meaning me either in drab or en femme) will only post or reply to a thread if I have something to say, so just know that I am here!