Don’t get me wrong. Social networking is the best time-waster ever. It’s like reading the Sunday comics or watching the night’s sky for meteors and satellite fly-overs: entertaining and lightly illuminating. And as much as I like being part of Facebook, I have to say FetLife gives me a certain avenue that Facebook doesn’t. (The jpg says it all.)
The site isn’t as application-rich as Facebook, but it does permit a fair amount of networking. For example, I want to know how to enter the ranks of BDSM presenters. I’m not interested in doing how-to’s — plenty of qualified people already do that — but I’d like to present slide shows of erotic and BDSM imagery from old books. I can go to a FetLife group for help.
FetLife also allows me something that’s been lacking in recent months for me: It gives me a place to be an author and a perv. I’ve felt I’ve had to pull my identity punches in the erotic romance world. Same thing at my other blog sites. And it’s been difficult, traipsing the line between the romance world, where much of today’s erotica seems to have migrated to, and the sex writer’s world. (Thank God for people like Dacia, Alison, and Ashley, whose notices have kept my confidence going.)
So it’s a sign of relief for me to have a place where I don’t feel like an entity divided. (Well, unless I’m into that kind of thing. LOL!) Even better, a lot my fellow authors have found the site. It’s wonderful to have such contact!
I’m pleased enough with my experiences at FetLife that I’d like to point you BDSM- or fetish-inclined types to the site. Give it a try. And be sure to friend me there. I’d love to get to know you.
