helloboi1134 said:But it's hard to know with the serious lurker issue.
I've always suspected that there are a lot more women lurking on these forums than anyone suspects.
There are a lot of factors that keep women from speaking up. Fear of strangers. Fear of being hit on by men she doesn't want (especially if she's taken, anyway). Fear of embarrassment. Fear of being stalked, harrassed, tracked down and attacked somehow.
There are only two things that seem to reliably work to bring women onto these forums. The first is to hire her as a model. That works well...we have a lot of them here.
And the second is, her love interest (husband or boy friend) leads the way in.
I am neither one of these and how I got in here almost never happens.
I had a pre-existing fetish that had always bothered me, and I went online looking to fill this need somehow. I found a quicksand website and it looked so right for me that I contacted the webmaster. Lo and behold, he wrote back and we hit it off. He never was my boy friend, though. He was married with a family. Ten years later, he still is married with a family.
But he was able to take me to my first good mudpit.
What I'm getting at is, I really think women need to meet somebody they can trust. It doesn't have to be a love interest. It just has to be a guy who can prove that guys who like this thing can be totally okay.
If she never does meet a trusted friend, and I really do think that most of them don't, then even if they love this fetish, they will mostly watch and fantasize. Nothing would stop such a woman from posting occasional messages here but her profile could be gender-neutral or even state that she is male to keep away "the bad guys"!
Nessie