I also logged onto FetLife and read people experiences from a returned local kink party... I am so nervous to reenter public spaces now and esp in kink since it's often so close and lots of personal experiences happening.. like the pandemic has made me really pull away from
@CatieOsaurus all my kink is non sexual as I am married to a vanilla person and monogamous.. we exist and we don't even have to be asexual...just let people kink however they want people!
you walk back into a space with strangers and just be that vulnerable.. and how did i do that biweekly for a while...and what does it mean to be in a room with strangers.... I know the pandemic has fuct me up in many ways... but losing my social expression and connections...😔
shared emotional experiences and even shared air.. like sharing air is not scary... and personal expression has been so shut down with the lack of social spaces... I don't kink at home... so for me it has also meant literal YEARS without expressing that part of myself... how do
we fostered 2 puppies, and threw a super successful birthday party for an often not confident 9 year old this weekend which included 26+ kids and tie dying.. I feel like this is success in many ways
Finally getting the little legs to look at the Philly kink community post pandemic era fear and isolation.. and I'm not sure what is left... And I def took for granted the safety I felt before in that community and the joy it brought me and I miss it and that part of me...