bendover:
One thing I didn't mean to do is offend anyone with MY own standards of conduct.
I was not offended. I was just verbalizing some things I have thought about on more than one occasion - is it "ok" to fantasize about one thing, but "not ok" to fantasize about something else; i.e. when is fantasizing itself wrong. And if fantasizing ISN'T wrong, then it what ways is it "ok" (or "not ok") to share those fantasizes, through either acting out a roleplay with someone, or stories, or what have you, whether or not they "fit" here at the LSF.
There are fantasy scenarios (that most of would find "not ok" in real life), such as children being spanked "and the bar" in public, which are clearly acceptable here, and others, such as adults having sex with children, that most of us would feel are "not ok" - here, or perhaps anywhere, even if is understood they are just "fantasies." If putting something into a story is "not ok" - whether that something is sex with children or rape - then why is it wrong? Because it is offensive to people? Because it might seem to condone the conduct? Because the fantasy itself is "not ok?" Because potential rapists or pedophiles may be aroused to act? Or is only "not ok" to share such a story on th 'net because it doesn't "fit" on a particular forum, or because "authorities may shut the site down," or because the site owners have said no?
I happen to think it goes beyond these last three, and do have my own "limits (stories about sex between adults and children), even if I can't exactly articulate the reason. If a couple want to do a roleplay about a teacher having sex with a student (or parent with a child), with or without spanking, I can accept that this is only a fantasy; it doesn't make the 'adult' in the roleplay a pedophile. Yet I would not want that story posted online, and not just at the LSF. I can understand why someone else feels the same way about a "rape" scenario, even if I'm not sure I would equate it with a "child sex" scenario. And I can understand how people feel the exact same way about more extreme scenarios involving the spanking of children. I can even understand why some people object to ANY stories about spanking children. I know that all these scenarios are not "the same." I'm just not sure how these differences make some "ok" and others "not ok."