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The Twelfth Virtual Symposium!  

kzoopair 73M/71F
8610 posts
9/11/2015 6:29 pm
The Twelfth Virtual Symposium!

The Virtual Symposium Returns: Let’s Pick A Topic!

It seems like just the other day we were writing and reading posts for the Eleventh Virtual Symposium and now another one is lurking in the near future- the twelfth, already! Lurking is a precise term to use on a site like this, unless you can figure out some way to participate. I think only a minority of members read blogs, and a smaller minority write posts of their own. The symposia are the creation of humorlife, a nice Jewish boy from the Big Apple. As a hobby, he could have taken up model railroading, or even drones, which are becoming ever more popular. Strategically mounted cameras on either device would open up a world of perverse surveillance opportunities for...well, for spying. but that is not his style. Instead, once a month the man subjects himself to the torture of attempting to wrestle the laocoon of antiquated code for the purpose of herding a gaggle of recalcitrant, vain and fussy bloggers through an experiment in writing on a single chosen topic.



The rules are simple and loose, in that there aren't very many rules. Anyone can play- you don't have to enter or apply for admission. One of three of four topics are voted on- by anyone who wants to vote- and bloggers then interpret that topic in any way they want, pictorially, poetically or in video or prose. It can be your very first blog post or one of thousands. Visit humorlife and read the few details in his post The Virtual Symposium Returns Lets Pick A Topic. And DO participate! Taking part isn't just about writing your own post- it's also about reading what creative ways other bloggers have used to express themselves on the chosen topic, and it's all great fun, as much fun as you can have with your clothes on. That's optional too, naturally. There's no rule that says you can't do this naked, but if you do you are required to post photos. It will increase your chances of meeting new bloggers and perhaps engaging in coitus with one of them, and after all, that's why we're here.

A little over a year ago the First Virtual Symposium debuted and was an instant hit. I've been an enthusiastic supporter ever since. I thought that writing on a topic not of my choosing would be onerous and restricting, and I doubted that I'd be able to express anything of interest with even the most libertarian of restrictions. I don't know if i succeeded, but I had a hell of a lot of fun doing it.
That first post follows below.

A Treatise on Age and Amorousness

As suggested by [blog humorguaranteed] the topic of the first scheduled symposium shall be "Age and Amorousness." I offer this as my contribution.

Age and amorousness. What could I possibly write that hasn't been better said before? People are easily obsessed with sex, usually their own, but not always. It's also pretty easy to get fixated on the sexual habits of others. We wouldn't have Kardashians or Miley Cyruses without that fixation- clearly they can do nothing other than project a certain sexuality. When Madonna was a new phenomenon I recall women hoisting their noses into the upper atmosphere, where it is very cold, and declaiming that as long as there are men there will be Madonnas. It was just what I needed- more disapproval from women simply for being male. Some women I knew were really creeped out by Bob Dole's ad spot for Viagra. I, on the other hand, thought it was very cool that he made erectile dysfunction easier for older guys to admit to and talk about.

When men are young they will fuck anything that moves and a number of things that can't. They will also jump off high bridges attached only by a rubber band. The young man's motto is "Hold my beer and watch this!" That motto is generally believed to apply only to rednecks and hillbillies. This is an error. There is a reason the military is heavily populated with young men- their brains are not fully developed. Football is a sport for young men. Now and then you will find an older man, still believing himself to be young, still playing football. He isn't hard to locate. Google "emailed dick pics" and he's sure to come up. This also serves as a gauge of the state of brain development. The man may still be technically young.

Old men are also willing to fuck anything that moves. They simply lack the energy or the erection to do so. George Burns famously said that trying to have sex at age ninety is like trying to shoot pool with a rope. It can also be dicey finding a willing female partner as old age encroaches. Usually large amounts of money are required. I checked yootoob and found no video of buxom young women chasing homeless men down the street, overcome with lust. Put an expensive Italian suit on that same man, give him a private jet and a mansion with multiple jacuzzis, and an entourage of celebrities will magically appear. Young women will naturally want to know what all the fuss is about and thus are drawn into the trap. Once in the snare, they will actually be found competing for the attentions of a decrepit and wizened old lecher. money may not buy happiness but it can procure a reasonable facsimlie. Most of us do not imagine Hugh Hefner sitting alone in one of several bedrooms pondering what fate has brought him to, what he has become. He may do it, but it's hard for us to believe it.

If a man makes his money early in life it may alter his perspective on amorousness. It may also alter his perspective on a great many other things, insofar as it can still be called perspective. George Bernard Shaw once said that William Randolph Hearst's San Simeon was the kind of place God would have built if he'd had the money. But that is another post. This one is about amorousness. If a man can afford women, and also afford to pay them to go away, it's bound to put ideas in his head. He might just slide from monogamy to serial monogamy to open adultery as easily as I slide into the seat of a twenty three year old pickup truck. I might want to slide into a twenty three year old, but all I can afford is the Ford. Pelham Grenville Wodehouse, the consummate craftsman of the written word in English, commented on this practice, in particular as it was engaged in on our side of the pond. "Like so many substantial citizens of America, he had married young and kept on marrying, springing from blonde to blonde like the chamois of the Alps leaping from crag to crag." Here is demonstrated the beauty of quotes- I need write no more- the paragraph is complete.

It would be presumptuous of me to attempt to deliver the woman's perspective on this topic. She can speak for herself, and in fact that is the reason I got hooked on this site. I liked reading what women thought and wrote about sex. I still don't know quite what that is. I get the impression that some of them are angry about something that involves men. Apparently a number of the men are also angry about something that involves women. I think that this is an entrepreneurial opportunity for the right people to seize- a website for people who are angry with one another and wish to copulate. I'm not wishing them away from Swampflounder- I love a good rant and a diatribe is even better. I am giving this idea away for free. I don't need the opportunity. I'm content with my pickup truck. At least some of the time it still works.

If nothing else, I felt some small pressure to contribute, not the least of which was my friendship with humorlife. He gives a good deal of his time to bring this thing off once a month and is wonderfully supportive of the bloggers who contribute. Try it! You'll like it!

The Virtual Symposium Returns Lets Pick A Topic


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nightsoul1962 61F
17828 posts
9/11/2015 6:56 pm

Times go by fast

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NaughtyInSO 113F
9755 posts
9/11/2015 7:15 pm

This is wonderful and pretty unusual pimping. But, you are wonderful and unusual man. So, it fits.

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KItkat1415 61F  
20051 posts
9/11/2015 7:57 pm

Please go back and change your vote to... oh never mind.
What did you vote for?
Kk

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humorlife 56M  
5710 posts
9/11/2015 8:01 pm

Goodness, goodness, goodness. Where to start?

August was a most peculiar month: There was a definite lull on the site. Perhaps perverts, much like psychoanalysts, take August off and go to the shore? In which case I, as a longtime sun hater, have definitely missed the beach party of the century. Fortunately the century is young.

I've been thinking about floating an "each one, reach one" request, under which every blogger would seek to (gently) recruit one newbie blogger. But I don't think I'll do so for several reasons: The symposium should be totally free of coercion of any type, such a request would likely be outside the comfort zone of many existing participants and, quite frankly, it's more fun to watch the symposium grow organically through passive pimping.

This post is anything but passive! It, in and of itself, is worthy of any symposium contribution... and it's a pimping post. Amazing. As usual.

If I take any exception at all -- a substantial if, for I really can't -- it's at being referred to as a "nice" Jewish boy. My boyness is a fact of genetics: My Judaism a happenstance of matrilineal destiny. But nice? Not only is this a vile libel, it is a sad falsehood from a blogger who is usually gifted with incisive and unsentimental sight.

The voyeuristic tendencies you allude to have not fallen by the wayside as a result of disinterest: Rather, as I enter the late summer of my years I find myself less able to dodge barking dogs, scale fences, and balance on the ladders necessary to truly indulge in such pastimes. Furthermore, Zeiss refuses, despite my entreaties, to make bifocal binoculars, so peeping of late has become an exercise in unfocused frustration.

And drones with camera mountings are simply too expensive.

I fear I must even take exception with your surely kind-intentioned classics-inspired characterization. You would cast me as a wise priest who seeks to warn those around him of gifts with hollow promise: During the darker tea-times of my soul I see myself in the mode of Cassian of Imola, who was nicked to death by a thousand iron writing styli.

Put another way, I might look like a Robert Ford, but I feel more like a Jesse James.

If there is one area in which we may come to a meeting of minds, it is over your immediate and continued support for the symposium since day one. It's been invaluable. More than that, it's made the whole endeavor a hell of a lot more fun than it otherwise would have been.

I think a lot of contributors share your surprise and delight in how much a communal writing effort DOESN'T get under their skin. They do, of course, have the freedom during the rest of the time to write about whatever they jolly well please... and lord knows they do.

But in terms of bringing together this herd of independent minds once a month, the virtual symposium has done so quite nicely. And I believe a number of friendships throughout the blogosphere have sprung up because of it. What could be more gratifying than that?

So thank you, thank you, thank you: For this well-considered post, for your year-plus of support and friendship, and for your continued contributions. It has remained fun, and you -- that's the inclusive you to anyone who has read this far -- has helped make it so. And so it will continue!

Now... voted yet?

Stop in, read, and offer comments at my "swinging as seen in the media" blog, "Confessions of a Lifestyle Man" humorlife, which is also the home of the monthly virtual symposium. New post: The Virtual Symposium Returns Lets Pick A Topic


kzoopair 73M/71F
25831 posts
9/11/2015 8:09 pm

If we're lucky they do.

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kzoopair 73M/71F
25831 posts
9/11/2015 8:10 pm

    Quoting NaughtyInSO:
    This is wonderful and pretty unusual pimping. But, you are wonderful and unusual man. So, it fits.
May the lord bless you and keep you, sweetheart.

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kzoopair 73M/71F
25831 posts
9/11/2015 8:11 pm

    Quoting  :

Well, thank ya, ma'am.

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kzoopair 73M/71F
25831 posts
9/11/2015 8:30 pm

    Quoting humorlife:
    Goodness, goodness, goodness. Where to start?

    August was a most peculiar month: There was a definite lull on the site. Perhaps perverts, much like psychoanalysts, take August off and go to the shore? In which case I, as a longtime sun hater, have definitely missed the beach party of the century. Fortunately the century is young.

    I've been thinking about floating an "each one, reach one" request, under which every blogger would seek to (gently) recruit one newbie blogger. But I don't think I'll do so for several reasons: The symposium should be totally free of coercion of any type, such a request would likely be outside the comfort zone of many existing participants and, quite frankly, it's more fun to watch the symposium grow organically through passive pimping.

    This post is anything but passive! It, in and of itself, is worthy of any symposium contribution... and it's a pimping post. Amazing. As usual.

    If I take any exception at all -- a substantial if, for I really can't -- it's at being referred to as a "nice" Jewish boy. My boyness is a fact of genetics: My Judaism a happenstance of matrilineal destiny. But nice? Not only is this a vile libel, it is a sad falsehood from a blogger who is usually gifted with incisive and unsentimental sight.

    The voyeuristic tendencies you allude to have not fallen by the wayside as a result of disinterest: Rather, as I enter the late summer of my years I find myself less able to dodge barking dogs, scale fences, and balance on the ladders necessary to truly indulge in such pastimes. Furthermore, Zeiss refuses, despite my entreaties, to make bifocal binoculars, so peeping of late has become an exercise in unfocused frustration.

    And drones with camera mountings are simply too expensive.

    I fear I must even take exception with your surely kind-intentioned classics-inspired characterization. You would cast me as a wise priest who seeks to warn those around him of gifts with hollow promise: During the darker tea-times of my soul I see myself in the mode of Cassian of Imola, who was nicked to death by a thousand iron writing styli.

    Put another way, I might look like a Robert Ford, but I feel more like a Jesse James.

    If there is one area in which we may come to a meeting of minds, it is over your immediate and continued support for the symposium since day one. It's been invaluable. More than that, it's made the whole endeavor a hell of a lot more fun than it otherwise would have been.

    I think a lot of contributors share your surprise and delight in how much a communal writing effort DOESN'T get under their skin. They do, of course, have the freedom during the rest of the time to write about whatever they jolly well please... and lord knows they do.

    But in terms of bringing together this herd of independent minds once a month, the virtual symposium has done so quite nicely. And I believe a number of friendships throughout the blogosphere have sprung up because of it. What could be more gratifying than that?

    So thank you, thank you, thank you: For this well-considered post, for your year-plus of support and friendship, and for your continued contributions. It has remained fun, and you -- that's the inclusive you to anyone who has read this far -- has helped make it so. And so it will continue!

    Now... voted yet?
I'm not gonna vote. This was the best crop of topics to come up yet, in my opinion, and I like them all.

There IS a lull on the site. Some of it's due to a cyclical summer hiatus, but also there was a h*****g scandal that sapped the spirit of a number of bloggers, as well as of general members. For my own part, I've been focused on several personal projects and I'm old so they take me longer and they demand more of my attention. I don't have that much attention to go around anymore.

I have tried to recruit bloggers for the symposia, and I don't see it as coercion. If I read posts that indicate some intelligence and a degree of proficiency at expressing it, I want to read more of their stuff. It's more like "Come to the party! It's fun and you'll have a great time and maybe even get laid!" I also don't forget the encouragement I got here from other bloggers. It can't be overestimated how valuable that was.

We're gonna have to agree to disagree- I think you're very nice, lame as that may sound. In this world, and especially on this site, surrounded by a petrified forest of dicks, nice stands out. What the fuck is wrong with ...pleasant?

I'm still not gonna vote. Any of the proffered topics will be wonderful!

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kzoopair 73M/71F
25831 posts
9/11/2015 8:37 pm

    Quoting KItkat1415:
    Please go back and change your vote to... oh never mind.
    What did you vote for?
    Kk
I didn't vote, sweetie. Each one of the topics will make for a great symposium, and I've already had a turn or two at pimping topics. I could have fun with cut copy and paste bad erotica- that one is screaming "Pick me! Pick me!" But I'll be content with any of them. If that one wins, maybe I'll write something about nude housecleaning services.

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kzoopair 73M/71F
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9/11/2015 10:30 pm

    Quoting  :

I don't know how some folks post so much. The last month and a half have been busy with projects around the place, but i'm retired so I could make time, if I wasn't also lazy. I tend to get focused on something and everything else has to take a back seat for a while. Thanks for visiting. I love seeing you here.

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spunkycumfun 63M/69F
41171 posts
9/12/2015 5:00 am

humorlife does a great job as cult leader but I always wonder when he's going to ask, as cult leaders do, his cult members to make the necessary sacrifices!


kzoopair 73M/71F
25831 posts
9/12/2015 10:22 am

    Quoting spunkycumfun:
    humorlife does a great job as cult leader but I always wonder when he's going to ask, as cult leaders do, his cult members to make the necessary sacrifices!
Funny you should say that, Spunky. I meet a friend I used to work with for breakfast now and then. His older brother is pastor of a mega church in Texas, one of those bible thumping Baptist affairs, hellfire and brimstone. My friend and his brother split over drinking the Koolaid. They were talking about the Jim Jones suicide thing and my buddy told his brother outright that he had that kind of hold on many of his parishioners- that they would drink the Koolaid for him, and that it was more authority than any one man should have over people he led. And the brother told him that he NEEDED that kind of authority. My friend packed up his family and moved away right then and there. He didn't want to concede that kind of control to anyone, and he didn't want his kids being raised to believe in it either.

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kzoopair 73M/71F
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9/12/2015 10:26 am

    Quoting  :

Well, aren't you a sweetheart! Thanks! I'm sure we could work out a payment method, in installments maybe, for any work you need done. You should know though, that I'm the slow, methodical and steady type, but that I stay focused until the job is done. Sometimes it gets finished in fits and spurts, but I like to think I give satisfaction.

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kzoopair 73M/71F
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9/12/2015 10:31 am

    Quoting rockkickass69v2:
    Welcome back Kzoo!
    Maybe this is the symposium I finally start.
Thanks, Rock! I miss the blogs and posting, but I tend to get focused- PD says "obsessed". So I've been doing home repairs. We're gonna take a day off and go to the Michigan Flywheelers Antique Engine & Tractor Show in South Haven. I love old iron!

And I hope you will write a post for the symposium. I've met some very cool people reading their posts for it. This is an opportunity to meet some very intelligent and creative people, and fuck them. And that IS after all what this is all for, right?

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kzoopair 73M/71F
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9/12/2015 10:33 am

    Quoting  :

You are maybe one of the LEAST vain and fussy people I know, online or off. AND one of the sexiest. Maybe the one has a lot to do with the other.

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kzoopair 73M/71F
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9/12/2015 10:41 am

    Quoting  :

I think I might be the reverse of that- I used to LOVE kids and not do so well with many adults. I still enjoy children, but I don't relate to them the way I once did. Oddly enough, PD says the same thing about herself that you do, but she puts it a bit differently. She says she never really learned how to be a girl. However, I can vouch for the fact that there are times when she is VERY girlish. So she ain't bullshitting ME!

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sweet_VM 65F
81699 posts
9/12/2015 12:43 pm

KZ Wow love this one! You would make a good pimp by the way.. I will be around hopefully for this symposium. I always find them very good with lots of interesting takes on what the topic is. Good to see you back hugssssssssss V

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kzoopair 73M/71F
25831 posts
9/12/2015 6:30 pm

    Quoting sweet_VM:
    KZ Wow love this one! You would make a good pimp by the way.. I will be around hopefully for this symposium. I always find them very good with lots of interesting takes on what the topic is. Good to see you back hugssssssssss V
Thanks, V! I'd make an awful pimp- I'd never make any money, like a dope dealer who uses up all his product. I can be in a room with three woman and fall in love nine times in an hour flat. My dick used to be able to keep pace...but I think I may be weakening.
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