It's tempting to think that there's anonymity on the TFP because no one really knows who you are. Anonymity is a useful and powerful tool that one can use to talk frankly about sensitive or deeply personal subjects. However, I don't think we have that kind of anonymity, here. Strangely, this is a community and, therefore, you have a reputation to uphold here. I don't think anyone will ever take me seriously if I confessed a predilection to pre-pubescent boys or my attempts to surreptitiously masterbate in public so I can fling my semen onto pretty women without them noticing.
It's interesting that, in the anonymity of the internet, virtual communities can form and, consequently, remove that anonymity, like a (real?) community. It's interesting that the TFP is such a community.
It makes one wonder if there are things that people would like to bring up in
Tilted Sexuality but can't because of this lack of anonymity and what those things might be. Should this thread be in that forum?
Just some things to think about...