Posted by Lloyd on December 15, 1998 at 15:49
I repost this reply to AZMARK here, as I think it may get lost below. In any case, I want people to read my ideas, and think about them, as I think we may be coming close to or already reached and past the so-called critical mass, and we are going to see some action soon, I think. What do you all think...
I have to disagree with you, AZMark, not necessarily because our numbers are increasing, but because I think you are wrong that we are a miniscule minority. I have seen this stated before a number of times, by you and others, and have thought every time that there are just not enough data to support the statement. On the other hand, there is plenty of reason to believe that we could in fact be a much larger minority than most of us think. It's reasonable to think that there are many more of us that are silent than there are that are open about it. Also, if you consider that it is largely through the emergence of the Internet that most of us have become aware of the huge number of us we already know about. Yes, in the grand scheme of things, this is still a miniscule number, but when taken as a percentage of the population, but add to that the number of people who are into wetting, desperation, watersports, whatever, and don't tell anyone they know, keeping it within their relationships as a guarded and possibly shameful secret, and it's quite easy to extrapolate our potential numbers to many times or even orders of magnitude more, those that we know of. Don't forget that we were once secretive about it and came out of the closet when each of us discovered the first publication or website that admitted the existence of our interest. Almost daily new people introduce themselves with the statement that they thought they were the only ones. We ALL thought that before we found these sites. It just keeps happening and that can't be unless there is a huge, largely untapped, population of wetting people out there, one of whose number periodicly makes the discovery. The fact is that the number of people we KNOW of is increasing at a rapidly growing rate, and this can only be because of the stated critical mass. We are now becoming a known commodity and people are hearing about us through websites, publications, whatever, and joining us. This would not be happening if we were all there were, and could not be happening in increasing numbers if we were not only the tip of the iceberg. Add to that, as well, the number of people who will discover the whole concept through stumbling on sites that deal with this, and you have a potential for this activity to become quite commonplace, if still maligned and in the minority, as is homosexuality. But I think you will find that it will be accepted, if not understood, eventually. Most kinks are.
I'm waiting for that day!
Lloyd.
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