iBLASTinside Posted December 20, 2013 Report Share Posted December 20, 2013 (edited) To see iBLASTinside's original blog post, click here... Some of you don’t give a shit about this internal raging debate. I wish I didn’t need to write this posting. The Bareback Brotherhood is a movement formed out of the necessity of confusion. What does it mean to be a barebacker? Can one be a serosorting, monogamous-only cum-hound? Or does being a barebacker mean bug-chasing, stealth-advocating, anonymous fuckers only? The answer is yes. And no. To bareback means both, all of the above and none of it. Whatever one thinks about barebacking, you’ve limited yourself. When we formed the Bareback Brotherhood and I coined the hashtag #BBBH and phrase, we did so with the understanding that it was for the freedom of that very sense of what it means to be a barebacker. For far too long, the safe sex Nazis had defined fucking as a plastic barrier between men. We needed to remove the barrier and show that men could choose another path. That choice was one that men could make. It says so on our website: “We agree on one thing — sex between men without barriers is natural and a legitimate choice. As consenting adults, skin-to-skin intimacy should be a choice that is not demonized or marginalized.” The Attacks of RawTop RawTop runs the website BreedingZone.com, which has carried an RSS feed of my blog and many other bareback bloggers. If you visit BreedingZone or RawTop’s blog, one is bombarded with porn advertisements, which he says are a convenience. On Sunday, RawTop e-mailed me and told me he’d purchased BBBH.com and planned to build a hook-up website to compete with BarebackRT.com. In exchange for my (and other BBBH cofounders endorsement), we’d get free “recognition and enhanced memberships” on the site along with t-shirts. I entertained the notion. I’ve made no secret that the cyber attacks*have continued on this and the BBBH website has cost me time and money I *simply do not have. At the same time, though, RawTop posted on BreedingZone that I’m “so focused on stealthing” that it’s tainted the BBBH brand. He told me he’d need to write very clearly on his hook-up site that stealthing it was a position he did not advocate, he didn’t like and that he would separate himself and the “brand” from me. While I couldn’t give a shit about what RawTop thinks about me, what I didn’t like was how he would take the #BBBH and begin to define it. In other words, RawTop would begin to restrict what it meant to be in the #BBBH movement. Despite*his own BreedingZone includes strings of conversation in “The Backroom” for gift-giving and bug-chasing that includes a lot of stealthing content. Some Barebackers Will Not Be Welcome at BBBH.com Would RawTop prevent bug-chasers or gift-givers fr0m joining? The answer is yes. I suggested that RawTop turn BreedingZone.com into a hook-up site rather than attempting to take over the #BBBH brand. He wrote me: “All the bug chasing discussion on Breeding Zone turns off a lot of people. It’s a bit tainted in that way – too many people don’t want to be associated with bug chasing so Breeding Zone can’t effectively be turned into a hookup site.” In other words, if you advocate certain positions, you will not be welcomed at BBBH.com. That directly opposes the founding principals of the #BBBH. It is for this reason I cannot advocate, endorse and, in fact, I must oppose the development of this website. The #BBBH is all encompassing when it comes to skin-to-skin contact. What next? No Poz barebackers allowed? Would one be required to submit proof of one’s status on the new and improved BBBH.com to have an enhanced profile? Maybe only neg guys could see other neg guys? Perhaps RawTop could connect directly with local labs and get a CD4 and viral load count so Undetectables won’t mix with Poz. Maybe we’ll check your meds. RawTop Wants Your Money “To be clear – I make my money off the bareback community,” he wrote me. To be clear, I don’t make any money off the bareback community. If you’ve logged onto BBBH.me, you’ll notice I’ve got a complete hands-off approach. I also don’t write about stealthing there. There’s no ads there. The Bareback Brotherhood is one without restrictions, without plastic, without barriers. And RawTop is putting them in place. He is saying that certain people will not be welcomed on his new site, although I imagine his greed will eventually allow him to accept the funds from them before he kicks them to the curb. The #BBBH Cannot Belong to Him As I explained to RawTop, BBBH is a movement like Occupy Wall Street. It has custodians, sure. We are here to make sure no one profits from the movement. A porn company recently contacted me, asking if they could do a video named #BBBH. I explained to the producers, each of them could be members of the #BBBH, as could the actors. We’d welcome that. But a video of that name would prove limiting to the ideals for which the Brotherhood stands. The producers respected that and did not name the video. This is just one example of many to set a precedence that the #BBBH cannot become the solely owned hook-up domain of RawTop. I Did Not Want This This is where I supposedly “threatened” a lawsuit. I just suggested that he might do better to invest in a different effort, not taking the brand built by so many brothers using our hashtag. RawTop moved this debate into the public forum. I didn’t.*I do not relish this battle. No one wins when the bareback community battles. Just because I don’t want the #BBBH to back a commercial venture against BarebackRT.com seems bizarre. I can hope that RawTop steps back and thinks carefully about his impact on the overall community rather than how to line his pockets with more. As he said, “To be clear – I make my money off the bareback community.” To be clear, I don’t. Note: There is a poll embedded within this post, please visit the site to participate in this post's poll.What people are searching to find this page:: bbrt tumblr (1) More... Edited December 31, 2013 by rawTOP Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators rawTOP Posted December 20, 2013 Administrators Report Share Posted December 20, 2013 There are a lot of things that are said in this post thar are just flat out wrong. I'm closing this thread. The issue can be discussed over on this thread… https://breeding.zone/threads/24456-iBlastInside-just-threatened-to-sue-me-over-BBBH-com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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