Sexually oriented cartoons and eriotic drawings have been an important part of the porn world since before I was born, and I am happy to say they are still with us. There are several members who regularly post cartoons at NBN depicting some part of the gay/transvestite/bisexual life.

They vary quite a bit in content, style, and quality. Some are so crudely drawn they could have been submitted by a child except for their definitely adult captions. Others are professional works of erotic art, carefully airbrushed to show well-endowed subjects engaged in imaginative sexual situations.

I can't say that I am turned on by them all. There is one style in which the characters are part human and part animal (cats, especially) with outsize human genitals. And then there are those of absolutely gorgeous females--beautiful faces, big hair, baloon-like boobs, narrow waists, great asses and legs, AND penises the size of their arms or larger, often spouting cum like a firehose. Such creatures exist only in the artists' lurid imaginations. I suspect some of them are classic pinup art that have been digitally altered to add those enormous pricks. There ia also a form of hentai art where female figures are shown with both a cock and a cunt,

I prefer those cartoons that resemble some believably human beings engaged in possible sexual acts--blow jobs, ass fucking, pussy eating, male or female masturbation. Happily. there are quite a lot of them, including a promising new style, some of which use a 3D drawing program to create. Anyway, I believe they are an important enough genre for NBN to include them in a separate category. I have suggested that to the NBN management but they don't seem to respond to suggestions. Oh well.

Doesn't anybody share my view?

I feel sure that any straight person who wandered into NBN would think, "Just a bunch of queers." But he would be wrong. There are at least two distinct groups of members at NBN--gays and crossdressers.

It is easy to tell them apart. Gays usually show off their attractively muscled bodies, either nude or semi-nude, and often with full erections. Probably the most common image posted at NBN is that of a completely naked crotch exposing an unadorned hard cock. Nice to look at maybe, but it fails to get my panties out of shape. However, the same picture showing the model wearing panties, stockings, and a garter belt can make my pussy tingle.

I wasn't here when NBN began but my guess is that it statrted as a haven for gay males. Note the name, "boy nudes." No respectable crossdresser would appear competely nude. The essence of a CD is to adorn her male body with the most intimate and exciting women's clothes. She doesn't try to be macho. She wants to be seen as pretty, sexy, flirtatious, naughty, and sexually desirable, as feminine as nature will permit. If, however, she happens to expose her clitty, all the better.

Crossdresser, transvestite, pansy, sissy, panty boy--I will answer to all of these. But I don't consider myself to be gay. The thing is, many of the trannies seem to have bought into the idea that dressing up makes them queer. You can see it in some of their comments. "Hey baby, I wanna suck your cock!" Okay, I admit I am guilty of making such comments now and then. But my real feeling is more like: I want to cuddle, feel, carress, kiss, and touch you intimately and have you do the same to me.

I have sucked cock. Not once but many times. And I have enjoyed it. The feel of it growing and pulsing in my mouth, and then shooting its load while all the while knowing that it was I who caused this orgasm. That really turns me on. But I don't think it makes me gay. (Not that there's anything wrong with that.)

But maybe the answer to the question: Are we gay? is, Who gives a shit?

I have read so many stories of how boys or young men are introduced to crossdressing by being forced to dress in girls' clothes or do it for the first time on a dare, for a costume party, etc. The usual story line is that they do it reluctantly only to discover (surprise, surprise) that they actually enjoy it.

I think these stories are BS, possibly put forth to assuage a guilty desire to crossdress.

I can't remember a time when I did not yearn for an opportunity to dress up. It was never forced on me. I never experienced any "petticoat punishment" nor was I seduced by a maiden aunt or other family friend. On the contrary, whenever I was caught wearing my mother's dresses or my sister's undies I received a severe lecture about what was appropriate and inappropriate dress for little boys.

I can remember clomping around the house in my mother's heels. At first this was thought to be cute. But when it continued and I progressed to wearing a slip or one of her dresses, it was strongly discouraged.

I have a sister two years older than me, and I soon learned that her clothes were a better fit for me than mom's. She would, of course, have a screaming fit whenever she caught me wearing them, which was often, but that never stopped me.

I never grew out of these sissy desires. As I approached puberty, my urges to dress up became even stronger. I was no longer content to wear just dresses and skirts. I wanted to go all the way, and did so in sis' cotton panties and tiny training bras. (Neither one of us had tits then, so they fit me as well as they fit her.)

The advancement to more intimate wear, the touch of soft nylon against my skin, and my ability to transform my appearance from boy to girl, opened up new worlds for me. And of course. my early sexual stirrings were having a startling change in my thoughts and feelings. I had my first orgasm quite by accident (I had no udea what was going on) while dressed in a pair of her panties and padded bras. From that moment on, crossdressing was inexricably linked to masturbation. It emauns so today.