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Trying to make a form full screen, so that it stays on top of the task bar as well, any ideas?? thanks
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Anyone have a good Idea on how to make a form full screen no matter what resolution of the users diplay. I would also like this form behind other forms in my exe but on top of any other windows the user may have open. Any ideas.
Full Screen Form
Hello to everyone!
I'll do (At least, i'll try to do) a lan house manager program.
The first issue i found is that:
When the customer's time end, will appear a form, to avoid user to continue using the computer. But... How do i create a full screen form that can't be closed, can't be minimized and stay always on top??
Just one more thing...
I've downloaded VB 2005 yesterday. Should i use VB 2005?? Is it better? i'm using VB 6 actually... The code structure and commands are the same?
All reply are welcome.
Thank you, and sorry for bad english.
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How can I maximize a form so that it's streched all the way on the screen and covers the taskbar so that all you see on the screen is your form?
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If you set Form's BorderStyle property to none and window state to vbmaximized then the form appears as fullscreen without showing the startmenu etc. How can I make it to show the start menu????? I want to create my own Form (already did) and I need to add a maximization to it and it can't be FullScreen (I want to see start menu). Thanks for any help
Full Screen MDI Form
How can I set a MDI form to full screen mode with no visible taskbar?
Help For Full Screen Form
Hi, could any guru tell me how to create just a form which can automatically occupy whole screen, whatever your monitor size is. Take an easy example, just like Power Point full screen slide view. Thanks for any help!
Printing A Form On A Full Page
I am trying to print barcode labels on a sheet of barcode label stickers. First, I used the printer.print command to print labels, but was not able to make it print three across b/c the spaces I used the serperate the barcodes, actually ended up becoming the barcode equivalent of a space (resulting in one really long line of barcode).
Now I have a form laid out with 18 labels, and I just fill the labels with the barcodes I need and print it out. I would like to somehow get all 33 / page on one form, or atleast in one print job. I seemed to have reached the max on form height, otherwise I would simply add more.
If anyone has any idea on how to print a full page of labels, I would love to hear them =) Thank you!
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I have been receiving complaints regarding the size of my applications form, users want it larger and want to be able to make the application full screen.
Making the form larger is simple, but getting the Full Screen (maximize) feature to work seems a little different. I know that I can easily enable the "Maximize" property of the form which allows the form itself to maximize but I would like the other components to maximize as well.
Currently when I enable maximize button on the form and then test it I get only the form goes Full Screen but all components (datagrids, text boxes, labels, etc..) stay the same size and are aligned left instead of Centered which would look much nicer.
Any clues?
How To Convert A Form To A Full Screen
Hi everyone,
As the subject line says, how can I get a full screen from a simple form?
I suppose It is very simple, isn't it?
Print Full Page Form ?
How do you get a form to be a full page when you print it. I can only print on about the first half of the page.
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i'm using the vb 6.0. how should i do to show the form in full screen on the pc after compling my program?pls let me know.
wtih thanks,
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How To Make A Full Screen Form?
Very simple question
how to make a full screen form? (not maximized)
Confusion On How To Print A Full Form
Ok, I have done a few searches on how to print a child form and have not been able to find exactly what I needed. I have read several things, and then came across a post in the vbcity forums about a suggestion that the person may want to use Crystal, Report, Data Report to print a form so now I am really confused and not sure what or where I should do/go.
I have a child form. In that child form I have a pic box with a number of text, label and combo box controls. Because scoll bars will not automatically appear/disappear when needed, I went with an example that someone have me on how to code that into a child form, but all of the text, label, etc controls need to be placed in a pic box. (Attached I have the project that I am working on)
I am using the Print as a menu item and the code is as follows:
Private Sub mnuFilePrint_Click()
End Sub
I have two problems with this.
First, when a child form is not open, I get an error. I know that there is a check that I can do using ActiveForm to see if a child form is open, but I cannot find my notes on this, and wadeing thru the MSDN is a pain in arse. Isn't it something like
If ActiveForm.Nothing then Exit Sub ?
Second, when a child form IS open, the form will print, but
1. It does not fit on the page (8.5 x 11) width wise and
2. the full form is not printed, only what is displayed on the screen.
Using the active form properties, how can I make it print the whole form, even that which is not displayed?
Thanks in advance.
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Print A Form In A Full Page.
Hello guys...
I am trying finding a solution but not yet got one.
I have a form (I am trying to create an invoice) with labels and text boxes. When I print this form, the entire form been printed on a half page of paper which does not look good for an invoice.
1. I would like to know if I could print the form in a full page of a paper?
2. I can break the form into two forms and print both form in one page.
Thank you,
When A Form Pops Up, Is There A Way To Make It Full Screen?
Thank you!!!
Making A Form The Full Size Of Screen??
Beginners Question?? How do I make the size of my form the full size of my screen when I run a program??? Thanks!
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I want my form to take up the entire screen. When I say entire I mean entire as in a game would take up the entire screen.
How would I do this?
Secondly, I have a picture box, - is there any way for me to have this picture box fade in and then out again after a specified interval.
Form Ontop Of A Full Black Screen ...
Hello all, i am pretty new to the vb world so pleas bear with me.
My problum is that i am trying to have a form that looks something like this :
and i want it ontop of a full black screen.
I alread have the first form designed, my problum is that i dont know how to make the full black screen behind it.
Any help would be wonderful.
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I need to create a form that send himself to the printer and it must fit the page
is there any way to:
- increase the max height of a form (800 px->???)
- send the form to the printer as a picture or something like that
- send data line by line to the printer (different fonts and a picture are in the form)
- any other idea
(must be free)
thanks in advance
Full Screen Form And Fading Images
I want my form to take up the entire screen. When I say entire I mean entire as in a game would take up the entire screen.
How would I do this?
Secondly, I have a picture box, - is there any way for me to have this picture box fade in and then out again after a specified interval.
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I am trying to print a one full page form (height = 14000). However on the resolution of 1024 by 768 and less, the form will auto decrease its height to 11000. With the height of the 11000, it will not be a full page. To make it worst, it squishes all the objects on the form together.
On my form property, I have set the following:
- windowstate = 1 minimized
- StartUpPosition = 1 - CenterOwner
- BorderStyle = 2 - Sizable
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Full form mouse tracking over all componets?
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Creating A Full Page Sized Form
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Hi! Brand New :) - Center A Form In Full Screen??
Hello everyone, I have visited this site for many months when I needed some help. I was usually able to find my answer in a search but this one has me stumped. I am very new to VB and I am basically making a checklist program if you will. I have it set up so that it loads full screen, with no Border. The only problem is that when its loaded full screen the buttons, labels, and pictures are nested in the top left corner of the screen. I would like it it so that the buttons and everything moves to the center of the screen keeping their original formation. The reason I want to have this setup like this is because this application will run on an 800x600 and 1024x768 resolution.
Thanks in advance for all the help!
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I have a problem is that trying to play a video in full mode using WMP component and show the form infront of it while it playing in full mode.
i searching around the forum but cant get what i needed.Other, have a question in my mind is that should i look into API?
can anyone give me some help or code? thx..
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Like Fraps and moreBench do...
Example screenshot (the lower left corner):
Print Form On Full Page In Visual Basic
hello friends
I am developing an application in which i have to print the form .I have used printform command but i am not able to print the form on the whole A4 size sheet.I have tried various combinations of the printer properties (landscape,portrait) but nothing happened.
The problem with printform is that i am getting my output on only half of the A4 size sheet.
Please send you kind sugestions asap
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I currently have a game that does not have an option to run in "windowed" form. It only runs in fullscreen! I know it's possible to take external applications and load them into internal VB forms and controls (such as picturebox). I've done this many times with MS Calculator, etc. by setting the Parent Form.
My question is... how difficult would it be to successfully load a game that runs in fullscreen into a VB form that can be "windowed" (doesn't even have to be resizable). I tried the "SetParent" method that I mentioned above on it; however, only an icon of the game shows up in the VB form... and when I click on it, it launches back into a fullscreen mode!
Any suggestions!? Thanks...
Eric D. Brown
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I have a file that was created, but, i don't know what programs use it. I have all the Visual basic 6.0 forms in on directory with each program in its own sub directory. How can i search all the forms with the file name. I tried the seach that comes with XP, but it only searches the program name, not the text that is imbedded in the code. Any help is appreached. Thanks Cathy Ryan
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I've 1 question
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need urgent help....
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The Full Name
Hi folks,
I need to find out how to use the windows name of a file inside VB, for example, if a file is called "Ineed~.mp3", how can I get to know how the user has really called the file? (eg. "I need you to come home tonight.mp3"?
Thanks very much,
Full Screening..
I have my application border set to "None" and my windowstate to "maximized" which makes it full screen on startup.. I have shapes which i have created to act like normal windows.. on startup.. how can i make the shapes move to the center of the screen? I will be sending my application to many people after it is completed, and most of them have a different monitor size than i do.. so is there a "center screen" for shapes ? and other objects? or is there a way to insert a window into a full screen application, which could act as a frame to hold other objects inside it, so that when it is moved, the rest of the objects will also move with it?
Full Screen
is it possible to make say a picturebox go full screen or at least make it so that the application windows overlays the start bar?
thanx in advance for any help provided.
Full RGB Gradient
I am simply looking for a RGB gradient.
It is needed for the user to select color with cursor (much like in most paint programs), however if anyone could suggest a better way that using the picturebox (and using the rgb return for mouse position command..forget the command) then it would be most welcome.
Of course it's not difficult to make a rgb gradient, rather that it is difficult to find a good one (and they are too easy to make though).
Only the algorith is necessary, however, if it's in code then I am using VB98.
Thanks in advance.
(I have searched all the obvious places for it on this forum as well as planetsourcecode, but have only found one that didn't look like it would particularly suit.)
Full Screen
The Program that I am making is basicly going to be the main shell of the os. Meaning only this is going to be open and nothing else (no taskbars or anything)
Anyway, the screens resolution is going to be 800x600
Now for my main form does anyone know what the Height and width should be to take up the whole screen, or is there otherways i can do this?
Thanks Alot.
Full Screen
I started to develop a game and I got to the game play area when I wanted to make it full screen so I could increase my map size without making it so people with lower resolution than I cant play.
So, could somebody please tell me how to make a game run in full screen using the resolution 800x600?
Full Screen?
anyone able to tell me if its hard to make it so a form takes up the whole screen. is it simple code? also can the form cover the star button bar at the bottum of the screen or be able to hide it or something?
Full Sail
I'm not quite sure where this fits under for the forumn, but I was wondering if anyone has attended or is attending Full Sail for Game Development and Design.
I'm trying to decide whether or not I'll be going there after this associate degree in programmer/analyst.
I have read some reviews on the college in gaming magazines, but I really would like some of your inputs on it, if you have been there before or are currently attending.
It's quite expensive, so any input, what so ever, would be appreciated.
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is it possible to change the screen resolution during run time so that when i maximize the window, its always the same size for all computers ? i know it can be done with ActiveX, but i don't know how that works... is there another way ? If not, how do i do it with ActiveX ? Thanks
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Can anybody show me a step-by-step walkthrough for a way to take a screenshot of my entire desktop using DX? I'm really not very familiar with VB at all. (Studying C++ and Java in college) Any help would be appreciated. The only thing is I need the routine to be very fast, which is why I'm choosing DX over WIN API. Thanks.
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Ok, I'm trying to make a game, but i was wanting to make it so that it was full screen like the proffesional games are. Is there a way to do this, so that the Little Start Menu Button on the keyboard also doesn't work? Thanks in advance for the help.
Memory Full
What would cause this in a visual basic application? It is not consistent though, just every now and then.
Full Path Name
I'm using a command line with the %1, this returns a "short" path name.
Is there any way to get the full path name?
"C:Docume~1LodeBureau est~1.abc"
"C:Documents and SettingsLodeBureau est.abcd"
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Im trying to get my program full screen...but it just isnt working....is there any code I can add to get it to fit to my screen with not taskbar...?
Help! Full Screen?? How?
hi, can some1 tell me how i can make my project take over the full screen so there is no windows menu bar at the bottom and no blue bar at the top.
When Date Is Full...... Do
I am making a program that will generate a date for all of our clients. But
I only want to schedule around 50 clients for each day. If that day is full, then choose another date.
The program will only schedule clients up to 36 days from there last appointment date.
There are around 1300 clients.
I am looking for some ideas on how I should do this.
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Gastenverblijf Ruigenhoek 13A – De Zilk
Cosy residence on the ground floor for 4 persons
In 2013, owners, Jan van der Zwet and Marieke Smit, decided to build a guest accommodation for 4 persons on their estate. This cozy residence is located next to the large ground-floor apartment and here you will find everything you are looking for during your stay. The view over the countryside is beautiful and different in every season due to the bulb farming. During spring, you have a magnificent view over the flower fields.
The guest accommodation is situated just outside the small village De Zilk in the municipality of Noordwijkerhout.
The pleasantly wide beach of Langevelderslag, Noordwijk, is only 5 minutes away by car, the stretched out dunes and the nature of the Amsterdam waterleidingduinen are practically in your backyard and within walking distance. Leiden and Haarlem are accessible within 20 minutes and large cities such as Amsterdam, Rotterdam and The Hague can be reached within 30-40 minutes.
After a (beach) walk you can enjoy the warm fireplace with a glass of wine or during summer at the sunny terrace with an outdoor fireplace.
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This cosy residence is suitable for 4 persons. You will find two bedrooms. One bedroom with two beds next to each other and one bedroom with single beds.
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Prices are for 4 persons.
Week: € 495 - € 695 - € 845 - € 975.
Long weekend: € 375 - € 495 - € 595.
Midweek: € 275 - € 525 - € 495.
Inclusive: towels 3 p/p. kitchen towels, energy, wood, WIFI. Baby-inventory is possible.
Exclusive: € 35 booking fee. € 50 cleaning. € 7,50 rental bed linen. € 1,50 p/p/p/n tourist tax.
- Bicycles
You can rent bicycles in the neighbourhood. They will bring the bikes and pick them up after your stay.
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Free WIFI
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AbstractThe Shewhart, Bonferroni-adjustment and analysis of means (ANOM) control chart are typically applied to monitor the mean of a quality characteristic. The Shewhart and Bonferroni procedure are utilized to recognize special causes in production process, where the control limits are constructed by assuming normal distribution for known parameters (mean and standard deviation), and approximately normal distribution regarding to unknown parameters. The ANOM method is an alternative to the analysis of variance method. It can be used to establish the mean control charts by applying equicorrelated multivariate non-central t distribution. In this paper, we establish new control charts, in phases I and II monitoring, based on normal and t distributions having as a cause a known (or unknown) parameter (standard deviation). Our proposed methods are at least as effective as the classical Shewhart methods and have some advantages.
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March 2, 2008
I'm a straight guy and I have several kinks which drive me wild in bed. I'd like to date a straight girl who has similar kinks which drive her wild in bed. But I don't want to get into fetish lifestyles or anything extreme (unfortunately kink owners tend to get polarized into one big group of "alternative people" who dress in rubber and go to subterranean bondage clubs every week) - I just want a regularish relationship with some special orders in the bedroom. How do I do this?
I can't find out during dating - hey what's your favorite movie, author, sexual deviation? I don't want to wait until I end up in the bedroom to find out that they're into R&B and I'm into Death Metal, so to speak. And I know I could join a club - let's say an S&M club - but I did that once (well, I went to the orientation meeting) but I got the impression that it was more of a place for couples to do their thing in front of other people (and that ain't my thing). The members were also of a significantly different age group and it just didn't seem a viable place to meet a potential partner. Finally, yes I know there's a bunch of sites online relating to kinks, but... are attractive girls in the personals of BDSM sites for real? I'm guessing not so much. Also, a lot of personals on BDSM sites come over as a bit extreme - there are people looking for Masters, Mistresses, 24/7 BDSM lifestyles etc - and I'm not looking for that. I don't want to dress in black and own custom equipment and essentially take it all too seriously (not that there's anything wrong with that!) - I just want a regular go for hikes/ dinner/ vacation together relationship with some particular flavors thrown in in the bedroom.
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A lot of the personals on those BDSM sites are full of shit. It's not that the attractive girls don't exist — they do, although some individual ads are obviously fake. And it's not that the 24/7-no-limits-no-safewords crowd don't exist. They do — there just aren't really that many of them.
Look — lots of people like to
about a 24/7 BDSM relationship... for about fifteen minutes, until they've come, and then they like to get up and wash off and put on their regular clothes and go back to their regular life. A good proportion of those ads are describing fantasies the author would never really want to act out. They go online to act out those fantasies because there's no reality check.
My suggestion:
1) You're not going to find what you want in the online kink scene. Precisely because there's no reality check and thousands of bullshit artists, it's exactly the wrong place to look for a serious relationship.
2) If you don't mind trying a few groups before you find the right one, you might give the in-person kink scene a shot again, with the understanding that many people there are no kinkier than you. What you want, it sounds like, is a "munch" — a regular face-to-face meetup over lunch or coffee. Most of them flatly forbid "scene" clothes or "scene" behavior, so the exhibitionism is dialed way down, and the conversation's as likely to be about basketball or mystery novels or whatever as it is to be about kink.
Now, it's like any other social club — some munches are full of dysfunctional assholes, others have nice people all over the place, and most fall somewhere in between. So you do have to shop around a bit, but it can be worth it.
3) Online dating sites that
explicitly kinky are a good way to weed out dates if you decide you just can't stand the kink scene period. OkCupid, four or five years ago, was great for this — don't know if that's still the case, but I'm sure there'll be a site somewhere that's just as good. Spend most of your profile discussing your ideal hike/dinner/vacation, and stick in a sentence at the end mentioning — in as much detail as you care to specify — what you like to do in bed. Girls who don't like it won't respond, girls who do will, and it's all just anonymous enough to keep things civilized.
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Find someone who likes going on hikes/dinner/vacations together. Go out on dates with them. While on these dates, flirt, flirt, flirt, with a bit of emphasis on whatever your kinks are. Example: you're out to dinner, she returns from the table and jostles the table a bit and say "Are you being bad again?" if your kinks happens to go in that direction. Obviously this is a rough example, but you get the drift. The key is say this stuff when you're both having a great time and flirting, so you two can get a feel for how each other might be in bed, i.e. foreplay.
If you two seem to be hititng off well and seem to headed in sexual direction, then just bring it up. If she's repulsed and thinks you're a freak, you two probably aren't going to do well. Basically just ask for what you want or need.
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The point of going to one these clubs or gatherings isn't necessarily to find your girl at them. Through meeting people and socializing, you're more likely to make new friends who know someone you should meet. It may seem counter-intuitive to go to something like this and spend time hanging out with couples or people you have no interest in sexually, but if you look at it as a networking opportunity and proceed with an open mind, you may be surprised how quickly you wind up being fixed up with someone you really like.
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I'm a pervert of the bdsm variety, I've spent plenty of time on the relevant personals sites, and I have lots of experience with BDSM organizations. Several possibly helpful points here:
1. It's true that "a lot of personals on BDSM sites... are people looking for Masters, Mistresses, 24/7 BDSM lifestyles etc." However, you can find the other type there as well. I've run across a pretty wide range, myself. For the record, the three main kinky personals sites are collarme.com, bondage.com and alt.com. Alt.com requires a paid membership to do much of anything and if I had to bet money, I'd say it offers you the best chance of success. They have a large number of listings and cater to the widest range of tastes. Plus, the fact that you're willing to pay for a membership tells potential matches that you're (a) serious and (b) not broke. You may also want to try adultfriendfinder.com. It's much sleazier, but it could yield results and it does favor the less extreme kink crowd.
I don't want to dress in black and own custom equipment and essentially take it all too seriously - I just want a regular go for hikes/ dinner/ vacation together relationship
The good news is that even the relationships involving custom equipment and leather clothing are, in reality, 90% 'regular, go for hikes, dinner, and vacation together' type deals. I know people who are so kinky, it'd take three or four paragraphs just to explain the basics of their sexual dynamics, but they still spend most of their time doing the ordinary couple/family stuff. I think that if you find someone with whom you're compatible (sexually and otherwise), there's an excellent chance that it'll turn into a real relationship.
an S&M club... I got the impression that it was more of a place for couples to do their thing in front of other people
I'm guessing that by "club" you mean a local BDSM organization that holds "munches" (what we here on metafilter would call a "meet-up") and "play parties" (which is the "do their thing in front of other people" part of the program). Some groups do emphasize the latter, but not so much because they all get off on doing it with an audience (though that's certainly a factor for some), but rather because a lot of them are severely limited in what they can do at home. They don't have the larger pieces of equipment (like a St. Andrew's Cross) or they can't make noise lest it wake the kids.
I know you didn't get a very favorable impression of the group. I don't want to take up space talking about my own experiences, so I'm just going to ask that you believe me when I say I know what you're talking about. These groups take a bunch of people who don't necessarily have anything in common except their sexual preferences (and sometimes not even that) and put them in a room together. Then some 'tard gets up and gives a speech about how 'We're all one big family' and blah blah blah. It's bullshit. There may be no ties at all among the various participants. Some probably even hate each others guts. I wouldn't blame you at all if you didn't want to pursue this avenue.
BUT... If you hang around the group for a bit, they'll get to know you and your kinks. This leads to a sort of gossip-driven form of networking. "Oh, Anon? Yeah, he doesn't play in public and he's only into X, Y, and Z." So potential matches will hear about you and you can hear about them.
In my experience, there are usually some key people in the group, the ones who know and are known by everyone. They go to a lot of events, chat with a lot of different people on line, and know everyones' names. These are the people you want in your network.
...are attractive girls in the personals of BDSM sites for real?
Some of them are. You learn pretty quickly to differentiate the spam from the humans. Also, I should point out the obvious: attractive women only go for attractive men.
5. If your fetishes have names (and I'm betting they do), try googling those terms along with the words "forum" or "message board" or "community." Also, search for a list of Yahoo adult groups and search the list for your kinks.*
*"Yahoo Groups" are email lists with additional features accessible through the web (a message archive, calendar, space for uploaded files, etc.) dedicated to specific topics. If you go to the regular Yahoo Group search engine and look for, say, "bondage," you'll get few if any results. However, there are actually plenty of bondage groups there; Yahoo just hides them from the search engine. To find these groups, you have to get one of the aforementioned lists of adult groups.
That's all I can think of right now. If I had to bet money, I'd say that the personals sites are a better bet than the organizations, but really it depends on where you live, what exactly you're looking for, and various other factors. And, of course, your best bet is to use them both.
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Maybe you can approach this differently and instead of trying to figure out where to find women who share or are open to your kinks, you figure out a way to talk about what you want early in the dating. Date women you are attracted to and get along with, and figure out a non-scary or funny way to bring up your kinks. Speaking as a girl, I think it is easier for us to say what we want, hint at it, joke about it etc. because more guys seem to be open to whatever in bed. I think that women feel nervous about certain kinks because they don't know you and don't know if they can trust you. Given that, make sure in the first date(s) that you establish trust so that when you bring up your kinks it won't be so scary. You might also want to present the kinks as stuff you'd like to explore with the right person instead of coming off as a seasoned pro. She might feel excited at the prospect of fulfilling a long-held fantasy.
Since you are posting here anonymously, tell us your kinks and maybe we can give you an idea of how to say what you want to say, and maybe give you an unofficial survey response as to how scary your kinks are to the average female mefite.
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You're not going to find what you want in the online kink scene. Precisely because there's no reality check and thousands of bullshit artists... If you don't mind trying a few groups before you find the right one, you might give the in-person kink scene a shot again
Actually, a lot of the same people who are involved in the "in person kink scene" also advertise on the personals site. When I go through the alt.com or collarme.com listings for my state, I see lots of people I know from munches and events. I promise, there are plenty of real people in those ads. Hell, I'm one of them. However, whether you will "find what you want" in these personals is a separate question, which I addressed to the best of my ability above.
However, the term "online kink scene" might have a somewhat different meaning to some people. Rather than referring to ads placed on personals sites, you could also use it to refer to chat rooms and message boards and even certain quadrants of SecondLife where people play out their kinky fantasies. If that's what you have in mind, I would agree that those venues aren't going to help Anon find what he's looking for.
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Posting anonymously, and yet still not actually saying what these kinks are? To the bedpost for your punishment, worm.
Anyway, I just go through life assuming everyone is as kinky as I am and that they're all game and would make reasonably good playmates. Unless you're into something very very odd, and from your description of being more casual than the BDSM scene, I bet you're not (...yet) you needn't be so shy about it. When the time for sexy flirting comes, just start peppering your repartee with the sort of language that turns you on. While she may be saying "Oh your hands are so strong, come here and hold me tight," go ahead and hit back with a "I want your nails polished red and tearing at my throat, God it would make me so hard to gasp for air while you laugh at my weakness" or whatEVER it is you're into.
Alternately, just mention at some point as early on as you have the nerve for, that you're always hoping to find a girl who can keep up with your voracious appetites insert-eyebrow-waggling-insinuation-of-depravity-here, and see if that turns the conversation warmer or colder. I know I'd want to hear more. Sexy more. Plan ahead by making yourself an eloquent and intriguing erotic speaker.
Hang out in the most "alternative" places possible. Get used to being more "out" as a kinky individual. Don't knock people for looking like "they take it seriously." They're the ones that just might blow your fucking mind. You never know. Kink in my experience, is only additive, so don't you go being closed-minded about what you could get into.
You probably should also allow for the possibility that you'll find a partner with willingness to explore or reveal her kinks for perhaps the first time, so don't be too intent on finding a girl with kink cred already. You're looking for a relationship, so personality matters more than kink, right? Oh God internet, it still does, I hope?!?
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I find Alt.com, though it has annoying interface and is basically crap, has a really wide range of people on it, its free to sign up for the shiz version too.
posted by
on March 2, 2008
People aren't as different from each other as you think they are. And fetishes are not distinct from personalities.
Get involved with someone you have general chemistry with, and you will be surprised how often your interests are reciprocated, either because she shares them, or simply because she comes to see them as a natural part of her relationship with you.
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Part of the disjunction here might be a rural or suburban to urban problem—cities is where these things are "normal." The folks who I knew back in Ann Arbor who were into this were almost all regularly going to events in Detroit. And there are regular events in just about every metropolitan area—if that's where you are, well, suck it up, chump, and go meet some people. On some level, it's like going to an anime con, where 95% of folks are relatively normal hobbyists, and then there's the five percent of weirdos who make the other folks look bad.
"Unless you're into something very very odd, and from your description of being more casual than the BDSM scene, I bet you're not (...yet) you needn't be so shy about it."
This is a good point too—I can't say that I've had a tremendous amount of partners, but from my experience and conversations with others, nearly EVERYONE has some kink, mostly mild. So if a chick is generally sex-positive (and why are you dating her if she's not?), you can bring it up, and most'll at least try it, especially if it's just a bit of tie-me-up-tie-me-down. And, at least in my experience, most'll enjoy it.
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I think if you find a girl who is positive and open about sex in general, it's a lot more likely that's she's going to be good, giving, and game when it comes down to your personal kinks. Even if she doesn't have the specific non-PIV sexual activities enscribed as an essential part of her personality, if she likes banging you, she's going to like X-ing you. I agree with presenting kinks as something you'd love to do with her, not something you need all the time and are obsessed with and own a huge porn collection of and have performed with a variety of intimidating ex-girlfriends.
I myself don't wear tshirts listing all the things I do that they don't teach you about in Health Class, but I probably advertise it subtly; the blue humor, the sometimes-somewhat-slutty clothing, the love of explicit media. Just look for clues.
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on March 2, 2008
Ambrosia Voyeur, bingo, and Juliet Banana have it. People are kinkier than you think, and even when they're not they still love to play pretend. Unless your kinks are really out there, I have a hard time imagining any woman who wouldn't be open to different things in the bedroom so long as they were made to feel special and appreciated outside of the bedroom.
Kinda unrelated, but still good advice I read in
The Guide to Getting It On
: think of foreplay as everything that happens since the last time you had sex. going on hikes, having dinner, and traveling can all be incredibly loving, sensual, and sexy activities too.
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In my experience, I've not found your assertion
"unfortunately kink owners tend to get polarized into one big group of "alternative people" who dress in rubber and go to subterranean bondage clubs every week"
to be true.
Under the big tent o' Kink you find myriad interests, from 50's household/Domestic Discipline (so that's why the Beaver's Mom wore pearls why she vacuumed!) to full-Latex fetishes to more-or-less ordinary folks who have one or two certain things that really turn them on, but no so much so that they'd want to consider it "lifestyle".
Locating that special someone to share very specific kinks require more work that finding someone with whom to to do the old "tie-me-up-tie-me-down", spanking, etc.. My Grandfather used to say, "if you want to catch fish, you gotta get your hook wet"; if you want to find that special someone to share your specific kinks with, I'd recommend the following:
1 - get involved in the online communities, i.e., bondage.com, alt.com, collarme.com. All three are free to join, but alt and bondage require a paid membership to e-mail others. Find the chat rooms for the people in your geographic location and just hang out and chat; take time to get to know the people. There also may be specific chat rooms for your particular kink.
Yes, there are an abundance of the more "extreme" players there (i.e., 24/7, Masters, Mistresses, submissives, slaves, 24/7, blahblahblah) but the reality is - most of the time - those folks are just like you, i.e., they're looking for a relationship with some kink built in, but they're following the protocol of the "lifestyle". Scratch the surface, and you'll find these people are nowhere near as extreme as you think.
The seriously extreme folks tend to be doing it rather than sitting in front of a computer typing about it.
Yes, the online communities are full of silliness, stupidity, drama, and imaginary people. You'll have to set your Bullshit Detector to "Stun", but there are real people there, too, and those people know other real people.
2 - get involved in the local BDSM groups. Munches are better for getting to know people than play parties. People tend to wear their personae at play parties.
3 - remember that real relationships are about growth. She likes R&B and you like Death Metal? Maybe, if everything else in the relationship is working well, both of your interests will eventually broaden to encompass ideas about sexuality that were previously considered "weird".
4 - don't do it on the first date, but once you begin dancing around the issue of sex, find subtle ways to drop at least vague hints about your interests into the conversation ("I saw an article in Men's Health the other day...") and watch for the reaction.
5 - most of all, be patient.
Good luck.
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Well, a bunch of others said it first and better, but I'll agree with the masses here that you
find what you seek online or through BDSM groups. Most of us are pretty regular and boring most of the time. The BDSM events are virtually the
time we can break out the black leather and chains, so
of course
you're going to see a plethora of it there. Right now I'm wearing a t-shirt and jeans. My SO is downstairs watching a NASCAR race. Later, he is going to grill salmon. I might do some laundry. Yes, this is our incredibly exciting kinky life. Yet we met online, and I'm the dominant and he's the submissive. I guarantee that no one in the rest of our lives suspects anything about our kinks. We could have met at a wine tasting, but we met on bondage.com.
I really haven't dated much outside my kink, but he has, and he'd be the first to tell you not to waste your time beating around the bush, as it were. If you like someone enough to sleep with her, talk to her about your kinks. I understand that some are more awkward to discuss than others, but
it must be done
, for your sake and hers. Even if she's not into it
per se
, it may be something she's at least neutral on, and you can have some kind of
quid pro quo
arrangement. Certainly it's preferable to have someone who's enthusiastic and eager about your kink, but since the majority of most relationships is spent out of bed, I think it's more important to find someone with whom you can compatibly share
time, and who's GGG in bed. (If you're not familiar with Dan Savage, run, don't walk, to
his column and podcast
. He's answered your question at least 100 times already.)
posted by
on March 2, 2008
I understand Anon's position entirely; I too am into what I would call Taco Bell kink (it is to real kink what Taco Bell is to Carmelita's, or Taqueria El Maguey).
In my case it's more body-part fetishism (I'm a boob man, but that's the only one of mine you can really get a read on while the other person's dressed). What an informative thread; thanks all.
> Also, I should point out the obvious: attractive women only go for attractive men.
Well, this depends on attractive. My SO, whom I've known for 10 years, but only been in a relationship with for 1, gets hit on every 30 seconds or so; while she has some baby weight she hasn't yet lost, you'd have to call her attractive.
I've got a decent face, I think, but am otherwise not in all that great shape at all (I'm 235 where I should be about 200 at 6'1.5"), but she seems attacted to me just fine. :-)
posted by
on March 2, 2008
One thing I forgot...
Your local BDSM groups probably each have their own (usually Yahoo based) email list. Even if you don't actually show up to any of the group's events, subscribe to the list and scope out the members from a safe distance. If you spot someone with whom you think you'd get along, send an introductory email and provide them with your IM ID. Try to initiate a dialog. This person doesn't have to be potential dating material. S/he might just play the role of friend/confidant/contact or provide a sort of gateway through which you can get to know the rest of the community.
Also, if you're able to get past some of your reticence, you can post an introduction to the list. Don't make it sound too much like a personals ad; the group members will resent it if they feel you're only there to score tail. However, you should be able to mention your kinks and relationship preferences. Like most online communities, it's often a good idea to hang back and lurk a bit before posting, to get a feel for the local customs.
posted by
on March 2, 2008
I don't know if there are other dating sites that do this, but OkCupid scores you on a number of personality traits based on your answers to questions, and "kink" is one of those traits. I've ended up matched with some really great, really kinky, really vanilla-looking dates because of it.
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on March 2, 2008
Getting the right kind of kink into your life in the right amount is the same balancing act as getting enough, e.g., climbing, or sailing, or whatever. I don't see it mentioned up-thread so I'll suggest craigslist casual encounters or misc. romance as a place worth checking. It has worked well for me though I've read possibly ten thousand headers, maybe three hundred entire posts, sent reply email to twenty, had six responses and wound up with three long-term play partners of many years' standing. I'm male, BTW, and my partners are of both genders.
If your kink is highly specific you're likely to do better on a kink-specific web site than looking around randomly. This
fetish roadmap
may also be worth examining, if only to see what Katharine Gates' belief about the gender distribution was in 2002.
Disagreeing with several comments up-thread, in many facets of BDSM and D/s people's appearance is less important than their ability to let the dogs out. Any number of middling-looking males have wound up (in my circles) with absolutely stunning partners because they were able to create hot tableaux. Even so, never mind that. You may find as I have that partners who don't meet ad-agency standards of beauty become wholly lovely when a scene becomes delightful, and that delight carries through to the rest of the time you spend together.
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School for International Training Study Center
The Eastern Cape is the program base and offers urban, university, and community settings in which to study. Durban, South Africa's second largest city, is located on the Indian Ocean in an area known for its coastal beauty. A fusion of African, Western, and Eastern Cultures; Duban is home to, among others, the proud Zulu nation, the descendants of British settlers, and the decendants of indentured Indian laborers.
Minimum 2.5 GPA
School for International Training Study Center in Cape Town, South Africa
South Africa is truly a multicultural society with 11 national languages and many additional recognized ethnic groups. The program base is in Cape Town, which is heralded as the most picturesque city in the world with panoramas of mountains and oceans and near perfect climate.
Minimum 2.5 GPA. Xhosa or Afrikaans are not required, but courses in both will be taken abroad.
See SIT website
See SIT website


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The Jewish Federation of Greater Phoenix was established in 1940. Our mission was then and still is - to bring dignity and value to human life, nurture and enrich Jewish identity, and enhance the quality of Jewish life locally, in Israel, and throughout the world. We are diverse in background and interest and we have been blessed with an ever-increasing Jewish population that distinguishes itself through its richness and variety of Jewish life.
Poised on the threshold of the 21st century, we are presented with a unique opportunity to strengthen our Jewish infrastructure and enhance and preserve the quality of life for all people. As recent as December 2002 we completed a community demographic study that confirmed our belief that the greater Phoenix Jewish community is one of the fastest growing communities in North America.
In support of our mission, we believe that:
To accomplish our mission, we foster building an inclusive Jewish community where all people feel connected and responsible. The Federation can help everyone connect to the community.
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12701 N. Scottsdale Road, Suite 201
Scottsdale, AZ 85254
Phone: 480-634-4900
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