alice 🪞♥️ 🎩🐇Paraphilia vs. paraphilic disorder
https://www.medicinenet.com/paraphilia/article.htm
paraphilia
noun
1. A psychosexual disorder in which sexual gratification is obtained through practices or fantasies involving a bizarre, deviant, or highly unusual source of sexual arousal such as an animal or an object.
2. Any sexual deviation, which is considered abnormal in some societies or which may prevent or hinder one's ability to receive reciprocal love.
3. Abnormal sexual activity.
Beyond the PlusWe regret to inform everyone that Beyond the Plus is shutting down operations. Due to ongoing and future safety concerns, members voted to cease operations of the org effective immediately. (It might take us a bit to get everything taken fully offline.)
I founded this organization because I wanted to help people. I wanted to reach out to those who didn’t already have community and offer them safe spaces where they could meet others and beat loneliness. I thought the community was ready for something public, but I guess I was wrong. I still want to help people who are closeted, but if the answer isn’t public organizations then I think the only thing is to set an example and inspire people to fix their loneliness on their own.
Bt+ may be gone, but our message lives on. People in our community need to form in-person connections, only then will we achieve the acceptance we all want so badly. We all want our Stonewall, but Stonewall happened before gay rights organizations, not the other way around. Maybe someday something like Bt+ can exist again, but only once our people are organized and ready to literally fight for their rights, just as queer people did back then.
People want their safety guaranteed, but the truth is that it never can be in in-person spaces. If we want our rights then we all need to brave unsafe scenarios, be smart about how we handle them, and stick together. The best safety we will ever have is in numbers; if we are all side-by-side then we can protect ourselves from whatever threats come our way. But if we stay divided and stay in online spaces where we know we can’t be hurt, then we will never know progress.
Our acceptance will not come through arguments online, social media websites, and public organizations. It’ll start with genuine, in-person community, just as it did for every other marginalized group that came before us. It is our duty, if we want to see our acceptance, to play a part in that. Whether here in Washington, or across the world.
- Ally Kotetsu
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We are aware of the Reduxx article. Publicity like this is something Bt+ was expecting to happen from the beginning, after all, if we want to reach out to people who are closeted and have no community then we need to be public. But we will discuss with our members how best to move forward from here, as some may not have been mentally prepared for minor news attention.
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Into the New YearHow did things change for you in the last year? Were there setbacks you don’t want to repeat? Was there progress you want to keep rolling? What didn’t change? And is that lack of change a good thing or a bad one? What would you say are the things that have had the most impact on your well-being? The most helpful, the most harmful? What would you say are your biggest wishes for 2026? Is there anything you can do to achieve them, or at least bring them closer?
The new year is upon us, and while nothing has really changed except one digit of the date, the tradition of making and sharing resolutions makes a good extra push to reflect on what we want from the next 12 months of our existences. For some of us, what we want to change the most this year is an easy answer that comes readily; for others, it takes more thought. If you fall into the second category, here are some questions I suggest you ask yourself to get started:
Thinking through it, hopefully you have a better idea of what you should be doing with your new year. It can be as specific or as general as you want it to be, as ambitious or as humble as you’d like – the important part is just that you work towards a better future for yourself, whatever that means to you and however you need to do it.
For many beings in the community, this likely relates to their marginalized identities; that might be making more friends who accept them for who they are, taking more pride in themselves, working through internalized stigma, better coming to constructive, forward-looking terms with what is and isn’t possible in the world as it exists today, or even taking a more active part in working towards the social change that will make things better for all of us.
We here at Bt+ are resolved to keep pushing forward, to learn from our mistakes and our setbacks as well as our successes, and to make this year a better one for us than the last, the same as we did in 2025. And if you want to be a part of that, or if we can help you achieve your resolutions through the work we do, we look forward to having you with us this year!
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Geetha
https://www.beyondtheplus.org/join
Do you want to be part of a growing radical queer community in WA state? Join Beyond the Plus! We hold in-person events for vetted members in order to foster community and bring people together. This fediverse acc is merely a way to advertise our cause to the people we want to help out. Sign up is completely free!
If you have any questions please check out our FAQ, and if you don’t see a sufficient answer you can always reach out to us and ask (either via our website or here on fedi).
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Bt+ offers two new contact methods! In addition to Signal and Email we now offer Session and SimpleX.
Contact methods are used by Bt+ to open a preliminary line of communication for vetting new members, as well as to send members things like notifications, password reset messages, etc.
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Contact methods are used by Bt+ to open a preliminary line of communication for vetting new members, as well as to send members things like notifications, password reset messages, etc.
#queer #beyondtheplus #lgbt #lgbtq #identity #paraphilia #gay #para #orientation #transid #transidentity #radical #radicallyqueer
Maramenoci.comThe Most Stigmatized Fetish: Scat. Understanding Coprophilia. https://maramenoci.com/the-most-stigmatized-fetish-scat-understanding-coprophilia/
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Beyond the Plus is seeking additional staff!
We are looking for people to fill our Event Organizer position! The required duties are to research and contact event venues, organize your findings in a spreadsheet and share them with staff, and help set up some events. You must be able to commute to Seattle on a regular basis and maintain regular contact with the rest of our staff. Unlike Board of Directors positions, this one won’t list your name publicly on our website, so you’ll be able to work this role as confidentially as you’d like. The role is volunteer work and is therefore unpaid. For more info and to apply please read the page on our website.
https://www.beyondtheplus.org/get-involved/careers/event-organizer
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