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Paul Crowley - soc.bio

Soc.bios are a traditional way of introducing yourself on the newsgroup soc.bi. There doesn't seem to be a precise standard question format, but all of these questions seem to be pretty standard from the responses I've seen. I've ignored the ones that don't suit me...

Date today
6 May 1998
Name
Paul Crowley (I have no nicknames!)
Date of Birth
1 May 1971
Sex
Male
Orientation
Bisexual. Probably near enough a Kinsey 3.
Newsgroups (unmoderated)
uk.people.bdsm, uk.people.gothic, sci.crypt, alt.polyamory, soc.subculture.bondage-bdsm. I haven't subscribed to soc.bi for several years, and soc.motss has been even longer. These days I don't get around to reading those last two either...
Net appearance

I was once described as "snide, irrelevant and dull." However, my friends leapt to my defence: "you're not dull, Paul!"

Really, I'm a lovely fluffly cute ickle bunny rabbit, I just enjoy flaming people...

Currently in
Tollcross, central Edinburgh, Scotland UK.
Height
Short
Weight
Light
Eyes
Blue
Eyesight
Exceptional. Terrible hearing though.
Hair
Long, thick and not dark enough. There are now over a dozen grey strands, so I think it's time for full-on Old Lady Black.
Spirituality
Stuff that.
Philosophy
Atheist and materialist. Big fan of Daniel Dennett and Richard Dawkins.
Music
808 State, Laurie Anderson, Bauhaus, Blondie, Coil, Cop Shoot Cop, Creatures, Cure, Dead Can Dance, Dead Kennedys, Depeche Mode, Faith No More, Happy Mondays, Horatii, P J Harvey, Jane's Addiction, Jesus and Mary Chain, Jesus Jones, Joy Division, KLF, Kraftwerk, Ministry, Morphine, Nine Inch Nails, Nirvana, Pixies, Pop Will Eat Itself, Shamen, Siouxie and the Banshees, Patti Smith, Stone Roses, Sugar, They Might be Giants, Tricky, The Wonder Stuff, and others.
Musical outgoings
I dress up in black and white and red crushed velvet, paint my face, and go to goth clubs. Being honest, I started doing this because: However, I have since been completely sucked in. And now there will be an alternative fetish club in Edinburgh since I'm helping to run it...

(2001 postscript: The fetish club in question, Permission, ran for ten wonderful nights before the venue closed...)

Amory
Evangelistically non-monogamous.
Current Relationships
Several.
Outness
Very
Parents
Out to both (before my dad died two years ago) about everything; both are/were extraordinarily liberal and generally high quality parents.
Siblings
An older brother, a younger brother and two younger sisters, all of whom I get on with especially since one stopped calling me "Pauly-Boy".
TV
B5
Gainful Employment
maintaining an industrial-strength Postscript interpreter.
Sexual Relationships
I think it's 30 women and 16 men at time of writing. I'm determined not to lose count...
Group Sex
I think at the moment I'm having more group sex than one-on-one sex with a variety of different groupings of my lovers. Most people: five, unless you count sex parties.
BDSM
Yes, switch. I also enjoy non-BDSM sex (noting that "vanilla" seems about as well liked as "monosexual").
Drugs
Yes please!
Hugs
Family, lovers and very close friends only please.
Likes
Debian Linux.
Bicons
Attended 9-15 (London, Norwich, Nottingham, Edinburgh, Birmingham, London, London), helped with 10 (Norwich), helping with 17 (see Bicon pages). I was also involved in organising the disaster that was the London International Bi Conference.

er, what did I leave out?

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