I am going to take a moment to explain in better detail how this journal works, in the hopes that more people will comment as a result.

Hello all, I am the Top. I am a male, dominant (formerly switch) type. I've been involved in the BDSM lifestyle for a while, now. I am in my mid-30s. I am heavyset and employed in the Tech Field. I live somewhere in the US.

In mid-june of 2007, I started playing with, and then entered into a long-term relationship with my full-time submissive/slavegirl/slaveboy, who in this journal is referred to as "The Monkey". She is biologically female, but identifies as genderqueer. Thus, both sets of pronouns are used interchangably to describe him. See what I did there? It happens often. Most times, if I'm talking about someone, it's the monkey. Most other people are mentioned by name or reference.

The name "The Monkey" comes from a fight club reference, as one of our first scenes involved shaving all the hair from her head, as when I first met her, it was a nasty, crunchy, been-dyed-and-bleached-too-many times mess of pink, brown, and a few other shades in there. For those of you that have not seen Fight Club, the reference is "shaved like a monkey ready to be shot into space".

On the mechanics of this journal -- it is a shared journal, where we both post as the same user. Livejournal lacks the ability to have multiple users "masked" on a journal, so the easiest way to tell who's writing it, if the tone can't imply it, is to look at the tags, which we endeavor to keep up to date, i.e. "entries written by the monkey, entries written by the top".

You may notice from time to time that we actually will cross-comment on our own entries (within the text of the entry), conversationally -- if that happens, the inline comments are thus that I always comment in bold, and the monkey always comments in italic.

On OUR anonymity -- we do not use our real names. Places we visit are kept reasonably vague. People we know are always referred to in pronouns.

On YOUR anonymity: Comments are always screened. If we reply to a comment (which causes it to be unscreened -- I hate this feature), we rescreen it immediately. The journal's "friends of" list is hidden, so you cannot tell by looking at this journal's profile page which freaks are reading it.
(Of course, people can find YOUR profile page and find it, or use things like google searches, but it's still a much harder problem) -- and it's difficult to cull the full member list.

Additionally, if even THAT bothers you -- we post publicly, all the time. Which means you could bookmark the journal and just read from time to time, or you could plug the journal's RSS feed into something like google reader.

We love comments, we really do -- to be honest, we do what we do for US, to chronicle the time -- but we both enjoy imparting knowledge as well. So don't be afraid of letting us know what you think!

I'll leave it to the monkey to integrate this info into the journal's bio, as well as some kind of "first post" that always shows.