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Hi guys,

I'm hoping someone might be able to help me identify and locate a relic of the old internet! I discovered a website around 2001-02, when I was 13 or 14... it was lengthy memoir written by a man who identified as straight, but spent most of his preteen/teenage years experimenting sexually with other boys. When I say it was lengthy, I mean, it had dozens of pages, and a detailed timeline that indicated when everything happened.

The reason I'm hoping someone here might know about it is because this guy was also a swimmer, and he dedicated at least one chapter of this memoir to discussing what speedos were like back in (I think?) the 1970s. Speedos played a pretty significant role in at least a few stories, where he talks about how the fit/material interacted with the boners he got. There might even have been a picture of some swimmers from that era, though I can't entirely remember.

A few more details that hopefully will spark the memory:

• The last of the author's same-sex encounters happens when he loses his virginity to a male friend (possibly in a barn?), at which point he for some reason goes straight.

• In the introduction to the memoir, he explicitly states that those who are reading it, hoping it will be pornographic, will be disappointed, because it is descriptive with regard to characters and situations.

• the page had a pale blue background, and I think it was an angelfire site or something in that vein. (like I said, this was old internet.)

Thanks for taking the time to read this, hope someone can help me track this site down! Any leads are appreciated, I know it's a long shot... kind of amazing how fast things change on the internet, eh?

Damn... not ringing a bell, anyone? :'(

A lot of the content from those early www days is lost, unfortunately. I sometimes think it's easier to preserve film or printed material than digital stuff.

Yeah, sadly I think you are right Thom... it's too bad, as a teenager I remember reading this guy's memoirs for hours and wishing it could be me! haha

This is an old post, so I hope my response is still relevant...

Yes I remember this site, and I was sad that it seemed to disappeared at some point.

I remember the name of the boy was Dany, right?

I could find this low-res picture on my computer. I remember he was discussing swimsuits and the appearance of his penis in them.

The only hit from doing a reverse image search is this page:

http://www.angelfire.com/blues/dnfire/swimmer.htm

Which links to the blog's front page:

Hi!

You can call me Danny. I'm a fairly typical guy in many ways, I think - white middle-class American male, somewhere around 40 years old, married with kids, mow the lawn on weekends, go to the beach in summer...... you get the idea. I'm basically outgoing and make friends easily, and people tell me I'm a nice guy. Those people have obviously never seen me before my first cup of coffee in the morning, however.

Typical guy. Maybe.
I did not, however, have a typical childhood. And that's what this is all about.

This site is an autobiography of my boyhood, focusing on my sexual relationships with other boys. I guess you could call it my "sexual autobiography." I'm not happy with that label, mainly because it just sounds sleazy. But I don't have a better term at the moment. And in any case, the defining characteristic here is my sexuality. Sex wasn't all I thought about as a kid, but it was a Very Big Deal to me. http://www.angelfire.com/blues/dnfire/dnindex.htm