Meanwhile, back at the ranch......
I've always been uncomfortable with the idea of PV-only sites, despite believing that a PV is always essential for any accounts we've had on sites - and only being interested in PVed profiles. It smacks of exclusion make it mandatory.
Until now.
I fully support this idea. This site - in many, many ways - is different. It is a real community where people feel comfortable in opening up and sharing their feelings - some of them quite personal. It is a supportive community with a very good gate-keeping system. Fakes are given short shrift and negative people are pulled into line or made to leave. Folks who come to us from, ahem, lesser sites are educated about members' expectations in a generally friendly manner, which they can choose to ignore and fail or take on board and become a part of the family. I believe that PV-only is the natural progression of this and another feature that will make this site different to the others.
We are not a drop-in centre for the post-pub wank merchant.
We are not a clique-infested aristocracy.
We are not a pic collectors paradise.
We are a family of many different branches and we need to protect that family from the grey mush that some swinger sites become or the wild west-style free-for-all that others are notorious for.