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Hadokant, Don't worry about being new, this is a friendly thread in a good forum with mostly nice people, if I say so myself. Thanks for your story. Being bullied sucks, but the most important thing is: the bullies were lying to hurt you. Don't let those lies hurt you anymore. I doubt only a few wor...

Shilver, It sounds like you had a bit of heartbreak over that girl. I'm guessing she probably wanted you to be a sex partner, not a boyfriend, and for that she needed someone sexually experienced. She didn't seem to even consider that she could "tutor" you, so all in all I'd say it seems s...

Exbando: You should get in touch with her ASAP and tell her how you feel. She will reject you and you can go on with your life then. Andy hesitation to contact her is probably due to a feeling that you don't want to get rejected, but you will be anyway. So stop wasting time already and talk to her. ...

It looks though I'l have to stop welcoming everybody here, since i'm gettin overhelemed a bit myself. But like MoogleDee says it, I read everything, all of you are welcome no matter how "small" you think your problem is, and I hope that everyone will find a way to get better. Daitengu, I a...

First of all welcome to Daitengu, Zurc97, FlyingPirahna! It is because I'm often overlooked on the net and irl, not very succinct, and don't have funny one liners. I also feel like the grim reaper of forum posts as sometimes the thread dies when I post so I usually just lurk. My post was a mountain ...

I'd like to give a hearty welcome to al, daitengu, viduuskamen, micechasekittens, scorptatious, Snow_Storm, GuyOverThere and HarvestMan! GuyOverThere, It sounds to me like if you hadn't come there she would have ended up harming herself, maybe not on the same day, but probably some time soon later. ...

Dunkelfake, gaseousmask and Exbando, welcome! Dunkelfake, without any bad intentions i'd say your story sounds like something straight from a soap opera. I'm completely flabbergastered to hear this, nevermind how you must have felt. Gaseousmask, bullying is maybe still an underestimated problem. I h...

I'm married and we have a daughter. That should be enough to dispel the permavirgin idea.

While it's more humoristic, I think B Gata H Kei is an interesting take on sex as well. It has a bit of explicit material in it but not too much. The weakest part for me were the attempts at humor with the two wealthy anatgonists who end up to amounting to nothing much of a credible threat to the ma...

Well I went and made the thread "Hanakos Lonely Hearts Club" here: http://ks.renai.us/viewtopic.php?f=13&t=5817 If you think moving is a good idea please just move the discussion there. If you feel like it you could repost your initial story there. If you'd rather keep the discussion h...

The writers of Katawa Shoujo probably didn't expect that there would be such emotional reactions to their game. However, due to the painstaking care they took in their writing and design, they created characters that resonate with our feelings and make us think about ourselves. Hanako and also Emi a...

In my experience in Japan, even for foreigners, if you're a man and you're talking casually, it's fine to say ボク to show that you're no sissy. And if you're a real lady, say あたしto flaunt your charms. わたし is fine for formal and business-like settings. And if you don't know the kana I used, learn them...

Newnar, You also gathered enough courage to confess your feelings to complete strangers. That's a first small step. I hate to sound condescending, but I think you can also have the courage take the next step, and start walking, at your own pace "out of the shroud" as you say... As for this...

Raburesu: Hmm, well, your situation was probably different than mine, I never had many friends, even not acquaintances around me. By the way, acquaintances is the the *proper* name for people whom you know but are not close with, I hate the words distant friend , or false friend, these are internal ...

If you like self study, first learn the kana (katakana and hiragana) by heart. Listen to how they sound on the web, make flash cards (or use PC based flash cards) and practice until you can read and pronounce all those characters relatively fluently. This will take about 2 weeks to 1 month of study ...