Why did you join JUB?

[JP.]

I joined this site cuz I have so much noises inside my head..
so, it's a very selfish reason yea ^^

but this place offer me priceless experience: understanding the mind of my peers and it influence me how to perceive outside world..bravely, eversince I joined frm 2011.

[MoufOfKhaos]

I followed this cute guy's signature link on a gay site I was on and wound up in a far more interesting place.

[alister]

I joined after finding a picture of Tom Welling and a discussion about him. I stayed and got addicted to JUB after finding this cutie named Midnightprism I liked flirting with

[Sausy]

For a little bit of everything, but foremost for the political stuff. Connected with lots of great people, and have even met some from meets over the past few years... politics certainly doesn't keep me here now. Miss some people too I lost touch with, mostly because of my own stupidity.

[Blueboy82]

I join this site because I really want to have more friends and meet more people like me.

I don't really have many gay friends . I can't really talk or discuss about gay topics/stuffs to my straight friends. They won't be able to relate or understand how I feel.

So whenever I visit this forum here, I feel really happy because I can talk and discuss about anything under the sun. I feel like I can truly be myself.

JUB has become like a family to me.

[72-Jay]

I've been on various other gay forums for a number of years...on one of those someone mentioned the JUB Forum last year and I decided to come check it out...

[CupidBoy]

I wanted to make some gay friends....I've made some, so mission accomplished.

[glasvegas]

It was some celebrity shirtless pic brought me here. Then, I decided to post in Fun & Games and met really good people, they make me stay.

[Kester]

I was horny, hard and looking to jack off to something...

[bort138]

I came for the pictures of hot naked men, I stayed for the wins thread

[Kulindahr]

That period of my life isn't too clear to me. I had recently come out and my mood was swinging all over the place. I think it was after stumbling on a gay bar (Embers) on my way to jump off a freeway overpass into traffic. I was looking for people to talk to, who wouldn't respond by telling me I was going to hell. I don't remember who aimed me at JUB, but I got a link that took me straight to the forums. I originally spent time lurking in the Coming Out forum; don't know how long. I wandered to Fun and Games, later.

Why I joined... I needed to talk rationally about what I'd finally realized about myself.

I did almost leave once -- when I found out there was porn.

[justaguy]

I love this post. Great stuff!!

I join this site because I really want to have more friends and meet more people like me.

I don't really have many gay friends . I can't really talk or discuss about gay topics/stuffs to my straight friends. They won't be able to relate or understand how I feel.

So whenever I visit this forum here, I feel really happy because I can talk and discuss about anything under the sun. I feel like I can truly be myself.

JUB has become like a family to me.

[Axxess]

To see the dirty sexy pictures people were posting of themselves.

[Beachguyj]

I don't know, look under my avatar.

[freefall]

That time I was depressed about my sexuality.
But the local forums are too big on porn and trivial stuff.
I had been lurking here for porn, never on the HT and serious stuff.
So I peeked, then I thought, "Why not?"

I never regret my decision.

Well, if I do, I'll just create drama, self-delete, and return again. Why not.

[AWP82]

I forgot...

[Adrock-JD]

That period of my life isn't too clear to me. I had recently come out and my mood was swinging all over the place. I think it was after stumbling on a gay bar (Embers) on my way to jump off a freeway overpass into traffic. I was looking for people to talk to, who wouldn't respond by telling me I was going to hell. I don't remember who aimed me at JUB, but I got a link that took me straight to the forums. I originally spent time lurking in the Coming Out forum; don't know how long. I wandered to Fun and Games, later.

Why I joined... I needed to talk rationally about what I'd finally realized about myself.

I did almost leave once -- when I found out there was porn.

Now there's a twist. You came here for the message boards and then found out there was porn.

I'm glad you found us and I hope it helped.

[Laufey]

To find my soul-mate

No. To read about and share sexual fantasies and experiences.

[umjreon88]

Some links on the internet brought me to this website, initially for porn of course.

Then I went on the forum and was amazed by the activity on it, especially the "Coming Out, Relationship and Bisex talk". I can read for hours in that section. Of course I wasn't trying to make myself feel better. I just wanted to understand more of what people have been through to get to where they are today, because every individual has been through something others haven't.

I come on here now and then to make myself feel less alone, then it became more frequent. My real life is boring and some of my gay friends can be really flakey.

Yes it is mostly about escape...

[vacancy3]

because facebook fuckin sucks and i love male celebrity fakes

[Laufey]

Btw I'm really impressed how active this forum is. I've been on many and none came close to this one

[loosingyourmind]

I needed more information on being gay and to make connections with gays. I was just beginning to face the fact that I was possibly gay and needed some one to discuss that with. This site was a god send.

This. The coming out forum is nice.

[Kulindahr]

Now there's a twist. You came here for the message boards and then found out there was porn.

I'm glad you found us and I hope it helped.

I think I broke two thousand posts before I realized there was porn.

Yes, it has helped, immensely -- enough, in fact, that my doctor decided to start giving out the JUB "Coming Out" forum addy to guys he counsels!

[MoePhoenix7]

The variety of people posting here used to interest me. That's why I joined.

Now, I probably only have about 100 posts this entire year, versus 8,000 the first four years I've been here.

^What Sam-I-Am said.

[bike10]

Am not wrong was this site called Link to Link at one time?

[bankside]

Am not wrong was this site called Link to Link at one time?

Linkmeallover.ca

Beaver porn for gays. Figure that one out.

[CottonBolus]

I heard that it was the largest gay forum on the internet.

[illgetbi]

I was baked and it seemed like a good idea.

[backagain]

I joined for the lighter side of life.
Most won't get it, but hell, I don't care.

[M10000]

I was at the Muscle Forums and I decided to take a break. I found JUB. The board is larger and it was a bit over whelming - so many topics and sub forums.

I went back to the muscle forums and I would come here part time.

I can find the questions on here can be dumb. No offense. For the most part, I could not recognise anyone on here unless they posted their photo. So I dont really care what people say when someone asks "does your computer chair rotate?" It doesnt really affect my life.

[AlmondMilk]

I saw the forum and thought why not.

[frankfrank]

I originally joined for the PORN...but I "discovered" the chat after about a week, and the Forums about another week later. About one more week in (i.e. around three weeks after I joined, or perhaps a month), I had left both the porn and the chat behind in the dust. And in the nearly seven years since, I haven't looked back...

[Just_Believe18]

This used to be a pic sharing site. I used to come here to look at all the pretty pictures Then I realized what a cool community this was, and after lurking for some months, I finally joined.

[mitchymo]

Joined originally just to promote my blog, got a friendly heads up from mr CORNY for having an unwelcome link as my signature, went off a little miffed and then came back for the forums a couple years later after i was banned from my then favourite forum. Not a bad thing, this one has proved to be a lot better moderated.

[borg69unimatrix]

When I joined, JUB seemed like the mecca of information across all fronts: Entertainment, current events, hot topics, health... Not to mention all the hot pic's in the amateur section. It seemed at the time like the go-to place for anything gay related I ever wanted to know across the board. It also seemed like a great place to have intelligent conversation(s) without it being based on hooking up, like Gay.com chat.

Now it too often feels like it's filled with socially inept miscreants, drama queens, middle school crushes/clicks, posers, and attention whores.

Not to say it's ALL bad, but I certainly don't see it the same as I did when I signed up.

[xbuzzerx]

When I joined, JUB seemed like the mecca of information across all fronts: Entertainment, current events, hot topics, health... Not to mention all the hot pic's in the amateur section. It seemed at the time like the go-to place for anything gay related I ever wanted to know across the board. It also seemed like a great place to have intelligent conversation(s) without it being based on hooking up, like Gay.com chat.

Now it too often feels like it's filled with socially inept miscreants, drama queens, middle school crushes/clicks, posers, and attention whores.

Not to say it's ALL bad, but I certainly don't see it the same as I did when I signed up.

I'm new to this particular forum but I would have to say your characterizations sounds like precisely what one would expect in virtually any large mostly/only-gay social group, particularly online.

[JOHN B]

I was looking for a Christian dating site.....after a month, I realized I was in the wrong place. Decided to stay.

[JWaggy]

I joined to work through my shit while trying to help others do the same. I've found some entertainment along the way and there is always a fuck-load of drama hanging around, but it doesn't bother me too much. There are some genuinely awesome people on here I've gotten to know and even more I've yet to. JUB has been good to me.

[GregKII]

I was a junior in highschool, and I was looking up porn, wound up on this site. I lurked around for YEARS, I was 23, when I finally joined in September of last year, had my account deleted in March of this year.. and came back this month, because I missed it so much.

[frankfrank]

I'm new to this particular forum but I would have to say your characterizations sounds like precisely what one would expect in virtually any large mostly/only-gay social group, particularly online.

Just as likely, the "novelty" of the site wears off. It's never the same two or three years later as it is when you first find it.

[Kulindahr]

I did almost leave once -- when I found out there was porn.

I was asked to elaborate on this.

The great majority of porn is clearly fake crap, which I regard as a waste of photons.

Of the small amount that isn't obviously fake crap, guys treat each other as objects, not as people, which is as disgusting in porn as it is from fundamentalists who regard us as objects -- the only difference is one regards people as objects to be used, the other as objects to be eliminated.

A very, very tiny amount of porn, then, is worth viewing. Since just a glance at the opening page when not coming in through the forums shows that such type is not likely to be found here, I nearly ditched the site. I stayed because it was possible to get to the forums without seeing all the trash.

[The White Stripe]

I was lonely. Simple as that.