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ORIGINAL: sfgrrl

It stands for "What It Is That We Do"

~stef

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We (me and my Dom) prefer to use WIITWD, for we are not into the bdsm scene persay.

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ORIGINAL: wednesday
So is this phrase/acronym something commonly used, or just in online community?

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ORIGINAL: NoPinkBalloons

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ORIGINAL: LadyAngelika

I'm curious about this. I had never heard of *wiitwd* before I came onto collarme.com. It might be a cultural thing, but I'm wondering if anyone knows the origin of this expression and why it came about.

This is taken directly from a post by spectrum in the ssb-b archives on Dec 16, 2001 (I can't remember how to get the google archives to give the message ID, sorry):


It was common usage on ASB when I first found ASB in summer 1993, but I do
remember discussions about non-Net people not recognizing it back then. I
infer that it's of Net origin.

<snip of Ty's quoted post>


The first mention of "wiitwd" in the Archives of the Kung Foole Temple is
by Steven Davis, Jan 9th, 1995, in a summary/critique of Jon Jacobs'
theories about what was and wasn't "real" kink. Davis explicitly
attributes the term to Bill Bohrer[1], though I don't have any post in the
Archives by Bohrer on it earlier. There are some gaps in the Archives
around that time, due presumably to net propagation problems[2].

I do remember a discussion about the term that included Bohrer, with two
points: that he wanted a term that was inclusive, not prescriptive (BDSM
does not mention such areas as fetish, etc.), and that one that could be
implicitly construed as including consent.

Oh, and Bill's hair was a pink buzz cut when I last saw him, at Xmas
(1995?).

[1] aka Bill Drill, Bill Beaupre, Casper the Friendly Ghost, and Mark E.
Dassad.

[2] or possibly due to the depradations of the Two Vitos, before they
became gainfully employed by FooleCo.

--
-^-^spectrum-^^- spectrum at magenta dot com www.magenta.com/~spectrum
Archivist of the Kung Foole Temple; Director, FooleCo Black Labs


Hope that helps. :)

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ORIGINAL: wednesday
Perfect. You are my research hero

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ORIGINAL: MadameDahlia

Alrighty... so when I see WIITWD I translate it in my head and hear "What it is that we do".

Does anyone else here read it as a strange word. Or do people read each letter? Or do people do that whole translation from acronym to words like I do?