Bianca's Smut Shack

Bianca’s Smut Shack

Bianca’s Smut Shack was an online community created in 1994. You can read the details in Wikipedia. Look up bianca.com/wikipedia. It was created by Alex Thau and Chris Miller. The story I heard, but never confirmed, was that it was created as a social experiment meant to be the subject of Miller’s college thesis. The idea was to give people a site where free speech was totally unregulated and to see how people would react.

Originally there was no fee to become a registered member. About the only benefit to being a registered member was you owned your own handle and nobody else could use it on the site. Non-members were free to use any of the Shack’s features but did  not have a permanent handle. I believe at some point later that a fee was charged. I don’t remember every paying anything. But that might have been because I acted as a moderator for one of the Bianca Forums.

In the beginning the Bianca concept worked pretty well. Let me describe, as best as I can remember, what the Shack consisted of. It was actually a quite complex site. One of the mainstays was a series of chat rooms, said to be the first functional public chat rooms on the web. I was never a huge user of the chat rooms so I don’t remember exactly how many there were. Each one had a different theme. Some were quite tame while others were not.

In trying to research the details of the Shack, since my memory of the details was not that good, I ran across a site where a significant portion of the Shack is archived. However, only top level links are active. For example you can open various forums and click on the top level links that do open but if you try to open any lower level links, they don’t go anywhere. Here is the home page of the Shack. There is a crude drawing of a house floor plan. You can click on any of the rooms to see what’s there. The Parlor is where I spent most of my time.

https://web.archive.org/web/20051126203426/http://shack.bianca.com/shack/shackmap.html

The Parlor contained three  forums where users could ask and answer questions. One Forum, that was my favorite, was a Sexual Question and Answer Forum. The page held 50 questions. As a new question was added at the top, the bottom question dropped off the list. A person could post a question and it could take a couple of weeks to work its way to the bottom. In the meantime several people could answer each question. Additionally, you could post replies or further comments under the answers. All the questions and answers that dropped off the list were archived and available if desired.

Moderators were added later to the Forums and Chat rooms and I moderated the Q&A Forum using the handle Boner.

The other two Forums in the Parlor were the Sexual Fetish Forum and the Sexual Fantasy Forum. The woman who moderated the Fantasy Forum was one of my close Shack friends. The gal who designed the little heart icon that identified you as a member, was also a close Shack friend and one who I met offline at one point.

I found an archived page of just the Q&A Forum. You can read the questions but the responses to the questions are not available. The title of the response is shown but the response itself is not.

https://web.archive.org/web/20050823010347/http://parlor.bianca.com/shack/parlor/questions/

If you look closely at this page you will see a link to Boner’s Shacklet. This is a very large compendium of links to a number of sex sites including several sites set up by Bianca members. Until I noted this link and looked at it, I had completely forgotten I had put this together. As can be seen, it had to have been a huge task.

The thing that is a bit mysterious about these archived pages is they are dated 2004, long after the Shack was essentially shut down in 2001. I used to check back in 2002 and other than some chat, nothing was going on. It appears that by 2004 it was somewhat operational again. And I do see a couple of names on the Q&A archived forum that I remember from my days on the Shack. Danae and Suzie Creamcheese are two of them.

Another feature of the Shack was any registered member could set up their own site within the Shack. These sites were called Bianca Shackets. In addition to Boner’s Shacklet, I had one where I posted my movie reviews. There were a large number of these private sites. Some open to anybody and others only to friends who had to use a password to enter. The sites ranged from hard core sex to innocent stuff like my movie reviews. One of the Shackets was devoted to handjob photos and videos. For the life of me I can’t remember the name but once Bianca folded the guy set up his own web page and ended up with hundreds and hundreds of handjob pix and movies. You have to remember that this was back before there was the huge amount of porn available on the internet like there is today. In fact, if you check Boner’s Shacklet there is a note that I am still looking for XXX sites with videos. That wouldn’t be much of a problem today.

One of the things that I found most appealing to the Shack was how friendships were formed and regular members would gather together into cliques. Some groups were friendly to others while there was also some animosity between groups. Overall it was an amazing online community that was seriously addicting. Many of us created the private Shacklets that were password protected and a group of friends could go in and leave private messages (readable by any of the friends). My group at its height  had about ten members who were close friends. After Bianca shut down, my group continued to have our own private forum on the State of Insanity site. I’m still in touch with a few of them.

There was one woman who went by the name of Psycho, who in my opinion really was a bit nuts. She had an online boyfriend named Thunder and the two of them tried to terrorize anybody who they didn’t like. One of the things that  happened was the two of them had their own private Shacklet where they shared nude photos of each other and also sexy private posts. One of the women in my group somehow figured out what their password was and passed it around to everybody in my group. We could go into their private site and look at their naked photos and read their private messages. And then laugh about them amongst ourselves. Sounds mean but they were both jerks.

Over time things started to get out of hand in some of the forums and Chris Miller decided to create moderators for each forum, as mentioned earlier. This kind of went against the original concept for the Shack and Psycho and her group ranted and raved against it. I was appointed moderator the  Sexual Question Forum. Basically what I, and other moderators, did was to delete personal attacks and underage stuff.

At one point a woman asked a question in the Q&A Forum about what it was like to participate in a threesome. Even though I had never been in one, I did respond to her question, also wondering what it might be like. Her handle was L.A. Gal which further intrigued me as I was also in L.A. We became online friends and swapped email and later phone numbers and eventually met in person and then six months later got married. And we both got to actually experience a threesome, which was very successful. Several marriages resulted from the Shack.

After a couple of years, the guys behind the site held a party in San Francisco open to any of the members of the Shack. This was before I met L.A. Gal, but I attended and got to meet many of the online friends that I had made via the Shack. Some of these friendships were extremely close. One very outspoken woman lived in S.F. and invited me and several other Shack members for a drink at her apartment before we went to the party. Much later L.A. Gal and I attended her wedding which was a riot. Although we left the reception before the action really got started, we heard that, among other things, the bride sucked off the best man in front of the entire assemblage including the groom. Unfortunately she died a few years later from some uncurable disease she had been living with.

But at the party, I did meet in person one of the women who I had carried on many posted conversations with and although she was not a member of my immediate clique, I considered her a friend and was very taken with her obvious intelligence. Only to be blown away when I met her face to face as she was one of the most beautiful girls I’ve ever seen. A bit too young for me. Well, let me put that differently. I was a bit too old for her. My loss. I left the party about midnight. The venue where the party was held was really dark and consisted of a whole series of rooms broken up to where it could be easy to get lost. I did hear later that quite a bit of sex took place in the wee hours of the morning. I really didn’t expect anything like that to happen or I would have stuck around longer. What was I thinking? Of course there would be sex.

It was also great fun to meet a lot of people who I had interfaced with on the Shack site. You form an idea of what a person looks like based on a couple of years of reading their posts only to find out that they looked nothing like that.

Prior to meeting L.A. Gal I did meet in person two of the women I had originally met in the Shack. They were both in my immediate clique. Both of them lived way too far away from me for any kind of regular hookup. I did spend four days with one of them in the general area of Yellowstone National Park. Her specialty was giving deep throat blowjobs and when she had my entire cock down her throat, her tongue came out and licked my balls. We are still email buddies although she’s now happily married with several kids.

The second one flew into L.A. on her way to visit friends but spent four days with me first. Keep in mind that this was the first time I ever met  her face to face. I picked her up at the airport and within 15 minutes of arriving at my house, we were both naked and fucking our brains out. It was four days of near non-stop sex including a four-way with another couple. Years later my then girl friend and I visited her and her fiancée and had a nice dinner together. No sex. We are still email buddies. My girlfriend was aware that she and I had been intimate but her fiancée had no idea.

Back to the Shack. I went through a period where I would go into one of the chat rooms using a female handle. I would hook up with a guy and through more and more explicit chat get him to jack off for me. I know these poor guys were totally convinced they had latched onto a real sexpot.

Then things took a turn for the worse. I never knew if it was one guy causing all the grief or if it was several. Whoever it was started bombing the Forums. Somehow they had figured out a way to post 50 questions in the Q&A Forum at once. It was actually the same question posted 50 times. Which of course wiped out every question and answer on the Forum. Basically shutting it down. As soon as a few legit questions would start to appear, they would get wiped out.

They did this to all the Forums. Then they went after the Chat rooms effectively shutting them down with multiple posts. I contacted Chris Miller, one of the originators of the site, to see what could be done. The only way to combat it would be to only allow registered members to make a post. For some reason he didn’t want to do that. Probably because the vast majority of the people cruising the site were non-members.

Part of the problem was the amount of bandwidth needed to support the site, which had grown to a huge size, was beyond Miller’s and his partner’s ability to finance it. The site was purchased by Nerve.com, an online magazine devoted to sexual subjects, in 1999. I believe Miller was somehow still involved. But by 2001, Bianca’s Smut Shack was history. I was a faithful follower the entire seven years of its existence. Almost too much. I was badly addicted to the site.

In its heyday it was to my mind the most interesting site on the internet, and not just because of the sex, although that was a powerful attraction. It’s too bad that someone hasn’t attempted to recreate it. I know that there are some sites that are somewhat similar but I’ve never found anything that comes close to what the Shack was in its prime. I’m not big on pay sites, but I would pay if the Shack could reappear in its original format.

If you Google bianca.com you just get a page that says “bianca loves you.” For many years after its demise, the page also included the crudely drawn map of the site listing all the chat rooms and forums. Even after I gave up on it once the Q&A went down, I think a couple of the chat rooms limped along. And even the Q&A somehow stayed active although by then I had lost interest. The idiots who destroyed the site also lost interest and allowed the chats to continue.

There is also a bianca.org site that claims to be the real world extension of bianca.com. They have staged parties in conjunction with The Burning Man event. Their first involvement with Burning Man was in 1996 while the Shack was still active. I remember Chris Miller telling me about the event and what a trip it was to attend. According to the bianca.org site the last event held by the group was in 2006 so that bianca effort has also appeared to have run its course.

But right around the time it was falling apart, a group of Biancanauts got together for a first time face-to-face lunch meeting in a TGI Fridays in Marina del Rey. That Fridays is gone now. My wife, L.A.Gal, and about six or seven other Biancanauts attended the luncheon. None of them were in my clique but all were Q&A regulars who I had communicated with numerous times. I believe only a few of us were from the L.A. area. The rest had traveled in for the get-together. There was this one gal, whose Bianca handle was something like Stranded in SLC. I don’t remember the details but she and her husband or maybe a bf had moved to Salt Lake City and then broke up and she couldn’t afford to move away. Or something like that. I do clearly remember she was very attractive and super sexy and if I wasn’t in a hot and heavy relationship, I would definitely have made a move on  her. We had a great time trading stories and lamenting about what was happening to the Shack. No hookups took place that I’m aware of.

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