Finally Verified That I’m Over Eighteen

On the 25th July 2025, the UK’s Online Safety Act 2025 came into force. This meant that platforms have a legal duty to protect children online. Platforms are now required to use highly effective age assurance to prevent children from accessing pornography, or content which encourages self-harm, suicide or eating disorder content.

Basically, from that date, I could no longer see a cock on Twitter (or X if you prefer). I changed my location to the US in the settings, and that fixed it for a few days. Then they got wise to that and must have used my IP location to restrict me again. So, no more cocks again. Then I used my VPN, and that did the trick. But I had to keep my location as the US.

Despite the FAQ on how to verify your age to view restricted content, I couldn’t find any instructions to do so, unless I wanted to pay for a premium account. I didn’t.
Now, after many tries and using my driving licence and a selfie, I have finally verified that I am over eighteen, by many years.

So I can now see cocks galore again! Hurray!

Is A Week A Long Time?

I’ve been very busy lately. Yes, with my day job, but also with my writing. I hope you saw the teaser for my new series ‘Odd Job Ollie’. I’m enjoying writing it, and Ollie is certainly given some odd jobs. The writing of the series will come to a close shortly, and then I’ll be going back to edit the many chapters I have written. After the main story concludes, I hope to return to Ollie’s story and write more about the Odd Jobs he gets up to as standalone stories. So, if you have any odd jobs for him, email oddjobollie@explorecockaigne.uk or click his advert below to be directed to the story page where you can leave a comment with your odd jobs, and it might be turned into a story.

This post, however, is about the gap between posting chapters or stories. Is a week a long time to wait for the next chapter? Or would you like a mid-week update? When I start posting the new series, I will definitely be trying to deliver two chapters a week.

Do you like the wait to find out what happens? Does it make reading more exciting? Is anticipation half the fun, and so you spend the week waiting for the next chapter, wondering what the characters might get up to next?
Email me or leave a comment to let me know your opinions.

Meet Odd Job Ollie

Some flyers are being pushed through the letterboxes of Cockaigne. A young man, fresh out of College, has decided to start his own business as a handyman and is looking for work. Eighteen-year-old Ollie doesn’t want to follow in his father’s footsteps and work for Cockaigne Construction; he wants to be his own boss.

The next series will follow Ollie as he builds his business and navigates interactions with local establishments, elderly ladies and horny customers. But Ollie’s decision has consequences.

If you have a job you’d like done, from household repairs to gardening, drop him an email and he may be able to accommodate you. But get in quick before his calendar fills up. After reading about how he leaves his customers completely satisfied, you’ll regret not having him come around.

World Friendship Day

I’ve been notoriously bad at keeping friends, primarily due to my depressive episodes, where I would shut myself off and refuse all contact. As I’ve grown older, I’ve been honest with people and have made at least one friend who doesn’t judge me for ‘ignoring’ them. Real friends don’t judge. Real friends are there when you need them.

The official blurb states:

Friendship plays a crucial role in promoting trust, empathy, and mutual respect among people. Celebrating this day highlights the value of relationships in overcoming misunderstandings, reducing conflict, and building more inclusive societies. The event also aligns with the United Nations’ goal of encouraging dialogue among civilizations and promoting peace. In a world that can often feel divided, World Friendship Day is a powerful reminder of our shared humanity and the difference we can make by reaching out and supporting one another.

I like to bring it closer to home. True friends can provide a vital sounding board and a judgment-free environment to talk about your feelings and worries. After all, as the saying goes, “a problem shared is a problem halved”

Just talking about something can bring it into closer perspective, and solutions may suddenly present themselves.

When people understand what you’re going through, they are less likely to judge. So, do any of you have a friend you have lost touch with? Perhaps consider reaching out again and letting them know that you’ve been thinking of them.

I’d like to consider you as my friends. You have stuck with me through thick and thin, and my many periods of inactivity when I was in such a dark place that I couldn’t read emails, even the positive ones. I appreciate constructive criticism, as it only serves to improve my stories, and I would re-read them when I was in the right frame of mind.

My writing means a great deal to me. It helps me understand my feelings and my past, as well as letting me live a vicarious sex life through my characters. I’m glad that so many of you also enjoy my stories.

Thank you, Friends.

Chinese Police Arrest Dozens of Gay Erotica Writers

We don’t need reminding why we need to support all the “Pride Marches” that are taking place locally, nationally and internationally. I live in a place where I have the freedom to write my stories and publish them. And most of you live in a place where you have the freedom to read them. If any of you live in places where reading my stories is illegal, then I sincerely hope you are careful and discreet, but I wish you didn’t have to be.

But times are changing. Intolerance has taken hold again. I may have the legal right to write and publish my stories, but even where I live, we are being persecuted again. Just look at how the Trans community are being treated, even by other members of the LGBTQI+ community.
Then this crops up on my social media feed, and I’m reminded how precarious my rights are!

If you click on the above picture, it will take you to the article in The Advocate. I realise this is China, a communist state, but we need to heed this warning. Given the current state of the world, with democratic countries utilising whichever minority is convenient to further their cause and path to power. We must fight to protect the rights we have and continue the struggle until we all have equal rights.

I don’t usually write political posts, as even though we are part of the same LGBTQI+ community, our political allegiances and sympathies are varied. So, regardless of your political affiliation, we all want the same thing. We want to be treated with respect and without prejudice. It makes me shudder to think that if I lived in a different place, I could be arrested for what I am doing.

Happy New Year 2025

If you are celebrating tonight, I hope you enjoy yourself. I’m not big on celebrating New Year, mainly because I’m not a party person. I prefer to stay at home and have a quiet night in with a nice bottle of wine.

It is also a difficult time for me. My depression is back, as it does during the winter, and family is causing me great stress. I need to start looking after myself better, put myself first for once, and that is what I will try to do this year. I spent too much of my time helping others, so much that I have neglected my own health.

Writing is my main escape, but it can be difficult when you’re stressed. I need to clear my head to get my stories out. So I need to start taking control. I have much I want to write about and hope you like what is in my head, when I get to share it with you. I hope to bring you more Cockaigne Chronicles and more stand alone short stories.

Enjoy your night and raise a glass to me. I will be raising a glass to all my readers and supportors. Happy New Year!

Merry Christmas & Happy Holidays 2024

Merry Christmas or Happy Holidays to all my readers and supporters. It’s been a turbulent year for me, having suffered some bad mental health issues. In between bouts of depression, I have managed to write, and I’m proud of some stories. This time of year always drains me physically and emotionally, but as soon as the season is over, I hope to get back to the keyboard. I already have several story ideas floating in my head.

I found the picture above on social media and had to use it. It is a parody of an album cover, one of my favourite albums. (If any youngsters are reading this, ask your parents what an album is.)

If you know the name of the album, be the first to tell everyone else in the comments. There are no prizes, just the honour of being the first to tell everyone.

I hope you all have a great day! And a big thank you to those working today, especially the NHS and other emergency services who keep us safe.

Having Some Fun With AI Pictures

I’m sure some of you have seen me using AI to illustrate my stories. I’ve had a lot of fun playing with it, and despite getting some good results, it has also generated some strange results. I’ve seen some good AI nudes that have been created and shared on social media; by nudes, I mean naked men.

I’m not a super-experienced techie, but I’m not a technophobe either (I can run and manage this website, after all), but I cannot get any online AI generators to render me a good picture of a naked man. When searching for an answer, I discovered that I may have to download something, but I don’t have a good enough graphics card for it to work. So until the online AI generators can generate a realistic cock, they are excellent at generating naked women, but who here wants me to post stories and pictures of naked women?

I’ve chosen one of the least disgusting renderings of a man’s crotch to illustrate just how bad it is. Some pictures have come out like mutants created on “The Island of Dr. Moreau.”

AI is by no means perfect, but it has yet to learn what naked men look like. Perhaps it would have learned enough to do a proper job in a few years.

Women, on the other hand, are easier to draw. They don’t have much down below, and you can get away with a simple gash. But my website is not dedicated to stories about women, lesbian or not, and I don’t expect wanting to generate many pictures of naked women. Perhaps one or two.

After searching and testing more, I found a model (Which they call the template with which to base the picture) that can render a semi-decent-looking naked man. The only problem is that it is in the style of a cartoon/anime. I would have preferred something more photorealistic, but this will have to do until the online AI generators get better. I can manage to create some good photorealistic pictures of men in underwear, all wearing white briefs or the occasional red briefs (just to satisfy my fetish).

I can even manage to get a good picture of a naked arse. My favourite phrase to type into the generator is “with pert buttocks”. But the system also has a mind of its own and doesn’t always do what I ask. I still cannot get a good picture of two guys spooning in bed.

My main reason for starting to play with AI for picture illustrations was copyright. I wasn’t happy “borrowing” pictures from the internet, so I chose stock pictures from various free stock picture sites instead. That was okay to start with, but the choices are limited with the free sites, and the paysites are very expensive.

Then AI came to the rescue. It’s not perfect, but it is proving to be the best of all the options. So far, I like what it is creating; even though it might not be what I wanted exactly, it is near enough. Plus, I hold the copyright, apparently.

AI is still young, but some safeguards prevent you from generating inappropriate images. For instance, anything that suggests a naked underage person is prevented. However, using the NSFW model generator, I have discovered that if I write “young man”, the character sometimes looks too young. I discovered that if I change that to “man,” I will seem to get a young man who looks like an adult by default. In other generator models, I have had to write “young man”; otherwise, I get old or middle-aged men.

I would like to share one picture with you that didn’t turn out as expected because I find it amusing. In the generator, I wrote, “naked young man holding his hard cock with cum dribbling from the tip”, and this is what I got! It gave me a little chuckle.

This is where we leave 2024. Unfortunately, I won’t be posting any more stories this year, but I hope to have new stories for you in the new year. In the meantime, I would love to hear your opinions on what sort of images you want to see. Should I keep them “safe for work” and photorealistic, with men in their underwear and the occasional “pert buttocks”, or would you like to see some harder images in the cartoon/anime style? Or perhaps a mixture of the two to liven things up. Please leave a comment to tell me what you think. You don’t have to leave your name, email address or website, so you can remain totally anonymous; those fields are not mandatory.

I look forward to hearing from you and sharing more stories in the new year.

Autumn Is Here

Autumn has arrived, and the evenings are drawing near. The days are getting shorter, and the central heating is on. After some torrential rain recently, we are slowly drying up. It’s been a difficult time over the last few months, but things are looking up. The talking therapy I have been having has helped, and I am incredibly grateful to the NHS for the help they have given me.

It has been nice to feel my old self (no pun intended), and I am working better and enjoying my free time. I hope you’ll all be pleased to hear I’ve started writing again. This time, there is no new series, as I didn’t want to start a new one. The pressure to complete it can be overwhelming, and I hate starting a multi-part story only to find that it is abandoned. But I have written some short stories I hope to share soon.
So, please keep checking back, and those who are subscribed will get an email to let you know when I post anything new. If you aren’t subscribed, then sign up to receive notifications.

Finally, thanks to all of you. I may not have responded to emails, but that doesn’t mean you don’t mean the world to me. Thanks.

 

Wimbledon Fortnight

We are in the middle of Wimbledon Fortnight, and like every year, I find myself watching tennis. I’m not big on sports, but there are some major tournaments that I like to tune into. Wimbledon is one, the Olympics is another, and a few more.

I enjoy the days I work from home, doing things on my laptop while I watch two sweaty men grunting as they hit their bright yellow balls. I wonder why it grabs my attention!

Every year, when Wimbledon starts, I get an idea to write a story about it, specifically about the ball boys. Every year, it sparks my brain, and a story drifts in my imagination. But every year, it’s too late. I can’t get a story written and edited quickly, especially when I have another story on the go that demands my attention. So, alas, there is no tennis story this year, yet again.

One day, I will write it. Those ball boys are very adept at handling balls. It’s a story that teases me every year, and one day, I hope to tease you all with it. Until that day arrives, enjoy Wimbledon, the white dress code that hints at what is underneath, the unreliable British weather and perhaps some Pimms or strawberries and cream.