Thank you for this - what a sad ending. I wasn't around back then, so missed it all, but F/F is a love of mine too, and I regret Bared Affair's demise.

A fine article about a great publication I miss so much.Last time I looked over there the spammers has discovered the site. I hope there might be some way the content of BA could all be transferred here in case at some point Yahoo deletes it.
Love to see WellRedWeekly devote a section to BA-style material on a regular basis.

Thanks for filling in the history of BA. While I was a member of the Yahoo group and followed some of the drama as Angie announced the change and then disappeared. As I recall the favored theory was alien abduction. Knowing more of the background gives me an even greater appreciation of the work involved. My personal favorites were the Benson stories which have recently resurfaced.

I agree with your sentiment regarding BA leaving a 'hole' in F/Ff written material and I've often wondered why it disappeared without any apparent alarm bells going off. The style has not been replicated since and that surprises me except for the fact that any imitation of BA would always struggle to 'cut the mustard'. Unless, of course, it is attempted by those who previously were involved and wrote/edited material.

I miss BA as well. It was fun reading. Benson's stories and drawings were certainly a plus.

Good article, Seegee. Always nice to see you writing.

I was only dimly aware of Bared Affair, so it's very interesing to discover a bit more from someone 'on the inside' - and I agree that there's plenty of room for satire and spoofery in the spanking world, so it'd be nice to see a resurgence of some kind.

I guess it's sadly in the nature of the internet that much-loved sites can die overnight, and because we only 'know' their creators as online personalities we're often left wondering what happened to them (both the sites and the creators).

Thanks for the article, Seegee - I'm off to try and dig out some of the old material!

Always waited in anticipation for new issues of this and I remember that April Fools quote...who knew.....

A wonderful 'zine! I always looked forward to the next issue. It is sadly missed.

What a sad little story, and - judging from the response - one which needed to be told. I am sorry to have missed out on it.

I am still missing to stories about Lorna Jane and the wonderful drawings in BA.

This type of thing unfortunately happens to even the best websites. Any time that a site is totally dependent on one person, you may rest assured that the site is unsustainable because change (by sickness and death if nothing else)is inevitable in the human condition.

I knew nothing of the inside story of BA. I had been familiar with it, and had been impressed with the quality and quantity of the writing there. Unfortunately the BA style simply never "tickled my kink". That's not to be taken as a negative, only as a statement that we're all different.

Sadly I missed it too - but your article was very interesting.

I remember an article that hasn't came over to this site that I think people would enjoy. Can you post it? The title was "No left behind left behind.

Nice article. Interesting history of the 'zine.

It's always sad when a one person operation folds. I have fond memories of BA and did an article for it, but without its founder running things there was no one to keep it on the rails.

Remembering it has me thinking about some of the countless spankings sites that have vanished from the net. At one point there were hundreds of geocities ones, now geocities itself is but a fading memory. All those great writers and the not so great writers. The good artists and the "they draw better than I do" artists.

And when someone falls silent, the wondering. Has that person just left the scene for a while, are they collaborating with Kilahara on new fiction, or is it something in between those two extremes?

In any case, thanks for stirring up some fond memories.

Goodgulf

Very interesting; it is striking how much we miss in this cyber world where blogs and sites come and go with such velocity and number we entirely miss something we would have found quite interesting and this is one of those. Thanks.

Interesting behind the scenes insight thanks. I was a huge fan of Bared Affair and while it was sad to see it end at least a huge amount of quality content was produced first. Big thanks to all the writers etc. who were involved.

I oftened wondered what happened... I do remember the early days... and was actually part of the yahoo group... It is amazing how sometimes people just vanish and the impact that it has...

I concur and miss Bared Affair. Thank you for the information on how it ended.

Thanks for posting this, Seegee. I know we all miss the websites that have disappeared over time, there have been so many good authors and artists I've enjoyed viewing.

Great piece, Seegee! My experience with Angie was similar to yours. BA was the main reason I frequented SIN and she recruited me after I'd made a habit of commenting on its stories by so many great writers. It was always fun, and a challenge, to get a topic from her and see what I could do with it. And it was an honor to have my stories published in the same issues with so many writers whom I really admired. But she did a wonderful job with BA and it is greatly missed. Her illustrations and the captions were very clever and added so much to the articles. When I submitted an article I couldn't wait to see how she would illustrate it. Where ever Angie is today, I hope she knows how much so many of us appreciated her efforts in bringing us such a fun publication for so long.

Thanks for that informative piece. I guess the mystery of the sudden disappearance of "Bared Affair" is destined to remain unsolved.

Nice piece, Seegee, about BA. I too enjoyed BA and in fact, I wrote a few pieces for it. It was a chance to try out a few ideas I had and being part of the zine encouraged me to produce. I did find her emphasis on presenting stories as "news" a bit eccentric, as I have a background in newspapers (long ago) so I still find myself uncomfortable with ersatz news items. Seegee is right in that this was very much like The Onion's approach, but I suppose I enjoy The Onion doing that because it is so hysterically funny.

As you know I was a big fan of BA, it ticked so many boxes for me and seemed in its content to pay homage to the great Will Henry. Is there really no one who can revive it?

I loved the Bared Affair site and truly miss it. A very nice memory, thank you for the writing the article. Seems I am pretty late to the party on my response.

Truly missed indeed.

I was one of the authors for Bared Affair. It was a good magazine with lots of interesting articles. Some of my stories here first appeared there. Thanks for the reminisce.

I had a computer problem and lost my Bared Affair collection. I'd be very grateful if some kind person could help me obtain a copy of this collection. The yahoo archive downloads don't seem to be working. I'm especially interested in the contributions by the writer Jane Grayson who regularly featured in the magazine.

My email is [email protected] if you can help me with my search.

It was really fun. I was a member/avid reader of that yahoo group too. Time sure flies, it's been so many years now...

"Bared Affairs,' is dearly missed by me. I remember, so many laughs as I read the 'Spanko' Onion-like satire site.

I was heart broken when it stop publication as well. I don't even remember how Angie got me to start writing for it.. To this day I miss Angie and Barred Affair verry much..