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Re: FF reports.

Posted by Laura on August 20, 2003 at 19:47:18

In Reply to: Re: FF reports. posted by almost-know-it-all on August 20, 2003 at 19:31:18:

I do not recall ever having to report the income or profession of a "fish." Though I do recall that all income on the TRF had to be categorized, such as "litnessing income", "provisioning income", "FFing income", "mail income", etc. But then again, as I said, I was never in a Home which did a whole lot of FFing.

At least in the Homes I was in, FFing was sincerely seen (whether rightly or wrongly) as a means of witnessing, and any money or other items which came into the Home as a result were just seen as donations, no different from donations given by anyone else.

I repeat, I was never in a Home where FFing was done to any great extent, so my recollections are certainly different from those of folks whose experiences were different. There was a wide variety within the Homes. Most of the folks I lived and worked with were very happy when the "FFing phase" gave way to the "DFing phase" in which the emphasis was supposed to move away from the sex and into the witnessing, and we saw it as an attempt to swing the pendulum away from the extreme that some parts of The Family had taken FFing to.

Just my two cents,
Laura