We are currently recovering from a hardware failure on our main server. We're in the process of rebuilding the site to be more robust. In the meantime you may find a few things broken. Specifically, there is no way at the moment for authors to add new stories. We're trying to fix that as quickly as possible. You should now be able to submit author feedback, account applications, help requests, etc. Stories Text Repository.

This feature allowed for greater user freedom. In early a moderated version of alt. ASSM is one of the few remaining active groups in the alt. Due to competition from web-based erotica sites and communities, the volume of stories posted to ASSM and thus to alt. Because of the large volume of stories posted, a set of codes to describe the story content was developed.

People have been using the internet to swap sex stories for at least thirty years. When online sharing of sex stories first started taking off in the s , some of the infrastructure think dial-up bulletin board systems, and usenet newgroups running mostly on university hardware turned out to be fragile and ephemeral. The sad truth: the fraction of missing material is substantial. Fortunately, there remains an even larger surviving fraction, thanks to a tireless crew of heroic digital packrats and dedicated mostly-anonymous archivists. Many good archives exist, but the undisputed queen of them all can be found at asstr.