I thought there was already a sticky somewhere on constipation
I'll look around! If not, we'll come up with something
I understand what you mean about private discussions. Unfortunately, I don't think the owners would allow a private forum. The forum is paid for by advertising and many advertisers have rules against private forums. Most private forums have membership fees.
I'm not sure a private forum would accomplish much, though. Anyone can sign up and look even if they are not going to participate in the topic. People sign up and post general chit chat 'good luck' type of posts just to get past the 20 post requirement so they can send PMs to people for all sorts of inappropriate things. I think the same thing would apply here. In fact, they might sign up just so they can get into what they might assume would be an adult or more 'juicy' forum.