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If you read the full question in the Sunday Magazine, the younger man seems to just want his partner to agree with him that in all circumstances sex or pay is wrong and should never be condoned. He does not question his partner's fidelity but does find it hard to swallow (pun intended) that the partner might go back to sex for pay if they were to break up. Anyway, I though this was a forward thinking question for The Ethicist to tackle. As I mentioned, I enjoy this weekly column quite a bit.

Little Shop of Horrors is a fun musical without much mental strain. I am considering watching that. The Ellen Greene one where she does an aching version of Somewhere That's Green. https://video.search.yahoo.com/yhs/search?fr=yhs-dcola-015&hsimp=yhs-015&hspart=dcola&p=youtube+somewhere+that%27s+green#id=2&vid=0f0292268e3fef2b504757fac149a97b&action=click

I know the terms top and bottom are merely shorthand for sexual act preferences but I have been thinking about that term quite a bit lately. I have been the anally inserting partner in the large majority of encounters I have had but on exactly three occasions, I have been both the receptive and then the inserting partner, more out of curiosity than desire. None of those occasions led to my wanting to be a receptive partner with any increased frequency. Now with the aging process taking its natural toll, I have considered that perhaps I should broaden my horizons. However, in most sexual encounters I enjoy the interplay and power of sex and part of my sexual enjoyment comes from a feeling of power I have when inside my partner or in some other dominant form of interaction. I know that "bottoms" will say that they feel that they are in control during the sex act, but I have never had that experience in my limited number of encounters as a bottom. So can a man with a "top" mind set learn to bottom without changing his mind?

The Ethicist is one of my go to columns in the Sunday NYT. The title this week is: I think Sex for Pay is Always Wrong. Should I stay with a partner who disagrees? In brie, a 20 something gay man has difficulty with his 50 something year old monogamous partner having had sex in the past with male escorts. In addition, though the 50 something has been monogamous, he has said that if the two should break up, he would have sex for pay again, The questioner states: "I strongly believe that sex for pay, in any circumstance, is morally wrong because I don't believe sex should be a paid service and because sex for pay reinforces a very deep problem within out society , even with good intentions." He later states that this is a "fundamental issue for me and for people in my social circle." I found this to be a strange divisive question in a relationship and the vehemence of the 20 something was surprising to me. So have any of you run into friends or partners who are so vehemently opposed to escorting that they would look down on you or even break up your relationship because he held a different opinion even if you are not actively pursuing this path?

My last hire was more than two weeks ago and I was somewhat concerned about it then. For now, it is my last hire.. Lovely memory though

Just curious, is he hiding a football in those briefs?

I can't seem to get the pic to post

I have it on good authority that there is a more inclusive picture which might shed some light on that, though that picture also shows that Mr. Baldwin could not see that light.

Tell me how one with a photographic memory can ever get that photo out of his mind?

I guess that was much too easy.

Sorry to have been a bummer earlier. The world has not changed but I have tried to change my attitude. I saw that 69 medical students from NYU who have finished their required courses and were waiting for 2 months until graduation have volunteered to graduate early and volunteer to help out with the situation in NYC. That has renewed my faith in the willingness of first responders and medical care and health care workers will do what is necessary to get us to come out on the other side of this.

Just a quick note. Headed to work. It gets tougher each day and we are no where near the peak. Hospital is short o protective equipment. Two patient deaths last night and 7 more admissions. There is a palpable sense of foreboding at the hospital, which is strangely quite amid the chaos. No visitors are allowed, so the patients see only the staff which I think adds to the general anxiety, but allowing visitors would only enganger more people. I hope the rest o the country is better prepared or this than NYC area was. Still nowhere near enough tests. Free standing testing sites are open for a few hours and then run out o tests. Cars are lined up or miles and then turned away. A friend of mine who got a positive result was called by the health department and the CDC soon after he got his result and he was questioned about his symptoms and the like but they did not ask at all about contacts or try to get demographic information about people he may have contacted. Need to go.

I met him twice. First time was okay. Second time was meh. So that was that. Verygood looking and a great body. Hard cock that stayed that way. Kissing was not good and his giving oral was painfully awkward. Still, the first time I had a good enough time to try again. Turns out it was me supplying the good time, not him.

It is true as we age, without or without Alzheimer's the sense of smells well as taste, hearing and eyesight all diminish. With Covid, it is a sudden perceptible loss of smell and taste. In normal aging, it usually goes unnoticed or happens over a long period of time.

By the way, an interesting bit of information which may help. There seems to have been an increase of anosmia related to CoVid. Anosmia is the loss of smell. It seems that many people are losing a sense of smell and taste during the infection AND while still otherwise asymptoimatic. Now this may just be apocryphal, urban legend, but I know of one person who complained to me about the food at his favorite restaurant was bland and his wine was off. Four days later he became more traditionally ill. He has subsequently tested positive and has stayed relatively healthy though miserable with the body aches, headache and low grade fever. So, if you find the food doesn't taste right or your sense of smell is not right, it may be time to be tested, if you can find the test. I must admit to going out of my way to check my sense of smell against some usually harsh smells like bleach and cologne. My friend told me he could not smell bleach and he drank his coffee with soured milk until he noticed the curds floating on top. When he took a sniff of the container, it did not stimulate the usual grimace.

I do not know right off hand what the specificity of the test to which you are referring is, but it is not 100% so there are some who test positive but are negative. This is from the package insert of a new test. Accuracy, sensitivity and specificity? SureScreen’s new coronavirus lateral flow test uses antibodies that are specific for immune glycoproteins that are produced by infected individuals in response to the new coronavirus. These glycoproteins are called Immunoglobulin M and G (IgM and IgG). Immunoglobulins are normally produced by the immune system in response to bacterial or viral infections and act to 'flag' the pathogen, so that other immune cells can detect and kill it. The IgG/IgM that the test detects are specific to the SARS-CoV-2 virus, so a positive result would indicate the patient has contracted COVID-19. Since there are two analytes of interest (IgM and IgG), there are two test lines on the strip. Only one test line needs to be seen for a positive diagnosis (as well as the control line). Two test lines would also indicate a positive result. The new test has the following specifications: IgG - sensitivity = 100%, specificity = 99.5%, accuracy = 99.6%, IgM - sensitivity = 91.8%, specificity = 99.2%, accuracy = 97.8%. This is the data they are sending out for a new rapid test. Test to be done with 3 to 7 days of symptoms but can be used for screening. This is not an endorsement of the product just information in regards to the 70& value given elsewhere which may have been true for early prototypes of the tests. This figures do look too good to be true so take then with that caveat.

By the way, I did not say that food deliveries were unsafe, just that the hospital had curtailed the food deliveries from restaurants to the hospital. This had to do with delivery personnel in the hospital, which was not considered safe. Subsequently, the administration changed that to allow delivery to a back door for pick up by the ordering staff members.

Let me make this clear so even you can understand it. There are no deliveries of restaurant food to the hospital but the staff could go out and get themselves food. This was modified so that the staff can get food delivered to a back door but delivery persons cannot come in the hospital. It should be obvious even to you that having restaurant food delivery people walking around the hospital would not be a good idea. The cafeteria is closed so that there are not large groups in the cafeteria. The restaurants and delis are sending food free. I have no idea why you have trouble believing this since you seem to believe all the trash a certain pumpkin president has to say. Perhaps I was not as clear in my explanation as you need. In any case, I still have not gotten an answer from you about your willingness to tell my patients that, hell, this is not the bubonic plague. That dismissive remark says more about you that you could reveal in a Bible length biography.

Several of the local restaurants and sandwich shops have been sending food to the hospital at which I work. The hospital itself closed down the cafeteria and was not allowing deliveries in the hospital. The local businesses have sent people over and has had them wait at a back door for staff to come and get the free eats. When you are working long hours and have not had much to et you would be surprised how good a Jersey Mike's sandwich tastes. Also local bakeries sending in baked goods and bagel shops sending in bagels and coffee. There is hope for us. Of course the federal government has not sent anything in, not even masks or gowns.

Is this like offering a condemned man a final meal?

An escort I hire regularly and who I hired three weeks ago has been contacting me. We get all the time. It seems likely he has coronavirus. I saw him just outside the window of contagion but while he is a healthy man in his 40s, I am, like it or not, in the high risk group. So that was the final point in the decision I was ready to make anyway,

From the New Christy Ministrel's to The First Edition to a solo career with many hit singles and duets. My favorite is from the first edition. He is hardly recognizable in this video but his voice is easily recognized.

I last hired 6 days ago. It was already scheduled and I decided not to cancel. I will not be hiring again until things are clearer.

And getting it to flip open once it was in was a bitch.

So I guess it is more correct that it is not the good who die young but in this case the Young who died young,