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    + purplekow got a reaction from MassageCommunityMember in Telling the client to dress after the session is over. Rude?   
    If you are his place, deal with it.  The encounter is for his comfort not yours.
    If you are at your place, you can say:  I am going to the rest room, so that you let you dress in private.  Urinate and return.  If he is not dressed, or nearly so, you need to be more direct.  
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    + purplekow got a reaction from + m_writer in Palm Springs Friday before the Meeting in April   
    I have sent out the address and basic info for this.  Seems about 20 people are interested so far.  I think we can do better than that.  If you are thinking about attending, do not be shy.  It is more a meet and greet and eat  and a pool to beat the heat.  
    Just let me know.  Those of you who have already answered should have a DM with the address and deets.  
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    + purplekow got a reaction from LaSanta in Telling the client to dress after the session is over. Rude?   
    If you are his place, deal with it.  The encounter is for his comfort not yours.
    If you are at your place, you can say:  I am going to the rest room, so that you let you dress in private.  Urinate and return.  If he is not dressed, or nearly so, you need to be more direct.  
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    + purplekow got a reaction from Becket in Thinking of hiring for the first time   
    Time to stop living with the fantasy and start living the fantasy.  Get back on the horse.  It's time to ride.  Hire an escort.  Tell him what you want and go for it.  If you are in the Bay Area, there is a member of the forum I would recommend as being able to give you everything you mention and more.  I will send you his name and when I see him here in Palm Springs in a few weeks, I will check if you have contacted him.  So consider this a homework assignment. Call this guy.  
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    + purplekow got a reaction from samhexum in Reacher on Amazon Prime   
    Seems that he was a motorcycle noise polluter with little concern for his neighbors but the neighbor apparently pushed him twice before he responded.  
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    + purplekow got a reaction from Danny-Darko in 411 on Jaxtonwheeler   
    Just suggest you update your references.  Although the Hippocratic oath dates back almost 2500 years, there are parts of it which are regularly ignored.  Updated version speak toward the cogent aspects of it.  But such aspects as not cutting for the stone to proscribe gall bladder surgery have been updated.   
    "The Hippocratic Oath today is a modernized, symbolic, and often voluntary pledge taken by medical graduates, focusing on patient welfare, ethics, and privacy rather than the original classical restrictions. Most schools use revised versions, such as the 1964 Lasagna Oath or the Declaration of Geneva, emphasizing humanistic care, confidentiality, and treating the patient rather than just the disease."  
    I can understand why you might not have said:  I suppose you kept your Lasagna Oath intact, though it would have been amusing had you done so.
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    + purplekow got a reaction from big-n-tall in 411 on Jaxtonwheeler   
    It is how we act on the information that we have that measures us as human beings.  Not knowing his beliefs is one thing. Knowing them and hiring him anyway, is quite another.  I have told this in the past.  I had a patient come in to my walk in center and he seemed as though he were a perfectly attractive twenty something with a minor medical problem.  During the course of the examination, I went to listen to his lungs and he had a very large swastika tattoo on his back.  I continued the examination and treated him as I would any other patient.   As he was leaving, I told him that while he seemed to be a very nice young man, he would be receiving a letter from us that he should find another medical care provider as we would not be caring for him after 30 days of that notice.  I very explicitly told him that his tattoo was so offensive to me, that I did not believe I could look past that.   He confronted me for it and I simply said, I will not offer care to someone to whom I can not offer care confidently and compassionately and that tattoo caused me to think that would be the case if I continued caring for him.  
    If I happened upon someone in a more dire straight, I would not turn them away no matter their beliefs or tattoos, but given a situtation which there is a professional option, I chose to take it.  
    He made some unflattering remark though not vulgar and left.  He never returned.  
    I believe that had I not seen that tattoo there would not have been an issue, but once I did, I was faced with a professional and moral dilemma as are the people here who are debating hiring this person or not.  Ultimately, one has to set standards for oneself.  Some people can live with hiring this man and some cannot.  Neither is right nor wrong, only different.  
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    + purplekow got a reaction from mike carey in 411 on Jaxtonwheeler   
    Just suggest you update your references.  Although the Hippocratic oath dates back almost 2500 years, there are parts of it which are regularly ignored.  Updated version speak toward the cogent aspects of it.  But such aspects as not cutting for the stone to proscribe gall bladder surgery have been updated.   
    "The Hippocratic Oath today is a modernized, symbolic, and often voluntary pledge taken by medical graduates, focusing on patient welfare, ethics, and privacy rather than the original classical restrictions. Most schools use revised versions, such as the 1964 Lasagna Oath or the Declaration of Geneva, emphasizing humanistic care, confidentiality, and treating the patient rather than just the disease."  
    I can understand why you might not have said:  I suppose you kept your Lasagna Oath intact, though it would have been amusing had you done so.
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    + purplekow got a reaction from mike carey in 411 on Jaxtonwheeler   
    There is a difference in denying service once a person is there and informing them that service will not be rendered in the future.  What I did was standard of care for patient's dismissed from a practice for whatever reason.  Care was rendered.  The patient was informed they had 30 days to find another provider and in the interim care would be rendered if needed.  They were addressed in person and in writing.  
    As I said, if this were a critically ill patient, they would not have been an issue.  As it was, even a mild illness was treated and the patient given time to make other arrangements.  
    I believe there is a significant difference between a doctor and the person for whom he is caring as opposed to a baker and his cake purchaser.   Eventually, the baker won his case at the level of the Supreme court.  
    In addition, I suppose I would treat all my large swastika tattoo having patients the same way, they hardly compare in number to the groups you sited. i believe he was the only one in 40 years of medical care.   In the US, they are not a group recognized as a minority deserving of legal protection.  
    Similarly, if one opts not to hire an escort once they know information about them which they find offensive, the escort is not being discriminated against, he is reaping the fruit of his actions.  
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    + purplekow reacted to Whatsupandstuff in Kissing and not good at it?   
    that Tristan Baldwin is quite a kisser 
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    + purplekow got a reaction from ShortCutie7 in 411 on Jaxtonwheeler   
    It is how we act on the information that we have that measures us as human beings.  Not knowing his beliefs is one thing. Knowing them and hiring him anyway, is quite another.  I have told this in the past.  I had a patient come in to my walk in center and he seemed as though he were a perfectly attractive twenty something with a minor medical problem.  During the course of the examination, I went to listen to his lungs and he had a very large swastika tattoo on his back.  I continued the examination and treated him as I would any other patient.   As he was leaving, I told him that while he seemed to be a very nice young man, he would be receiving a letter from us that he should find another medical care provider as we would not be caring for him after 30 days of that notice.  I very explicitly told him that his tattoo was so offensive to me, that I did not believe I could look past that.   He confronted me for it and I simply said, I will not offer care to someone to whom I can not offer care confidently and compassionately and that tattoo caused me to think that would be the case if I continued caring for him.  
    If I happened upon someone in a more dire straight, I would not turn them away no matter their beliefs or tattoos, but given a situtation which there is a professional option, I chose to take it.  
    He made some unflattering remark though not vulgar and left.  He never returned.  
    I believe that had I not seen that tattoo there would not have been an issue, but once I did, I was faced with a professional and moral dilemma as are the people here who are debating hiring this person or not.  Ultimately, one has to set standards for oneself.  Some people can live with hiring this man and some cannot.  Neither is right nor wrong, only different.  
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    + purplekow got a reaction from mike carey in 411 on Jaxtonwheeler   
    It is how we act on the information that we have that measures us as human beings.  Not knowing his beliefs is one thing. Knowing them and hiring him anyway, is quite another.  I have told this in the past.  I had a patient come in to my walk in center and he seemed as though he were a perfectly attractive twenty something with a minor medical problem.  During the course of the examination, I went to listen to his lungs and he had a very large swastika tattoo on his back.  I continued the examination and treated him as I would any other patient.   As he was leaving, I told him that while he seemed to be a very nice young man, he would be receiving a letter from us that he should find another medical care provider as we would not be caring for him after 30 days of that notice.  I very explicitly told him that his tattoo was so offensive to me, that I did not believe I could look past that.   He confronted me for it and I simply said, I will not offer care to someone to whom I can not offer care confidently and compassionately and that tattoo caused me to think that would be the case if I continued caring for him.  
    If I happened upon someone in a more dire straight, I would not turn them away no matter their beliefs or tattoos, but given a situtation which there is a professional option, I chose to take it.  
    He made some unflattering remark though not vulgar and left.  He never returned.  
    I believe that had I not seen that tattoo there would not have been an issue, but once I did, I was faced with a professional and moral dilemma as are the people here who are debating hiring this person or not.  Ultimately, one has to set standards for oneself.  Some people can live with hiring this man and some cannot.  Neither is right nor wrong, only different.  
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    + purplekow got a reaction from Whippoorwill in Shower Sessions   
    Well if you didnt, I have videos
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    + purplekow got a reaction from MikeBiDude in fire the basketball bracketologist   
    For those who do not speak Spanish or do not want to bother translating this.  The reigning national champions were defeated when a player from Spain made a three point basket.
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    + purplekow got a reaction from + SidewaysDM in TW: How did you survive?   
    There is some medical data dating what is now HIV AIDS back to the 1950.  As a medical student at St Vincent's Hospital in Greenwich Village, the epicenter for the "gay cancer". I was seeing many, many patient's with HIV in the early and mid seventies, but just not with that name.  Kaposi's Sarcoma, rarely seen now and in the 1970's thought of as a disease of older Jewish men, was rampant.  Parasitic intestinal diseases of all types brought in many patient's volume depleted and unable to control the diarrhea, called Gay Related Intestinal Disease, GRID.  Men with fevers, sweats and lymph nodes everywhere which all tested negative for a presumed lymphoma told us there was something going on that was new and horrible, but there was not a name for it.  Unusual pneumonias, unresponsive to the usual outpatient antibiotics, but fortunately treated with Sulfa changed the protocol for out patient pneumonia, it was known as PCP then.   As a student and then a resident and later as an attending physician, there was fear that you could be next, even without the gay activity or being Haitian or a drug addict.  We worked through the fear, as we would 40 years later with Covid.  
    The emotional toll on the gay community in NY was catastrophic.  The emotional toll on the medical staff ran a close second.  
    I was not having gay sex at this time and it probably prevented me from having sex with men for decades.  A hidden victim of that pandemic.  
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    + purplekow got a reaction from thomas in Anyone watching The Pitt on Max?   
    I have worked at busy inner city ERs and this show is as realistic as you could expect for TV, where everything and anything needs to be condensed into one 23 hour period.  It would be more realistic if it were in a 14 day format with each show being one day.  The character arcs could be fleshed out further.  The patients could be followed in more detail and not with a sense of insanity that this ER demonstrates.  
    Still, I like the show.  The patient cases are interesting but not so obscure that I find myself thinking that they are really reaching. I have seen patients with just about every one of the diagnoses that have been presented.  They could add a bit of compassion to some of the characters. 
    I find Noah Wylie annoying this season.  Okay he is burned out.  But that does not allow him to face his last few hours before a break acting like a total ass.  Especially sine he was so caring in the first season.  The dramatic change is less convincing of burn out than if the changes were more subtle.
    By the way, no one mentioned his stint on the Librarians,  I always found that show to be an interesting diversion, especially the early seasons with Bob Newhart and Jane Curain,   
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    + purplekow got a reaction from jackcali in Anyone watching The Pitt on Max?   
    I have worked at busy inner city ERs and this show is as realistic as you could expect for TV, where everything and anything needs to be condensed into one 23 hour period.  It would be more realistic if it were in a 14 day format with each show being one day.  The character arcs could be fleshed out further.  The patients could be followed in more detail and not with a sense of insanity that this ER demonstrates.  
    Still, I like the show.  The patient cases are interesting but not so obscure that I find myself thinking that they are really reaching. I have seen patients with just about every one of the diagnoses that have been presented.  They could add a bit of compassion to some of the characters. 
    I find Noah Wylie annoying this season.  Okay he is burned out.  But that does not allow him to face his last few hours before a break acting like a total ass.  Especially sine he was so caring in the first season.  The dramatic change is less convincing of burn out than if the changes were more subtle.
    By the way, no one mentioned his stint on the Librarians,  I always found that show to be an interesting diversion, especially the early seasons with Bob Newhart and Jane Curain,   
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    + purplekow got a reaction from marylander1940 in White Lotus Returns   
    Found dead in a Chicago Restaurant Bathroom.  28 years old
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    + purplekow got a reaction from samhexum in Anyone watching The Pitt on Max?   
    I have worked at busy inner city ERs and this show is as realistic as you could expect for TV, where everything and anything needs to be condensed into one 23 hour period.  It would be more realistic if it were in a 14 day format with each show being one day.  The character arcs could be fleshed out further.  The patients could be followed in more detail and not with a sense of insanity that this ER demonstrates.  
    Still, I like the show.  The patient cases are interesting but not so obscure that I find myself thinking that they are really reaching. I have seen patients with just about every one of the diagnoses that have been presented.  They could add a bit of compassion to some of the characters. 
    I find Noah Wylie annoying this season.  Okay he is burned out.  But that does not allow him to face his last few hours before a break acting like a total ass.  Especially sine he was so caring in the first season.  The dramatic change is less convincing of burn out than if the changes were more subtle.
    By the way, no one mentioned his stint on the Librarians,  I always found that show to be an interesting diversion, especially the early seasons with Bob Newhart and Jane Curain,   
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    + purplekow got a reaction from + robear in TW: How did you survive?   
    There is some medical data dating what is now HIV AIDS back to the 1950.  As a medical student at St Vincent's Hospital in Greenwich Village, the epicenter for the "gay cancer". I was seeing many, many patient's with HIV in the early and mid seventies, but just not with that name.  Kaposi's Sarcoma, rarely seen now and in the 1970's thought of as a disease of older Jewish men, was rampant.  Parasitic intestinal diseases of all types brought in many patient's volume depleted and unable to control the diarrhea, called Gay Related Intestinal Disease, GRID.  Men with fevers, sweats and lymph nodes everywhere which all tested negative for a presumed lymphoma told us there was something going on that was new and horrible, but there was not a name for it.  Unusual pneumonias, unresponsive to the usual outpatient antibiotics, but fortunately treated with Sulfa changed the protocol for out patient pneumonia, it was known as PCP then.   As a student and then a resident and later as an attending physician, there was fear that you could be next, even without the gay activity or being Haitian or a drug addict.  We worked through the fear, as we would 40 years later with Covid.  
    The emotional toll on the gay community in NY was catastrophic.  The emotional toll on the medical staff ran a close second.  
    I was not having gay sex at this time and it probably prevented me from having sex with men for decades.  A hidden victim of that pandemic.  
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    + purplekow got a reaction from + DrownedBoy in Shower Sessions   
    Well if you didnt, I have videos
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    + purplekow got a reaction from mike carey in Shower Sessions   
    Well if you didnt, I have videos
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    + purplekow got a reaction from + Jamie21 in Shower Sessions   
    Well if you didnt, I have videos
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    + purplekow got a reaction from Luv2play in Shower Sessions   
    Well if you didnt, I have videos
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    + purplekow got a reaction from Luv2play in Shower Sessions   
    When I remodeled my master bedroom and bath, I increased the shower to a steam shower, 5 x 6 feet with a built in bench and wall and overhead sprays and a hand held spray.  That shower is one of the few things I miss since my move to Palm Springs.  Sometimes we would start in the shower, sometimes we would head to the shower afterwards.  The multiple shower heads frequently led to multiple episodes of head in the shower.  The steam also was a great feature.  Some escorts would ask if I minded them taking a steam and I always obliged. We would sit on the bench and talk or fondle or kiss.  Whatever the moment brought was an additional bit of fun.  I have dozens of photos of escorts such as Tristan Baldwin and Vin Marco and Apollo Phoenix and Bobby Biceps taken from outside the steam filled shower. or just with them showering.  Always taken with permission and kept private and on my phone for an occasional pick me up.     
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