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The reality is in the mid 20th cenrury, in many communities the schools were sort of a back door public health/welfare syatem. They made kids shower because it wasn't always the case they did so at home. I don't think it was about spying on kids, it was about making sure they had basic hygiene.

I think it all goes back to my theory that men are like ducklings and imprint on what they jerked off to at 14. Some expand their tastes. But most don't.

I have the experience of being middle aged and having been young but only moderately attractive so I know the vapidness(vapidity?) of twinks amd twunks is a timeless phenomenon and not some recent development. And it's not unique to gay people either.

The older men complaining now are more than likely guilty of the same offense when they were younger. Because if they had been less attractive they'd have been gettimg ignored all along and this wouldn't be such a surprise to them now. "A lot of men are visually stimulated, ageist, and shallow! And water is wet, news at 11."

I think the view of same-sex activity was simply different in the past. They knew sometimes stuff happened but prior to AIDS and the explosion of STDs, the line between what was considered horseplay or "taking advantage" versus assault was in a different place because the known physical consequences were lesser. And they'd rather the boys get their rocks off together occasuonally than deal with a teen pregnancy. So many older gay guys told me that just about ALL the boys they grew up with messed around a little with each other(even if it was just jerking off together or in front of each other), just never talked about it. But the straight guys my age I know well enough to talk openly with insist nothing ever happened when they were growing up and I believe them.

The things that shorten your life trend do do so in unpleasant ways...lung cancer/emphysema, for example, is just an ugly way to go

On top of the personal safety issue, it could also be to make sure you aren't someone they know from their regualr life, which could get awkward. Say the provider turns out to be your coworker? Or brother-in-law?

And yet Crazy Horse is still open...

https://sfstandard.com/2026/03/20/nob-hill-theatre-next-act/ Ok someone needs to start an investor's group and bring this place back from the dead...

Specifically Paul Michael Glaser never got it from his wife who got it from a blood transfusion, and one of their two HIV+ children lived because he had the mutation. I think he tests positive but doesn't need meds. I'm not even sure if strictly speaking he has HIV or just the antibodies.

Is the scrub a salt scrub or just a body wash? I find salt scrubs painful.

I'm saying that breathing through the mask was in fact exercise. I don't see how that causes your breathing to be worse after. Now if you contracted COVID at some point, it would make sense that that could cause lasting lung damage. But masking most certainly did not.

I will say this show hit me a LOT harder emotionally than I expected going in.

I mean they were broken up at that point, I wouldn't think they were Scott's seats. I thought he looked around and realized Kip was there which yes seems unrealistic. I still cried. But when you think about it...."Scott's seats" would be in the middle of all his teammates' seats, so it kinda never made sense that he put Kip his secret lover there, unless he bought them. Def have to suspend your disbelief there.

I would expect working harder to breathe, i.e. exercising, would increase your lung capacity...