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Several times I have resisted the urge to say, "Honey, it's Equinox, nobody here is looking at the girls."

Pretty sure I can't legally acquire information from Dun and Bradstreet on an individual without their consent.

There is only one Lucille Roberts gym left in the country, in Astoria.

The bootcamp type gyms both generally allow it and tend to be frequented by guys you might actually like to see shirtless. I walked past Solace New York the other night and I had to make a conscious effor not to linger.

Its what ticks me off about the women who work out on backless unitards

I think to quite a lot of them it's just basically assisted masturbation, so they don't even really view it as sex. It feels good, so they do it, they aren't, say, looking at the guy and getting spontaneously turned on by the sight of him. It's more that they're horny and the other guy is there. And this is how so many gay boys get their hearts broken.

Those net worth websites have a pretty large margin of error. They tend to add up reported earnings and make no allowance for their expenses. Half of their gross earnings go to taxes and their agents/managers. And a y properties thry have obviously need to be maintained. There's a C-list actor who goes to my gym. He's been in recurring roles on a number of shows and is almost always working, but streaming has killed residuals, as far as I can tell he's just living an upper-middle class life in the burbs with a stay at home wife and kids. His net worth is less than $500k on one site and $3 million on another. I could believe either figure.

I imagine he was working very hard not to give out any signs. I know I was in HS/college. We are the age cohort that is probably the most fucked up about being gay...most of us figured it out just as it seemed everyone who was was getting a fatal incurable disease. How old was he when this happened?

It's funny because two of my closest friends in college were pretty serious wrestlers and they are 100% straight and they swear up and down that there were pretty much no gay wrestlers. I just think they were oblivious because they had no idea about me until I told them at 30. And they were from towns where I think a gay teen might actually be risking his life by coming out. They don't really think those aspects through.

To be fair, when the internet first came out there were a bunch of pervs who made hidden cam locker room videos in university gyms, recorded wrestling weighins, etc and put it all out there without people's consent. That wasn't something our generation had to worry about. Most of that stuff got shut down, but the fear remains. I'm fine being naked in the locker room, but I admit I'd be mortified if footage of me leaked out. When that influencer got banned for her locker room selfie where she shamed a fat woman behind her, i cringed. But basically "locker room predator scare" is the current "razor blades in Halloween candy" fear that persists despite not really being a thing. But stupid gym bros on TikTok keep it alive.

Any current recs?

There's an article in The Economist that says it does seem to work. I'm going to look into it for rosacea.

Went off my BP medication.

Regardimg HPV...EVERYONE should be getting that vaccine, they upped the age for insurance coverage to 45 and you can pay out of pocket if older. It covers so many strains it's probably covering at least one you don't already have. Don't think condoms make it irrelevant; a friend told me his dermatologist had a patient who needed a penectomy because he got HPV in a ring around the base of his dick where the condom didn't cover...

They'd be fine with 39. But too many delusional 60 and 70somethings list themselves as 39 so the presumption is you're lying. I got no hits at 39 and then when I turned 40 the floodgates opened.

But time is money. Grindr isn't free.

Honestly, that's my thought. D1 wrestling has been hammered in the last couple of decades because when schools are found out of compliance with Title IX, it's easier/cheaper to cut a men’s team rather than add a women's team. And until pretty recently college wrestling was exclusively male.

More people need to realize just how common this is. Especially white collar workers whose expertise is mainly navigating their own company's systems. My brothers both got dumped in their late 50s and seem completely unrealistic(to me) on the subject of what they can expect to make and turning down jobs that pay not all THAT much less than they had been making. Also too many people PLAN to "catch up" on saving in their 50s and 60s, or "just work till they drop" and think their earning power will never go down. That's a recipe for disaster.

I see more downside than upside here ...i.e. either you kill the fantasy for yourself or you make him upset that "you don't believe him." Ultimately this is an acting gig you've hired him for, best not to pay too much attention to the man behind the curtain. This isn't Pretty Woman and you're not gonna marry him. Let it be.

If I skip lifting weights for multiple days in a row, I definitely fall off faster strengthwise than I used to.

It's kind of interesting how these mostly straight guys probably all do the "towel dance" in the gym locker room because god forbid anyone see their nether regions for 0.6 seconds, but at the same time are all proudly wearing their skintight singlet semi-erect on the school's social media.

Similar to gman, I'm single more because of my choices than by choice, but I see enough problems in the relationships around me that I'm less bothered than I used to be. There are two great tragedies in life: not getting what you want, and getting what you want.

One thing I often notice in old porn is people's feet tend to be filthy. What's up with that?

A facebook friend who's HIV positive and tends to struggle with stable employment seems to be posting at least once a year how he's rationing his pills while he waits for his health insurance to start next month. I googled the med he was talking about(Biktarvy) and it retails for $4,000 a month. At this point, shouldn't at least some generics be available? I'm sure the latest are better somehow, but it seems like there should be better options than skipping doses.

My cardiologist just told me the latest research is more refined. After 70 it doesn't appear to help. But for people 50-70 with a calcium score over 100, it appears beneficial...i.e. prevents 3 heart attacks for every stroke it causes.