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Billions of people do things for money every day they wouldn't do if they weren't getting paid. It's called work. Why is that so unbelievable to people? Women by and large do not have to pay for sex, so the opportunity in that market is with male clientele.

As a practical matter, the truth is there is not really much about anyone that is private these days. It's simply no longer possible to do something like perform on camera and expect that a stage name will protect your identity. Faical recognition software is pretty good, and even if you aren't posting stuff about yourself, odds are random friends are disclosing enough on their social media to piece together information about you.

But there ARE one-year deferrals for people who sleep with prostitutes, or who had sex for money, etc.

According to this, that's simply not true. Even 34 days out, at least 5% of people who are positive will test negative. https://www.catie.ca/en/pif/august-2010/detecting-hiv-earlier-advances-hiv-testing "Across Canada, all labs use newer, more sensitive antibody tests (this includes rapid (point-of-care) HIV tests). For more on rapid HIV testing, see A rapid approach to community-based HIV testing. Research shows us that with these new tests, as many as 95% of people who test positive will do so within 34 days of exposure to HIV.10 However, for the remaining 5%, the window period for these HIV antibody tests is generally accepted to be three months so as to ensure people who take longer to develop antibodies are not overlooked. This means that if someone tests negative for HIV antibodies during the window period, they should be re-tested three months after possible exposure, to fully rule out HIV infection."

It's not that the risk is zero for the other groups, it's that it is one to two orders of magnitude lower. Of new case each year, about ten times as many come from MSM than from heterosecxual transmission, while MSM are about 5% of the total population.

Well is the test they use on donated blood the same one they give people in regular screening? It's possible they use a slightly less accurate test on donated blood because it's cheaper...

I had to evacuate during Hurricane Irene. In retrospect I could have stayed. I also learned that the authorities in such situations can't do jack about a disabled evacuee they didn't already have on a list. I had to scramble to get the last hotel room in the area because the shelter couldn't accommodate my sister.

This.

Price of oil has been going up sharply the last two years, that's part of it.

There are providers that will come to your house for this, and not necessarily super expensive. I had a hairdresser come to the house when my wheelchair-bound sister lived with me.

You can often find some real bargains for this kind of stuff on Ebay, as when the user passes the family has no use for it. My next door neighbors got a barely-used secondhand power wheelchair for only $200. It would have been several thousand new.

There are bagels everywhere but there aren't GOOD bagels everywhere. I'm from the NYC area and when I lived in Reno NV I was appalled. I think the altitude affects how they come out there.

Well keep in mind men dying young tended to be from heart disease, which medicine today has a FAR better handle on than in the past. My uncle had a heart attack at 55 and is still alive at eighty-seven.

All over the place. Some have died suddenly at 18 or 21, others made it to 90s. Supposedly a great aunt made it to 108 back before so many people made it to 100.

Several of the Wayans brothers...

I'm really getting tired of the back-and-forth style of storytelling. Seems like they're just trying to save on shooting costs. They can reuse the same clips over and over.

I was working my hardest to project an "asexual" vibe back then. Deep in the closet, hadn't done anything yet.

If you have to say, "I am alpha..." chances are you're not. I couldn't get past his voice. Turned off video after ten seconds.

That's all well and good in theory, but the fact remains that there are plenty of kids who can work up the nerve to have sex with someone but are not yet confident enough to face the store clerk. And statistically speaking, they're unlikely to let the latter problem prevent them from engaging in the former. So if you are someone who is invested in that individual's life outcomes, you might prefer they have the condoms available. When I was in college I worked as a clerk in the camps pharmacy. Many times female students who knew me would walk into the pharmacy, see me at the counter, and walk right back out. I would ask the pharmacists to give me some work in the back to do to make sure they would get their birth control prescriptions filled.

Well if she's 22 it's possible he's closer in age to her parents than to her. It's a relative thing.

He was also Carla's baby daddy on Cheers, wasn't he?

She had already cancelled her SNL appearance so I'm guessing it was already over and this was him milking one last bit out of it.

Avalon, PLEASE talk to your doctor about getting a physical therapist to come to your home and train you both in use of the Walker and home exercises you can do with it. Physical therapy is leaps and bounds better than it was 20 years ago and you can probably see much more improvement in your mobility and strength than you think. Three years ago I could barely walk for ten minutes due to back issues. Today I can jog over half an hour. But the improvement was extremely gradual. Six months in, I didn't really feel much better. Even if you only improve one percent a week, in a year or two that will be substantial.

This. SNL did a skit once where she mimicked half a dozen other singers and she nailed it.

Maybe they have more...um...volunteers?