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Who is TB? That's too short to search on...

I also think it varies from state to state whether draping is required.

I have no problem with a sheet. It's the sheet plus blanket that I find ridiculous. Too much of the massage time gets eaten up by handling it.

Not everyone is eligible for these programs. My own sister has MS and was not able to take advantage of the copay assistance program for her MS drugs because her insurance coverage was somehow deemed inadequate. So she went to a nursing home and went on Medicaid.

I've said, "I'm warm enough, you don't need to bother with the blanket" at a place that put a sheet and then a blanket on top and was informed that it was spa policy. The guy wasn't shy about the glutes or anything though so I don't think it'a that he cared, but that the spa was cracking the whip.

I would hope the performers's physicians are telling them to go on it, but lots of porn performers probably don't even carry health insurance. Most of them aren't earning the kind of money that could pay for it out of pocket, and the industry doesn't want to spend the money themselves. I would think it's not nearly as high-margin as it used to be.

It's more prevalent among the powerful in general. It's by no means unique to creatives.

That may be the letter of the contract - doesn't mean he can't sue them and cost them so much in the course of that that they decide it's cheaper to pay him out and be done with it.

Because right now it seems more likely they will be believed? When it's just you and the person has money and an army of lawyers and also the surrounding details are enough to make an outsider hearing the story think that well maybe you kinda/sorta consented, AND you think you are the only one coming forward, it makes more sense to keep your mouth shut and move on with your life. But if you later hear someone else came forward that may either give you the courage, or make you want to speak up so the other person is believed.

When asked why I hadn't made an announcement I said if they haven't put one and zero together after 40+ years, I'm not drawing anyone a picture.

My thinking on the booze drugs is that while it's not optimal self-medicating, it may in the short term be keeping them from harming themselves in despair. I really think if they hadn't been functional alcoholics my parents might well have killed themselves directly sooner than their smoking and drinking did.

I directly told my younger sister - the other siblings are all a bit older. She says she never brought it up to anyone else. I'm fairly confident she hasn't - I think she thinks that's my job. She also lives the farthest away. But I did run into a cousin I didn't realize was still playing rugby at a tournament where I was playing on "the gay team" and his wife was there and I'm sure all the cousins know. But again nobody is going to breathe a word about it in my presence until and unless I do.

there are plans that are about a dollar a day. When you think about it, that probably gets them more utility than anything else that cheap. That's not going to put a roof over your head.

If someone changed their mind they could get a line through the "not" quite easily. I'm still disturbed about the fact they worked on my mother for a couple of hours before she died because I was under the mistaken impression I needed to be there and didn't realize that the doctor on the phone was asking me but not directly to tell him to tell them to stop.

I think I would have given him some cash and if he seemed amenable possibly tried to talk him into going to a shelter and offered to help him navigate services. I wouldn't have taken him home.

I'm out socially and at work. Family I think has figured it out but nobody is going to say something until/unless I do. It's a family where nobody talks about sex and nobody meets anyone anyone is dating until there's a ring in the offing and I don't really date. The thing that might bring it "out in the open" soon is my brother is dating a woman with a college-age gay son and at some point our paths may cross.

Since there are now over 1000 SC models it would help if you could give their SC name? Some of us would like to see them in action in order to decide...

More stupidity: Stigma and shame are the biggest barriers to treatment in the US. No, lack of coverage is the biggest fucking barrier.

They're calling thing myths and then in the busted half the time it's, "Well it's true IF X and it's not true IF Y" e.g. Bottoming bareback with someone who is positive IS the riskiest activity you can do. It's not the riskiest if they are undetectable, but lot's of people aren't, and you CAN'T get HIV from someone who is negative.

Showing your dick seems to cross socioeconomic strata. On other discussion boards I've been on it seems a LOT of women have had the experience of a guy on a date just whipping it out either in the car or at the table at dinner and not at a time when they were getting it on.

I think climbing to the top in almost any field doesn't specifically require, but is greatly aided by a level of narcissism/ruthlessness that correlates strongly with being an abuser in general. The type of people who actively seek power often aren't "nice" people.

Well the sun there is brutal. You have to catch them when they are new to the gig...or get the ones who work nights.

I don't know. Which came first? Did he do the ones with her first she didn't care for it and said ok you can do it but only with guys? But aside from that, if SHE wasn't that into it he could be expected to pick up on that.

I did once ask a couple of the guys who wear superhero costumes on the Las Vegas Strip and pose for pictures with tourists if they get requests to come to people's rooms and they said sure. I didn't have the nerve to ask them to come to mine...

But being watched with a stranger versus being watched with a partner could be a different experience - particularly if he knows she doesn't want to be doing it for the camera, that sort of thing.