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There are 1.1 million people in the US with HIV, from all sources combines. Even if you assumed every single case was MSM, 20% rate would mean there are only 5.5 million MSM in the country. That's simply not credible.

Well carrying the child does bond it to the gestational mother via hormones, and there is apparently even a very low level of genetic material that gets passed between. Also being pregnant will cause the mother to lactate and she will be able to breast feed. But I think there might be ways to achieve that with medication.

There's also the little discussed issue that IVF babies have a significantly higher rate I think most people find the situation you're talking about straight-up weird and probably don't quite approve, for a variety of reasons. It's so rare it's just not on people's radar.

Looks are much more of a crapshoot than people realize, though. I've seen some very good-looking people with downright homely parents, and vice versa. And while he's not ugly, Luke Hemsworth looks out of place in a picture with Chris and Liam. Different body type even.

Pushing 60 as a single parent of a newborn is irresponsible IMO. Too much risk of orphaning the kid. Hope he did his homework on jurisdiction. There are states where the birth mother, even if a surrogate and unrelated genetically, has parental rights and can change her mind at the time of birth and decide to keep the kid. A friend of mine just spent 3.5 years getting his name on the birth certificate of his bio-kid because the surrogate went crazy.

If you have hard water you need to periodically clean the dishwasher with CLR which will remove the buildup that clogs the holes in it. My brother and his wife learned this when her mother stayed over at their place and "fixed" the dishwasher they had assumed simply didn't work.

I do agree that overall people are a lot less careful than they should be, given the prevalence of STIs. But even if new transmissions went to zero today, you have to realize it would take DECADES for the rate of HIV to get down to half of what it is today, because people in treatment have normal lifespans.

The absolute number of new infections is going down. The number of MSM is going up, as homosexuality and bisexuality are far less stigmatized than in the past. When the numerator is going down, and the denominator is going up, the rate of infection, by definition, is not "skyrocketing." It's just a lot higher than you were aware of because you weren't paying attention.

I'm guessing Calhoun was on bath salts judging from the rest of the story.

I'm talking about the adult groped in a bar. In front of other people. I'm talking about the case of the legal adult groped in a bar in front of other people. That's orders of magnitude less than what other victims are relaying. The mother is acting as if this guy was fucking her 10-year-old in secret when her 18-year-old had his crotch grabbed in public.

I am in no way condoning what Spacey did to the woman's son, but it hardly seems like the kind of thing the kid is going to be scarred for life by as opposed to pissed off at Kevin Spacey. Sometimes the proper response is a punch in the face rather than a lawsuit.

No, not at all. It's a question of what is the rapist's motivation. I am saying it's both sex and power, not just power.

Ok I'm just going to agree to disagree then, that wasn't my takeaway. I don't think either of us is likely to persuade the other at this point.

He seems to have been traveling the last couple of months after having been based in NYC. I've been checking hoping he'd return.

https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/insight-therapy/201602/rape-is-not-only-about-power-it-s-also-about-sex

Most assuredly? According to whom? The actual rapists or the sociologists who claim to read their minds?

I'll confess to being unfamiliar with Gay Talese. But I was also going off the description of him as becoming "agitated" over the subject. A significant fraction of the 85 year old population has some degree of dementia.

85, huh? Are we sure this isn't more dementia than anything else? I've heard some doozies come out of the mouths of older relatives that I was confident was not how they thought when they still had their marbles.

I mean, there's not even any damn STEAM in the video. Lousy production values.

I knew a guy who killed himself at about 40. He had been in Iraq and got a concussion that led to CTE and he was not willing to live out his days like that. I didn't see him during the CTE so I don't know the extent of it, but from what I've read about football players with it, can't say I blame him for taking matters into his own hands.

Paperboys make less than minimum wage. While $3.75 was certainly above and beyond, only paying exactly $1.25 in this particular case did indeed make someone a bad tipper at a minimum, jerk in all likelihood. The cost of delivery was actually a discount off of what it would have cost to pick up the paper at the newsstand.

You'd think, but wealthier people are notoriously bad tippers for the most part. I had a friend who was a paperboy with his route split between the blue collar and the extremely wealthy part of town. Paper was something like $1.25 for the week, of which he kept 28 cents. In the blue collar section of town it was not uncommon for a guy to throw him a five and tell him to keep the change. In the rich section of town every last customer gave him $1.25 and not a penny more.

Tangent: I strongly disagree with the trope that rape is only about power, not about sex. I really think it's both, and it's missing the mark to claim it's only one or the other. The power issue is why it's traumatic for the victim, but the perpetrator is IMO definitely getting sexual gratification out of it. If it were only about power, then how is it that availability of pornography seems to be correlated with a REDUCTION in sexual assault?

I lost interest when I could see he was wearing shorts under his towel. NEXT!

How often do you get tested for HIV?