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I also suspect that the pandemic is being used as an excuse to cut services that will never be restored. We’re going to have to get used to a meaner world, I fear, except for the uber-rich.

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Maybe I need private tutoring?

From a few years ago, but still good advice. 
 

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For me, sexual compulsion is tied to generalized anxiety.  I use sex to distract and calm my constant anxious feelings.  Therapy, "personal work," medication, and frankly, aging, has made my impulses more manageable.
But that's me. I echo those above who suggest seeing a therapist (or therapists, finding the right one can itself be a challenge). You need to unpack what sex is doing for you now, how you want to integrate it into a better life, and how to get from A to B.

I haven't subscribed to any music streaming service beyond Amazon's basic level one that's bundled with Prime membership. I rarely listen to that, but I do know something about music streaming because music is my biggest hobby and I regularly participate in another forum dedicated to it.
According to what I've read, a lot of these streaming services are just lazy.  Their catalogs aren't curated by music lovers who know what they are listening to.  Their catalogs are just files that some license holder has leased to them.  Because of this and because of bad contracts a lot of artists signed, there are many examples where the streaming service has a later rerecording done by the original artist instead of their original "hit" version.  I'm sure there's also some censorship going on, and that's been true for a long time.  I have numerous cds where there was an "explicit" version and then a more "family friendly" censored version.  Sometimes that involved masking certain words in certain songs, and other times certain songs were removed from albums because they were deemed too risque for the Walmart crowd.
I agree with the suggestion to just rip your own music cds to play in your car.  Why pay a monthly fee to stream music that you already own.  I understand paying for streaming if you want access to new music and don't want to buy it as a download or on some physical medium, but if you are listening to stuff you already own it isn't hard to rip a cd and play the resultant mp3 files in your car.

Decide on what you really want to experience. If it is the parades, then definitely uptown. If it is the gay bar scene, then the Quarter or Marigny. I like the Bourbon Orleans, right next to some of the more popular gay bars in the quarter; however, they REALLY jack up the prices during Mardi Gras. Hotel Saint Marie is another one of my favorites and is less expensive. 

Just as long as they don't fuck with the New Orleans Athletic Club.  
Yeah, it's not a traditional bath, but I've had some good times there.
(And it's a unique, well-equipped gym too)