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I'll chime in on both aspects of your post, Matt. First, about travel in the Northeast, it's good that you're monitoring local conditions. Massachusetts may have peaked the past few days. There are fewer new hospital admissions for corona, but the hospitals and ancillary health care centers are at their capacity to handle the cases they have. Pockets around Boston are reporting a surge in cases. Most of the state is on lock down. I'm not sure what restrictions may exist on hotel occupancy or air bnb arrangements. At one point, there was talk of using vacant hotels to house overflow patients and homeless people during the crisis. Then one of the convention centers was employed for those purposes, so it may have let the hotels off the hook. Local transit is likely to still be limited through much of May. New York, Mass. and NJ are among the hardest hit states, and it seems Connecticut is becoming a hot spot as well. Second, about potentially having caught and recovered from corona. During the first week of March, I had a three day period of running a temp and experiencing the chills. No other symptoms at the time other than a slightly scratchy throat. My temp never went above 102 F, and returned to normal within 3 days. I self-quarantined for three weeks without symptoms or recurrence, and have largely remained in isolation except for a few brief trips to pick up groceries. I was particularly sensitive about the risks when I had the short patch of fever because my nephew and his wife were set to deliver their second child later that week. By then, however, the hospital wouldn't allow visitors anyway and they were given strict guidelines to follow upon bringing their newborn home. I have had a few days where I've sneezed a couple of times, but those are almost certainly seasonal allergies. I'm allergic to everything that grows or walks (except dog hair). So, that's a long response, but the net is travel in the Northeast will likely be tentative at best throughout May and perhaps beyond.

Rentmen is giving escorts the option of "freezing" their ads and suspending payment to RM. There's also some mechanism for changing the ad to allow contacting the escort about future meetings after the covid situation abates.

Wrong forum.

My bad. I meant that as a response to Nick who asks for "new"/"news" on all sorts of guys in all sorts of threads. I should have made my post a reply quoting his. Sorry for the confusion.

New ad, during a virtual hiring freeze. There's not going to be any first hand news. Some who are good at image searching may id the person in the photos from social media. Wait and see. If anyone has news it'll be shared. No need to ask this question in every thread.

The need to show some variety in their shows lends itself to toy play, which is more practical and economical than having other performers on their cam shows. Also, the advent of the butt plugs that deliver electrical charges when tips are made to the performer became a thing. Whether these guys are doing it because they enjoy it or because tolerating it is lucrative is an open question to me. Either way, it spices things up on their shows so they do it.

He very, very briefly escorted for men, decided it wasn't for him, and stopped. He was young at the time. To my knowledge he's never had sex with a guy on camera, either. He began doing solo cam shows, include for Randy Blue Live, and then transitioned to straight porn. The only foreign object he stuck in his ass was, I believe, the shower shot attachment in the video linked above. Moreover, there are straight guys who enjoy anal stimulation from their female partners. Doesn't make them gay or bi.

He's playing to his gay audience. The guy is straight. The anal play is minimal. I doubt you'd ever see him with a decent sized anal toy.

I believe "Rory" has left the escort business. He did so well before travel became an issue.

Jarrod, I reread the bit of my prior post you quoted and see how you may have interpreted it differently than I intended. To clarify, I am saying you can be NON judgemental about the choices made by others, yet still exercise good judgement for yourself and those with whom you have contact.

You've dug yourself in. You retreat to the comfort of the trite phrase about two consenting adults. Of course no one is advocating the state bust into your home and break up a get together. But when you, with consent, choose to have intimate contact and eschew the medical advice to physically distance, you are choosing not only for yourself but for everyone with whom you come in contact even incidentally. Beyond that, your resort to psychoanalyzing me or others across a keyboard is insulting, dismissive and reflects a lack of maturity on the subject. It's that lack of maturity that results in drawing lines and making comparisons to other risks that are plainly not analogous. It reads like an attempt to justify what you cannot justify on the merits. You should have left it at saying you are responsible for your own choices, and so are your clients. The rest of what you're saying is going through argumentative contortions.

I hope you are okay, and that your clients are as well. And your friends, and their friends, and your family and theirs. I'm glad you're not judging. But you don't need to be judgemental to use good judgement.

When you draw those comparisons, that's exactly what you are doing -- minimizing the current risks. All of the other life threatening medical conditions you reference are distinct in that their transmission either doesn't exist (cancer, diabetes, asthma), they are treatable through diet or medication, or they have identified means of mitigating risk of transmission. That leaves the serial killer example. Last I checked, there aren't a rash of serial killers multiplying across the nation. Where I live, in one rehab/nursing home, 30 people died in the last two weeks from the covid-19 virus. That's one facility. My uncle has been living with cancer for decades and it's now to the point where he is moving from his assisted living placement to a hospice. The hospice allows visitors (the assisted living facility has not for the past month or so). I know he is not likely to live until it is reasonably safe to gather. I face the difficult choice of seeing him before he dies and risking contracting or spreading the virus, or keeping my distance. My nephew strongly urges me to not visit. I may take the risk, but that's only because it's likely to be the last time we will see each other. I'd never choose to take those risks in order to hook up or hire. Those can wait until it's less dangerous.

What has this got to do with forum member Hung Cody?

My nephew just welcomed a new child last month. He lives 15 minutes from me. I haven't seen my nephew, his wife or their son since his birth because we are unwilling to risk it. I don't mean to sound judgemental, but I cringed reading that Skip invited this guy into his home with his child. I'm all for helping the poor guy get by, but not in my home with my child.

But it IS less safe than other times while a highly contagious virus is rampant and we have neither the capacity to test everyone for it nor any vaccine or known treatment. You are correct that even without coraona/covid-19 there are substantial risks to hiring/providing sexual services (or randomly hooking up with strangers). But this is of an order of magnitude more severe. If you are not seeking to downplay the existing dangers from covid-19, you should be clear in saying that because it sounds like you're saying there's always risk so this is no different. It is different. Condoms, PReP, antiobiotics, etc., are not means available to mitigate those risks. And while there's always a risk of encountering a serial killer, there are means to minimize the likelihood and the incidence of serial killers in the population is much, much less frequent than the spread of corona.

Does Kyle do more than muscle worship? His ad suggests so.

It's not just how he expresses himself. It's the content, too. I don't think it's simply a matter of facility with English.

WTF are you talking about?

Perhaps he'll address your question himself. My quick thought is the the first change was to include "Nashville" in his name to reflect his location (although he is from Alabama originally). Now, per his ad, he is located in Alabama and visits Nashville, so that may be the reason for the new change in name. As to why he moved, I can think of several potential reasons (to be near family with the covid virus going on, leaving TN after the natural disaster and related damage).

Killian, it's encouraging to read such an open statement of accountability and self-awareness. I've had too many friends and family struggle with substance addictions with varying results. After a particularly rough series of deaths (my brother, then father within a year, then my mother 4 years later), I let my alcohol usage become a serious dependence. When I stopped drinking, the key for me was realizing I am one of those people who cannot drink in moderation. My choice is binary: don't drink or be a drunk. I choose not to drink. Some people struggle to remain sober, frequent programs for support, get counseling, go through rehab, etc. I'm for whatever works for the individual. But to me, it's a simple matter of knowing my self and my limits and deciding to be healthier, mentally and physically, as well as a more reliable presence in the lives of people who matter most to me.

I wouldn't doubt that there's more to the story, and that Burns isn't purely an innocent victim. But even predators can be extorted under the law. There's a famous case in NYC where Bill Cosby was extorted by his illegitimate daughter for money after she was an adult. The daughter was convicted of extortion, but a change in the federal bribery statute between the appeals court case relied upon for the legal interpretation and the prosecution led to the conviction being overturned. Of course, we all know now a lot more about Bill Cosby's history as a sexual predator. Still, what sane person would hire someone who has been convicted of extorting a client, and who brought a firearm to the meet up to collect the extorted money?

I'd be inclined to chalk it up to error on Nick's part, but I'm of two minds. His posts are so confused and confusing that it could be a deficiency on his part, or it could be deliberate punking. Either way, whether innocently/ineptly or intentionally, his post crossed a line. I hope he understands why/how, and will exercise a bit of self-discipline in future posts.

My heart goes out to you. Try to stay close to other relatives and loved ones, especially those who share love for your family member. I've lost my only brother and both parents over the past 6 years. The sense of loss is profound. I've grown closer to other family through the process of grieving. It's no substitute, but it helps.

Some form of computer transmissible mind alteration? It's not you, that's for sure.