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Thanks for the clarification. I was commenting off the top of my head and forgot about Willy being an in-law.?

Queen Victoria also married a German prince so that just reinforced the German blood in the family line. Her progeny included Tsar Nicholas of Russia, Kaiser Wilhelm of Germany and George V of Britain, who all looked alike. In World War One, they were on opposite sides, two to one. It was Wilhelm who held Victoria as she lay dying. He certainly became the black sheep within a dozen years.

Haha. I actually hadn’t paid him at that point and he said it over dinner before we got to the fun stuff. It was an overnight so I guess he was trying to create a nice ambience where I would feel good about myself and him as well for being so appreciative of the older male across the table from him.

On the men’s side they were all Germans. Battenberg and Saxe Cobourg. Had to change their names during WWI to sound English in order to keep their jobs. Lol.

I know. I haven’t updated my profile on RM for some time so now it shows I’m younger by a couple of years. I’m not in any hurry to update it especially since the last escort I saw a month ago said I looked a lot younger than my age (he quoted the outdated age he had seen). Lol.

How many years? He says he’s only 29.

Apparently. They were both incredibly good looking people, like you would see in the movies at the time. Hard to believe he was Prince Charle’s uncle, who lost out in the looks department.

Some straight men had sex with thousands of people too in that period. George’s Simenon, the Belgian author of the Maigret detective series, wrote about having sex with over a thousand women during his career as a popular writer. It seems they couldn’t resist him.

A famous example of a promiscuous couple at the apex of society in the first half of the twentieth century (he was Britain’s last Viceroy to India in 1947 when it became independent) was Lord Mountbatten and his wife, the beautiful Edwina, an heiress who had more money than him. He was the uncle of Prince Charles. At one point he confessed “we spent most of our lives jumping into and out of bed with other people’s spouses” or words to that effect.

In my Zoom sessions, where I am alone with my dog, who doesn’t take much interest, the only thing I have seen are the backgrounds of my colleagues’ living rooms, kitchens or offices with the occasional child walking by in the background. Lol.

Unfortunately the link you provided did not permit watching unless one subscribed to the source. However, in order to comment, I can draw on my own life experience. In early 1980’s I was a gay man living in Europe and travelling annually several times between there and North America. I was aware of the disease that was killing young gay men from 1980 onwards. This was before we knew the HIV link to the disease. In 1984, an American friend of mine, who lived in the same city in Europe, called me to ask if he could bring his brother who was visiting and who was infected with the virus, to a party I had organized for about 25 of my friends. I replied yes but said I would inform my invitees in advance if they wanted to back out themselves. None did and I was very gratified with their response. My boyfriend and I did everything we could to make everyone comfortable but I must admit I took precautions such as limiting access to a single bathroom adjacent to the living room and foyer and closed off the other part of the apartment where there were two other bathrooms. During the party the American guest was the focus of the party. He sat on a sofa surrounded by my friends, who were not reluctant to touch him and embrace him on arrival and departure, as Europeans are wont to do. Afterwards, I did a cleansing of the washroom like things are done today with COVID. Lots of bleach and washing of all surfaces. He died in 1986, in Los Angeles, where I visited him a week before his passing. By that time we knew how the virus was transmitted. I was happy that we as a gay family group had handled the situation in a humane and mature way.

I knew I knew of her, just couldn’t think of any tunes associated with her until you listed them. I guess she got drowned out by the disco craze of the 70’s and early 80’s.

Gman The only change I see is the proliferation of tattoos on muscle guys.

I’m afraid I used the Internet search mechanism to find those two references. But I did catch the age reference in his ad. I do have a Wedgwood dinner service but could not quote its style number without looking it up. Lol.

Don’t be. Language is a living thing. I still am jolted when I see access and now surface used as verbs.

X3890 apparently stands for the world’s most popular flight tracker. It’s also a pattern number for a Wedgwood design for dinner plates.

Well he’s 34 yo. The hard part is figuring out 3840.

I don't recall that study. I lived through that whole period and was in San Francisco four times during that period for vacations lasting two weeks or so. I did get around but dodged the bullet somehow.

Well, I have read widely and in the post war period (WWII) people really got promiscuous. Penicillon had a lot to do with it. If you read about the Americans who went to North Africa after the war like American gay writers Paul Bowles and his many literary friends, who carried on with the locals, and then returned to America, where they continued to carry on, it just seems surprising they didn't catch AIDS if it was in the population.

I once had a boyfriend who was fat as a kid. He became a dancer and was muscular and trim as a 21 year old, when I knew him. But it was funny that when I pulled at his skin around his waist, it was very stretchable and I could pull it quite far out from his frame. He never got to be old as he died of AIDS at around the age of 40. I last saw him a couple of years before he died and he had put on at least 50 pounds. Skin is a very adaptable organ.

I would have to read the book to make an informed opinion or judgment but it seems to have taken a long time for the infection to spread beyond Africa from 1921 to 1980. Africa really opened up in the 20th century after the First World War to European and American tourists (like Ernest Hemmingway) so for this virus not to have spread earlier and more widely seems to defy logic.

I have had a different way of handling travelling escorts. Since I live in a small market that is not serviced by too many top notch travelling escorts, I try to be accommodating and yet make it worthwhile for them to see me. As an example, before Covid screwed everything up, I had an escort who travels extensively agree to fly into Montreal to see me on a weekend, for 2 evenings. He was coming from the US and heading back to Europe so he could arrange the air transportation on his existing itinerary. I suggested Friday and Saturday, as he was going to arrive around 4pm on the Friday. He suggested Saturday and Sunday so he could be fresh and ready to give me a good time. I agreed and only arrived at my hotel Saturday in the afternoon. We met at 6, had some great sex, went to dinner, and then parted company at around 11pm. The next evening we repeated the scenario except starting with dinner first around 8pm and then having another escort to join us for 2 hours after dinner. Then we finished off the evening with him giving me another great session that lasted till 1am (he had given a very nice topping to the other escort as a warmup where I got to be the third interactive party). He left Monday for Europe but was happy with having only one client (me) who paid him a low four figure sum for each evening and dinners in great restaurants that added another $700 or so in total. For me it was an unforgettable weekend, and I repeated it with him few months later with a different second escort on the second evening.

I don't think we know all the ramifications of getting vaccinated against this virus. yet. Meaning, it's a good thing to get the vaccination but it may not be the silver bullet which some people think.

I hear you. Different strokes for different folks.

There's an offer that's hard to refuse.