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I take oral hygiene very seriously because it affects your overall health if you don’t. Mouthwash and a three month appointment to get your teeth cleaned is just the start. I floss after every meal generally and use a water pik. Also use an electric toothbrush. At 76 I have all my teeth except for my molars which were taken out when I was 25. I love kissing and usually it’s a deal breaker if the provider doesn’t.

I consider myself very fortunate when it comes to prostate cancer. While of course I would have preferred not having had it at all, when I did get it I was around 60. I had a prostatectomy four months after diagnosis ( my choice to delay so I could enjoy my summer). I recovered quickly and regained continence within 2 months. Erections were a different matter. Tried daily Cialis but to limited efficacy. Had PSA testing for the next 10 years at reduced frequency as time went on. It was undetectable. After 10 years I bade goodby to my doctor, a urologist who did the operation and have had no occasion to see him in the 8 years since then.

I was at Campus last fall and saw Phillipe there. As I have posted previously, I’m no longer going to the stripper bars in Montreal but made an exception one weekend when I had some time on my hands. I remember Philippe asking me if I wanted a private dance after chatting me up for a minute or two. I had already had a dance with another guy and was just finishing my drink before leaving. The reason I remember this brief encounter was that my ex was named Phillipe (a Swiss guy) and I always make that connection when I meet a guy with the same name. In fact I had a session either that weekend or another around the same time period with an escort in Montreal whose real name is Jean Phillipe but goes by another name in RM. As I have always said, these dancers are mostly straight and have girlfriends they are living with. I knew many when I was living in the Gay Village years ago. In this case, which is very sad for the women, maybe steroids have wrecked this guy’s personality.

Buicks were traditionally driven by doctors and Oldsmobiles by little old ladies who wanted a Rocket to propel them. GM destroyed the latter’s mystique when they started substituting other motors into the Olds without telling consumers. They were sued by a little old lady and lost not just the case but a good deal of the brand value. Olds eventually was discontinued.

Wrote that before my morning coffee. Lol

The best putdown using the epithet “swine” was when Ann Parker, accepting Luella Parsons’ invitation to enter a room first by saying “age before beauty” swept by her grandly while uttering in response “pearls before swine”.

I guess the sugar high kicks in just as you are about to serve up an ace shot.😛

I also stayed at a Kimpton last summer in Toronto and over the course of two nights had three escorts whom I met in the lobby and escorted up in the keyed elevator. One I knew from previous dates and the other evening the two were a pair who arrived together. I waited in the lobby which was close to the reception so there was no way of being discreet in the meetings or avoid taking them past the front desk to the elevator directly. It was tourist season though and the lobby was busy with people coming and going. Also the crowd was a very mixed group, lots of younger people and different races ( Toronto is very multicultural). They all looked cool and affluent, which they would have to be to afford the room rates which were close to $500 a night plus. I felt I fit right in with my much younger companions who were very easy on the eyes. I always try to dress appropriately to fit the occasion and the company. That way you don’t stand out more than what may be obvious anyway (age difference).

I’ve hosted dozens of escorts in large hotels with key access on the elevators. Surprisingly I can’t recall many times when there were more than just myself and my date. Since I stay on higher floors, the ride up is sorta interesting with a new date. I like to initiate a conversation rather than just stare at the closed doors. If the elevator does have others in it, I find they are usually wrapped up in themselves or with their companions and don’t give us much attention if any. If it’s going to be an entire evening or overnight, of course a side detour to the bar/lounge is a way to break the ice. On those dates I generally like to go to a restaurant outside the hotel.

Let’s not forget the Puritans. They were preaching their views in America 200 years before the Catholics showed up in any numbers.

Speak for yourself. I resemble that remark. Lol

There’s a sad note in his ad where he says he has lost his home in Ukraine. Can you imagine not being able to go home. It must weigh heavily on him. He was in Canada briefly last fall. I wish I had tried contacting him.

Based on the video with Dematteo, I would hire him if I were in Atlanta. He looks like a good top.

I only became aware of Bette Midler when she had her breakout hit, You Gotta Have Friends. Did you see her perform before she was a star?

Interesting, I have the same wiring. My left nipple gets me going and my right would rather be left alone.

The important thing is that you had a good time. That’s all that counts in my book. Congratulations.

Well, his ad says he has a scruffy beard and he lists PNP in his likes. Is that your definition of clean cut?

I just looked it up: a tangine is a clay bowl with a conical lid. I’ve had couscous served in one at a Moroccan restaurant in Montreal. I saw that other dishes can be prepared in it or a skillet or other similar utensil ( I use Creuset ware myself) like lemon chicken without couscous.

Sounds like couscous to me. The best I ever had was done by Pied Noir from Algeria who had settled in Geneva after the war of independence.

This is where the clash of cultures occurs. In most cultures, artistic artifacts are treasured and preserved. In this seemingly isolated example the people creating the art conceived of it decomposing into nothing. Sort of like Banksy in slow motion.

We had this debate in Canada years ago. In the 70s Indigenous art was not displayed in the National Gallery in Ottawa but rather in the Museum of Natural History. At the time I was having an affair with a native artist. He had a job at the latter museum as a curator. He called a press conference one day and publicly condemned Canada’s policy on Indigenous art. He called me to tell me proudly he had just got fired! Ten years later the policy had changed and now Canada’s Indigenous art hangs in the National Gallery, including his.

This thread and Empire_Man may disappear soon. Just saying after seeing post on TechTalk..

I’ve heard about kif but never much about the food. What makes it special?

I’ve never been to Tangier but having read about it from different sources over the last 20 years, I would have liked it in the post war period up to the 70’s. Of course far too young then so if I had been there I would be dead now, like all the people who were part of the scene. Paul Bowles and his lesbian wife, Tennessee Williams, Truman Capote, Burroughs, etc. There were some super rich Americans and British there too like Doris Duke and I think a Guinness heiress.

And in Canada.