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It's wise to be judicious about the links you follow. Do you also have any ad/cooking blocking tools installed? I use both AdBlock and Ghostery in Firefox. If a site that's questionable won't let me use it with those blockers active, then I don't proceed (most of the time). Those tools can get in the way of reputable sites functioning (a bank website wouldn't work until I whitelisted it), but for the most part they just do their job in the background.

Without thinking too hard, I remember seeing: Brad McGuire tending bar in the Castro. Lito Cruz on a treadmill at the gym -- must have been during a visit because I don't think he lived here. Jim Bentley more than once, just out and about in San Francisco. Michael Brandon -- way past his heyday, sadly being "auctioned off" for a date at the Eagle bar in San Francisco, with seemingly very little interest from the crowd. Various guys at Folsom Street Fair over the years. Some really cute guy whose name I don't remember was a regular at the gym I went to in the early 1990s. Dark haired but much shorter than I anticipated. My boyfriend at the time told me that a lot of porn stars are shorter than one might think; maybe he knew cuz he got around a lot.

Funny that the most recent comment posted when I finally look at this thread mentions audio equipment. It seems like people who care about sound quality are a dying breed, but as someone who has loved listening to music since I was a young child I know what's possible in terms of audio reproduction in the home. One of my retirement goals is to finally live in a space where I can have a dedicated listening room that doesn't contain a lot of other things that negatively impact the listening experience.

I hired him when I visited a couple of years ago. He's definitely using old photos, and I didn't think the massage was very good. I ended up feeling like it was a waste of money and time.

I've never booked a hotel for an escort, and I've only ever gone out to dinner with an escort whom I already knew or, on couple of occasions, with guys after an appointment where we really hit it off. So I have never been in the exact same situation, but I have had escorts confirm appointments, sometimes with quite a lot of communication back-and-forth, and then have them not show up and never communicate with me again. Given that none of them ever reached out the next day (or whenever) with an apology and explanation, I have never had the occasion of having to debate whether to give someone a second chance. I certainly wouldn't reach out to someone who previously ghosted me as it seems too masochistic. Speaking of masochism, I had a roommate for one year in college who would deliberately set up dates with guys and then either not be there or hide in his room and ask us to tell the guys when they showed up that he wasn't there. I told him that I wasn't going to lie for him so he better actually be gone if he expected me to say that. Even though I knew his m.o., when I ran into him years later we agreed to meet up for dinner the next night to catch up. You guessed right -- he didn't show up. I actually think that he got off on knowing that he annoyed/disappointed other people by failing to show up for whatever plans he had made with them. No matter which way I slice it, unless an actual emergency caused someone to flake on me without any notice then I am left to believe that the guy is just a jerk or has a drug problem that has seriously hindered their ability to function normally. I don't want to have anything to do with either type of person.

Perhaps. But doesn't an escort have a voice to express that prior to accepting a booking? If an escort isn't comfortable with what a prospective client wants, isn't it his prerogative to simply say "no" to the booking? And if an escort says "yes" but then later realizes he doesn't actually like the terms of the agreement, wouldn't it just be better for him to call the prospective client back to say so rather than just ghosting him?

I think you are misunderstanding me. My points are this: I understand that "carnal urges" will cause men to have sex with other men, even when that activity is illegal. Hell, most of us here are of the age where gay sex was still illegal in many parts of the U.S. and we didn't abstain. That doesn't mean that I absolve people of the responsibility to make wise decisions. Having sex at work is riskier than having sex at home. I assume there are professional ethics involved in nurses having sex with patients at work, too. And, as you noted, there is a pandemic going on so removing protective equipment and engaging in sex with a known infected person when one is in a position to interact with a lot of other patients is just wrong, wrong, wrong. My second post was simply a response to the notion that "carnal urges" explained the nurse's behavior. My response was intended to convey that carnal urges explain the sex act itself, but not posting information about that sex act. It in no way was intended to analyze the reasonableness of that specific sexual encounter given all of the other factors involved. Obviously it was irresponsible on a number of levels, but given that some men do think with their "little heads" more than their brains when they are turned on the poor choices made (by both parties, not just the nurse) does fall under that description of "carnal urges."

The article indicates that both men risk prosecution and jail time, not just the nurse. What would the charge against the patient be if not simply a charge against him for having gay sex?

That explains having sex. I am not questioning that. I don't expect gay men in societies where being gay is illegal to just forego sex. To post the details on social media is what seems incredibly stupid to me, and I don't see how carnal urges were in control there.

The last sentence of that article indicates they could face up to 10 years in jail "if convicted." I'm guessing that just means "if convicted of having gay sex." If so, then one has to wonder what the guy who posted all of those details was thinking.

To my eyes, neither of those people are the epitome of sex appeal. They aren't bad looking, but seem rather average to me.

I expected to find a thread about being overwhelmed by planning what will happen to your body and your stuff after death. Isn't that usually the topic covered by the phrase "final arrangements?" I have moved more recently than you (about a decade ago), but I am potentially going to be in your position in about a year. I also find the idea of moving a bit daunting. For the first time I may just spend extra money to have other people do most of the packing.

Bringing up D.O. or contacting D.O.? If you speak with D.O. regularly anyway, why not contact him to ask if he knows whether Paddy is escorting in your area right now?

I may have posted this story here in the past, but I vividly recall looking at a fitness magazine cover with a friend once who said the guy on the cover wasn't attractive. I asked him to take a second look because I thought he was extremely sexy. After a second look, my friend admitted that the guy was hot, just not his "type" because the guy had dark skin. It's true that some people immediately "turn off" in their brains simply because of skin color. It just doesn't make sense to me. I pushed the issue farther with this friend and asked if he would honestly turn down this guy if he propositioned him and my friend naturally admitted that he'd have sex with the guy given the opportunity. In other words, the guy was sexy when given a second look but ordinarily my friend wouldn't give a dark skinned guy a second look.

Wasn't Alig just following in Leigh Bowery's footsteps? Bowery was already pushing the envelope in a variety of ways in the club scene in London and I've more often seen/heard Bowery mentioned as being an influence for other artists. I don't know whether Alig was much of an influence outside of the New York club scene of which he was a part.

Oh, I misread the previous post and was calculating $27,000 per month. That's incredible that anyone can make over a million dollars in a year for mostly just showing off. Maybe the $27,000 week was an anomaly, though; I see that figure was released during a week he pledged his proceeds to charity, so it's possible he gained subscribers who decided to check him out because he was donating the funds.

I find him cute, but the videos I've seen him in haven't appealed much to me. I'm surprised he has so many paying followers that he makes $140,000 annually from one website.

Interesting read. Hindsight is 20/20, I know, but that article certainly does hint that things would not turn out well for him. He doesn't seem to have changed at all in prison, and returning to the same group of friends he had at the time of the murder (some of whom thought it would be funny to mock the murder by bringing a toy hammer when they picked him up upon his release) wasn't a decision of someone who wanted to chart a new and healthier course.

One's tastes can also broaden by actually having sex with different guys. I think when I was a teen/young adult, I really did go for the tall, blond "surfer type." As I grew older and had enjoyable sexual encounters with a variety of men, I started noticing the attractiveness of a much wider variety of "types."

8 inches sounds like a nice Christmas gift. ?

As far as I know, the contributions made through Amazon's Smile program are based on a percentage of customers' purchases. It allows customers to designate which charity they want their contributions to go to, even if it isn't yet listed on Amazon's site. I sort of look at it like this: Instead of giving customers a 0.5% discount on what they buy, they instead distribute 0.5% of purchases made through Smile to customers' designated charities. Because of this I'd say that it really isn't Amazon backing anti-gay charities; it's just that some of their customers choose to back anti-gay charities. Does anyone believe Amazon is going to say to their customers who want to support Catholic Charities, for example, that they should shop at Walmart instead because they no longer want their business?

Having a photo of such a well known person in a Rentmen ad is why I have no respect for their business practices. I've read excuses in the past that they cannot possibly be tasked with verifying photos, but how could they possibly not immediately recognize such an obviously stolen photo?

My short answer: No. Not knowing anything else about the guy, it could just be a joke. Maybe it's the intentional message you want it to be. The way to find out is to ask him.

I don't know that I would say there has "never been a better time" to lose weight. I am still working just as much as before the pandemic, so I have no more free time than I used to. I have only had access to a gym for about a month since late March; I used to use the gym every day for at least an hour. I do still exercise outside when I can, but I am not able to get the same intensity of exercise that I did when I had gym access. So, like many people, I have gained weight this year.

Usually a reverse number search finds nothing, but occasionally I will find reports that the number is a "suspected spammer." I think the bigger problem is number spoofing. In other words, the number displayed on your phone isn't the number that's actually originating the call anyway so blocking the number has little effect. Spoofing is why so many spam calls appear to originate from within your own area code and prefix.