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I also prefer the college athlete type. But I have zero interest in "twinks". Not sure where you see an overlap. Outside of the youthful age bracket, they are polar opposites to me.

?? WHEN ..was DiCaprio ever "studly" ? He went from ratty looking Twink to old fat Stalker, overnight.

Same for Sarah Jessica. I was literally sitting next to her in a restaurant and until her husband (Matthew Broderick) arrived to their table I wouldn't have recognized her. (I used to see Matthew all the time when they had the dog...some him I know.)

A good point for sure Since both these women live and/or have lived around the corner from me, I probably have more opportunity to catch them without makeup. Both of them are quite plain ( even rather ugly in the case of Sarah Jessica) without their hair and make up.

I know a fellow who has been traveling to Columbia more frequently because he says he can find attractive rent-boys for as little as $ 100. The cost of hotel, sex and dinner is less than an hour with any of the fine young gentlemen who work in the US. Your US dollar goes further, the further you go.

The camera is funny that way. Living in NYC, in the Greenwich Village neighborhood, I see celebrities all the time...and yes. It's weird how some look so plain in person (Sarah Jessica Parker , Gwenyth Paltrow) and others sparkle even brighter than they do in film (Orlando Bloom, Charlie Carver)

The chemicals most often referenced in "pnp" are highly addictive. More than once or twice and you're hooked....so 2+2=4 logic would say addiction is likely when you're posting that as part of your repertoire.

Thank you ! 👍

Different strokes for different folks. So many comments here that are the mirror image of my own tastes. Complete upside down likes and dislikes lists. Matt Bomer is probably the first person who comes to mind when you ask what Hollywood A-lister is a mystery to me. Does absolutely nothing for me. Yet he comes up as the super hottie on other's lists. Beauty is, indeed in the eye of the beholder

Report back when you've completed your mission, Professor.

The US health system has never been good about incentivising STAYING healthy whether it's PreP or Birth Control or even as much as a regular check up The industry would prefer to charge you after your sick rather than prevent you from getting sick.

I mentor a young gay man who was abandoned by his family mid-college years for being a homosexual. He studies now, at Columbia University and yes...I've seen some of the extreme victim readings that they are handed for their University writing courses. "Political Lesbianism" was one of the more fascinating terms, I learned: Women who aren't sexually attracted to other women, but hate men so much they consider themselves Lesbian. 🤔 To me, the world has gone insane with all this negativity and hatred toward one group or another. That may very well be an explanation of how some of the fun and humor got sucked out of our daily lives, and how so many people who are attached to the activism of the 60's now pounce on every word they feel triggered by.

Thanks for all that. Wonderfully well thought-out explanation. 💗

100 new cases within a week in NYC Still primarily showing up in men who have sex with men.

Well....that IS what Monkeypox looks like...but there are other things that give you "pox". Syphilis and Herpes also produce a rash of pimple-like "pox". Your immune system is definitely not happy with something. Good luck, hope you don't have further complications.

Sadly, that IS the case with two of the older gentlemen who I remember fondly. Holding court for hours. Cocktail in hand, and a sharp wit that only seemed to sharpen with every drink. Fun times.

That's interesting. What profession are you in ? I'm an architect and I am around construction workers all day. Not much has changed there. But I am visiting showrooms for materials, so I work with salespeople and I work with my clients in both residential and commercial applications. Nothing much has changed in my day to day world. I DO know my wife's gay female friends are full of man-hating, and always ready to pounce on a misplaced phrase, so I avoid them like the plague. I used to like to come here and chat, because I don't have a lot of gay friends anymore. But the members with a sense of humor all seem to have gotten frustrated and moved on. It's sad. Some weeks, when I contribute to the forum here, I feel like I'm with my wife's militant Lesbian friend. Always finding some fault and injustice in every corner. Where's the joy ?

Yes ! I've seen Joan Rivers on stage at Michaels Pub. Totally raunchy and hysterically funny in her humor that picked at everything and everybody. Definitely different than her scrubbed-up TV show routines. One of her target groups was always gay men with whom she had a big following. Lots of laughs were the response in those days, not calls to have her banned because she poked fun at some stereotype about gay men.

1960's right ? Great movie...but I agree. Never understood the point of painting up Mickey Rooney to play a Japanese man.

YES ! ( Forgot all about him ) totally fuckable. Plus Ethan Zohn. 🔥

I say it's NO progress. I live in NYC and I have friends of every ethnic background, political stripe, social group and sexual persuasion. My wife and I are both bisexual and open minded. Yet, I find the environment here on site often to be like a game of Jumanji where you never know what freaky insanity is going to jump out at you for making a "wrong move". Where did the humor go ? I remember years on Fire Island with gay friends in the 90s where we'd say the most outrageous things about people and everyone would just laugh. Where did that go ? Why so bitter now ?

When I was in my 20's I really enjoyed the "bitchy humor" of a lot of the gay men who I knew and befriended. I am missing that fun, I used to have with those guys ( many who has since passed ). Every time I make a joke here, there always seems to be someone lurking around waiting to "be offended" for what was OBVIOUSLY meant to be humorous. Why is that ? Did gay men lose their sense of humor over the years ?

When I was younger, I enjoyed the company of some older gay men who were always so much fun joking about things with a witty style of "bitchy humor". Cracking jokes, often with a whiff of inappropriateness that used to be regarded as a sharpness that was understood as someone who's lived life and finds humor in life's various irony. Now, the minute you crack a joke, there seems to be a crazed Social Justice Warrior laying in the grass just waiting to judge you for your lack of sensitivity. Did all gay men turn into Lesbians ? I remember gay men being FUN, joyful and humorous. Now, the responses I get here are nasty, judgemental and full of bile for stepping out of line and not being sensitive to everyone's overly fragile egos.

More and more I am finding it difficult to crack a joke without some triggered member claiming some horrible injustice of racism, sexism or some other "-ism". I remember when I was younger and I had some older gay friends. They were always good for a laugh, poking fun at life and the various predictable behaviors of various people and social groups. NOW, if you even begin to make a joke about anything, some crazed child abuse victim immediately shuts you down and calls you some sort of "-ist". My question to this Forum is when did gay men stop being fun ?