jc808

Well, I'm about to leave for work and, trust me, if it wasn't for the money I would not go.

Comedy = tragedy + time

The terms and rules have been updated as a result of HR1865 being signed into law on 4/11/2018. There is now a link at both the top and the bottom of the every page.

I was speaking in the context of an absence of same-sex sexual attraction.

Well, I'm about to leave for work and, trust me, if it wasn't for the money I would not go.

Well, I'm about to leave for work and, trust me, if it wasn't for the money I would not go.

I don't have the strength to go through all 400 pages of this conversation to see where I fit into it, but It's nice to hear someone else mention the awfulness of the RM message system. Not to mention, @Eric Hassan, the fact that users literally have no idea who has access to view/intercept any of those communications. When I've worked for other companies with proprietary messaging systems like that, administrators (at basically any level) had access to view/edit/delete all messages on all sides.
 
So if you're relying on Rentmen to keep your secrets for you, I've got some troubling news.
 
Clients reading this and friends who might communicate that way: please be patient with providers who ask you to use a secure messaging system. You can't imagine what a struggle it is to be called names and shouted down for refusing to make plans or discuss details via Rentmen messages or SMS. It sucks so badly to be trying to do something eminently practical (and for everyone's good) and be told to "go fuck [my]self, princess" because "everyone else [they] deal with does it this way."
 
I don't have any beef with the "princess" part, but the rest of it makes my job harder, and puts your safety in jeopardy.
 
-t

The article you cited quoted a U.S. Senator Heidi Heitkamp as saying "Today, Backpage was shutdown. It's a huge step. Now no child will be sold for sex through this website"
 
What was that woman senator smoking or is she just out of her mind? I have read backpage, craigslist, rentmen and similar type ads for years. I have never ever seen a child for sale for sex or for any other reason. Therefore, to close a website then falsely claim it was promoting child sex is more than false and misleading. It is just a big fat lie.
 
The sad part of the closure is it was closed for a false reason and people in authority continue with false accusations.
 
Does anyone wonder why?

God, I really hate Heitkamp, always have since day 1! Democrats can eat shit if they think I'm ever going to support awful oppressive lunatics like her just because there's a (D) next to their name.
 
People need to stop voting based on the letter next to someone's name & start electing civil libertarians, they are the only ones sane enough to not violate our rights using lies about child sex for their own political gain.

It looks like Justice dept and attorney generals from CA and TX co-operated on this. Great this is what brings CA and TX together. Thugs all of them.
https://ca.news.yahoo.com/sex-ads-website-backpage-shut-down-u-authorities-003228741.html
 
Some congresswoman called Heidi Heitkamp celebrates the shutdown of backpage and is confident the orange one will sign the bill. Yeah she is democrat.
 
I have just about had it with dems-if a Repub senator from KY can vote against this bill-Kamala Harris and this heitkamp can vote against. Oh right harris started the action against backpage and Obama against Rentboy.

There is no such thing as free sex, least of all on the straight side of the street. One can even ask whether, under this law's definition, giving sex in exchange for sex is a "commercial sex" activity.

If you think about it, the traditional marriage where the wife stayed home, the husband worked, and she performed her wifely duties is a form of prostitution.

I'd like to remind everyone that the bill passed 98-2 in the Senate and 388-25 in the House. Even if Trump refuses to sign it, that's a veto-proof majority.
 
What's done is done.

I do not think we could understand the way Classic Greeks lived sexuality if we project our understanding of homosexuality and heterosexuality. Do not forget these sexual "identities" are relatively new.

Obviously not, or he would have been Alexander the Fabulous.

Interesting take on it. I don't think there's any way anyone can say without having lived the context of the day, but if I remember correctly, aftee Hephaestion's death, he built temples to honor him and his life cratered out of control. Doesn't sound like the reaction to the death of a bro.
 
I also don't think the fact that he wanted children to carry on his dynasty is very compelling evidence of heterosexuality.

I highly recommend The Persian Boy by Mary Renault which explores this.
 
Kevin Slater

I'm sure Beau can be as rough as a client wants, but in my experience he is kind, patient, caring and a thorough professional.

I'm in.

Maybe we could split the cost for a weekend workshop!? The man knows his GoT and more.

Ok, I think I'm going to have to go to NYC and hire Kevin Slater for an overnight just to talk about GOT.

Ok, I think I'm going to have to go to NYC and hire Kevin Slater for an overnight just to talk about GOT.

Ok, I think I'm going to have to go to NYC and hire Kevin Slater for an overnight just to talk about GOT.

Ok, I think I'm going to have to go to NYC and hire Kevin Slater for an overnight just to talk about GOT.