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I think Colin wanted to sit like this :-) (Gay-Film buffs will know what movie this still is from)

I was hoping Titus Welliver (Bosch) was the star, but I can see from the trailer he is not.

It's more of a filmed play than a movie and very well-acted, excellent dialogue, and quite funny and briefly serious. I liked it. Good gracious, Penelope is beautiful. I'm not at all familiar with Olivia WIlde, but she did a good job directing. Enjoy https://www.imdb.com/title/tt14173636/

Great sympathies to all those dealing with Prostate Cancer. I've had many clients in that boat. Not nearly as terrible, anyone here deal with Chronic NonBacterial Prostatitis? I've had it for 25 years, I never know when it's going to flare up. First Line Treatment was, and for some doctors still is, antibiotics such as Cipro or the one I really hate, Levaquin, even though the pathology has NonBacterial in the name. I had one urologist who was a huge fan of super duper vigorous prostate self-massage, which is really uncomfortable but for me preferable to awful antibiotics. Now it seems the interventions shifted away from prostate massage, because it actually irritates it, which makes sense, or heavy antibiotics and focuses on gay-looking poses like happy baby to open up the pelvic floor, or close it, or whatever. What do you do for it?

Wet Wipes and Doxy don't do shit against C. diff and trust me you do not want that one. Cedars quarantined me for three nights, and I don't have immune issues. Body to body contact is a risky game, biology can be cunty.

Yeah, afterward I realized that I was railing against a Penguin Advertisement, lol.

But is there room for a second Saiyan Prince?

Is this list an intentional Joke? I Feel as if the person who made it knows only contemporary books, most of which aren't very good (Martyr! is a strong book, but I'm not sure it's a very good book), and those few (actually, just one) historical books assigned to her or him in college. This list made me sad.

If you've published or self-published, link us. :-)

Ahh the late '70s and '80s with songs with subtle metaphors like She Bop, Sugar Walls, Cat-Scratch Fever, Pearl Necklace, Big Balls, and I'm sure I'm forgetting a ton. The fun part was you always needed an older brother or condescending friend to tell you what it meant, except Big Balls, which was about Ball Dances...really!

My Pleasure :-) I traveled when I started escorting, but then at the request of my partner I stopped. So your point is right on, I would have made much more money had I continued traveling. One of the nicest things about being a young escort is it's that rare job where you don't have to work when you don't feel like it. It's lost income, but it feels so great to just say no sometimes. As an engineer, that was not an option. You're right, there is more competition now than when I was young, and that can't help. Also I'm blown away by how much rent is now compared to my salad days, the late '90s and early 00s. With NYC and WeHo Rent now 3 times or more what it was then, but the hourly rate only $100 more, I just don't see how they can get far enough ahead to invest as you suggest. Shameless, I loved that stupid stupid show. :-)

I wasn't saying they were still working, I'm glad to hear Dane is, I was just saying that in my memory they were two of the first to advertise being over 40.

Did you watch the trailer?

Saw it last night with Q/A with director and the dorkier of the two good young leads. I'm tired of horror movies and this one is well-made. Two good leads and always good Mia Wasikoska (spelling). Enjoy

In cases of illness, people can turn to CaringBridge. But in my limited GoFundMe perusal, it does feel like begging.

It's a tough job to explain to a skeptic why it isn't exploitive in a poor country. The men are quite poor and that makes negotiations one-sided, and those opposed to the industry will not let you forget that clear inequity. Also, I think a lot of the reason professional travelers such as my friend hate sex tourism is the perception of how limited a lens it is through which to see a country. Sex tourists can argue that they aren't in Colombia only for the men, but it's a hard argument to make with his wallet in one hand and his dick in the other. Escorts traveling to First World countries to charge First World fees, now that's an empowering scenario only a complaint-puss could oppose. :-). I'm really happy for them that they are able to do that. Brazilians are very well-suited to traveling the world making men happy and bringing back cash. Good for them.

You wouldn't be the first to imagine that. :-) Fortunately, thanks AGAIN to Dane Scot and Steven Kesslar being the pioneers, the expiration date of 40 (once upon a time it was 30, then 35) is gone. Men can have successful careers into their 50s, some are in their 60s. Amazing. When this website came to be, that was unthinkable, at least not with a lot of shit talk. Largely, John Rechy was a joke when he was still Hustling while being a UCLA professor. Now he'd be a hero. Thanks again to those escorts 20 years ago, myself included :-), who were (largely) honest about age.

That's what frustrates me about the thinking around ED medication. It's also something that annoys me about therapist, about how the talk is around how no pill or needle is going to increase your libido, rather you have to address the cause, or FIRST work to find it. Nope. ED medication makes it much more likely you'll get an erection if you haven't been recently (it should go without saying, but nothing does anymore, that obviously there are some medical problems even the strongest ED meds can't work against and you'll never know unless you try). So why might ED medication help with libido itself? Being able to get hard is it's own turn on. Knowing you'll likely have difficulty getting hard is its own turn off. Worry is a turn off. Remove the focused worry or at least reduce it, boom libido returns. Also, having a hard on, alone or with others, is its own turn on, absolutely. Hello old friend :-) Lastly, there are ED medications many doctors aren't familiar with. See a Urologist. See a male Urologist. Or see a male Doctor of any kind who has lots of gay patients.

keep taking it. it's a (imagined?) cumulative effect, and waking up hard is fun, even alone. It also lowers bp too, so win win.

I was an escort for decades with great reviews and loyal wonderful client/friends. I'm smart, well educated, drove a decades old car and lived in a rent-stabilized apartment for thirty years. I can tell you from my experience my earnings never ever came to a "substantial" amount of money. We charge a lot, but charging a lot and earning a lot are not the same thing. Because many escorts burn through what they earn buying stupid things, some can sneer that we throw away the money on stupid things. A lot of us don't, it's just not a high earning career. We go days without seeing clients, even the most popular of us, sometimes by choice, sometimes by cancelations, sometimes by the gods. And nowadays, with rent and cars costing what they do, I can't imagine how escorts can even make enough to live, much less live comfortably. Anyway, very very very few escorts who've been at it a long time and very good at it have a house, health insurance to carry us into Medicare, and a self-driving car. Generally we move to Palm Springs and make do. We disappear.

A friend of mine who's been traveling around the world for years and years recently entered Brazil for her first time. She emailed: I don't want to jinx it, but I think Brazilians are the nicest people I've met anywhere. I started to respond it's more that niceness than even the giant dicks, perfect bodies, big smiles, and tight asses what makes them such good prostitutes, but she hates sex tourism so I just told her I agree (and Thailand).

Oh, and Massage tables do creak, it's nothing to worry about. Reminds me of a friend I used to climb with. When she was starting out she reached the top of a climb, rang the bell as we say, called down "ready to lower" and when she leaned back her harness made a ripping sound and she started screaming. Whoever was belaying her lowered her down very quickly and on the ground she searched the harness frantically for the tear. It wasn't a tear, it was just some of the velcro which is only there for comfort not safety. But when you hear your harness make a sound that's Like a Tear, you scream. So, your massage table will creak, that doesn't mean it's broken.

You're right. I had it backward. I said En-dive and he said On-deev. It amused me greatly to be corrected by my "date".

On overnights something a bit upscale is great. Makes it more of a night. Dinner out, breakfast in. In 1999 I overnighted with a very nice (we still email sometimes) man and we ate out at Morton's (not Morton's steakhouse, but Morton's the celebrity hangout of the time in WeHo) Two things happened that night, 1. he corrected me when I, in his estimate (now I am pretty sure it goes both ways) emphasized wrongly the first E in Endive salad. I said Ondive, he said it's pronounced "ENDive". I though that was hilarious. 2. Late the next morning I was driving to OC for my engineering job and got a call from my partner on my new and first cell phone (as "Just an Engineer" I couldn't afford one in the late '90s, but escorting put me over the top financially) saying he saw me out at Morton's the night before and am I dating someone else? And, so, that is how it came to be that I told him about my new escorting gig. Ah, Mortons. So glad I was able to experience so many great nights there. https://hollywood-elsewhere.com/the-original-mortons-sw-corner-of-melrose-robertson/ https://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/25/business/25every.html

I've had two Earthlite Spirits and both were fantastic and lasted more than 10 years of very hard use. I guess you could buy this awful color since it will be under a sheet, but both of mine were a nice sharp green. https://www.amazon.com/EARTHLITE-Premium-Portable-Massage-Package/dp/B075XQ1TB4