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This guy is a bad penny, with name and picture changes. The latest ad shows one of the pictures from a series in a previous version of their ad (under a different name). There are other threads about this guy/group, none positive. The guy in the picture is not who shows up. I wish. The picture looks to be swiped from Chinese-language social media based on a reverse image search.

In short, kind of, yes. The monkeypox vaccine give what can be generally called sterilizing immunity. https://www.cdc.gov/poxvirus/monkeypox/clinicians/smallpox-vaccine.html But... https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2021/09/sterilizing-immunity-myth-covid-19-vaccines/620023/ To be extremely, extremely simplistic, a lot depends upon the virus, its site of infection/entry into the host, and the type of immune response elicited by the vaccine. Viruses are incredibly diverse, very cool life forms. For SARS-CoV-2, our current vaccines, while reducing symptoms of severity, don't elicit the type of immune response at the right virus' points of entry in our body, to prevent infection. And SARS-CoV-2 replicates like crazy once in the host. For monkeypox (and smallpox, and the unrelated viruses, measles, HPV etc.) the vaccines elicit immune responses that prevent infection, or slow it down sufficiently to halt it and to stop it from becoming symptomatic.

Here is, what I think is, a nuanced view of the monkeypox situation with opinions from several epidemiologists. The author of the piece won an award for her coverage of the COVID pandemic. https://www.statnews.com/2022/07/19/monkeypox-spread-many-experts-believe-the-virus-cant-be-contained/ For the TL;DR crowd, I would summarize it as: 1) there are steps on a path to containment 2) based on past and current behaviors - human and government - and the current situation, we are unlikely to execute the requisite steps 3) Therefore, monkeypox is likely to become endemic on a global basis, with a possibility to contain it in the US. I would be more optimistic on containment in the US if vaccine weren't in such short supply.

Exactly. Immunity wanes over time. From what I have read we don't know how long the immunity from the small pox vaccine lasts. Though all of us who were vaccinated probably carry some immunity, it may not be strong enough to afford what is called "sterilizing immunity", which is prevention of infection from the smallpox virus, which is considered effectively extinct. It's the same concept why people over 50 are recommended to get the shingles vaccine even though we all had chicken pox as children. Also, articles I have read say that the smallpox vaccine is 85% effective at preventing infection with monkey pox. So with only ~85% protection under optimal ("fresh") immunity conditions multiplied by the factor of waning immunity over the decades since receiving the smallpox vaccine, our protection from monkey pox infection probably isn't great. As of July 15, there are 461 cases in NYC, up from around 336 a week on July 13 (this ramp up surprises even pessimist me), and none of the 336 individuals identify as women. So odds are that it's still spreading in the population in NYC (and other cities that have recently had events that promote/lead to lots of body-to-body contact, such as Pride in San Francisco). https://www1.nyc.gov/assets/doh/downloads/pdf/monkeypox/data-daily-cases-demographics-071522.pdf Chances are that we are only at the beginning of the outbreak. The New Yorker had a good article on the situation a couple of days ago. https://www.newyorker.com/science/medical-dispatch/whats-at-stake-in-the-fight-against-monkeypox For me (and acknowledging that everybody has their risk acceptance levels), these are scary numbers. So now, after well over a year off massage tables because of COVID, I am again abstaining, at least until I can get the monkey pox vaccine.

Envious of your 25K BTU burner! I think our local building codes won't permit that hot. "The Wok" by Kenji Lopez-Alt is a great reference with excellent recipes. Any cookbook by Fuchsia Dunlop, especially if you like Sichuan and Hunan Chinese food. http://www.fuchsiadunlop.com/books/ If you Google "Fuchsia Dunlop recipes" several come up without needing to buy her books.

Here's a thread on my experience in London. The pictures used are not who shows up. I suggest "avoid".

Has anybody tried the rebranded RebelSF, formerly known as Philippe in San Francisco? I have seen Philippe maybe three times through his ad on masseurfinder. The massages were always A-grade. The first time I saw him I was younger and in shape; the sensuality was fun but did not cross into erotic. When I saw Philippe again a couple of times a few years later, I was older and less in shape (life and time take their toll). While the massage was still good, the sensual finish was mechanical, as noted by others in a previous thread on him (Philippe in SF) from ca. 2019. So now there is this... https://rentmasseur.com/RebelSF Philippe's pictures are more erotically suggestive than ever, and he's offering erotic massage fully nude, which I think is new for him. Plus his pricing is about 75% more than I remember. I am wondering whether anyone has recent experiences with him and whether the service increase is worth the price increase.

https://rent.men/MarkMilleril

I saw the subject line and immediately thought that American Airlines must be offering some amazing perks in the Admiral's Club at DFW.

Name change. He looked familiar and his use of "naturally vegan" in his ad clicked for me. He used to go by "veganman". Search for that term and you will get hits for several conversations about him. Also, there's this: http://veganman1.com

Any recommendations?

Any feedback on your meeting? He's coming to SF.

Bumping. Now in San Francisco, outcalls only. Pics in his Twitter are sexy AF.

Lucky you. He looked adorable. I am trying to imagine him after his morphing into a bear. Probably still very hot as long as he stayed away from too much partying.

In pic #15, I hope that he was purposefully going for Zoolander "Blue Steel".

"Tantra styled PNP"? I am both curious and horrified.

So I took one for the team. The guy who opened the door is not the one in the picture, OK-looking enough, shorter and less muscular. But i went ahead with the session anyway. Then when the massage started and my head was in the cradle, everything clicked that yes, there was a name change and a thread about him already. "David" later said that he head been on a US tour, the timing of which was consistent with this thread. My session was like some what other posters described in the embedded thread, not bad but overpriced. For the price I paid I could have had a full-service session with an escort. In summary, I would not repeat. i think that the pictures in the rentmasseur (and a parallel rentmen ad) are swiped from elsewhere. Maybe someone can sleuth out who and where that guy is.

It seems like I've seen this ad before under a different name. He's been a member on RM only since Feb. 25. https://rentmasseur.com/Asiantantric Something seems too good to be true. Tall - Check Muscular - Check Cute - Check Boy next door look - Check Makes me thirsty - Check

https://twitter.com/king__justice

Gratuitous stripping occurs around the 2:20 mark. And, yes, I like his underwear. And then there's 3:25. Oh, my. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nlmwM56L90o

https://rentmen.eu/KillianX Just joined Rentmen about 8 hours ago. A big strapping "Intellectual muscle boy" with a taste for Cartier. Any intel?

https://www.masseurfinder.com/massage-therapists/17975/ Tony fits your needs. He is a professional masseur who also works in one of the resorts in one of the outlying desert communities. He is a sweetheart, a little quiet at first. He has been discussed in previous threads with endorsement from others in addition to me.

Google "muzizmu" leads to his Instagram, which has links to his Twitter and Onlyfans. From a posting on his Twitter, he gives great oral. He looks very sexy, even though his appearance is not my typical type at all.

In addition to those lips, his random use of upper and lower case letters and punctuation makes me think that this "highly Educated Smart Individual" with his "Masters Degree to prove it" who "Fancy nice Dinners in good company" might be a bit of a mess.

This is an interesting thread and still early enough that I can agree with everything that has been posted. For myself, COVID and all the changes it wrought seemed to have wrecked my libido and desire to hire. I was lucky and was able to be fully vaccinated by end of February because of my work. Even vaccinated I haven't had much desire to hire. I was struggling to come out when HIV first emerged and my own caution kept me from acting on my desires for 7 years. Now, it seems like meeting up with some rando-guy who has met with who knows how many other guys in the last 5-7 days (who may or may not be vaccinated0 and who could be asymptomatically infected isn't worth the risk, just as all the unknowns about HIV were for me in the 1980s. Also, Zoom meetings have replaced all the work travel that I used to do. I used to love surveying and choosing who was available in the cities on my itinerary. The other compounding matter, which has been topics of other threads and off-topic for this one, is that the current fashion of "look" of so many masseurs and escorts is off-putting instead of attractive for me. So, now I am very occasionally having massages with masseurs who I have been seeing for years. One masseur, who I've known for a long time, and I are having energetic sex when we get together - he says that he is so horny because he doesn't want to hook up with some random person. So I am taking selective risks. But I wouldn't sample the wares on the city-by-city itineraries that I did pre-2020. I keep on thinking about what our new world looks like. The virus is endemic now. New variants are going to emerge because of various factors. So how we conduct our personal lives post-vaccination is a matter of choice. (But get the damn vaccine!. Moderna or Pfizer). As gymowner experienced and public_assistance commented, the vaccine offers very significant risk-reduction from severe COVID but does not protect from infection. The older you and other factors (compromised immune system) reduces the efficacy of protection. Some of my friends have lost 80- and 90-year old relatives who were fully vaccinated but still died from long-COVID. My late 20-something cousin and his wife both vaccinated, both have COVID now - they work in an office in a red state, seeing customers and nobody was wearing a mask. I think, maybe fatalistically, that for everybody who is going to live some semblance of life as it was pre-2020, we all have a date with this virus. I'm just not rushing to hook up with it.