SirBillybob

Oh, online only, not word of mouth, but why would very recent IG posts by the venues misrepresent the operational aspect, leading to inconvenience for customers? Anyway, I read the major points of the current Catalonian-specific decree. There is ample latitude for a bathhouse to operate, as restaurants and bars, and fitness centres, also presumably spas, can also function with mitigation measures. There is also ample opportunity for ‘minor’ infringements in a place such as Thermas, but I doubt all the regulations are easily monitored and enforced. I wonder if the payment for various durations combined with lie-flat sleeping accommodations in enclosed rooms is a quasi-lodgings workaround solution for hours of operation. There seems to be a defined threshold of collectives larger than 15 persons in a relatively confined shared space, below which concern is of a reduced level. Larger groups smooshed together with sustained sharing of breathing space appears to be the larger focus. The saunas are small clusters of people, much traffic flow as opposed to prolonged periods of close proximity shared space, and pairing offs.

My sense is that a new topic recently emerged. Not sure the OP is angling for textual selfies. lol

Right, so it is interesting that the umbrella org Sauna Pases has all venues open in Barcelona, Sevilla, and Valencia. Also seemingly expanded to 24/7, though that in itself makes sense to spread out the traffic.

You would have a dancer welcomingly approach you up close without a mask, unsolicited, as in the past, but I expect you can legitimately signal the desire for not interacting. If you pass him a polite note that you just want to drink and look, I think the other dancers will catch on. They have all the time in the world to communicate among themselves whether you are a punter worth pursuing, notwithstanding that some of them hold borderline Q-Anon-grade views. In Brazil in early March, the answer to CoV among the brothel studs was that they took fitness supplements as a matter of course.

Small gatherings of 2 or more (up to 10) are permitted with the provision of 1.5 metres between members of same household and 2 metres if not cohabiting, with no more than 3 households represented. However, you will see in restaurants and bars full tables of 4-6, etc, and it is impossible for authorities to screen the associations, monitor and enforce, etc. The strip club seating is actually more compliant because there tends not to be the occasional larger groups of friends at one table or huddled side by each at a counter that occurs in normal times. The current paltry patronage more than meets the regulations of reduced capacity by floor space. Lap dance cubicles already have the partition aspect that you will often now see, for example, between pay-per-use gaming stations. Quebec province is on paper restricting intimacy between people that do not reside together, even if they are in a primary attachment relationship. Obviously, while clinically not outrageous, this is an impossible and unenforceable prohibition in either private homes or venues where snuggling and snogging is want to happen. I suppose it is hoped that common sense precautions will prevail, the most seemingly important goal to prevent community spread to the elderly. Technically, outside of commercial sex illegality in Canada, lap dances are no more or less a deviation from the provincial transmission mitigation regulations compared to boyfriends from different households getting it on. It is appropriate for authorities to outline risks and prevention but paradoxically they undermine credibility with ridiculous wording that implies sex is permissible among those residing in the same household. But the trend here is for politicians to screw up applied clinical considerations and spur community reactivity. One or more of the individuals in a common domicile may be more prone to occupational exposure. Within the same walls means little ... bubbles can be otherwise created and maintained using common sense discretion.

I cannot think of a reason for prostate enlargement (hyperplasia) suddenly precipitated by pandemic adjustment, but it is customary in one’s fifties to have a GP or urology check up including digital rectal exam and blood test for prostate specific antigen level. Prostate changes are often implicated in changes in urination if fluid intake has been otherwise consistent. Even if PSA is in the normal range at least you have on record your own specific baseline reading for future reference. I am not picking up a genuine vibe of objectively compulsive hypersexuality. We may see an uptick in procreation evidence in the pandemic context. Orgasm frequency is an arbitrary marker of sexual pursuit that I do not put total stock in, and is but one component of the sexual response cycle, but about how many orgasms are occurring on a weekly basis? 15 on average is an outlier but not indicative of ‘pathology’; there is no objective threshold of compulsivity in this regard. Once per day on average is within two standard deviations around the statistical mean for young male adults, but a lot of research does not differentiate between intercourse and other ways of achieving sexual orgasm. I am pushing age 70 and am a once per day ejaculator, non-normative for my age group but a lifetime frequency pattern. I am not going to second guess the appropriateness of something I value and enjoy. I also reject much of the substance addiction theoretical model as some attempt its application to human sexuality. On a positive note, no sign of testosterone deficiency that tends to downregulate desire. Frequency of ejaculation is not associated either direction with risk of prostate cancer. I know of no physical or medical liability resulting from frequent orgasm or total aggregate duration of erection. Desire may interfere practically with other activities but otherwise is not inherently medically damaging.

Interestingly, it remains open although CoV prevalence in Spain has just quickly recouped that nation’s first wave’s peak of March 31st, and has now surpassed USA rolling incidence per capita. At that time, prevalence plummeted with the application of mitigation measures. I wonder if Barcelona will ‘freestyle’ it this time. Without lockdown I expect the curve will outperform the Spring pattern in terms of infection rates.

Our government’s employee wage subsidy program for businesses that can verify previous and ongoing substantial loss of revenue is extended to the end of November. This likely assists payment of servers, MCs, DJs, security personnel, etc, for the time being. Campus has deferred its puny weekend entrance cover charge. Stock still charges its modest admission fee. Meanwhile, those out of work due to the pandemic will transition from the emergency wage loss program (distinct from the wage subsidy component) to the regular employment insurance program. The latter has a time limit, followed by the more permanent regular social assistance option that does not nearly provide a living.

Ratched with Sarah Paulson, Netflix Sept 18th. Looks like great fun. For some reason I thought Louise Fletcher was older in OFOTCN but she looks rather young. Paulson is 44 starring in prequel but she can pull off looking younger.

I think Trevor Noah recently did it more succinctly on The Daily Social Distancing Show. Addendum: yes, August 24th episode.

Hahahah ... don’t matter, seeing as many of us seem to be progressively ahead of our time and I don’t give a crap about the legacy I leave in this regard. I refuse to politicize a basic desire that others get psycho about. Onlyfans, etc, holds about as much interest to me as paying to read the first-class menus of the Titanic or Lusitania would. I will read them for free out of historic interest. “Please pony up more to peruse the full dessert course offerings ... look as much as I will allow based on your donations but never touch, yet do succumb to paying for mystery-box clips”. My validation that you are interesting enough to watch should be enough payment. If you are hot enough to clear the bar for me in terms of what is basically appealing I can happily beat off to your tamer corresponding Instagram photos. I don’t think the substandard porn offerings one would expect with expanding digital media trends is any more likely to legitimize in-person commercial sex.

Perhaps you could switch it up and put that bladder urgency to more creative service?

Aren’t we due for a new more widespread emergence of a cray-cray fallacious belief system to complement the big two: religions and the insistence that extraterrestrial aliens live amongst us? The setting is ripe for grasping systematic desperate measures cold-comfort to try to psychologically adapt in desperate times. There is a lot of insidious confirmation bias built in to Q-Anon rhetoric, without needing buy-in to all of the more outrageous components. This pandemic seems to spawn a novel eugenics state of affairs, where the fittest that survive are both disinclined to naïveté and able to skirt the physical boundaries of the willfully contagious (ignorance default) and those innocents within their reach.

Not mentioning any specific venues in Montreal but I have prowled around The Village zone the past few weekends, about a 25-minute walk from my home, bored out of my skull in semi-confinement but curious about the scene. It seems apparent that the strip clubs might barely be making ends meet. I am comparing 20 years of observation, based on the approximate evening timeframe of 21:00-22:30 ... not hanging around all night for this, but sitting on some of many newly installed street benches, occasionally sticking my head in for a peek where possible. I would estimate the current patronage volume at about 25% the more recent pre-pandemic ‘normal’ and 10-15% the greater busyness that occurred up to the higher 2000s (eg, 2002-2008). I cannot imagine any increase when the street is imminently repurposed for vehicular traffic and there is extremely reduced capacity for informal pedestrian hanging out.

You mean that he will indulge in any Lion King stage costume fantasy of one’s choosing but was reluctant to openly state that?

Sometimes I feel so sorry for celibate friends that have money to burn and send around photos of hot guy fantasies but would blanche and be all ‘judgey’ at the idea of hiring, that I am tempted to hire a provider to set up a pickup that seems random and have my friend believe he is being sought after. But most of these older fellows would probably talk themselves out of follow-through.

Made me chuckle ... spread on sheet with forced spanking.

Remember Emma Donoghue’s Room, made into the award winning 2015 movie? I just finished her latest, The Pull of the Stars. It is set Fall 1918, another mainly claustrophobic environment, a special makeshift maternity ward in a hospital supplies closet for Spanish flu infected women giving birth in Dublin. The protagonist a nurse/midwife. Conceived and written just prior to the current CoV pandemic. It reads at a blistering thrilling pace. If you think we have it bad ...

It may fall into a grey area. Massage parlours can operate with face covering. Sexual entertainment venues are restricted from reopening. I don’t think that the playbook of a place like Villa Giani actually falls within a defined UK commercial category within the phased lifting of lockdown. It is basically a short term room rental where two people convene but it is likely viewed as a brothel. Commercial sex between provider and client is not illegal but operating a brothel, pimping, etc is a crime, rendering this place vulnerable during these desperate times.

On a very few occasions over several decades I suspect that a provider has spilled the beans outside of the dyadic bubble about selling me sex. Never ever disclosing my commercial habit to others in my social radius (mostly thirsty yet perpetually parched), outside of likeminded punters who are separate from my peeps, gives me the advantage of plausible deniability, however delusional my thinking about this. lol

Tall? Did something fall short?

Am I missing something? I have seen many pleasant yet not particularly outstanding profile images. Is there a consolidated list of the more impressive ones?

Turks & Caicos and US Virgin Islands also just took a major incidence hit.

LOL, no more distinction domestic and foreign ... all in it together.

Aruba just posted a slightly higher than 1/1,000 per capita single day incidence, the highest single day count of anywhere anytime duration of pandemic. I do not know the context. A blitz of testing last week? A retroactive data dump due to a reporting glitch? An artefact of 5 weeks open to tourism (4 weeks for USA), that all accounts for 80% GDP? If it’s the latter, I wonder if it will dial back opening and other Caribbean nations will get cold feet. So if you are a tourist there now, imagine the chaos, at least 115 cases in a small area. All that would have taken would be one or two cases from Canada or USA to spur growth. A negative test had been required for travel from ‘red zone’ American states but tests are egregiously inaccurate. The probability of at least one infected passenger on a flight based out of most continental international USA airports is currently 100%. Look Ma, the insurance premiums are escalating.