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That might be the other thing. I've never been in love. I'm not sure if at 57 one can be be in love when one never has before-or rather I'll concede that probably lots of people can be-I'm not sure whether I can fall in love at this point in my life. Or who knows-maybe it doesn't matter about my age? Maybe I'm one of those people who would never have been able to fall in love no matter what my age was. The older I get the less I like watching love stories. They make me very melancholic Gman

When I was in 8th grade, we had to give an oral book report. Now I love to read. But for some reason I didn't really read the book I was going to report on. I was going to wing it. It was a book about some kind of forest preserve, and one of the characters was Ranger Dick. Well every time I started to say his name, I started laughing. There's probably a fairly good chance it would have happened even if I had read the book. But I'm sure the nervousness over not reading the book played a big part. In any case I did not (and rightly so) do well on the report. Gman PS As long as I'm confessing, in high school I never acually finished "The Red Badge of Courage" or "A Farewell To Arms." In the case of "Arms" it wasn't entirely my fault. I didn't like the book, but I was reading it. Unfortunately I disliked it so much that I could never remember from day to day what I had read the previous day (we were were reading it during class). As a result I always had to go back to a point I knew I had read with the result that I was re-reading a lot of what I had read. And I fell more and more behind and hated the book more and more. And "Courage" as far as I can remember was just depressing with an unhappy ending. I always told myself I'd go back and read them. And I'm not dead yet. So there's still a chance. G PPS- ok and to be almost completely truthful-while I read most of it, I did use the Cliff Notes in college for the last part of "Paradise Lost" Boy, do I feel better now!! G

There was a CPA in the city I grew up in whose last name was Swindle. Gman

How so? Gman

On my iPhone it shows the escort's name in the web address. Here's one with a spaces introduced , so that the Message Center software will show it. https://rent. men/ CarsonCruise I introduced spaces between the period and word 'men' and also between the last forward slash and the first capital C. Gman

How did you go about trying to link them? It's basically just copying of the web address in the browser window, and then you paste it into the message. Gman

May I ask why not? Gman

I'll admit to liking really handsome muscular guys. But let's be honest. Even in those sainted days of yore, not everyone was a Greek g-d. And while I love masculine muscular guys, I also like guys who are rugged and other guys I classify as cute. I even occasionally like guys most people wouldn't think of as cute at all. These guys also have to generally be (what I consider) masculine and be muscular or at the very least athletic. Something else I require is a liking for deep passionate kissing. If the guy only grudgingly kisses or won't kiss at all, then I don't care what he looks like. I've passed on numerous Greek g-ds over the years because they weren't into kissing. Finally I need the guy to be gay or significantly bisexual (I'd prefer a 4 on the Kinsey scale. But possibly I'd go down to a 2 if the 'gay' wasn't confined to making porn or escorting but done because the guy truly liked being with other men.) There are others on here who don't care so much for looks or type of physique as much as they do tallywacker length or the shape/size of the escort's derrière. But the main thing not to forget is the wisdom imparted to us from Forum Members of times past as well as earlier in this very thread "De gustibus non erat disputandum," which of course freely translates as "Who the heck are you to tell me what type of (legal age) guy I should think is handsome??!!$@/$$&" Gman

Probably not. I've tasted frozen yogurt, and it's ok. But I prefer ice cream. The non-frozen looks gross to me. Gman

MT = ? 'mutual touch' Gman

Am I misreading something? I looked at the 27th and didn't think I saw Blu's case listed. Gman

My favorite color was always magenta. Is that a gay color? Does that make me gay? Gman

I was pretty nervous the first time I realized I was going to have to get a rectal exam when I was in my late 20's or early 30's-and not nervous in an excited way. I'm glad it went well for you. But I can't even imagine having wanted crayons inserted up my bum at the age of 7 or 8. And it still doesn't really sound like something I'd enjoy. Gman

He's obviously not awful looking now. But I'll admit to preferring him when he was more clean shaven. As attractive as he is though, I think knowing he was straight would have weirded me out if I had ever hired him. Gman

From an article in 2010 describing his feelings on becoming an escort http://diningwithstrangers.com/the-dinners/22-gay-for-pay/ "The market just wasn’t there to be a heterosexual escort, so if he was going to enter the profession; he’d have to do it with men. One big problem: Malachi’s not gay. “If I was gay, I would be a lesbian,” he joked. I didn’t just jump into it. I was going through a lot of emotions mixed with stress and extreme motivation to make something of myself,” Malachi said. So he turned to his friend Carl for advice on what to do. Carl said that Malachi could probably get by initially offering nude massages to clients, but that some clients would be expecting more. “It’s just a dick,” Carl told Malachi to try and make him comfortable with jerking a guy off. “When you masturbate you’re touching a dick, it’s just another guy’s dick.” Adopting this mentality — combined with debt problems and using a substantial amount of pot — was enough for Malachi to get over his strong reluctance to doing anything sexual with men." Gman

Guys who look like him always have big tallywackers. And if not in actuality, at least in my mind they do. Gman

About your Dad-I will admit to never seeing my Dad erect either. Yuck!! But any 1st cousins you might have bathed with as a youngster? Gman

I wish them every happiness. Gman PS Aside from being good looking, I'll bet he has a large tallywacker too.

Much like the Great Wall of China, I'm betting your tallywacker is visible from outer space!! It also puts me in mind of the old song-with suitably changed lyrics (of course)-"Tell me, pretty lady, 'Are there anymore at home like you?'" So are there more in your family equally blessed, Lance, or was the Tallywacker Fairy just particularly enamored of you? Gman

When I say 'normal' I'm talking about 'normal' mostly, but not entirely, in a more mathematical sense -where it signifies more the usual and customary state of things-where things trend toward the average/the middle. Whereas your use of the word 'abnormal' (and I'm not saying you think this obviously-it's just the example you are giving) is implying, I think, moral judgements if I'm understanding correctly what you wrote. Gman

I'm probably going to get lambasted for this. But I'll contend that IT's (heterosexuality) assumed the norm because it is the norm. This is a hilarious video. But on a biological basis it seems to ring very true to me. Gman

At the time it came out, I was deep, deep in the closet (although I was hiring frequently) and living in a city of population 325,000. I know I didn't want to see it in case someone saw me there by myself-I didn't have anyone there to go to the movies with. I probably also didn't want to see it because of the reasons stated above. Since then, while I'm not exactly closeted, but also not exactly out-or perhaps it's more accurate to say that sometimes maybe I'm still in and other times I'm out depending on the circumstances, I've thought about seeing it multiple times. But I haven't made a lot of effort to accomplish that. One of the reasons may be due to Heath Ledger's untimely death-but maybe not. As an aside, I did watch the first two seasons of Queer As Folk (although at the same time I was watching QAF, I religiously avoided Will and Grace and didn't watch it for years). However QAF came on in the privacy of my own "boudoir." When it came out, I was still a year or so away from having my first sexual experience. The producers/directors were really trying to shock in that first episode and really dialed up the sound when Brian took Justin's virginity. The scene was making me sick to my stomach, and I had to turn the program off. Gman

Let's say gay-themed movies then. In general I don't watch them. Gman

The difference is I'm not straight. I'm gay. So I identify more with the gay movie as opposed to the straight one. Gman

It's funny y'all say that. When dear departed Rentboy was around, I can remember looking at LA and NYC-the cities with the most selection in the United States-and the majority of guys listed were tops. Gman