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I hired Ace for a weekend almost right after he came to notice here. The pictures I have date from January 2013. Ace mentioned at the time that he was out of a long term relationship and been talking-possibly online- with a "guy" from California. I'm pretty sure the "guy" he was talking about was Tyler. I'll bet there is a good chance this was before the Palm Springs Dinner as the dinners were usually held in the warmer months. And I don't think Ace would have been well-known enough in 2012 to have been a guest at a Forum Dinner. Gman

I hope you are not going to try to tell me next that Phillip Schuyler did not have a multiracial family. Gman

Don't be embarrassed in the slightest. I didn't know what was going on at first either. I couldn't figure out why the building "was turned" like that. Then the words 90 degrees percolated through my agéd brain, and I realized what the cartoon meant. Gman

You wound me, sir. I don't think anything like that at all. I don't need the guy to be an incredibly horny stallion for me. Lord, I'm a terribly out of shape 59 and almost 1/2 year old. What would I do with a Maserati going 185? In the words of a popular song, what I for the most part am looking for is "one small thrill (ok maybe two?)" without (usually) anything (much) dirty going on. What it has to do with for me is the gender the guy is actually attracted to. I have negligible sexual attraction to the fairer sex (which may be one reason among millions that I'm not attracted to overly effeminate guys). And I would prefer to have sex with guys who in the main have the same attractions I do. Gman

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I tried to sign up for the freebie and still was charged. Plus I read an article that said they had stopped the free trial. But maybe I did something wrong. Gman

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I felt that way about Rent when I first heard about it. I thought why do I want to see a play about junkies. I changed my mind after I saw it. Gman

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Oh no, no, no-I'll have to beg to differ. Cilantro may taste like soap. I'm on the fence about it. But Earl Grey Tea is sublime among teas. It's delicious iced or hot. Let the following be proclaimed throughout the land!! There must be no denigrations of the good Earl in my presence. Gman

https://rent.men/TandA Just taken today and posted here with the express permission of Ace of @TylerandAce. Gman

I want to thank everyone. I looked up tentacles and tomatoes. But I never found that. Y'all are the best!!!??? Gman

Right now he lists being versatile. But of course I guess that might mean only versatile orally. Sigh, I'm so tired of straight guys as escorts. We need someone who's gay, versatile/or bottom, who kisses, and looks like him. Gman

I had sliced a few pieces of tomato to put on a pizza. Leftover tomatoes never keep that well after cutting, so I was cutting the remainder for a salad. All of a sudden as I'm slicing deeper into the tomato, I see tentacles in the tomato I'm cutting up. I was totally grossed out. They seemed to be attached to the innards of the tomato. They weren't soft like I'd think a worm would be. They were hard like uncooked vermicelli noodle or those noodles in Chinese food that look a lot like styrofoam before they are cooked. Once I had recovered, I pulled out the pizza that had been in the oven 10 minutes and took off the tomato slices. This tomato had been part of a bunch connected by a stem. I had already eaten one days ago. I hope there wasn't a space alien in that one too. But I took the last tomato in the bunch, and there was an alien there too. In fact that's what the picture is of as I was grossed out totally but he first one and threw it away. So anyone know what it is? I emailed the county extension agent. But I don't expect to hear anything back from him until next week at the earliest. Gman

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So hot in Texas right now!!!https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=100009275115083/posts/2648830208769457 Gman

I am both all agog and aghast!! Is that tallywacker real or photoshopped? Enquiring minds want to know. Gman

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You made a comment that piqued my interest and started me thinking. My libido hasn't been great for awhile. Some of it is probably depression. But there's probably a large component of being almost 59-1/2 and not being in very good shape at all. There also may be some hypogonadism as I'm on prednisone which reduces the production of testosterone. My libido was a lot worse when I was on 60 mg daily for around 8 months. I'm currently at 12.5 mg. I'm going to see the urologist for a routine check up next week. But I'm also going to ask him about checking my testosterone levels to see if I might need some testosterone injections But that made me wonder how often escorts might be injecting testosterone-not for bodybuilding-but maybe to keep their libido up. Gman

Overlooked No More: Karl Heinrich Ulrichs, Pioneering Gay Activist Before the word “homosexuality” existed, he argued that same-sex attraction was innate, and that those who experienced it should be treated the same as anyone else. Karl Heinrich Ulrichs, a lawyer and journalist, helped forge the concept of sexual identity as an innate human characteristic in pamphlets he wrote from 1864 to 1879. By Liam Stack (Overlooked is a series of obituaries about remarkable people whose deaths, beginning in 1851, went unreported in The Times.) By the time the lawyer and writer Karl Heinrich Ulrichs took the podium at a meeting of the Association of German Jurists in 1867, rumors about his same-sex love affairs — and the subsequent threat of arrest and prosecution — had already cost him his legal career and forced him to flee his homeland. Standing in Munich before more than 500 lawyers, officials and academics — many of whom jeered as he spoke — Ulrichs argued for the repeal of sodomy laws that criminalized sex between men in several of the German-speaking kingdoms and duchies that existed in the years before the creation of a unified German state. “Gentlemen, my proposal is directed toward a revision of the current penal law,” he said, according to the historian Robert Beachy in the 2014 book “Gay Berlin: Birthplace of a Modern Identity.” Ulrichs described a “class of persons” who faced persecution simply because “nature has planted in them a sexual nature that is opposite of that which is usual." Same-sex attraction was a deeply taboo topic at the time; the word “homosexuality” would not even exist for another two years, when it was coined by the Austro-Hungarian writer Karl-Maria Kertbeny. So the ideas in Ulrichs’s speech — that such attraction was innate, and that those who experienced it should be treated the same as anyone else — were revolutionary. His remarks preceded by more than 100 years the Stonewall riots in New York in 1969, which are widely seen as the start of the modern L.G.B.T.Q. rights movement. They helped inspire the rise of the world’s first gay rights movement, 30 years later in Berlin. They foreshadowed the imposition of a sodomy law across the German Empire that would later be used by the Nazis to target gay men, thousands of whom were killed in concentration camps. And they made history: Ulrichs is believed to have been the first person to publicly “come out,” in the modern sense of the term.“I think it is reasonable to describe him as the first gay person to publicly out himself,” Robert Beachy said in an interview. “There is nothing comparable in the historical record. There is just nothing else like this out there.” His speech was also deeply unwelcome at the 1867 meeting, where the audience erupted in shouts of “Stop!” and “Crucify!” that ultimately forced Ulrichs off the stage. For much of Ulrichs’s life, same-sex relations were widely seen as a pathology or as a sin to which any person could succumb if seized by wickedness. These views still exist in some parts of the world. Ulrichs helped forge the concepts of gay people as a distinct group and of sexual identity as an innate human characteristic in a series of pamphlets he wrote from 1864 to 1879 — at first under a pseudonym, but under his own name after he gave his speech at the 1867 conference. “By publishing these writings I have initiated a scientific discussion based on facts,” he wrote in a letter published in 1864 in Deutsche Allgemeine, a pan-German newspaper. “Until now the treatment of the subject has been biased, not to mention contemptuous,” he added. “My writings are the voice of a socially oppressed minority that now claims its rights to be heard.” His work was widely read by sex researchers. One of them, Richard von Krafft-Ebing, cited the pamphlets in his pioneering 1886 text, “Psychopathia Sexualis,” which described homosexuality as a mental illness. In later editions, Krafft-Ebing published letters from men who had read about Ulrichs in his book. The letters showed that not only did Ulrichs’s pamphlets explore theories about sexuality, but they also helped foster a sense of community. “I cannot describe what a salvation it was for me,” one of the men wrote, “to learn that there are many other men who are sexually constituted the way I am, and that my sexual feeling was not an aberration but rather a sexual orientation determined by nature.” Karl Heinrich Ulrichs was born on Aug. 28, 1825, in Aurich, in the kingdom of Hanover in northwestern Germany, to an upper-middle-class family that included several Lutheran pastors. He studied Latin and Greek before beginning his legal studies at the University of Göttingen. He secured prestigious positions in the Hanoverian Civil Service, but rumors about his same-sex relationships — and laws against public indecency — led him to resign his post as an assistant judge in 1854. He became a journalist for Allgemeine Zeitung, a pan-German newspaper published in Bavaria. In the years before the invention of the German word “homosexualität,” a term that eventually found its way into English and other languages, Ulrichs’s pamphlets provided readers with a morally neutral vocabulary to describe themselves. He coined the words “urnings” to refer to people we now call gay men, “urinden” to refer to people we now call lesbians, “dionings” for people we now call heterosexuals, and “uranodionism” for what is today called bisexuality. Those terms were inspired by his study of the classics, in particular the story of Uranus, the god of the heavens, who was portrayed as both father and mother to the goddess Aphrodite in Plato’s “Symposium.” The concept of transgender people as distinct from gay, lesbian or bisexual people did not exist at the time, said Paul B. Preciado, a transgender philosopher at the Pompidou Center in Paris who has written about Ulrichs. Ulrichs’s writings, including his pamphlets and a series of letters to his family, whom he informed of his same-sex desires in 1862, were based on an understanding of gender and sexuality as fundamentally interconnected. For Ulrichs, urnings were a sort of third gender who possessed the physical body of a man but the inner spirit of a woman, which Preciado described as “a female soul confined within a man’s body.” Ulrichs was a German nationalist, Beachy said, and in addition to the legal emancipation of urnings, his other great political passion was German unification. He used his writings to oppose the growing domination of the Kingdom of Prussia, a military and political powerhouse that seemed determined to bring the other German states under its control. He feared that Prussia would succeed in uniting the German states and would introduce its sodomy law into lands that did not criminalize same-sex activity, including his native Hanover. Ulrichs’s fears about Prussia proved correct. Prussia annexed Hanover in 1866, and Ulrichs was jailed twice in 1867 for anti-Prussian activities before he was banished from his homeland. His personal papers were confiscated, including a list of 150 suspected urnings in Berlin that was taken to the desk of Otto von Bismarck, who orchestrated the unification of Germany in 1871. By 1872, the Prussian sodomy law, also known as Paragraph 175, had been adopted by all the states of the new German Empire. It was a crushing blow for Ulrichs. He published one final pamphlet in 1879 and then crossed the Alps by foot and settled in Italy, where his public advocacy for urnings ceased. He spent his remaining years editing a small Latin-language literary journal. He died on July 14, 1895. He was 69. Paragraph 175, which criminalized sex between men but did not address lesbianism, remained in place in some variation for more than 100 years. It was ultimately repealed in 1994.In 2017 the German Parliament voted unanimously to void the convictions of roughly 50,000 men who had been prosecuted under the law since World War II and to compensate thousands who were still alive. Ulrichs was celebrated by early-20th-century gay activists like Magnus Hirschfeld, but after the rise of Nazism his contributions to history were forgotten for decades. Today there are streets named for him in Berlin, Munich, Hanover and other parts of Germany.

I have the same questions you have. @Leafy's post is puzzling. I'm wondering if this guy is some porn star that @Leafy thought most people would recognize. Gman

Is there some type of advantage for the escort that I'm not savvy enough to figure out in putting that you are versatile in the ad copy but having "Ask Me" in the Position Listing? Gman

Maybe it's similar to "He Who Must Not Be Named." This is "Him (should be "He") who must be desired." Gman

Who said anything about authentic? After all theu use pot roast for machaca. But authentic or not, it's still delicious. And so was mine. ? On a different but related subject as it still refers to Mexican food-someday, I'm going to get the courage to cook up some caldo de res (beef soup for those whose Español is a bit lacking). Gman

There's no real sauce except for the salsa. Here's the description from a Houston IHOP Menu- Machaca Scramble $9.39 Scrambled eggs with shredded beef, Jack & Cheddar, onions, jalapeños, tomatoes & tortilla strips. Served with hash browns, tortillas & our salsa. Gman