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I think this is pretty harsh-actually there's nothing pretty about it. It's just harsh. And I have to totally disagree-especially about the me being weird for not liking to rim and for originating the thread in the first place. And for the record I have no plans now or in the foreseeable future to force myself to rim (or to bottom for that matter). Jacob Marley was often heard to remark that "Mankind should have been his business," obviously meaning that we should try to have some charity in our heart for others. Or to put it in slightly more current idiom, "If you don't have anything nice to say, then ...," well we all know how it ends. @Manhattan please cut yourself some slack for needing to reply. Just as we ought hold some leniency in our heart for others, especially at this hectic time of year we ought to remember to keep a bit of that leniency for ourselves. In closing may I add Chag Sameach to my fellow Message Center-ers. I'm a little late in saying it in this year of 5786. But better late than never. May we all be in Yerushalyim next year.

I've just finished watching it. I might have more to say after a larger number of people see it. But my first impression is as follows... PS: One additional thought/question-isn't it funny that François Arnaud is getting top billing when he has a much lesser screen time than the two younger leads?

I don't get it. Oh and Mr. Why-Don't-You-Rim texted me this morning to say he liked our meeting last night. I texted 5 minutes later. He didn't respond. I texted around 1:30 PM and didn't hear from him. And then texted about 7:30 PM and didn't hear from him. It's very strange because he says he likes me. And while he is supposedly busy at work, he has time to check Growlr. But doesn't text me. It just confirms my view that men are scum.

I've never tried it. And still don't like it. Oh by the way I saw Mr. Why-Don't-You-Rim last night. It was unexpected. I didn't know we were meeting until about 20 minutes before. We kissed, stroked, and had some Clintonian Sex. It was nice. I hadn't seen him for several weeks because he lives out of town.

Hoping you are able to meet him. Aside from piercings, he's just my type. Assuming he's a nice guy, I would have been a regular visitor of his if he had been advertising back in my Tacoma days in 2010.

Well you are right. But as I'm not that attractive -they might as well all be TV fantasies as far as I can prove. On the other hand lightning may occasionally strike even for me. I may have related this before-almost 15 years ago I used to frequent a Starbucks in the Uptown area of Dallas. It was the spot I'd use for coffee dates from guys I was meeting from the apps. There was a very cute, young barista there. He was probably about 22 with me being about 47 at the time. I never flirted with him or anything. I might have had a wistful thought wishing he were gay. Well about a month or two after that, I was at the TBRU (Texas Bear Round Up). It's a yearly bear convention in Dallas. I had gotten there late one night, and had missed the underwear fashion show. But whom should I see outside the ballroom where the fashion show had taken place, but my favorite barista drunk as a skunk (only way he could force himself to compete) in a pair of tighty whities. We talked for a bit, but then his boyfriend came to collect him. A few weeks later I was back at Starbucks. My cute barista didn't remember me because he had been drunk. I reintroduced myself, and we became -well it's hard to describe. We would go out to eat or to a club semi-frequently. I moved away after 9 months. But on my infrequent trips, we'd have an occasional fling. The flings ended because around the time I was moving back to Dallas, he met some online Daddy's. They hit it off, and he moved to their state. They became a throuple

I'm not usually into multiples. But I once hired Andrew Justice for a weekend. As he was versatile, he bottomed for me. But even if you had never seen any of his porn, you could tell just by looking at him, that Andrew was an incredible top. I thought it was a shame that Andrew wouldn't be able to do that with me. So I hired a 'minor' porn star Justin Taylor one night for a few hours to observe what it looked like for people who were good at sex to have sex. Justin was happy to bottom for Andrew and literally almost threw himself onto Andrew's tallywacker. Andrew pounded him like a piledriver. It was definitely two people who were better at sex than I would ever be. But at one point Justin developed some minor bleeding. They both said, "It happens." Justin then grabbed some toilet paper, wiped himself, the bleeding stopped, and he threw himself back onto Andrew.

Provocative but not alluring? I'm intrigued.

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Is it just me, or does he look overly lordotic and should see a surgeon?

I met him once about 25 years ago. It was at the Joseph Beth Bookstore in Cincinnati for the book signing of his (at the time) new book "Skipping To Gomorrah." I think it was partially written as a response to something Bill Bennett the former Sec of Education had written or said. I spoke with him a bit at the bookstore. Later that evening he was going to be eating at the (now long closed) Hamburger Mary's in downtown Cincinnati, and I went to see him there too. It was either right before or right after my 1st meeting with an escort-and my first sexual experience. I can't really remember what I wanted to talk to him about. It might have been about not wanting to be gay and being closeted. I do remember not being able to express what I wanted to say. There's a good chance I didn't know exactly what I wanted to say-or what I wanted from him.

I didn't totally understand this. Did you mean that if you wanted an escort to use a 'female' condom, they might react like men often do to the thought of wearing a 'normal' condom?

There's no way to be totally safe anytime you have sex unless you're in a monogamous relationship with someone who is totally negative for any STDs. It's kind of a risk you have to take if you have sex with anyone not just escorts. There are things you can do to decrease the risk of disease -note this is not comprehensive 1) Wear a condom -if a bottom, try one of those female condoms 2) Don't Rim either passive or active 3) Don't French kiss 4) PrEP and DoxyPrEP 5) Get checked every three months or so by a knowledgeable doctor

In that case-and I'm not normally into orgies-but I'd hire Mike Gaite and Andrew Justice together.

Sometimes it's mainly my tallywacker they're attracted to-and not so much the rest of me. I'm undersized in length but am a bit thicker than average. I'm def not saying I'm porn star thick, but I'm probably thicker than at least 40 to 50% of the guys I meet. I'd rather they liked the whole package (me) and not just 'my package'. But hey, my tallywacker is a part of me. So I'll take what I can get.

I was surprised. I thought it didn't drop until 6 pm. I'm --except for this brief interlude to check the MC-watching it now.

I have no idea what this means. As for Scott and Kip, I'm not usually into ménage a trois, but for them I might make an exception. On the other hand this is totally fantasy fare. Let me enumerate the ways. These are supposed to be famous hockey players in hockey cities. It should be almost impossible for these three to get away consistently with illicit hook-ups I mean... 1). Where are all the loyal fans who should be hounding them-and the more intense groupies following their every move? 2). Where are all the paparazzi? 3). Scott finds a 'barista' who's just as handsome as he is and looks to be in just as great a shape. Because obviously all barmen at Smoothie shops are incredibly handsome and muscular. It must be all the magical açaí they use in the smoothies.

I'm watching a (whisper it) pirated version of the show. In episode 2 there's a long sequence that occurs during the Sochi Olympics all in Russian without subtitles. I'm wondering if in the version on HBO + there might be English subtitles during this scene.

I might want to go with a sure thing. Someone I know I'm compatible with. But I think most of my previous friends have retired. One who hasn't is Mike Gaite. So I think I'd fly him to me.

So you're going for a combination of the two?

This is a toughie for me. Ilya is obviously more muscular. The actor is from my home state of Texas. And objectively I'd say he's handsomer than the actor playing Shane. But Shane has a certain "je ne sais quoi" that appeals to me. It's more of a wholesome boy next door kind of look. So today I'm giving my vote to Shane by a squeak. Ask me another day, and I might pick Ilya.

I know it's been acclaimed by 'those-in- the-know." I've started it several times and have been put off by the accent. Previously I had trouble reading the subtitles due to cataracts. I've had one eye done. So now that I can see distance again, it's probably time to try Blue Lights again.

Well I thought I was going to be the first one to start a new thread about this really nice (going by episode #1) mini-series. But I guess I'm late to the party. The two leads are both incredibly handsome. While Ilya states that he has had M2M sex before-I'm trying to figure out whether Shane has done anything on the sly before or not. If not, I'm wondering did he know he might like men-or was it a totally new feeling when he saw Ilya in the shower. He's obviously showered in locker rooms with other boys/men for years. Still I enjoyed the first episode. Never having been an athlete and never having been in shape -athletes are definitely my fantasy type. But that's why hiring was so good for me. As much as possible I hired athletic or muscular guys. And even occasionally -I've managed to have time with some athletic guys on a non payed basis, but it's been awhile. To recap I've only seen episode #1 so far. I enjoyed it except for the last scene where they were kissing on the roof. It made me uncomfortable-not their kissing-but the 'where' of their kissing. I couldn't help thinking in modern terms. Shane was worried 'back then' about being caught out in the relatively open roof. I was thinking how even more easily they might be caught nowadays with the proliferation of cameras everywhere. As for the following complaints about the father being ignorant of YouTube-- YouTube came online in 2005 per Wikipedia @MikeThomas That scene was set in 2008 -possibly early 2009. It's very easy to conceive that a non tech savvy father wouldn't know anything about YouTube. Also look at their phones. They looked like regular flip phones. The first iPhone came out in 2007- so not everyone had them yet. I think 2008 or 2009 was when I got my 1st iPhone -the 3G. I remember buying it-and then shortly after they came out with the 3GS. I wasn't happy about just missing out on the newer model. As I recall it wasn't until probably around 2011 or so that I did my 1st credit card transaction to buy some tickets to something using an iPhone. Actually it wasn't me using my phone. I was in Seattle with an escort I had hired for a weekend from Man To Man Escorts. I won't name him as I can't remember his nom de escort alias only his real name. (We are distantly in touch on Facebook. We're FB 'Friends, but he doesn't post much. Plus he's married -to a man. And I don't know if his hubby knows anything about his previous career. So I don't interact with him a lot. It may save him some awkward questions from his hubby about how he knows me) If memory serves, we were eating lunch or dinner at Il Fornaio. (That was probably my favorite Italian restaurant in Seattle. It's unfortunately been closed for years although I believe there are still Il Fornaios in California. ) We wanted to go somewhere. He asked for my credit card. I was antsy because I had heard about credit card scams and fake sites. But he used his phone and my credit card to buy the tickets. It's easy to forget that not so long ago we didn't have the smartphone technology we have today-2008 was only 17 years ago. But even in that relatively short time period, things have changed dramatically. I almost never go to a personal computer anymore -but use my phone for most things.

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