Charlie

Those certainly don't look like photos of a 40 year old.

About 40 years ago, I hired really hot Italian-American brothers in their 20s, but not together. The older one was gay, and he recruited his straight younger brother (cf. the thread about that subject) to work with him as a team. That didn't last too long, because the younger one was uncomfortable about the fact that clients often expected them to do sexual things together, whereas he and his brother were both tops, and the older brother naturally expected to be the dominant one in any scene. So he split with his older brother and went out on his own as soon as he learned the business. I had hired the older one alone first, but found him scary and didn't want to do it again. I learned later from another provider that the older one had eventually been confined to a prison for the criminally insane, after cutting off a client's arms and leaving him to die (he didn't). A few years later I hired the younger one without knowing of the relationship until I saw him, and realized how strongly he resembled the older one physically. He admitted the relationship, and explained that he only worked when he needed extra money; he also knew about what had become of his brother. Although he was straight, he was actually much easier and more enjoyable to be with, but his ad disappeared shortly afterwards, and I never saw him again.

I walk much faster than my husband, who is 7 years older than I am, but then I have always walked faster than he did, even fifty years ago. It could be just because I have longer legs than he does. Yesterday I was playing tennis for the first time with a young woman in her 20s; when I happened to mention my age, she said, "But you're older than my grandfather, and he couldn't possibly keep up with you!!" If I had read this thread, I suppose I could have just explained, "But I'm gay."

"Listen, my children, and you shall hear Of the Midnight ride of Paul Revere, On the 18th of April, in Seventy-five, Hardly a man is now alive, Who remembers that famous day and year." Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

To me it suggests a 22 year old's fantasy.

For those who like correlations, can anyone explain why the gay males on both sides of my family are named "Fred" (except me)?

Aww, that poor kid with the deformed cock. The other kid is probably trying to comfort him.

It is pretty hard to say definitively whether the fact that the men in the study are gay and happen to have older brothers is related to biological, psychological, or sociological causes, or is simply a random mathematical relationship that piques the curiosity of those who want to know why some men are gay and others aren't. BTW: The only gay males I know of in my family are me, an only child of older parents; my father's first cousin, the only child of young parents; and my second cousin, the older brother of a straight younger brother, born 18 years later--but born between them was a lesbian sister. So go figure.

Of interest to me also: I was an only child, and my parents were 39/37 when I was born.

My spouse is the oldest of four brothers; he and the next oldest are both gay. The two younger brothers are the straight ones. I always found it interesting that the two older brothers had a much stronger physical resemblance to one another than to the younger brothers, while the two younger brothers strongly resembled one another. A stranger seeing a photo of the four of them together as adults is usually surprised that they are all children of the same parents. The older two look more like their mother (small and slender), while the younger two look like their father (big football linemen).

Yesterday I was playing tennis with an elderly white married couple from L.A. whom I have known for several years, who spent much of the time between games reminiscing about their social experiences with O.J. before the murders. They thought he was an extremely pleasant and intelligent man, and were shocked by the murders, although they had no trouble accepting the claim that he was guilty.

"Musky" can be an attractive or unattractive odor, depending on who is doing the smelling. One specific dictionary meaning is the smell of "unwashed human genitalia after sex." People sometimes fail to distinguish between "musky" and "musty," which usually refers to something that has become smelly from being left uncleaned for a long time.

His ad includes "manscent" and "armpits," so I'm guessing that he is actually pushing those aspects for clients who might have a fetish for someone who smells "like a man" rather than deodorized or perfumed; in several of his photos he appears obviously sweaty. But you are correct that "musky" usually has a negative connotation (unclean and unaware of the fact), especially in Black society.

And how do you explain those stains to the other people in the office?

I believe that the only majority Muslim country I have ever been to with my partner was Morocco, and it was when a gay friend decided to throw a landmark-birthday bash for himself and friends and family from all over the world, and chose to do it in Marrakesh. He booked a couple of riads for his guests, who naturally included a number of male couples, 2 to a room. The riad and restaurant hosts seemed fine with that. Of course, the party wasn't exclusively male or gay, and many of the guest couples were middle-aged to elderly, which may have made a difference in their attitude to the group.

I misread this as "Start licking your penises good-bye," and I panicked for a moment.

If anyone decides this topic is worthy of a photo gallery, I won't be watching.

We are a middle income couple, but strangely enough, our experience this year is different. We usually owe the feds and the state of CA, but this year we are getting refunds from both, even though our fixed income is similar to last year. I can only assume that our tax preparer found a new loophole related to our itemized deductibles, or else made an error somewhere. Addendum: I just remembered that last year we forgot to make some of the estimated tax payments, and this year we made them, so it could be as simple as that.

I haven't done my own taxes for many years, because they are so much more complicated than they were when I was young and single and my only income came from my employer. So I took all my documents to our tax CPA's office and handed them over. Yesterday I got an email from the accountant's office, but there were so many attachments and things that I was supposed to do to e-file, that I just called their office this morning and asked them to please print everything up so we could just come in and sign papers with a pen, and write them a check or hand them a credit card. They were very nice about it, and we are going in to sign and seal everything this afternoon. (We started using them several years ago because they quickly developed a local reputation for being very friendly toward same-sex married couples.)

Whitman wins because his posts are more numerous than anyone else's, and they are more numerous because they are almost all individual photos in the galleries. I don't think anyone is complaining about that, and the galleries are easy enough to ignore if you are not interested in looking at them--there are plenty of other subjects here.

I think DMV might actually be Delaware/Maryland/Virginia (that would make extension to Philly more logical.

His head looks too small for his body.

Many people go to college because they want to learn what to think, not how to think. Critical thinkers are the exception rather than the rule in most societies, including educational institutions.

I think that has probably always been true of "higher education," not just today.

The problem with trying to answer whether "going to college is worth it" is that you will never really know until long after you have made the choice. It turned out to be worth it, for me, when I made the choice in the middle of the last century. Who knows whether it will be worth it for a particular individual trying to decide today? So much about the world can change within a lifetime, not to mention the changes within the individual. The important things to consider are what you know about yourself and your goals, and what you know about the choices that are available to you.