androkid has passed away

[OneFinger]

>(Hooboy must be in a bad mood about something.)

 

IM Moore is back and that would put anyone in a bad mood. :+

 

I really appreciated knowing that androkid had passed. I didn't know him well but considered him to be a wonderful man. I'm sure his passing is difficult for his family and friends.

[Guest Love Bubble Butt]

>I think the concern was that Androkid's family didn't know

>about the escorting side of his life and weren't familiar with

>the Muscle Service Station, so his friends didn't want to

>increase the likelihood of the family inadvertently learning

>that info or being told it by some not-so-well-wisher.

 

You've made a very good point. One I had not thought of. If it was important to him to keep these details from his family while he was alive, it's safe to assume he would prefer they not know after he has passed on. And they don't need to know.

[Guest]

>Maybe not much in a pre-Internet world, but search engines

>have changed things. A friend of mine keeps an online diary

>in which he wrote about, among other things, his mother's

>death, using her real name. Members of his family stumbled

>across his journal after having done an Internet search on his

>mom's name, and learned a whole lot of things he wasn't

>prepared for them to learn at the time.

 

I guess I have to respectfully disagree. Somebody who puts his mother's real name on a worldwide web online diary is not protecting his privacy. He's flaunting his life publically. There's certainly nothing wrong with a guy who wants to present much of his life as a (very) open book. However, one can't claim that someone who keeps an online diary is guarding his privacy.

At the same time, someone who posts his full-body pictures on the web cannot claim disappointment at being recognized. People who know the poster are not going to have trouble recognizing him on the WWW (or magazine cover or VCR cover). The lack of anonymity is one of the reasons escorts who can publish their pictures get so much more business and $$ per meeting. Each escort (or porn star) has to make his own measured decision when weighing anonymity versus business.

[Guest DevonSFescort]

I don't disagree with anything you said, but obviously Androkid's family wasn't a party to his decision to escort and to post photos of himself on the web. It's his family that Ace and Hoo are trying to protect by not posting his real name on sites devoted to muscle service and escorts respectively.

[Guest Marcus Wolff]

men --

 

early death is a tragic part of life. twenty-four is much too young to die.

 

androkid was a physically beautiful young man. his death is a waste.

 

i think that this message thread is missing a very important part of the picture.

 

i doubt that the "andro" in his screen name was short for "android." most likely it stood for "androstenedione." andro is a hormone that has become a star in the bodybuilding supplement industry.

 

there is much information available on the potential dangers of andro use. here is just a little to illustrate my point:

 

"When the andro craze took off in 1998, nobody really knew how the supplements affected the body. Now, thanks to a landmark study released in 1999, scientists have some answers. And they're not the answers that andro users want to hear...

 

"...Since andro is a direct precursor of testosterone and estrone, it's possible that it could increase the activity and the risk of side effects of estrogen and and drugs that deliver male sex hormones. (People suffering any kind of hormone imbalance should also avoid andro.)...

 

"...A sudden 400 percent increase in testosterone could set off extreme aggression and possibly damage the liver, according to a team doctor for the National Baseball Association. Still, the Iowa State study of 20 men who took andro suggest that the supplement can pose serious risks. The subjects who took andro had a 12 percent drop in their HDL cholesterol (the good kind), a change that would likely increase the risk of heart disease in longtime users.

 

"Researchers suspect prolonged use could lead to other problems. Elevated levels of andro in the blood may promote cancer of the pancreas and prostate; men concerned about prostate problems, in particular, should avoid it. Theoretically, andro could also cause bone growth problems in children, premature labor during pregnancy, and masculinization in women, including male-pattern baldness, according to the Natural Medicines Comprehensive Database.

 

"And although none of the subjects showed side effects from their revved-up estrogen levels, it's conceivable that any man who took the supplement long enough would risk growing breasts. Good luck finding that on a warning label."

 

(complete story can be found at http://www.principalhealthnews.com/topic/andro)

 

i mean no disrespect in this post. i send it out as a cautionary tale.

 

-- marcus

[Guest]

Most deaths for men in their 20s come from accidents, suicide, homicide, drug use, and AIDS. Of course, "natural deaths" (other than AIDS) do occur but more rarerly. Unless you know something I don't, I think it's premature to ascribe his death directly to androgen use. In fact, it's hard to imagine how a 25 year-old's death could be due directly to androgen use (I suppose he could have crashed his car while in a "'roid rage" or something). Since we haven't heard the cause of his death anywhere on this string, I would guess that his death came from one of the less "socially acceptable" reasons, i.e. suicide, drug use, or AIDS, rather than an accident, homicide, or natural causes.

Again, the cause of his death is not a secret. Death certificates are public documents and must by law report the true cause of death (privacy rights vanish with one's last breath!). I don't mean to minimize the dangers of illicit androgenic steroid use. Nevertheless, if drugs are involved in an accidental death, the most likely culprits tend to be cocaine, amphetamines, and heroin.