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And that was sort of my point to the party promoter - of all the decent, completely gay-friendly brands of vodka out there, why in the hell would you choose Stoli? Just the appearance of things is bad.

For me it's not about hating Russians at all. It's about making a stand against what's going on in Russia. Putin is ELECTED. There is something to be said for holding the people accountable for the policies of the people they elect to govern them. How pro-gay is it, if they don't change their supplier? There are plenty of other pro-gay vodka companies. I would be OK with Stoli going out of business, though I don't think that will ever happen - even with a broad-based boycott.

Just had a bit of an argument on Foursquare with a gay party promoter who had Stoli drink specials at his last party. Here are some of the facts… For more see this article… http://globalnews.ca/news/1407839/is-stoli-back-in-lgbt-community-good-graces-after-vodka-boycott/ Pro-Stoli: Stoli isn't made is Russia - it's made across the border in Latvia Stoli is a sponsor of World Pride Anti-Stoli: The grain used to make Stoli comes from Russia The owner of Stoli is Russian (I can forgive that one - it's an accident of birth) Ask 100 gay guys to name a Russian vodka and more than half will probably say Stoli - it's a symbol In my opinion what that adds up to is that Stoli puts on a good marketing face, but they won't go as far as changing grain suppliers to really say they want no connection to the atrocities happening to the gay community in Russia. If you're my age or older - it's the apartheid question all over again - do you divest or do you strategically invest in ways that show how things could be done differently? Personally, I can forgive a bar for stocking Stoli and serving it when requested though I'd prefer they not stock it at all. But a Stoli drink special? IMHO, that's going too far. To me it trivializes the persecution of our gay brothers and sisters in Russia. Stoli is a symbol of Russia to most gay men, and there are connections between Stoli and Russia even if it's not 100% Russian. Thoughts?

Next up are a batch of large(ish) rawTOP t-shirts. The ink color can best be described as slightly metallic and close to a pewter color. Black 1 x Large, Hanes (slightly lighter than a Beefy-T) Navy 1 x Large, Hanes Beefy-T 1 x X-Large Fitted, Next Level Cardinal Red 1 x Large, Hanes Beefy-T Maroon 1 x Large, Hanes Beefy-T

The first batch up is with the Breeding Zone logo and metallic silver ink. Jayson Park is doing a few scenes for HDK where he and/or the tops fucking him will wear shirts like these. Right now I just have one of this design available: Large, Black, Hanes Beefy-T [NO LONGER AVAILABLE - It's being purchased.] I gotta hang on to the smaller ones until after the shoot at which point the unused ones will be available. (I'm not sure what size the tops will take).

There has FINALLY been progress on the t-shirts that I had promised in a thread months ago. BUT as I learn the process of making t-shirts, I've decided I won't be making them to order. Instead, the process that seems to work is my husband and I pick a logo to screenprint, and a general size (small ones, medium ones, large ones) and then we mix whatever color we're in the mood to print and print with that logo and that color on a variety of different color t-shirts in that size range. As I make the t-shirts I'll post what sizes and colors are available. If you see something that's your size and a color that you like, then it's first come first served. Just post that you want it, pay for it in a reasonable amount of time, and it's yours. I highly recommend just sitting back and waiting for just the right logo/color/size combination. The process of making the t-shirts is more time-consuming than I had imagined, so the prices I was thinking of previously need to go up. Basically they'll be $15 for the t-shirt, $5 for shipping/handling. So $20 for one, $35 for two, etc. The price of shipping will be higher for folks outside of the US - expect at least $10 in shipping charges. If you fall in one of the following categories your first t-shirt is free (essentially $15 off - you just pay shipping): You've made 100+ posts and have no infractions You've made 150+ posts and only have only one or two "understandable"/minor infractions You've posted personal videos on Raunchy Fuckers that have gotten decent reviews/ratings You're a bareback porn star You work in a gay business - like a bar, a club, a bathhouse - and you're willing to wear the shirt at work You're a bareback blogger or other person of interest Also, if you get a t-shirt with a rawTOP logo, and you send me a good, usable video of you in the t-shirt saying "I'm rawTOP", then you get another t-shirt as well - completely free - no shipping charges (except outside the US - then you basically get a $20 credit). Obviously that particular offer is only for tops, vers tops, and maybe vers guys. It doesn't really make sense for bottoms. I'm planning on compiling a video of a whole bunch of guys saying "I'm rawTOP" and posting it to YouTube, etc.

I joined the Harlem YMCA a month ago and apparently there's one week in the summer when they shut down for repairs and upgrades and during that week you get to use any of the other Ys. So I was just wondering if any of them are particularly gay, or cruisy, or might have sex in the saunas or steam rooms at certain times of the day? So basically - if you have info on any of the NYC YMCAs, post it here. I will say the Harlem Y is quite straight and ever so slightly homophobic in that the black guys there aren't all that friendly to guys who aren't like them, so the gay guys just keep their heads down and workout. I'm hoping other Y's are dfferent.

I copied your original post to the Boston section and then deleted the reference to Boston in this thread. So the Boston thread can be where you find a bottom to fuck you, and this thread can be where we discuss the general idea. Anyway, I totally get what you're saying. I'm more of a vers top than a strict top these days and the idea of taking loads from a cumdump is a huge turn on for me - especially if he's got an ass full of cum when he fucks me and uses some of the cum from his ass as lube. Or better yet, dumps some of the cum from his ass into a condom, works the contents of the condom into my ass, and then fucks my then cummy hole. Just yesterday I was chatting with @GangbangBoi on Twitter asking if he ever tops. If you don't know him - he got something like 550 loads in his ass last month. He's possibly the world's biggest cumdump. Anyway, he says he does top from time to time at bathhouses between taking loads himself. And he's even recently fucked a 16 y.o. - which is legal where he lives - though in some areas if you cause harm to the minor you can still be charged with other crimes and he's one of those "my last test was neg" guys. But I gotta say I'd love to meet up with him next time I'm in Toronto and swap loads. IMHO, a load from a cumdump just seems more special than a "regular load". It's really about the #BBBH community - passing on what you've collected from other guys…

That explains why you guys are so focused on prostitutes (and not swinging, etc.) What I found most curious in what you said was that straight barebackers are being attacked on other sites. Really? I thought bareback sex was pretty much the norm for straight folk. Or, is it the worry that straight men will bring something home to their wives if they're fucking prostitutes bareback? Yeah, I personally am a bit turned on by threads like "My last hetero load" - almost makes me wanna fuck a woman so I can say I've done it. But I think all the femininity would be a huge turn off in real life. I'd need a pretty boyish woman if it was going to work. Messing with the guts of the site isn't an option because they're written by a 3rd party developer and any changes I do will get wiped out next time there's a version upgrade. BUT, I am going to move the data from the site to a completely different and more modern software package and they're working on an upgrade where two sites can have the same login (more elegantly than I do with this site and Raunchy Fuckers). I will probably be able to feature data from one site on the other site. I'll have to wait to figure out how all of that works - but that's the general idea.

During the clinical trials there were seroconversions. Most, but not all, of those seroconversions were people who didn't take it regularly. I suspect the same is true in the general population.

Agreed. They're a good bunch of folks (like you guys are as well). The nice part about having straight folks around is that bareback is largely just normal sex in the straight community. That normality is sorta what I'm shooting for (in the gay community) as well. Well, it all started with the bi guys who were fucking gay guys and then girls on the site. I suspect many of the guys in the straight section are at least a bit bi (e.g. will top a guy when pussy isn't available). Which I see as a good thing - more loads for you cum hungry bottoms!

There is basically no risk from blowjobs unless the top has a cut on his dick or the bottom has some open wound in his mouth. Even a top with a cut on his dick is probably low risk since there's something in saliva that kills HIV. BTW, we've known all of that for over 25 years now. Many of the older gay guys who are alive today are alive because they were only interested in sucking cock - not getting fucked.

Now that the straight section is getting busy, I was thinking of breaking it off into its own site/subdomain. But that would be this fall at the earliest. In the meantime there's not much you can do. Sorry.

Hit me up. I'd probably be up for fucking you.

Would love to hookup with you.

All I can guess is that the sender deletes it before you see it. Legit PM emails include the message so you shouldn't be missing anything.

Can't say I've ever been fucked by a cock with a PA, but I have one and have fucked guys with it… The thinner the ring, the more harm it can do. Thin metal can cut. Of course that's an issue for the top as well as the bottom. It also depends on the type of jewelry that's in the piercing. A curved barbell is essentially just a big bead on the bottom side of the dick (from the bottom's perspective). That will give an extra sensation. But if the top has a ring in you'll really feel it going in and when it comes out. You'll also feel it "hit bottom" in your ass if it's big and heavy. Usually when I fuck with a ring I go in, stay in, and then just pull out at the end. But if I really want to punish the bottom's hole I'll do long strokes and keep pushing the PA in and out of his sphincter. One gangbang bottom had to stop getting fucked after I roughed up his hole… http://www.raunchyfuckers.com/videos/big-prince-albert-makes-for-painful-fuck-550.html

How in the hell did you manage to stay neg until '93? If you had been so scared, how was it that you were willing to go raw 3 years later and then exclusively raw 5 years after being scared? What was going through your mind? Were you OK with becoming poz? How did you come to that point with so many people dying?

I'm in NYC as well. Would need to start with a hookup but there's the chance it might progress to something more. Contact me if you're interested. First step is seeing pics, stats, etc.

I'm guessing you're a bit hooked on anonymous sex (it's addictive). I say go back to the saunas and enjoy yourself. You only go around once. Testing isn't so much about knowing you're neg - it's about knowing when you become poz so you can get treatment in a timely manner. If you give up on staying neg you should still get tested every year or so - definitely don't let more than two years go between tests.

I could swear that one of my email addresses has been flagged by CL. Nothing I put up under that email address lasts very long. But I can put up stuff under another email address and it has a much better chance of staying up.

Pulling comments out of another thread… Can someone please point me to studies, not sponsored by the pharma industry, that show exactly how much benefit poz guys get by starting meds early compared to someone who starts before their t-cells fall below 300? In other words, I recognize that there is a point when you can wait too long (when t-cells drop below 250-300), but I'm questioning immediate treatment vs. slightly delayed treatment. In other words do poz guys really need meds the first couple years they're poz? And let's concede that going on meds is good for the community in that it will reduce infections. I realize that way of thinking resonates for Europeans, but being a rather individualistic American I'm not the type that will tell someone to go on meds to keep their random tricks neg. I've heard theories that early treatment may stop HIV from hiding out in the body and make it easier to eradicate HIV completely if such a cure comes along. But taking meds in the hope that a cure might come around some day seems silly. If such a cure comes, who knows whether having taken ARVs early will be necessary for the cure to work. What I'm looking for is actual reductions in illnesses, complications from illnesses, and actual increases in life expectancy for the person taking the meds early. Does that hard data exist in studies from researchers who aren't funded by pharma companies?

I've reinstated him with a huge warning. If you see him do anything weird or disruptive hit the little triangular "Report Post" icon under the post and let me know.

He reached out to me on Facebook last night. I was just about thinking he was for real when I noticed his FB profile was started last month. Something just doesn't feel right about him. And he's disruptive.

It would need to be a manual edit of the robots.txt file on my part, but I'm planning a site migration at which point it will stop working. Realize that Google doesn't see everything. Check the site in a different browser and don't login if you want to see what Google sees.