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You've already done the right first step - getting them to get tested. Otherwise don't step in unless someone is being blamed for something they didn't do. Then I think it's OK to say something to clear the innocent party.

Believe it… http://www.medicaldaily.com/aggressive-new-hiv-strain-west-africa-develops-aids-more-rapidly-what-recombinant-virus-263970 Realize that they do DNA typing of the viruses to track mutations. So there's good, hard science behind the idea of recombinant viruses. I think you understand the idea - a person gets co-infected with another strain (it happens) and then the two strains mutate and form a new version of the virus and that new strain is the recombinant strain. It has DNA from the first two strains, but can act differently than it's parents. The article above says that recombinant strains tend to be more aggressive. I think super-infection is more about strains that are multi-drug resistant. Co-infection is picking up another strain. Typically the strain you have will fight off the new strain, but if the new strain is stronger it can take over or an equilibrium is reached between the two (or they mutate into a recombinant). When you hear that someone's meds stopped working - that's probably because of one of these scenarios. They got exposed to a new strain and there was co-infection…

If he already gave 4 loads earlier in the evening, then I'd say he's very much a top. If he's advertising as vers top, I don't see a problem. He did his top bit for the night, now he's in bottom mode - that's normal for a vers top. If he's advertising as exclusive top, then he should know his limits and call it a night.

The news this week is that Swedish researchers have found a new more aggressive strain of HIV in Guinea-Bissau, West Africa. The strain is a "recombinant" strain – meaning it's two strains combined. What's notable about this particular strain is that, left untreated it progresses to AIDS more quickly than other strains. http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/269510.php But there are other regions that are seeing more aggressive strains of HIV as well… In Russia the numbers of people becoming poz is skyrocketing and it seems to be due to one particular strain that accounts for about 50% of new infections. http://www.advocate.com/health/hiv-aids/2013/10/20/virulent-new-strain-hiv-discovered-russia And in India they're seeing five new strains which are on the rise. These new strains result in higher viral loads than the older strains and they're thinking that higher viral loads means the people are more likely to infect others (makes sense). http://www.ipsnews.net/2012/11/evolving-hiv-strains-worry-indian-scientists/ http://www.thehindu.com/sci-tech/health/medicine-and-research/three-to-five-new-strains-of-hiv1-rapidly-evolving-says-study/article4078611.ece Back in the day before ARVs guys talked a lot about basic epidemiology. One of the foundations of epidemiology is that when two strains compete, the one that kills it's host fastest tends to lose out to ones that take longer to progress. The logic being that if you kill your host then that stops your ability to spread. So over time viruses tend to become weaker. There are a lot of exceptions to that rule, but to an extent it holds true. I always wondered what the effect of ARVs would be. ARVs let more virulent and deadly viruses survive longer – thanks to ARVs they no longer kill quickly – so the rules of natural selection (among viruses) don't apply. I would never want to go back to the days before ARVs – that was a rough time. But the downside of ARVs is more virulent viruses. So the question becomes can tools like PrEP stand up to more aggressive strains of HIV?

You MUST take PrEP under a doctor's supervision. They need to monitor you for some pretty serious potential side effects. Just ask BearBandit how bad it can go when it goes wrong… He's been there.

Sounds like you have a connection. You should think about dating him. Clearly you like seeing him take loads - so whore him out on a regular basis. Bottoms like having a top around managing the gangbangs.

My knee jerk reaction is to say go raw from fuck #1. But realistically I'd say find someone who you can experiment with. Fuck the same hole with a condom and without. I other words, start with a condom, then take it off and feel how much better it feels. Then bottom for the guy - have him start with a condom, and then take it off. Get him to cum in your ass and ask yourself after the fact how you feel about it. It'll probably freak you out for the first few hours but then you'll be jacking off to the idea within a day and want more. My other piece of advice - since you're starting from zero - is to keep track of your fucks. How many loads do you take/give? How many different guys do you hookup with? I keep a Google Docs spreadsheet and note how many guys, how many loads and weather the load was new or a repeat. When you look back in a few years you'll like having kept a log.

Wrong again. Injuries that happen while insured are always covered no matter how they happen. This is how things work now and that's not going to change. Have you ever heard of someone being denied medical care because they got an injury while rock climbing, or their diabetes wasn't covered because they ate too much and let themselves get fat, or lung cancer not covered because they got it by smoking? The answer to all of those is 'no' unless it was a pre-existing condition at the time they signed up for the plan - and the ACA takes that option off the table. The ACA doesn't really address employer plans except to make sure they meet certain minimum qualifications. It also gives small businesses the option to get their insurance through the state exchange. So, for example, I'm insured through my husband's plan at work. He's in a union and works for the City of New York - so the plan is negotiated by the City and the union - there are tens of thousands of people in their risk pool - there is no reason for those rates to change. Yes, it is about strikes. I don't tolerate people talking nonsense on this site. If you continually argue points that have no basis in fact you will be banned. Consider this your warning. And BTW, the NY State exchange is working really well. A lot of this problems are the result of the Republicans refusing to manage the exchanges for their states - they put the onus on the federal government hoping they'd fail. Unfortunately, the federal government did fail - with the website at least. But the success in states like New York shows that the concept is sound and the problems are just technical in nature and will go away in time.

User Dayvidpriddy posted some nasty stuff about barejockboi25 saying he was a flake, etc. He also claimed in a private email to me that barejockboi25 was 16 years old, yet he said in one of the deleted posts above that he made plans to hookup with him 3 years ago (when barejockboi25 would have been 13 years old). As a result of all that Dayvidpriddy has been banned for 10 days for being rude to another member.

Wrong. I watched a TV interview yesterday with the president of Mount Sinai which controls 3 or 4 of the biggest hospitals here in NYC. He was asked how healthcare would change with the Affordable Care Act and he said the biggest change will be in keeping people healthy and out of hospitals. So people who lament the closing of hospitals and count the number of hospital beds are focusing on the wrong thing. According to him the vision of the ACA is preventative care. Hence things like PrEP are extremely consistent with that vision. PrEP was barely on the radar when the ACA was drafted and given it's expense I'm not sure if there will be hiccups in coverage for it, but in terms of general strategy you're completely wrong about preventative care. Wrong again. My best friend got a cancellation letter. He just signed up under another plan his insurance company was offering that did comply with the law. He did not have to go through an exchange. Strike three… My best friend's mother is 60 years old and didn't have health insurance (her husband is a Tea Party follower). Care to guess how much insurance under the ACA is going to cost her? Just $50/month. Yes, that's not free but it's completely affordable. No one said it was free - that's why it's called the AFFORDABLE Care Act.

I stayed at Flex Cleveland when I drove out and back to IML one year. The "hotel" is simply a part of the bathhouse that doesn't have music playing so you can sleep. But with thin walls and people moving around it's not all that easy to sleep.

Obamacare will make things simpler for poz guys, not more complicated. The neg guys who are currently scared of conversion because they don't have health insurance won't have that as an issue any more, etc.

Forward the email onto me and I'll take care of it manually. But first check - did the URL wrap onto two lines? If so, did you put in the entire URL or just what was on the first line?

The switch has been made. So everything should be working now. The only thing I noticed was that the preview pic didn't load quite right on my iPhone, but that's hardly a blocking bug. BTW, the other advantage of RTMP/Flash is that you can jump to the end of the video immediately - you don't have to wait for the end of the video to load. HTML5 video isn't quite a good in that respect (or at least I'm not set up to do pseudo-streaming with HTML5 - it's not as easy to implement as RTMP).

Just found confirmation that my video player has problems with newer versions of Safari when Flash is used. https://moot.it/i/flowplayer/setup:flowplayer-5-on-safari-ma So I'll switch to HTML5 video to Safari. That should fix the problem.

I can now reproduce the problem and I see the evidence of the problem in my analytics. According to my analytics the problem seems to be confined to the desktop versions of Safari 6.1 and 7.0. I'll try to fix the problem, but in the meantime just use Firefox or Chrome to view Raunchy Fuckers. My own experience and the analytics say those are working fine. My default way of showing videos is with RTMP and Flash. RTMP gives me a considerable savings in bandwidth over HTML5 video. iOS devices don't support Flash, so they fall back to HTML5 video. I may try defaulting to HTML5 video for Safari, but that'll cost me more in bandwidth.

Please provide a link to what you're talking about. Just above the post to the right there's some number that looks like #123 - right click on it and do a "Copy Link Location" and then paste it in here. That'll tell me exactly which post your talking about.

Sent you a PM a moment ago - the activation codes have been resent to you. You're in the "In Recovery" user group. A month or two ago I blocked that group from the Groups section of the site since it's a bit of a free-for-all with a lot of chem sex mentions.

Neither of you had confirmed email addresses. The activation codes have been resent to you.

I ordered something like 144 t-shirts yesterday. Should have them in a day or so. Tyler Reed is in town this weekend. I'm hoping to get him to do a little modeling of the t-shirts, which means I have to get my act together and make some t-shirts!

Great minds think alike. I thought about that a couple weeks ago and have a data model sketched out that would accommodate the concept. Though my boyfriend brought up an important point - negative ratings aren't a good idea. Only talk about the positive. So it's more about who you can trust than who you can't trust. So you'd see things like "<10% cancel rate", but not "90% no-show rate". I'm also thinking in terms of lists of "fav bottoms/tops/flip fuckers" which could be extended to "if you like this guy, then you should like these other guys…" So basically if two tops both like the same bottom (based on actual hookups), then the other bottoms liked by top A would be suggested to top B without revealing who the other tops are. I'll also be able to put badges on people's profiles like "Fav'd as bottom by 10 tops". That gets tricky though. Let's say my profile says vers top. I want people to think of me as a top, but sometimes I let guys fuck me. Some guys really get off on topping tops, so I may get fav'd as a bottom. Not sure that's something I'd want bottoms to see since I'm in top mode with them. So some of this stuff will be contextual. I'd hide the fact that a vers bottom was fav'd as a bottom to other bottoms. But yeah... We're definitely on the same page.

Colorado and Utah would be "Central".

Bizarre. I'm on a Mac and the videos work fine for me both in Firefox and Safari.

I've been distracted with other stuff. It's still a ways off.

I've just changed the responses a lot of you gave so they fit a common format and they're easily understood. Going forward I need folks to use that format since a lot of you aren't managing to tell me what you want with enough clarity for me to actually figure out all the details. Also, I'll probably go buy t-shirts later today. Only people who gave their details by that point will be in this round of free t-shirts.