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What's your motivation? Is it financial? If established studios aren't picking you up have you considered making yourself into a well-known amateur on some place like XTube or the video chat sites? You can actually make some money on those... There's a bit of an art to it though... I know I keep saying I'll get a tube site up, but I really will at some point this year and I'm hoping you'll upload the videos you've shot of yourself there...

When I look at myself in the mirror and I'm naked, I'd say maybe a 4 (I don't get into guys like me at all). When I'm dressed I'd say a 6 or a 7. But to guys who like stocky, masculine dom tops, I'm probably an 8.5 or a 9 - even naked

I'm sitting here with Trojan Rock of Alpha Male Fuckers. He's based out of London. He said Kennington Spa, but then he checked with his cute twinkish colleague from EuroCreme and he says Chariots in Streatham. Not sure if I have all those names spelled correctly, but hopefully it's enough to find the places. A few minutes later Trojan said, "Oh, The Locker Room in Kennington - if that place is still open it was disgusting..."

I tried that before, and just tried it again... See the screenshot - Male looking for Male = casual encounters.

I've been trying to post ads for the gangbangs I'm hosting on Craigslist and having a horrible time getting things to show up in the m4m section. There used to be a link where you could pick m4m when you were posting an ad. Now it seems everything goes into "casual encounters" and when you try to change the location after the ad is posted it stops showing up completely... Any hints?

I had a bottom flake on me. The tops are expecting young bottoms at that gangbang. I've got one, but prefer two... If you're teens or 20-something with a decent build (sorry not looking for cubs)... Contact me...

The bottoms have been picked and confirmed. Can't really take on more bottoms unless I get a lot more tops signing up...

Well, after posting this and doing some analysis of what's selling for me (which should reflect what you guys like), I'm going to start with a site named HotBarebackPorn.com which will be a rawTOP branded version of Bareback Box - there are hundreds of full DVDs on there so it will plenty of really high quality videos and they're all properly licensed - the producer gets a cut every time someone watches one of their videos. And like Bareback Box, Hot Bareback Porn will start at a price point of $9.95/mo - so it's accessible. That's not really a tube site, but it has most of the videos that people rip off when they do big tube sites. Next up will be an amateur tube site where you guys can upload your videos. I think I'll call it RaunchyFuckers.com, but it may just be videos.breedingzone.com. I gotta work on getting the user names here integrated with the user names on the tube site - so it'll take a little while to get in place. I'll work on finding compatible videos that can be uploaded to the site to grow the number of videos - both extra long promo videos from sponsors as well as genuine amateur videos... Last up will be a tube site of videos I've shot and have documentation for (IDs and model releases). Probably videos.rawtop.com, but may use BarebackFuckClub.com or if I don't use RaunchyFuckers.com for the amateur site I may use it for this site. The difference between Bareback Box and Hot Bareback Porn will be that I'll make it so people who buy a membership to HBBP will get updgrades on the other sites - mostly in the form of bigger, higher quality videos - maybe the ability to download the videos - and possibly members only videos. It may seem weird to split things into so many sites, but mixing licensed videos with amateur is a bad idea - you wind up not being able to charge for the licensed videos... Thoughts?

Guess it's a case of "different strokes for different folks" - just don't ride a small dicked top - have him fuck you another way.

Once my life calms down a bit one of my objectives this year is to start one or more tube sites. People have taken a lot of different approaches to tube sites - some just have a lot of low quality videos, others pirate full-length movies (not going to be doing that), etc. I know I'll have one tube site for genuine amateur content. I'm going to try to have membership on that tied to membership here. Basically it's where you guys can upload your own personal videos. I'll also do a small tube site of stuff I shoot that I have model releases for. In time that will probably become a pay site. Those I view as my "quality" sites. The question is whether I should also do "quantity" sites. Apparently if I spend a few thousand dollars I can buy a license for several hundred videos. The issue is they may not be the highest quality. I'm not sure people are really going to pay to see low quality videos. I also sorta doubt that it would even be a good "bonus" site. I have a friend in the porn business who's really into "boyfriend" sites. Apparently "boyfriend" is the new word for "amateur". And the thing they're doing is scraping what appear to be genuine amateur videos off other tube sites and recycling them. So that's another approach to having a site with a lot of videos. So - what do you guys think - which do you prefer to jack off to - a site with a lot of videos many of which may be low quality, or a site with relatively few good videos? Would you get bored if the "quality" site didn't update often enough?

Please quote a source...

My suggestion is pick a side of the fence and own your choice. Either bareback and stop worrying about what comes with it, or use a condom every time and stop fantasizing about bareback. The conflicted middle is the worst case scenario IMHO.

There are problems with Chat/Cams - it's broken more often than it works. I'll try to get to the bottom of it in a couple months. Don't have the time between now and then, sorry.

They've posted an update on their blog, but ironically you can only get to the blog if you're not experiencing the problem, so I'll quote the information here for those of you who can't get to the sites... So basically they had a typo that was affecting one of their four DNS servers, and if your internet service provider hit that DNS server and cached the bad info, then you have to wait for your ISP's DNS server to pull the corrected info. As they mention, things can also be cached on your machine.

Curious - you're also in NYC - who's your internet service provider? Time Warner?

Just checked - my hosts file is fine. BTW, when I went to edit some old stuff out of my hosts file it took an administrator password to make the change - so it appears Mac users (like me) are pretty immune to what PigMaster is talking about... I'm on Time Warner cable. It's possible their DNS server was hacked, but all other sites are working fine. My suspicion is that one of the Wet Media (BBRT) DNS servers has been hacked and it's giving out bad info to other DNS servers. They have 4 DNS servers - so if one or two are hacked the others could make it appear that everything is OK. I find it a bit suspicious that the names of the DNS servers aren't consistent... Name Server: 169.WET-MEDIA.NET Name Server: 204.WET-MEDIA.NET Name Server: NS3.WET-MEDIA.NET Name Server: NS4.WET-MEDIA.NET The first two look like they should be NS1 & NS2... For the record, BBRT is resolving to 78.159.101.217 - which is a bad IP since it's located in Germany (and BBRT is in Arizona). In case you're having a problem and you know how to edit your local hosts file the correct IP address for BBRT is 209.104.10.212

Based on your screen name you're in Chicago. I'd be surprised if the City of Chicago didn't offer PEP to people without insurance - I'm pretty sure NYC does. Call the health department and ask. The other option is to call the local gay STD clinic (I assume you have at least one in Chicago) and ask if they know of anywhere to get PEP for free. If you don't regularly bareback (despite your screen name) and it's worrying you - then PEP may be right for you. That said, the risk depends on if he was poz an whether he was on meds. Odds are, you're OK - but the risk is not zero.

I suspect their DNS was hacked - so it works for some people, but not others...

I'm seeing the same problem...

The follow up to this question is has your experience with HIV mirrored your fuck flu experience? I heard of a study once that said a mild fuck flu probably means you'll have a relatively easy time being poz, where a bad fuck flu means trouble with HIV in the future.

I love New York. It suits me - felt like home within months of moving here 22 years ago. The opportunities are incredible here. When they say "if you can make it here, you can make it anywhere" that's not quite true - other places just don't have so many ways to succeed. Granted, a lot of it is timing and luck. For example, my bf and bought into the right building and the right neighborhood at the right time. When we sold our place 11 years later we made more off the sale than we had spent in maintenance and mortgage over that time - so we basically lived for free. And that set us up for the place we're now renovating that's an even better deal. Then again, New York can be a brutal place too - it's expensive and if you don't have your act together things can go wrong very quickly. New York is also incredible at protecting gay people. Sexual orientation discrimination is dealt with pretty harshly here. Gay bashings are rare, but when they happen the police and DA are pretty good about charging it as a bias crime (at which point sentences get doubled). There's also a good safety net for poz guys who are poor. Politically New York is very liberal and sane (with the exception of Staten Island). 85%+ voted against George W in both elections. We're so friendly to illegal immigrants that poz illegals can get public assistance (housing & medical care). New York is also remarkably tolerant. Yes, with 8 million people, some bad things happen. But there are so many different groups that no one is the majority and people genuinely understand the importance of diversity. Doesn't mean they love all the other groups - but they understand that everyone should have the right to live in peace and pursue their dreams. And you rub shoulders with so many different types of people that people learn that it's the individual they have a problem with, not the group - at least they understand that better than they do in most places. Sexually New York could be a little better - we could have good bathhouses, we could have sex in bars - but we don't have any of that. Yeah, some guys have a little sex at the Eagle, but then the monitor comes around and stops it. Still, there's enough guys in NYC that you can usually find someone to hookup with if when you're looking.

A tripod will do the trick (with the right camera). If you need a third guy to be cameraman I'm in NYC and up for it. My "price" is that I want the video posted on the amateur tube site I'm going to start later this year.

There's a thread in the Atlanta section of the site that answers your question.

But you're here... Wild guess - the safe sex is just a phase...

Yeah, PVC is bad news... My brother-in-law thinks it contributed to his first wife getting cancer and dying - they had PVC water supply lines. It's dangerous when the water you drink passes through PVC pipes. IMHO, PVC should only be used for drain pipes. So it makes sense that sticking PVC up your ass is probably a bad idea too...