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Most Sickening, Extreme Fetish In Your Opinion?
TattPig replied to Brooklyn Baby's topic in General Discussion
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Just got the crap beat out of me, consensually. My chest is sore and my back is raw, with a bit of blood, and a fair amount of that damage was inflicted while I had his big uncut dick in my mouth. It was a great first meeting; glad I took the day off from work.
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nice one, i love beatings and kickings, made to lick boots then fucked hard without mercy
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I hadn't thought about it much, but the stuff I think is weird is probably because it's so ordinary that I can't see the point of fetishizing it (like feet). I knew a guy who had a fetish for wristwatches--with metal bands, not leather. He had to wear one whenever he had sex. Why? I never asked. Given all the stuff I/we do that squicks people out, I guess it makes sense that I see the commonplace stuff as odd (although I draw a hard line at scat).
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Feet. I just do not get that. At. All. It's just incomprehensible to me. Harmless, but baffling.
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I was hooked from the first time. It was beer piss, after we'd been out drinking, and it tasted like weak tea to me. Loved it. And now the more rank it is, the better. First piss of the morning? Bring it on.
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Post Your Problems With The New Site Here
TattPig replied to jackdaw's topic in Tips, Tricks, Rules & Help
I'm on Android, and I see all the sections. You just have to scroll down a long ways. The right column--and all the contents of it are right there; it just slides below the left column. That's a common way to do the responsive design. The dates are on the original posts, but not follow-ups from what I can see. No biggie for me, since hey are in order. However--I'm viewing for the first time on my Android phone (writing this post on computer), and I haven't logged in--just viewing as guest, and I can see (and open) the Cross Dressers & Transexuals Forum and the individual threads under it. Should that be visible to unregistered users? -
A year ago I got a new Android phone and switched carriers. In the process of transferring my contacts, clearing the duplicate entries, making groups, and copying contacts from Outlook on my computer, Google+ sent out invitations to join Google+ to every contact I touched that night, and I had no idea it was doing it until I got a reply from a friend saying thanks, but he doesn't use the service. Yikes! I had joined Google+ at a friend's invitation and had only him as a friend, but suddenly everyone now knew my Google+ info. Fortunately, it was a harmless username, not something for play. So, no, I'm not going to use Google login because I have no intention of spending the time configuring it so that I am certain that I don't embarrass myself by mixing everyone up.
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I need your input on the new version of Breeding Zone…
TattPig replied to rawTOP's topic in Tips, Tricks, Rules & Help
My first thought is about how much wasted vertical space there is. On my 20" monitor with 1050 vertical pixels, the current site's header takes up 350 vertical pixels (including the browser's toolbars and chrome), and the header scrolls up with the page. On the new site, it's 620 px from the top to the subject heading, and the header/menu never scrolls off the page, wasting 240 px all the time. On a smaller monitor or on a laptop, that is a serious usability problem. Is there a way to make the header smaller vertically, or scroll off the screen? Could the big pic at the top be made the background of the header/menu? That would save about 235 px. -
If you're scabbed up at all, the tattoo artist is a hack. The only reason that scabs happen is if the guy overworks the tattoo and damages the skin terribly. I have over 100 hours of work covering about 30% of my body, and had one tiny scab on the inside of my left wrist once, about 2mm by 5mm. That's all, and that's how it should be. But--you're cutting it too close for MAL. You're going to have to find a good artist and schedule an appointment; the good ones are busy. A tattoo has to heal like any other scrape/road rash/brush burn. You'll need about 3 days for any bleeding or exudate to stop (using A&D ointment during that time), then another week to 10 days for real healing (using a good lotion). During that time, a fine layer of skin will peel off--like a sun burn peeling. People heal at different rates. Don't rush it. Take your time, research good artists, get it done right--you'll only get one shot at it, and it's permanent. Will it hurt? Yup. Any time you tattoo thin skin over a bone, it hurts more (I remember the workout I got over my collar bones). Allergies to pigments are very rare, and there are lots of kinds of red pigments, so I wouldn't worry about that. YMMV
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"Bunkhouse" to me conjures up the Ponderosa, or any old tired western--nothing sexy at all. I'm not sure most people relate to the term. "Brotherhood" is already associated with BBBH, but I don't think that's what the site will be about. I'd stick with just BBBH (or maybe "Bareback" could be the 2nd and 3rd letters--I'll have to think on that).
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Announcement: BBBH.com Purchased, Hookup Site Coming
TattPig replied to rawTOP's topic in General Discussion
I had to laugh at rivertimber's comment; "This will help the site hopefully to stay positive and not so dark." I know it's not what he meant, but I so often go to a site and think--Oh, great! Another black and gray site with white text. If you want to go "dark", that's fine. I'm just lobbying for something that isn't so depressingly gray. As for the chat function, I don't think there's anything you can do to make people want to chat (as some people have suggested). That desire is outside the realm of what can be influenced by the software, I think. Chat is a cultural thing; it's more popular with youth and women. Just watch people on the street or on public transit; the ones who are texting are kids and women, almost exclusively (at least in Philly). That's not Breedingzone/BBBH demographic. I've tried chat on other sites years ago; it's so often just boring blather. But congrats on getting the domain. Worst registrar ever for switching a domain from (in my experience) is GoDaddy. But then they're pretty much at the bottom of everything. -
Your diet for the 24-36 hours before you play is just as important and the actual flushing out. If you eat the right foods for a day or so, cleanout is easier. High fiber, no corn, light on milk products and meats, and eat lightly for the 12 hours before play. That's very general, and people's systems will vary. Other people may want to chime in with their lists of good and bad foods. But just as important, don't switch your diet greatly. If you eat a lot of junk food/processed food and suddenly eat a lot of fruits and veg, you'll be sorry. Get on a good basic diet so that your body is used to the fiber. Ramp up to it slowly (and use a fiber additive, if necessary).
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Membership is a formality at most places, many bathhouses are "member only". It's usually a higher first-time fee to join, then lower on subsequent visits. I don't know the exact policy at the club in question. I remember a time when, in the Atlanta area, you had to be a "member" of a bar in order to drink--even in a hotel bar. You pay the cover charge, show your ID, and you're a member for the evening.
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When I go to a gay bar, especially our leather bar, I go there for a reason--to be around similar guys. And when a bachelorette party waltzes through, or a bunch of twinks inappropriately dressed, or a straight couple (usually out with gay friends who aren't into leather--just showing off how cool they are to know about this place), it changes things. And not for the better, in my opinion and that of my friends. We resent the intrusion. Gay bars exist for a reason. Leather bars exist for a reason. Black bars exist for a reason. Gay bathhouses exist for a reason. Sometimes we just need to be with our own; for some people it's their only time. My guess is that if you didn't have much luck until you went to the dark room, that's a sign that most of the guys didn't appreciate your being there. Like it or not, you were intruding on their space. And just because there was only one of you doesn't make it okay; it's not a gray area or a sliding scale. One person breaks the scene. Think about it this way--what if a black woman had gotten in? Would that have been okay? I bet not. I know that I sound like an awful scold in the above paragraphs (sorry), but I've dealt with this in similar situations (females wanting to attend all-male S/M events). We have a right to our own spaces.
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Did you not read his post? If he was experiencing the "ease and frequency of sex" you refer to, he wouldn't have started the thread, would he? And Hartwick NY (google it) has a grand total of 2,110 people in its 40 square miles. "Proportional to the population" doesn't mean squat in a hamlet that small in a county with only 61,000 people. Come on. Realistically, the problem these guys have is that they live in isolation from the practices and people they seek. To ignore that is to ignore the elephant in the room, and that doesn't help anybody.
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Not to put too fine a point on it nor overstate the obvious, but the best advice is to get the hell out of Sheboygan, WI, and Hartwick, NY. Seriously. Bareback tops are not going to magically appear in any quantity in little burgs like that. And 20 years from now, you'll be singing the same lament if you stay put.
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Training helpline volunteers
TattPig replied to bearbandit's topic in HIV/AIDS & Sexual Health Issues
This has little to offer by way of information, but I thought I'd throw it out there. I don't know what the other sex-related hotlines are--possibly straight-focused? Anyway, if you get pushback and people start clutching their pearls at the mention of gay men barebacking, I think it's important to note that straight people have bare sex far more than gay men do. But nobody gets their knickers a in a twist about that. My amateur psychology take on it is that people assume that sperm forms an important function in straight sex (making babies), while it's completely extraneous in gay sex. As such, the bar is set higher for us because there is a lower value put on the experience (and the substance). (I also think gay men fetishise it more than straight people because straight people just take bare sex as a given.) A few numbers...Google the following terms (use the quotation marks) and look at the results: "heterosexual barebacking" 414 results "homosexual barebacking" 23,800 "straight barebacking" 2,830 "gay barebacking" 719,000 ! Obviously that's not a scientific survey, but the numbers are interesting. People aren't even talking about straight people barebacking. It's a double standard. *End rant* -
I prefer MAL to IML, but I have more friends in Chicago, and belong to a club there, so that balances it in favor of IML. MAL: Attracts larger percentage of guys into S/M (IMHO), the weather is iffy, the host hotel is in a dead zone on weekends (dead for bars, restaurants, etc.) but great if you want to take a few hours to see the Mall/Smithsonian during the day, the Eagle is about a 20-minute walk, cabs are cheap, Dupont Circle is a short cab ride, great dances. IML: Is more dress-up leather than real S/M (again IMHO--but it's a bigger event, so there's plenty of serious S/M players), the weather's better, the host hotel is also in a dead zone on weekends and it's far from Boystown and Andersonville (the new Boystown). There are off-site play parties that go on during each that are not part of the events (primarily fisting in DC, serious S/M in Chicago--but there's some of both at each), lots of sex at each, and a surprising number of guys who bring their own portable slings. If you've never been to either, flip a coin and go on alternate years.
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Poz guy wants to breed me but really nervous about it
TattPig replied to bbbtmboy's topic in HIV/AIDS & Sexual Health Issues
The corollary to what cumslut23 said is: If it doesn't make you hot after you've cum, then it's just a fantasy and best left that way. And as others have noted, it's a life-changing event. That's not a judgment call, it's just a fact--doctors, pills, side effects, costs, insurance, etc. You can certainly live with all of that; do you want to? -
"The drug reps are out there pushing PrEP on the MDs, and the MDs are only too happy to go along." That completely ignores the fact that there is real science and real research that proves that there is real benefit to PrEP. I find that anti-science attitude very disturbing; it sounds like the drivel that the Tea Party and Sara Palin and Suzanne Sommers spout. I'm not saying that PrEP is without potential downsides. But that attitude (and the runaway fantasy about our pets) contributes nothing to an intelligent discussion of the question at hand.
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I'm still puzzled by the life insurance issue. Why? You have no family (that you've mentioned) who would need it. And it does you no good. What's it for? If all you want is something to cover funeral expenses, then those are a dime a dozen. But a real, significant life insurance policy seems like a waste of money. My job gives everyone life insurance (and health and disability), most of my jobs have had that; I have no idea how much it is (because I'll never see it). I don't even remember who the beneficiary for sure; it's one of 3 guys, but I forget which one.
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"The doctor can be unequivocal in his assessment, but cutting off care is a step too far." The doctor didn't cut off care--the patient did! The doctor can give NO care to a patient who won't take the only meds that can save him. To continue to see a patient and take money for those services borders on fraud. This isn't about big nasty big Pharma and the grandiose conspiracy theories of pharmaceutical marketing. Maybe he was a crappy doctor, as Rotten later explains. But laying down the law to a noncompliant patient doesn't make him wrong, or evil, or complicit with big Pharma. He was forced into a corner by a patient who ignored all the evidence. He could do absolutely nothing for that patient to prolong his life; the ball was entirely in the patient's court. All he had to do was to start taking the meds. That's it--nothing more. Whether or not you like the doctor, he was right--the only way to live was to take the damned meds. And if he wanted to kill himself--as he could see he was doing--I think the doctor was within his rights in not wanting any part of it. Was that the only way the doctor could have handled it? Nope. Was it valid? Yup. It's called Tough Love. And yes, as you can probably tell, I'm a bit of a hard-ass. There are only 2 choices in life--Do or Don't Do. Every decision can be broken down into that, as computer programming has shown us. I don't let people (especially students) think that they can wallow in a gray area and succeed.
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Health insurance varies from state to state. Each state has different regulations. You can't get any real input on such a thing in a forum like this. Whatever my experience is with health insurance, it can't be applied to you because I live in a different state. You need to do research in your own state--something like the state insurance commission website is probably a good start.
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"So I reject the argument that the patient cares less about themselves than the doctor - at least in most cases." You're arguing against something that I didn't say. I wasn't speaking in generally. I was speaking about a specific patient in the OP's first post, whose VL was skyrocketing. That's very different than a theoretical risk of barebacking. One has a minor risk (as a neg top) about which you made a decision; his was clearly a life-threatening choice that he could see the direct evidence of at 4 and 8 months. When he went on the drug holiday he entered unknown territory with risk. At 4 and 8 months he was no longer in unknown territory and it was time for a smackdown. What was the doctor to do when the patient rejected treatment? Give him aspirin? Antacids? Vitamins? Snake oil? The doctor has no other option besides ARVs. If the patient won't take them, the doctors can serve no role in maintaining his health. That patient put the doctor in an untenable position.
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"... he is more like my poz mentor and converter but i call him master." He doesn't sound smart enough or caring enough to be anybody's mentor. He's not trained in medicine yet he's laying down rules that affect your health. You and he are both lay persons with no medical expertise. You are not in a position to make an informed decision, nor is he; do what the doctor says. I hate hearing, in cases like this..."It's the patient's decision." It is not the patient's decision, because the patient is in no position to make any informed judgement; they don't have the knowledge or experience and may just as easily make a bad decision based on nothing more than one or two anecdotes. Ugh.
