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You had the status updates disabled on your profile. I have enabled them. It should work now. I'm a little puzzled, because I was under the impression that members could always add a status themselves, and that the enable/disable feature was only for other people. @rawTOP would know for sure.

I don't know of one. If you had a private message thread with them, you can view your entire inbox (there's a button at the bottom of the recent private message pop-up window).

You must have had your curmudgeon pills this morning... I feel your pain. Perhaps both of us would do better to focus on getting laid. Or failing that, getting off? My, how my standards are slipping!

To attach a photo to your forum post, just use the paperclip tool in the lower left, or the "Other Media" button in the lower right, of the post. Note that there is a disk space limit on your aggregate attachments. You can get around this by posting your images in the galleries and then attaching them to the post. It can be rather finicky to get this to work, but the basic idea is to use the "Insert Existing Attachment" choice from the "Other Media" button, and then select your gallery image as the source.

Reminds me of my student days. We slept on futons on the floor, and when one bought the futon it had a couple of straps that held it rolled up for storage. They were about an inch wide by four feet long strips of heavy cotton fabric. And of course once the futon was unrolled for sleeping, they were conveniently available for other purposes. It was a trivial matter to insert a couple of screw eyes into the baseboards...

Anyone know who the top is here?

Y'all are vastly off topic. At least one of you has no conceivable excuse.

From that description, you've almost certainly wandered into the wrong site by mistake. This site is unapologetically about bareback gay (mostly) sex and is mostly a discussion forum with a little bit of hookup on the side (but the membership is spread so far apart geographically that the hookup bit really doesn't go much of anywhere a lot of the time).

Of course they are. Or with anyone else who is easily manipulated. Doing it that way keeps the power almost as firmly in their hands, and has much better optics.

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@norefusal - I believe @topblkmale actually was trying to clarify whether your first post (quoted above) was referring to a COUNTY (in a US state) as rather than a COUNTRY (elsewhere in the world), the latter having been the way I also first read it. It was not a question about the segregation (which is a very real thing for much of the US, especially the large part of it more than 100 miles from the coast).

Superlative!

They want my dick there in less than an hour, that's a rush job and they gotta pay me more!

Oh yeah. Story of my life. I've had guys literally say "normally I'm a top, but I want to bottom with you". On the brighter side, the one who said that back in January actually did fuck me, he just didn't want to cum in me (because he wanted me to fuck him also).

I agree with this. Rhetoric or policies that wander into this territory are a form of liberal extremism that causes more problems than it counters, no matter if the intent is to benefit. Disagree here, unless we're talking about "taking something" from a class of people who got that something by systematic exploitation of another class of people (aka taxing the plutocrats). It's well and good to operate from a mentality of abundance, but when that abundance is arrogated by a few people to the detriment of others, it seem legitimate to me to advocate some kind of corrective action.

That would be problematic, because they don't mean anything close to the same thing.

Which does beg the question of whether they actually are asking about your hygiene, are illiterate, or just are dumb as a sack of hammers...

There's no such thing as a "paid member" here. To gain member privileges (like more messages, reactions to posts, etc) you have to advance your member status by participation.

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I've tried this for other life decisions on occasion. The results were less than optimal. Turns out there are too many variables and unknowns for it to work all that well. At least in my hands, though not for a lack of intellectual and math ability. Maybe an actuary would do better. Then again, maybe not.

The currently appropriate phrase (as far as IQ substantially below average goes) is "intellectual and developmental disabilities (I/DD)". People with ASD and other forms of neurodivergence aren't any less intelligent than people without it; rather, they interact from the world (and in particular with other people) in a qualitatively different way from the neurotypical. In general, all of these sorts of people can (and frequently do) have sex (excluding, as you say, profoundly disabled people incapable of consent). How societal prejudices affect their experiences with sex is an active area of research in psychology and social psychology for many of these types of disabilities (often separate research for the different specific conditions). You can find many recent articles (e.g. in Psychology Today) by doing a web search on "sex life <X>" (where <X> is the name of the specific condition). https://www.apa.org/monitor/2017/12/seeking-intimacy-sidebar

Your impression was incorrect. Breeding Zone is a web site for men into bareback sex with men. Inasmuch as that's no longer (in the 2020s) a niche community, the site is only "niche" in that it's a zone where judgment of others' fetishes and foibles is explicitly discouraged, which is pretty much the opposite of the cliquish echo chamber effect that pervades social media. That said, there are a few things that are explicitly off limits, as some boundaries are in fact necessary to avoid harm to the site and its members. Lots more detail can be found in the topic below:

I'm going to give a slightly modified form of that advice - just my 2 cents, as someone who has dabbled in the creative endeavor occasionally myself. If the story, characters, plot elements, narrative style, or other such things aren't your cup of tea - the above advice is exactly correct. Such things are inevitably a matter of taste, and different people will have different ideas of what makes a great story or a crummy one. Why does one person adore Steinbeck and another Dickens? Taste! Their styles are vastly different, and yet both are revered as great authors of "classic" literature. The same principle applies to porn. If there are serious problems with the writing or editing that impede your appreciation of the story the author has presented - I'm talking about formatting that makes it literally unreadable on your screen, grammar, spelling, or typographical problems so severe that it's difficult to read and/or understand, and the like, I think it actually might be a good thing to private message the author and say "hey, I'm having trouble enjoying your story because of <X> - could you fix it?" or "... can I offer you some help with that?". I try to do this as a moderator when there's something that obviously is a mistake. Authors - if you see things in your own story, or if people bring things to your attention, that need fixing: Use the report feature to report your own story and explain in the report text what needs fixing, and a moderator will be happy to make the edit. Other people, please let the author do this, as if others report it we'll just ask the author about it anyway.

What the algorithms throw you depends on what you feed them. I'd guess that a closeted individual of the kind one finds under every rock out here, whose social media contains not the slightest hint of gay/bi oriented content (and probably isn't identifiable from their cruise app profile, which has no picture or other identifying information, nor even any text whatsoever), wouldn't get them. I can't recall getting any doxy ads myself, come to think of it, though I get prep ads all the time.

This thread is in the Health forum, and as such is judged differently than it might be elsewhere on the site. [emphasis mine] Many do in fact advocate that people who eat too many simple carbs take drugs to prevent diabetes, and that people who are prone to drink too much take drugs to prevent them from doing so. The point isn't to spoil people's fun, it's to prevent harm. Whether or not you believe that each of us has a God-given right to do as much self-harm as we are inspired by said God to do, it's not too hard to agree that while we gratify our desires (or our dharma), avoiding harm is preferable to suffering it, no?