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5 hours ago, NYBBGUY58 said:

...except the moment where he's flexing and looking at himself in the mirror. It looks disengaged to me ...

So yeah, I'm grumpy about these details. I have sympathy for these guys, who film for hours to created the edited product and have to figure out how to keep going...

It's not you. That's not the only moment when he's busy checking something in the mirror (or monitor feed). It looks disengaged because it is disengaged. Dude's a professional and should know better. Of course, I'm old (and possibly grumpy) too.

On 7/27/2022 at 6:25 AM, Japbtm said:

my doctor pose the possibility that I am immune to HIV

This is possible if you have two copies of the mutant version of the CCR5 gene. You can have this tested for. It's quite rare.

On 7/27/2022 at 6:25 AM, Japbtm said:

and that daily Prep could have created some sort of immunity.

This is completely impossible. There is no mechanism by which it could do so. Your doctor must have flunked immunology.

On 7/27/2022 at 6:25 AM, Japbtm said:

She did say that there wasn’t enough information of prep on other [sexually transmitted] infection diseases.   

This is true. There is some research on on the use of doxycycline for this purpose, which appears to be moderately effective; see this topic:

If you want to try getting the tablets down you, I'd suggest coating them with a lubricant (ordinary sex lube would work, or vegetable or mineral oil) and taking them with a lot of water (perhaps even a mouthful of water, and then tilt your head back and drop them into it - I've done this with larger pills or many pills at a time).

Another option that I'm not sure is open to you is to try the newly available injectable cabotegravir which can be used as PrEP - it's one injection every month or two. See this topic:

17 hours ago, drscorpio said:

You will note that one of the rules is against complaining about moderation in open posts. I would be well within the rules of the forum to give everyone complaining about moderation in this thread that infraction, but I am going to pass on that lest someone think it is bullying. 

In fact, the original post of this thread was reported by a member for that infraction of the rules. I did not moderate that report, as I decided it was appropriate in this case to recuse myself. Thanks to @drscorpio for doing so.

7 minutes ago, BoyStrangler said:

Do you mean like virtually every single post in this 5 year old thread? Or one of the other threads where underage replies are virtually assured by the question?

No. Here's a relevant post from that thread explaining the distinction:

On 4/22/2018 at 10:24 PM, drscorpio said:

Moderator's Note: There is a big difference between "I sucked my first cock at 11, and I don't think it did me any harm" and "I think it's okay to start a boy sucking cock at age 11." The former is totally acceptable. You discuss your own experiences in a clinical fashion without turning it into an erotic story. 
The latter is clearly advocating for sex with people who are under age and is totally against our rules. 

Please make sure your comments here sound like the former rather than the latter, or this thread will go away. 

Is that a judgment call? Yes, it is. TBH, it would be a hell of a lot easier just to remove all of those topics. We haven't done that because they're popular, people enjoy discussing these things, and it's probably helpful for a fair number of people working through their own issues.

11 minutes ago, BoyStrangler said:

I downvoted one of your comments so you decided to “get back at me” by consistently downvoting mine

I freely admit that I did that once, several months ago, when I was in a crappy mood. I later realized that I was being unfair and pissy, and went back and removed those downvotes.

If I downvoted your posts or your girl's recently, it was because I honestly thought they were crappy content. I don't think that about all of y'all's posts. But I certainly do think it about some of them.

4 hours ago, Close2MyBro said:

The only thing I can say Grindr is good for is finding prostitutes, bag-hoes, drugs, and people wanting to find people who have drugs.

Amen. And in my region add to that trans-feminines, cross-dressers, and people looking only for those.

20 hours ago, BoyStrangler said:

Then, if you dare to do the same thing back to him, he will comb through your comments until he finds something he can justify suspending you for. This is often among a bunch of similar comments others have made in the same thread. I know this because my boy was recently suspended for a comment in Best age to start sucking cock.

Your boy was suspended for violating a long-established rule about posts regarding underage sex. You might like to review the rule and contemplate what was different about his post from those other supposedly-similar comments.

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If you dare to not like something he says, he engages in a prolonged passive aggressive attack, by constantly downvoting your comments.

Actually I can do nothing of the sort. The attributions for reactions are hidden from moderators, so I cannot see who downvotes (dislikes) my posts.

10 hours ago, bbpoznow said:

 I will problem  get  nailed for even  saying this . have before .

The only thing you've ever received a penalty for is posting things in the wrong place, or posting duplicates of the same thing in multiple places. The only serious infractions among those were posting bugchasing topics outside the Backroom.

3 hours ago, Close2MyBro said:

What I don't like - and wish would change - about this site is the censorship of ideology, and the hypocrisy of claiming the censorship is to protect people from harm, but at the same time dangerous things such as drug abuse, AIDS worship, bug-chasing and other obviously more physically harmful activities are allowed to stay and are actually encouraged, whereas there seems to be a compelling need to censor you from sharing opinions that others deem 'harmful'. Can we not think for ourselves and need "protection of what goes into our heads", or is thinking for yourself no longer allowed?

All of the rules for the site are made by @rawTOP, and he alone is responsible for them and for the rationale for them. We moderators (I think I speak for @drscorpio as well here) try to enforce them as even-handedly as possible. I won't claim to be perfect; like everyone else here, I'm human.

I have to disagree with you on several points here. Drug abuse and bug-chasing are tolerated. They are certainly NOT encouraged, and they are limited to the Backroom forums, which allows members to choose not to see that content if they have a desire not to. The majority of what we do as moderators is to enforce that limitation. AIDS worship, or fetishization, is specifically prohibited (even in fiction), per the new "harm to the community" policy that @rawTOP instituted in March '21.

There is not a "compelling need to censor you from sharing opinions that others deem harmful". There IS a policy against posting "false information, conspiracy theories...".

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I've seen individuals speak to one another in rude and disrespectful manners and nothing gets done, even if you do complain, but yet people get punished for posting something 'off-topic' that could have been deemed to be an extension of the original topic.

Unless you are the individual in question in BOTH instances, or have reliable information from that individual, you are very likely drawing this conclusion on the basis of insufficient information. Warnings (and the penalties that are sometimes associated with them) are seen only by the person to whom they are issued. The posts that triggered the warning may not be altered in any way, even if the author was penalized severely - or they may be edited, moved, or removed entirely. What is done depends on the particular infraction, the content of the post, and the context of the post.

On 9/1/2022 at 8:39 AM, JimInWisc said:

The R's of course are dominated by Trump which is troubling in so many ways.  I rather hope that Kinzinger or Chaney make a run to oppose Trump in 2024.

Absolutely agree. I will certainly vote against Trump in the '24 Republican primary if I'm still in my current state of residence, and depending on what happens in the next year I think it's quite possible that Cheney could make a credible run against him.

Moderator:

The number of reactions per day is intentionally limited. That is the way @rawTOP decided to configure the system. One reason for this is to encourage people to contribute their own ideas about a topic raised by someone else, rather than just using a "thumbs-up" (the visual equivalent of saying "that's hawt"). Sure, a lot of things on here are hot... but we know that already!

Limit your use of reactions to things that really impress (or disgust) you, and it's not really all that much of a hardship. When I was a full Member (with 10 reactions a day) I used to hit the limit maybe once every couple of weeks.

3 minutes ago, Njn0mc said:

I have made many many posts, have been on line almost everyday and replied to many many posts I even earned a high level badge but still only maybe only 10 reactions allowed a day! ..

So it DOES work, and there's a limit on the number of times per day you can use it. Which is exactly the way it is programmed to work. The number of reactions you can apply per day depends on your membership level. You are a full Member (as opposed to New Member or Junior Member), and I believe 10 exactly is the number you get per day. As you continue to post content, your Reputation score (which you can see if you visit your own profile) will increase and you will advance to Senior Member, and then you will get a larger number of reactions per day.

9 minutes ago, spunkdump said:

why are we always so behind in NYC

It just looks that way because you're not in one of the more benighted areas of the country like West Virginia (where I am). There is apparently only one place in this entire state where they are holding vaccination clinics.

22 hours ago, topblkmale said:

The mpx vaccine gives you antibodies similar to the Covid vaccine.

You might want to clarify what you mean by that. A lot of people are confused.

22 hours ago, topblkmale said:

However, there has never been a study to assess the ability to prevent mpx infection or to stop transmissions.

For the current (Jynneos) vaccine, this is true. From the FDA announcement of its approval (2019):

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The effectiveness of Jynneos for the prevention of smallpox was determined in a clinical study comparing the immune responses in study participants who received either Jynneos or ACAM2000, an FDA-approved vaccine for the prevention of smallpox. The study included approximately 400 healthy adults, 18 through 42 years of age who had never been vaccinated for smallpox, in which half of the study participants received two doses of Jynneos administered 28 days apart, and half received one dose of ACAM2000. The group vaccinated with Jynneos had an immune response that was not inferior to immune responses to ACAM2000. Vaccine effectiveness for the prevention of smallpox was also inferred from supportive animal studies that showed prior vaccination with Jynneos protected non-human primates who were exposed to viruses related to the smallpox virus.

The effectiveness of Jynneos for the prevention of monkeypox disease is inferred from the antibody responses in the smallpox clinical study participants and from studies in non-human primates that showed protection of animals vaccinated with Jynneos who were exposed to the monkeypox virus.

Fuck that's hot!!

1 hour ago, hntnhole said:

no umlauts on the computer 🙁- or if there are, I have no idea where

If it's Windows, it's under Windows Accessories -> Character Map. But I don't know where they go - whatever you wrote isn't in a language I know.

On 8/17/2022 at 4:18 PM, hntnhole said:

On 8/17/2022 at 11:28 AM, Sharp-edge said:

Olympian Gods

What other belief-system has two days of the week named after them (Thursday and Friday) ???    

In the event someone doesn't realize it,, Thor's day morphed into Thursday, and Freya's day into Friday.

That would be the northern European pantheon, not they Olympians.

But it's more than two. Try four (in English, anyway):

Tiw's day
Woden's day
Thor's day
Freya's day (or Frigg's)
 

On 8/19/2022 at 8:00 PM, ErosWired said:

On 8/19/2022 at 7:07 PM, BBArchangel said:

Damn, someone who quotes Milton! Now I’m all wet!

The mind is its own place, and in itself

Can make a heav’n of hell, a hell of heav’n.

😉

Malt does more than Milton can
To justify God's ways to Man.

Moderator's note: The OP is no longer a member, so if this is going to happen, someone else will need to step up and organize.

@BootmanLA

Nothing is better than a ham sandwich.

Proof:

Nothing is better than Eternal Happiness.

Eternal Happiness is certainly better than a ham sandwich.

By the transitive property, Nothing is better than a ham sandwich.

You're welcome.

WOW!! Only made it part way through chapter 2 before exploding! Sizzling hot!

Yeah, I remember Inn Exile circa 2000. Lovely place, though it was a weeknight in January so it was completely dead. On the other hand, the company was paying the tab, so I wasn't going to complain...

On 8/10/2022 at 5:37 PM, DarkroomTaker said:

This came up on my posts^^^have I committed a crime?

No, you're fine. The system automatically flags certain posts for moderation before they go live. That message is just to let you know why your post isn't appearing immediately - it is being held until a moderator can look at it. The system notifies us right away that something needs attention, so usually one of us can check it reasonably quickly.

6 hours ago, BareLover666 said:

I completely overlooked it several times earlier.

You're not the only one! I was looking for it yesterday on your behalf and I couldn't find it either. But it's right there, and on my screen it was even bright blue! SMH.

On 8/12/2022 at 9:07 AM, HairyBeardedPozMan said:

 Go to Eros at your own risk! It is in the WORSE neighborhood(Tenderloin) in SF 

Rent must be cheap there why else would they relocate in such a shitty area! 

The Tenderloin may be the worst neighborhood in SF, but unless it has gone downhill substantially since I was there in the '90s, it's not all that bad. There are much scarier places in most of the other large(ish) US cities I've been in.

And I'm sure rent isn't cheap there. It's just less expensive than in the rest of SF. It's probably still completely unaffordable to mere mortals.