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Sounds normal to me. I used to have parties (just regular ones, not sex parties) at my house and invite friends and would get flake ratios almost that high. People are lame.

On 5/30/2022 at 2:10 PM, CockWrshpr said:

But idk about the rash on my upper arm, I found it weird that it would cut off at the sleeve and the small red bumps were just on the sun exposed skin...

According to wikipedia...

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The most common adverse effects [to isotretinoin] are dry lips (cheilitis), dry and fragile skin, and an increased susceptibility to sunburn.

So your symptoms are explainable without any STIs at all. But getting tested sure wouldn't hurt. 

Testing regularly is a good idea, because it's not uncommon for STIs, including HIV to have no symptoms at all.

On 5/26/2022 at 5:43 PM, hntnhole said:

Cloooose ...... you got the OC right ...... but I'm somewhat of a romantic occasionally ...... for the "R", think really really rare meat .... and for the "B", think Family ..........

Only just saw it... but I had OC right. I was guessing "Round Butts" though

Is there a precise distinction between the two? I've been to many places of this general type in the US, and a few in Europe, but I've never been able to figure out how the labels correlate with the contents.

Before PrEP, I used to make a point of discussing it, fairly briefly and casually, but only if anal sex appeared to be in the cards. Typically I'd do so whether or not we intended to use a condom.

After PrEP, I seldom bring it up, though I'm happy to have the conversation if people want to (which isn't often lately). The exception is when I think one or both of us is up for a fetish scene, in which case I may bring up the topic obliquely in a way that invites that possibility.

And then of course there are the times when I really want sex, or sex with that particular person, so urgently that all that just goes out the window. Oink.

I would say that like all other human sexual responses, it's not necessarily the same from instance to instance. Humans use sex in an astonishing variety of ways, and anal sex is no exception.

Personally, I find it physically pleasurable, I find the idea of being penetrated/impregnated erotic, and sometimes I find the emotional connection with the other person to be an important component. If I were bold enough to make porn or sell my ass (someone please kick me!) I would have more different reasons to desire it. Personally, I don't find the power exchange dom/sub dynamic gives me any desire for it, but I know it does so for many.

Also, humans can learn new reasons for desire from new experiences. I recall the time when a VERY good straight (but not narrow) friend and I were having sex and he asked me to fuck him, which of course I was happy to do. He went into the experience having sex with me for the intimacy, but he said afterward that he understood (which he never had before) what the (gay) bottom gets out of anal sex.

7 minutes ago, Mikeysentra said:

What is the story about the guys who own multiple bathhouses and the ranch?

I think you probably mean this one:

Dirty and sweet in perfect proportion. Delightful!

OK, I went back to the CDC site and looked some more. It appears that what the news agencies picked up was a telebriefing on Monday 23 May. The CDC site has a recording of it, but it's 53 minutes long and I'm not up for that today. They claim that a transcript will be posted, but it has not been as of now (afternoon EDT Wed 25 May).

[think before following links] https://www.cdc.gov/media/releases/2022/a0523-monkeypox.html

22 hours ago, TotalTop said:

I know for a fact he has sucked, swallowed, and been fucked by men who were HIV+ or living with AIDS, not on AZT or later the cocktail and he is somehow HIV NEG. I am not sure if he is genetically immune or resistant to HIV, or if he is just super lucky? I am estimating he has been with anywhere from 100-300 men since the late 1970s. 

If you believe the CDC's risk numbers are accurate, the risk of transmission for non-HVL  HIV+ partner topping an HIV- bottom without protection, when neither have another STD, is 138/100,000.

If he did this 300 times, his total risk of acquiring HIV would be just over 34%, or just over 1 in 3.

7 hours ago, hntnhole said:

About 30 minutes ago, the CDC released a statement advising that the LGBT+ Community is at greatest risk of contracting monkey pox.

7 hours ago, hntnhole said:

By all means, guys - check out the information on the CDC website for yourselves.

I could find no information on the CDC website that included the quoted statement above. I looked pretty extensively. Please provide a link!!

Wow... I've been a member for something like 10 years, and I'm a moderator, and I had NEVER noticed the multiquote option. In fact, I had to search for quite a while before I found it. Learn something new every day!

That said, while I was looking for it I did find that if I quote one post and write some text in the draft message, and then quote another post, it adds the second quote at the end of the draft, so that's another option, e.g. if you don't know in advance which posts you want to quote.

I was fortunate to grow up in a time and place where I got a reasonably complete sex ed class in 8th grade, so I would have known what to do (though not probably how to find it) if I'd crossed paths with STIs as a minor. As things happened, I was way too shy at the time (yeah, I got over it) to have that be an issue. Though I had no issues whatsoever dealing with it when I hit that bump at 20 (the college clinic guy was convinced I couldn't possibly have that... and I proved him wrong by showing up to the appointment with a crab louse stuck inside a piece of scotch tape).

On a slightly political note, this issue (and the related one of teen pregnancy) is exactly why left-wingers are always insisting that yes, we do need sex ed in middle school (if not earlier), whether the values of the parents bless teenage sex or not.

Patience and enthusiasm and lots of lube should get you there.

Also, remember, "size doesn't matter"... well, OK, I'll admit it does, but skill matters more.

And on the technical side of things:

1. It probably isn't actually that big (see this link)

2. There are a bunch of topics on the "second ring" with helpful info including anatomy and suggestions. Here's a link to one that has some more detailed descriptions further down (page 4 I think):

10 hours ago, fskn said:

Others allege censorship, without saying quite what is being censored (not clear if it's content about sex, which is the site's focus).

To be clear, there is censorship on this site. It's a moderated forum; that's what moderation means. What will be censored is spelled out very clearly in a small number of posts by @rawTOP , the most important of which are pinned at the top of the General Discussion forum. He is the site owner and decides what things need to be censored here to protect the site and make it a pleasantly nasty place to share our lurid and piggy thoughts and desires, and discuss the real-life implications.

It's usual to post self pics on your own Activities feed, or in the Gallery, and keep the discussion area for discussion topics. Let me know if you need help on how to do that.

@CigarBear68 I want to know how you find 'em! I'm right near the intersection of two big interstates, so there's got to be some here...

Excellent writing!

55 minutes ago, NWUSHorny said:

What bothers me is threads I started that I intended to be about unrestrained promiscuity, where guys jump in with bug chasing content. Despite my discomfort at having them go in that direction, I'm hesitant to report them and stop the discussion.

Don't be. It's a whole lot easier for us to read and handle one report than to read every single post in the topic just to see if one of them happens to be bugchasing proselytizer crashing the thread.

7 hours ago, Leather69 said:

Europe has opened it's borders to swarms from africa seeking welfare etc and this has come with them.

Read the CDC pages and you will find out that this is not generally the case. Monkeypox outbreaks are largely associated with transmission from animals exported from Africa or from people who traveled to Africa and contracted it there. The disease is not common in humans (even in Africa).

Moderator: Re. Report of this issue to moderator: Person reporting is not a member so will have to give us (in the report) a way to contact them so that we can verify it.

Monkeypox is not particularly similar to syphilis in any way.  Before deciding what (if any) behavior changes you would make in the event of larger outbreaks or widespread appearance of it (neither of which appear likely at this time), you would be well-advised to read up on the actual facts about it.  A reasonable starting point would be the CDC page on it:

https://www.cdc.gov/poxvirus/monkeypox/index.html

11 hours ago, NWUSHorny said:

I posted a couple of topics recently where some of the responses turned towards bug chasing, which was certainly not my intention.

If ANYONE here is bothered by bugchasing, substance use, or other inappropriate replies to their posts OUTSIDE the Backroom, PLEASE do report them! The moderation staff is very limited and it's virtually impossible for us to read everything that gets posted.

14 hours ago, NJGB said:

It had a twink on the bed in what might have been a sports jersey and a guy fucking him with a biohazard tattoo on his lower back and a shopping tag as a bracelet on wrist

had hot verbal and ended with the twink saying he’s taken 9 loads 

Yeah... that one is hot: [think before following links] https://newtumbl.com/x_jzNqQ8tQYe5y

Revisiting this to refresh my memory before reading the new part, and I have to say, your writing is always so delightful, @Tommy Tank