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  1. I've done this on a few rare occasions. I'd like to have done more. But hey, I'm still above ground, so it's not too late...
  2. Actually, you received a warning because someone else complained about your post.
  3. @ErosWired - As I said, I generally agree with you here and I think your expectations are reasonable. I certainly think it's appropriate to expect that people who are outside the generally accepted status quo in a bathhouse - or any situation in which personal interaction takes place without the usual layers of clothing, manners, structure [work, school, business] and so forth that normally moderate that interaction - should be the ones to tread carefully with respect to violating people's expectations. Apropos of this, when the whole #MeToo thing blew up three or four years ago, at least one of the bathhouses in my current orbit instituted a policy that consent is required and put up signs explicitly stating that "unwanted touch" is off-limits. It's not clear exactly how this is supposed to work in the case of ass-up in a room...
  4. Not sure about now, but I definitely remember a dark room in the upstairs of a bar in Amsterdam - sometime around 2001 - that was completely pitch black. Couldn't see your hand in front of your face. Very hot!
  5. I have no idea whether I'm nicer than you, harry, but I'm quite certain that I'm nicer than Trump. Frankly, I wasn't attempting to address those questions, as they weren't what your post purported to be about. That was whether left-wing people are "nice" and conservatives are "mean". IMO neither is a valid generalization, nor are the opposites accurate.
  6. 1. Appearances can be deceiving. 2. The right wing does not have a corner on schadenfreude. 3. Please don't feed the trolls.
  7. I agree with you about much of this. Hence my comment that if one isn't comfortable with the rules of a particular space on a particular occasion, one shouldn't go there. Or in your hypothetical case, one should put up that notice or choose another activity. But I would argue that it's not a question of whether the space is safe to be who and what one is, but whether it's safe to engage in a particular activity (yes, I'm splitting hairs here). In any case, the management of such establishments clearly should make their policies very clear, for the benefit of all their would-be patrons.
  8. Absolutely true. I lost my anal virginity to a guy who was practically a virgin himself (and therefore inexperienced) and is hung about the same I am (8 inches and thick) - no pain whatsoever.
  9. I'll just point out here that all of this is not dependent on the person in question being transsexual. What about non-binary people? What about eunuchs (of whom we have at least one on BZ)? What if a bi guy want to bring a woman? In point of fact, some bathhouses are open to both male and female on particular occasions, and at least one that I used to go to occasionally in SF (no idea if it's still open) was always open to both. If you aren't comfortable with the rules of a particular space on a particular occasion, that's on you. Choose a different one. But IMO bathhouses are generally not so small that you can't just go there and say "no" politely if a person who approaches you isn't your cup of tea. And "yes" if they are. Which is what I believe is the proper interpretation of @brnbk's comment:
  10. My rule of thumb is "mature enough to make a rational adult decision". Sometimes that means 25 is too young. Other times 19 is just fine. The other rule is "there is mutual attraction" - it takes two to tango, and if one guy isn't into the other, nobody is going to have good fun. Personally, I'm not particularly attracted to the twinkish types (I like my men to be men, not boys), but no judgment on those who do. And yeah, I fucked a 19-year-old a few months ago, and he came back for seconds (and thirds), and I'm technically old enough to be his grandfather. Is that inappropriate? Not according to my moral compass. Societal rules are a bunch of hooey most of the time.
  11. Clearly he isn't me... When I'm chatting with a bottom I may be going to meet soon, I mostly want to see his face, because that's what I'm most sexually aroused by. For a pic of the ass, I prefer one that shows a good bit of the torso as well, because a disembodied ass isn't really erotic to me. If it's going to be a pic of just the ass (or hole) I'd prefer a pic of it being penetrated (or just about to be).
  12. Open for me. If I respect someone enough to have a real relationship with them, I respect them enough to tell them that I'm not wired for monogamy and I won't promise it to them or anyone. If they're not willing to have a relationship with me on those terms, then they aren't for me no matter how much I may love them. Been there, made that mistake. Dude got jealous even though I wasn't cheating on him (apparently wandering eyes were too much for him). Pissed me off, though that wasn't actually what ended the relationship (emotional blackmail got there first).
  13. It's notable here that the main definition and the "especially" definition here actually are different in a fundamentally important way. "strongly and unfairly dislikes" refers to an individual's emotions and internal dialogue. "hates or refuses to accept" refers to an individual's actions and public dialogue. The first principally harms only the individual having the thoughts. The second principally harms the members of the target group. This is why it's important for people to work at making that distinction for their own prejudices (and we ALL have them, because that is part of human nature). The arc of the moral universe may tend toward justice, but it does so a lot more readily if we all pitch in.
  14. Because you're being vague about it, the only thing anyone can do is to search on the title - which isn't anywhere in the forum. Rest assured that you are unlikely to be suspended for asking a legitimate question. That said, I did a search of this forum and found a story that (on a quick skim) seems pretty likely to be the one you're thinking of:
  15. This is truly excellent! The psychological journey is fascinating, and the sex is hot AF. Thank you!
  16. Given that it sounds like you have been in a monogamous (heterosexual, though it doesn't particularly matter) relationship for the last 3 years, of course you couldn't be poz (unless your partner gave it to you). In fact, given the probabilities involved, I'm rather surprised that you were even bothering to test. So my suggestion would be that you think through the issue and maybe look at the real math involved. And ask yourself why you were (illogically) worried enough to test, and scared by the false positives (when it was fairly clear that that was the only realistic likelihood). If there's some unresolved psychological issue or fear going on, take care of that so that it doesn't make your life miserable. Because having a healthy respect for the risks of sexual activity is prudent and sensible, but having unreasonable and unrealistic fear of them is a recipe for unneeded unhappiness. I understand the knee-jerk reaction of fear of a lethal disease (I've had it myself), but the scientific reality of HIV in the 2020's is a very long way from what it was in the 1980's.
  17. That's diversification of income streams, son. And beautifully dovetailed marketing - both products share a common audience. 😄
  18. This has been an issue for nearly a year. @rawTOP is aware of it and will take care of it if and when he can. Because the chat is built on a completely different software platform than the rest of the site, and because he has a replacement based on different technology in the works, this is not a high priority.
  19. I'm hardly adopting false science. Quite the contrary, I'm agreeing with established science which clearly demonstrates that chromosomes are not 100% correlated with phenotype. This is hardly news, it's been known for nearly a century at this point. Also, you miss the point I was making (perhaps I was too subtle) - that gay men in general can be (and are, by some people) construed as not being "real" men, because they don't fuck women, they do get fucked, and they don't procreate. So are we going to throw them out of the bathhouse, too? Blanket generalizations don't work well in this sort of discussion. To view the whole thing from a different angle, the question under discussion in this thread is trans men in bathhouses. Therefore, the relevant consideration is whether they are appropriate people for the activities the discussion participants prefer to engage in at a bathhouse. It's for each of us to decide how much bearing their chromosomes, their musculature, their body hair, and their genitalia (as well as all their other characteristics) have on that. But to decree that one particular characteristic or another is the only one that matters for all the people in the conversation is absurd. You may care about the dude's chromosomes when you're getting hot and heavy, but I assure you I don't give a flying fuck. And I say that with firsthand experience to back up my assertion for my own opinion in this case (although said experience was not in a bathhouse). In other words, if it looks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, who cares if it's really a coot, a grebe, or a loon? Apart from the game warden, of course.
  20. For the various people contributing to this topic who have denigrated trans men as "not real" or the like: As others have said, this is rude. But also, it's absurd. Many trans men are in fact extremely masculine - because they have gone to great effort and expense to become so, in spite of the biological disadvantage they started with. And many of the "real" men you would supposedly welcome in bathhouses are far, far less masculine! I'm talking about all of those exclusive bottoms, self-declared "sissy faggots", and persons with what they refer to as a "clitty", about whom you can read extensively elsewhere on BZ. None of the posts you all have made are against the rules (inasmuch as they haven't been ad hominem so far). Yes, you can say those things here. But if you choose to say it, you can expect to be criticized (and appropriately so) for saying something idiotic. Saying "I don't like seeing that in a bathhouse" is a reasonable personal response to the topic. Saying "That isn't a real man" or "Nobody would want to see that" is not.
  21. You might try contacting them by phone or email https://www.flexspas.com/cleveland
  22. There is no way to attach photos directly to a private message. You have to post them in a restricted album in the gallery and attach them, or else attach them as links to photos hosted elsewhere. You can attach photos directly to a post on someone's activity feed, but that's not private.
  23. Sounds like you did a good job of explaining as well as possible, given his preconceptions. I'd have been tempted to say "Of course you don't understand it. If you did you wouldn't be straight, would you?" Maybe for people with this sort of blinders it would help to direct their attention to the actual evidence in the world around them? Men are willing to have sex with other men despite the risk of imprisonment or execution -- that sounds like a pretty powerful attraction to me.
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