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BootmanLA

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  1. By your definition, the thing that divides lanes on the center of the highway is a condom. It's a "barrier". The fence we put up last weekend between us and our neighbor is a condom, by your definition. It, too, is a "barrier". The treatment for termites we put down this spring around our house is, in your words, a condom. It is a "barrier" as well. No, I'm not going to accept sophistry of that level, especially not in service of a non-answer to the question. The fact that you may have wanted to make your response, whatever it was supposed to mean, "cutesy" by redefining words out of any sense of their actual meaning doesn't obligate me to accept your efforts. In any event, my choice to object is not just linguistically; it's that in a forum specifically focused on sexual health, obscuring what you mean to say with breezily given, technically incorrect and easily misinterpreted commentary doesn't serve the purpose of answering the question while at the same time conveying misinformation about sexual health. It sounds to me like you're overly invested in your original flippant choice of words rather than explain what you actually meant to convey in your "genuine response" with more precise language.
  2. TexRanchKing - note that in your reply, it's also showing as "[banned word]". You may have seen it before because stories had used it before it was banned by the owner/moderator. Typically, "ban" software intervenes at the time something's posted - when you added the comment above, the system automatically replaced the word, whatever it is, with "[banned word]". But prior, pre-existing examples of the word may still show in stories; they'll only disappear if a moderator were to do a search across the entire board, and replace each instance. Given that thousands of old posts never get read again because people don't go back and hunt through "dead threads" very often, that's probably more work than they need to worry with. As far as I know, the only way to convey to another member what that word might be is to describe it, rephrase it, to deliberately misspell it, or to message them privately. For instance, if the word "bugchaser" were banned, you could misspell it "boogchazer"; you could rephrase it "insect seeker"; you could describe it as "that activity where you go looking for flying buzzing things [wink]"; or you could send a private message letting anyone who asked know what the word in question was supposed to be. But as long as it's banned, you won't be able to use that word in a new posting.
  3. My language skills are absolutely unimpaired. Your statement calling PrEP a "chemical condom" is factually wrong. In any other part of this site, I'd pass over it, but this is the HIV/AIDS & Sexual Health Forum, where accuracy matters a lot more. People who understand what a condom is, but who do not understand how PrEP works (and it's clear, based on posts confusing PrEP, PEP, and HAART, that quite a few people do not understand it), need to be educated as to the differences, not have them glossed over as "a chemical condom".
  4. Not in any sense of those words as understood in English. A condom is a physical barrier to prevent semen from being deposited inside the vagina or rectum of another person. It also can, with varying degrees of efficacy, prevent the transmission of a number of sexually-transmitted diseases. PrEP is a medication designed to prevent one particular virus possibly contained in that semen from infecting the recipient, with no effect whatsoever on any other sexually transmissible infection. Now, if what you're saying is "I'm determined to become HIV-positive and therefore reject anything that might stand in the way", rejecting both condoms and PrEP may make sense (such as it is) for you. But they are in no way, shape or form the same thing.
  5. Indeed. Let's go after hypocrisy, like the so-called "Law and Order" party that's committing extra-judicial kidnappings with secret police in various cities. Let's go after the hypocrisy of the "small government" and "locals know best" party who see no conflict with a military costing three-fourths of a trillion dollars every year and who want to deploy federal troops in the streets of any city that dares question Trump's tactics. If we got rid of hypocrisy in DC there would be no Republicans left - so it sounds pretty good to me!
  6. I love how Trumpanzees scream about Biden's son supposedly being all tied up with the Chinese while ignoring that Trump's real estate companies borrowed hundreds of millions of dollars from the state-owned Bank of China. And if presidential offspring doing business with China is so bad, why aren't you all in a dither about Trump's spawn Ivanka hustling trademarks from the Chinese Communist Party? And of course, Trumpanzees are always deadly silent about the billions of dollars that Trump has laundered for the Russian mob as they extracted dirty money from looting formerly state-owned companies in Russia. Trump's well known for taking cash payments in the mid to upper 8 figures from Russian mobsters willing to overpay for condos in his shitty, tacky buildings, because they can turn around and sell those condos at a loss and end up with "clean" money that can be moved around the world. All of which doesn't begin to touch the hundreds of millions of dollars in tax fraud Trump's committed in this country - but then Trumpanzees don't care about that either, because they all want government services without anyone having to pay government taxes. So people like Trump, who stiff the feds for hundreds of millions of dollars, become folk heroes for the ignorati, who don't realize that they're paying more taxes because people like him don't. It's really sad. I try not to call people "stupid" because I don't know whether they really are dumb or just don't know better and thus are capable of learning, but I'm leaning a lot more heavily towards "stupid" of late.
  7. Boy, the Trumpanzees are getting seriously desperate; they can see the Republican Party burning itself to the ground. Trump has hijacked (note the correct spelling, TrumpAssKissers) and 78-year old thoroughly corrupt McConnell is almost as huge a felon as their nominee, Trump, who brags on being able to repeat five words in a row. Trumpanzees love to spout big words like "globalism" and "socialist" that they don't actually comprehend but think will scare the center; but what really scares the center, as reflected in the polls, is another term of President Unindicted Co-Conspirator Individual-1.
  8. I think the main reason you don't see more of this is that there aren't that many tops who are capable of breeding several bottoms in a row to each's satisfaction. One top could fuck all of them, but not produce cum shots for each. If they stay in position for hours on end, they might (MIGHT!) each get a load separated by great lengths of time (which you can compress in editing, but you can't make happen much faster while filming). Say you have four bottoms lined up; figure 10 minutes between load 1 and load 2; figure another 30+ minutes before Load 3; figure at least that long, if not much longer, for Load 4 - if you can get a top who can produce 4 loads in a 2-3 hour window. Alternatively, you can have as many tops as bottoms, but that becomes a lot harder to coordinate and time right.
  9. I will add this, not that you necessarily need a reminder, but: when you see all those posts urging you on to indulge, to be a pig, to give up PrEP and "live your destiny", or whatever BS they're hawking, just remember they aren't the one(s) who will be living with the consequences of your decision. YOU will be. They aren't going to help shoulder the financial burdens that HIV medications impose on you, even assuming you have good health coverage right now. They aren't going to be helping you apply for governmental assistance if you DO lose whatever health insurance you currently have; there are programs out there to help, but YOU will be the one tracking them down, or finding someone to help you navigate the system. If you do want a relationship some day, know that becoming poz doesn't mean that's impossible, but it does immediately start imposing some limits. There are plenty of negative guys who won't date anyone who's positive, even undetectable people. There are those who will, of course, and you can always date someone else who's poz, but your pool of potential matches is diminished before you even get to other kinds of compatibility. Routine health care is good, and in that respect, being poz can motivate you to stay on top of other health concerns before or as they develop, so that's a potential upside. And a good HIV specialist is going to have staff who take care of you; my doctor wants to see me every five months or so, and when I leave one appointment, they've already booked my next one in their system. But on the downside: while HIV medications are, broadly speaking, quite effective at suppressing the virus, they can take a toll on your body's other systems. A significant number can lead to kidney or liver problems, for instance. If you have or develop any other types of health issues - hypertension, diabetes, high cholesterol, whatever - the options for treating those conditions may be more limited because of interactions with HIV medications, or because in the presence of a compromised immune system, some common drugs can be toxic for key organs. And on and on. Don't get me wrong: once things are stabilized, it *mostly* works like clockwork, with regular blood screenings keeping your doctors on their toes for developing problems. But that will go on *forever*. It's a juggling act, and you're not in control of the weight or shape of the items in the air nor how fast they're moving. As you said, you're barely 30; you could easily live another 50 years. How do you want to spend it?
  10. Another example, from today. Trump's polling deficit with women is becoming disastrous compared with his less-than-stellar performance in 2016. Clinton carried women overall, 54-39, but barely lost white women (45-47). White women have consistently voted Republican this century, for GWB in 2004, McCain in 2008, and Romney in 2012. Biden is carrying women overall 59-31, and winning white women 55-38. So how did Trump frame his message to this critical group today? "The Suburban Housewives of America must read this article. Biden will destroy your neighborhood and your American Dream. I will preserve it, and make it even better!" "Suburban Housewives". Has anyone heard a woman under 70 describe herself lately as a "housewife"?
  11. Not all of it, but yes, there is a wide swath of that. On the flip side, since DADT ended, the brass have been eager to protect LGBT service members as long as they keep their noses clean in public. It's one less thing they have to worry about progressive politicians coming after them over.
  12. There is very, very little of the real stuff out there because although you can be gay and serve, getting caught making porn is a one way express ticket out of the service with (at a minimum) an other-than-honorable discharge. Add in that most demand is for two or more servicemen together, and it's just not gonna happen, for the most part.
  13. Here's an example of what I mean about Trump being dismissive of women, except as decoration or things to grab by the pussy: He was asked today about Dr. Deborah Birx, the only scientist(!) on the White House Covid Task Force (that fact alone tells you they don't think of this as a science issue, it's a PR/election problem). His response: "An unbelievable woman. A woman of tremendous substance. And style, frankly. She has an amazing style. She walks into the room and she can take a scarf and do 15 things with it."
  14. One other point: I mentioned above that in 2016, Trump got the votes of a majority of those who disliked both candidates. I think it was somewhere around 75% of those voters. This season, Biden is ahead in that group 90-10. The point is that a president who won by less than 80,000 votes in 3 states (meaning 40,000 flips, properly distributed, means he loses) can't afford to lose any votes in states that might flip, and (assuming he wants to win) ought to be trying to lure votes from the other side. Instead, he's quadrupled down on his base and thinks he can make inroads with Hispanics by hawking Goya beans from the Resolute Desk. He is losing even non-college educated white women by double digits and yet he still revels in insulting women's appearances, telling them to just get over their very serious concerns about putting kids back in school, and telling any female reporter who asks him a tough question that she's "nasty." It's a hundred little shitty things about our unindicted co-conspirator of a president, aka INDIVIDUAL-1, that costs him five thousand votes here, ten thousand there. And the Donnie Bros who think the whiniest president in history (it's SO unfair) is some sort of real man are going to find out what backing a complete LOSER feels like. Of course, given Trump's abysmal record in business, they should be familiar with the concept already, but the delusion is strong with the Donnie Bros.
  15. Any of them. Not a single poll even by the most die hard White Supremacist or by the GOP (but I repeat myself) shows Trump even close to leading nationally or in the swing states that will decide the election. None. 2016 polling didn't pay enough attention to the swing states of PA-MI-WI. 2020 isn't repeating that error, nor is it ignoring that more and more states Trump carried handily in 2016 are in play. But go on believing that Trump is going to win. Hell, if he's as popular as you say, why bother voting? Stay home and start celebrating early in the morning on election day. I'm sure most of his voters have a bottle of MD 20/20 tucked away for special occasions.
  16. The polls in 2016 were pretty much spot on. Clinton was ahead by a few percent, and she actually ended with nearly 3 million more votes than Trump. As everyone knows by now, Trump won by tiny, tiny, tiny (like his hands) margins in 3 states - results well within the margin of error. He managed that because a significant number of voters disliked both candidates intensely and went with the new guy. Since that time Trump's numbers have fallen more or less steadily until Covid, at which time they started plummeting. Biden is not Clinton, and people don't have the irrational hatred for him that they did for her. Which is why instead of leading by 2-3 percent nationally as she did, Biden's leading by 8 to 10 points. It's why he's ahead in essentially every swing state from 2016 beyond the margin of error, and why several states that were solidly Republican in 2016 are now tossups or leaning blue. Trump's base of white supremacists adores him, no doubt. His problem is that outside of his base, his support is cratering, and Trump now has a solid 50% of voters who STRONGLY disapprove of him, in addition to another 8 or 9 percent who just disapprove. He loves to quote that he has enormous approval among Republicans (he claims 96%, but it's more like 88-90%), without mentioning that the share of voters who identify as Republican or lean Republican has fallen from 46% in early 2017 to about 38% today. In other words, Trump is to the GOP what Clinton was to the Dems - except the Dems were happy to let other Dem candidates be less vocal about supporting Clinton in a swing district. For the GOP, supporting Hair Furor is the only thing that matters, and that's going to cost the GOP the Senate.
  17. I'm not sure it's shaming so much as noting a fact: there is a pronounced tendency (not a guarantee) for men who describe themselves as "versatile" to actually mean "I want to be the bottom, but if I HAVE to top occasionally in order to get what I really want the rest of the time, I'm willing to take one for the team." That may not describe you, but it describes a large majority of the "versatile" guys I've met over the 35+ years I've been active. Now, it's a reasonable argument to say "those aren't really versatile guys" but that's how they present themselves (especially in circumstances where "top/versatile/bottom" are the only options.
  18. I do feel sorry, though, for those people who feel they can't post without adding a nonsensical illustration to go with it. I can't figure out whether they only understand their posts if there's a picture to clarify it, or if they don't expect any of their friends to be able to understand a words-only post, or they're just taking a cue from the Toddler-in-Chief who can't read and who had to have his ability to recognize a drawing of an elephant tested. Such a shame.
  19. Given that you're about the only person who's always posting pro-Trump bullshit, week in and week out, I wouldn't be so fast to count supporters if I were you. I will say this, though. One thing Trump is well-known for is his ability to convince himself that up is down, black is white, and the 46th highest electoral percentage out of 58 elections is somehow a record-setting event. I am not surprised, given all that, that you are fervently in his camp.
  20. If he knows clowns and being laughed at, it's from his own personal experience. A significant number of that 320 million are not registered to vote (including a bunch of otherwise Trumpanzees), so your number is off to start with. That includes about 75 million who are under the age of 18 and thus too young to vote. It also includes about six million who have been disenfranchised by the 20th and 21st century's version of chattel slavery (aka denying felons who've finished their sentences the right to vote). So you can't even get the number right, and considering that more people have vote for the Democratic candidate than the Republican one in six of the last seven elections - including the one Trump "won" - I wouldn't put much faith in your number-counting skills. We will, come November, when we vote the worst president in American history out of office. At which point, no doubt, many of you will begin to whine and pout and stomp your feet and demand to get your way regardless. Such toddlers.
  21. To quote the second-best advice columnist in America: "Should" is the most useless word in the English language."
  22. Expecting any Trumpanzee to realize anything based in the real world is pretty much a fool's errand. If someone posting here were knowledgeable about infectious diseases, for instance, he would almost certainly know that you can't simply invent a number suggesting that (as here) CoViD has a death rate of 1/2 of 1 percent. (One tip-off that a knowledgeable person wouldn't refer to it as a "virus" (in quotes) as though that basic fact - that this is a virus - is in question. A knowledgeable person would know that not only do you have to consider the death rate per infection, but how widespread the infection is (which is, in turn, partly a reflection of how easy the virus is to transmit). And a knowledgeable person would know that, in fact, CoViD appears to be many, many, many times easier to transmit, which means that far more people are likely infected with CoViD currently than people are typically infected with flu at any given point. In fact, if this were simpler than the flu, the fact that we're in the middle of July - when flu in North America is essentially unknown - and CoViD is still spreading like wildfire would demonstrate to a knowledgeable person - even to an ill-informed but open-minded person - that facile comparisons to the flu by morons wielding memes are prima facie evidence of serious intellectual disability. But then again, we'd be talking about knowledgeable people, not Trump, nor any of his Trumpanzees. It's a hopeless cause to even dream of educating those people.
  23. First off, not everyone who barebacks is an "aids beggar". Some guys are on PrEP. Some guys are positive and undetectable. Really, there's nothing you can say that applies to all barebackers except that they enjoy sex bareback. That's it. And it's not "catching the flu". CoViD-19 is well documented as being more infectious than the flu and potentially far more serious because there is no actual treatment yet; the only thing that could be worse is if it was also far more deadly than it is (which is plenty bad enough). Finally: HIV, for all the challenges it presents, is both treatable and (if treated) a very, very slow killer - to the point that people who stay on treatment are likely to die of something else before HIV comes close to killing them. Death from CoViD usually happens within weeks. People who don't understand those differences probably shouldn't be allowed to use computers unsupervised.
  24. Technically, no. The only thing you get "permanently" from sex, if the person is HIV-positive, is the virus - which is not the top's DNA. It is its own RNA. The other person's DNA, as contained in both sperm cells and leukocytes, does not "permanently" remain in anyone else. In this sense, it's no different than, say, the lube the top uses; HIV is something hitching a ride into the other person to infect. After all, if the top's DNA were actually altered, it's highly unlikely we'd ever find a cure for HIV since you'd be dealing with a different expression of it in every single person based on his or her DNA.
  25. Still burning crosses, white supremacists?
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