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  1. BootmanLA
    It's not that I want to save racists from their own foolishness. But I do think it behooves all of us to do what we can to help ensure there's a little less racism in the world - not just by refusing to judge on the basis of race ourselves, but calling out others who do, as well.
  2. BootmanLA
    You have only made 13 posts. You have never been able to message (at least not initiating a message). That ability comes with considerably more interaction online.
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    Indeed. The alternative is to assume - without regularly re-examining the evidence - that Big Pharma is "out to get us" by forcing us to stay on expensive medications forever, and to become a bitter nasty old queen who doesn't believe in hope. We have an actual cure for Hepatitis C now - a very expensive one, yes, but compared with long-term treatment, it's still a relative bargain. It's one example, but it's clearly one that some group, somewhere, came up with. Despite all the nattering nabobs of negativism claiming Pharma doesn't want to cure anything.
  4. BootmanLA
    Try searching on here for any of the approximately 879 times people have asked the question before - search for "first time bare" or something like that. More than a decade of advice, all of which boils down to "You just have to try it to find out."
  5. BootmanLA
    Indeed. I think that's part of the problem - white guys who think "white guys" are the default, and everyone ELSE is "inter-racial". "Sex with someone of another race" would have been a much better tagline.
  6. BootmanLA
    Here's the thing. You consent to surgery under anesthesia, AFTER the procedure and all of what they're going to do has been explained to you, AND almost always, there are provisions in the consent form for what to do if something goes awry.. There's often (though not always) a designated someone else (relative, spouse, partner, child, whatever) waiting in attendance in case a health care decision has to be made and there's time for someone to make it on your behalf. So yes, it's possible to consent to sex under those circumstances - that you know you'll be unconscious when it happens. But for there to be any parallel, there needs to be explicit disclosure of everything that's going to be done to you while you're out. Otherwise, those particular acts are non-consensual. And before someone suggests that you can give a sweeping "anything goes" consent... really? You mean it's okay if the guy decides to remove your nuts and cock with a box cutter while you're out, that's "consented to"?
  7. BootmanLA
    Short answer: some do, some don't. No amount of responses you receive here will change that fact.
  8. BootmanLA
    That's fine - I just like it clear when someone's responding to my words vs. someone else's. Someone skimming posts and reading yours may get the wrong idea. The apology's appreciated. Here's a suggestion, though (for what it's worth): when you are responding to a quoted section of a post, before you click "quote" to reply, click in the quoted section - which will take you to the original poster and his words. Then, if you click "quote" on HIS post, your reply will be directed at the person you're addressing, not an intermediate commenter. If you click "quote" on the intermediate person - like me, who'd commented on the original - you end up only quoting that intermediate person, and none of the original person's quote appears. It's like the "quote" feature can only go back to the specific post quoted, and can't include any prior-quoted material from that same post.
  9. BootmanLA
    I may not have explained my point clearly. Your own response, though, touches on what I mean: it's not that PrEP enters any cells, but it does build up a barrier TO infecting certain cells, and that can take place either within the bloodstream or within certain types of tissue, specifically mucosal tissue, found in the vagina and rectum. PrEP, in other words, definitely enters certain tissues, even if it doesn't exactly enter the cells within the tissue. As I'm sure you know, HIV replicates by invading a cell, coopting the cell's reproductive capabilities, and using them to produce more virus particles. So in that context, PrEP exists to disrupt that interaction between the cell and the virus, and that's what I was referring to: as long as there's sufficient PrEP in your system, the virus particles can't enter your system, and eventually they're filtered out or break down. The thing about mucosal tissues is probably what explains why taking PrEP longer (after sex) may be more important for a bottom than a top. There aren't nearly as many points of entry (via the bloodstream or mucosal tissues) on a cock as there are in a rectum. If a top's on PrEP and has sex with an HIV+ bottom, infection by the virus is not only prevented by the PrEP, but he's likely to be at risk only until his next urination or so. A bottom, on the other hand, may have active virus trying to invade through his rectal mucosal tissues for a good while, hence the need to keep the level of PrEP high in his system for a longer period.
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    Yes and no. There's a difference between the virus being inserted into your system, and the virus being able to actively reproduce within your system, and the virus can continue to exist (it's not "living") within your system for a period before it breaks down and can no longer infect. The point of PrEP is to prime your body's cells with the ability to prevent HIV from replicating in your system until it naturally breaks down and is no longer a threat. So both the amount of time the drug has to build up in your system before infection AND how long it remains in your system after infection are both relevant. If the penile/vaginal tissues have sufficient drug levels at the time of sex, they may be able to prevent the virus from ever entering your bloodstream to find other cells through which to replicate. But if it does reach the bloodstream, it's also important to keep priming the pump, so to speak, with additional drug levels (the day after and day after that doses, at a minimum) that continue to block replication by the virus.
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    Yes. Kind of like "As someone who is also a crappy human being, finding out he's also a crappy human being makes him much more acceptable to me."
  12. BootmanLA
    There is no guarantee that's what they mean. He could just like those images, or the scorpion could be a horoscope thing.
  13. BootmanLA
    Race play can take diametrically opposing forms, actually. Sometimes the dominant player is of what is normally (within the particular society) the advantaged/majority race, and the submissive partner is of a less-advantaged/minority one; think a white top and a black bottom in the US, for instance, particularly in the southern US. Such play might well involve slavery themes or Jim Crow themes ("you talking back to me, BOY? Gotta learn you some manners!"). Sometimes the roles are reversed, with the less-advantaged/minority player as the dominant one, sometimes with themes of retribution and reversing control ("You been looking at that big black MAN's cock, white boy? You gotta earn that!"). And so on. It's variable, but those are a couple of examples of how it can play out.
  14. BootmanLA
    You quoted me, but I'm simply quoting the poster before me who insisted that everyone sorts by race. I'm not claiming that everyone does - he did. Please be more careful - rather than quote me quoting someone, why not quote the original comment you're objecting to, so it doesn't appear to the casual reader that you think I said the offensive comment?
  15. BootmanLA
    That depends on the ring. If it's not too snug when you're soft (but snug enough to not "fall down your pants leg"), then yes, you can. That's a matter of personal taste. I know some guys who prefer silicone rubber because it's durable and yet stretchy. Some prefer leather with snaps (though I see fewer of those in recent years, for some reason), because they can be unsnapped and removed if they get painful without having to have the erection subside in order to remove it. There are also leather rings with velcro, which makes them even more adjustable. Some guys like metal; those that do tend to prefer wider (ie 1/2" to 3/4" ) rather than narrow rings. And that's before getting into alternative designs like the teardrop-shaped ones that prod your taint. Unfortunately, because the ring goes around your balls as well as at the base of your cock, it's really hard to say what the right size ring is for a given guy, because some balls are close up to the cock and some are farther back, and the size of the sack can affect the fit. If you can get to a leather event where there are vendors, you can sometimes try on some ring types (they can wipe them down with alcohol to sterilize them between customers), but not all vendors will permit that. Otherwise, your best bet may be to find some inexpensive rubber rings in a few different sizes - start with, say, a 2" diameter and go up and down from there) to find the size that fits you best. Then you can find other rings in other materials in a similar size. Bear in mind that some materials may fit you better than others, and you may need, say, a 2" ring in metal but a rubber one, being stretchy, can fit at 1 1/2 or 1 3/4 inches. Lastly: if you go with metal, go with stainless steel, not chrome plated (which WILL wear off, with body fluids and lube and other things on the finish).
  16. BootmanLA
    In other words, sociopathic liars.
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    That presumes, on that day, that there's enough of his mind left to know he once ranted on here about how much he was looking forward to turning his life to shit. I suspect there won't be.
  18. BootmanLA
    The part that's "navel gazing" is assuming that because YOU sort by race, EVERYONE sorts by race. Ditto for your self-selected sample of "several partners" who told you what they like.
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    Not the same situation at all. Presumably, the guy consented to getting in the sling. Consent means not rape. And even men who consent in such cases might well object to video of the event being circulated out of his control. I get it - you want to fap fap fap to the idea of frat guy orgy sex. Knock yourself out. But please don't dismiss rape as "different perspective". That's a completely shitty take on it. Completely, totally, shitty.
  20. BootmanLA
    A suppository is any semi solid medication delivered by insertion in the rectum. So simply referring to suppositories is like referring to "tablets" - meaningless unless you specify the kind. The only sort I can imagine that might be remotely useful would be a laxative - but that's not guaranteed to clean you out. And because they can continue to have effects for hours, you might be in the middle of sex and end up shitting on your top's dick. You're looking for something that helps remove what's already "ready to go", not to loosen up what could be hours away from expulsion.
  21. BootmanLA
    While I agree that the original medical advice was overkill, there's some common sense behind the notion of longer PrEP duration for bottoms. It's well documented that bottoms face higher risk from an HIV+ top than tops face from an HIV+ bottom.
  22. BootmanLA
    Assuming the rest of the world shares your viewpoint is pretty much the epitome of navel gazing.
  23. BootmanLA
    For what it's worth: (a) what you describe is not "stealthing a top" (per your title). (b) if a person's sexual practices don't line up with yours, the correct answer is to move on to another partner, not to try to convince him to abandon what he feels is necessary for his safety.
  24. BootmanLA
    That's an understandable perspective, but it's an expensive drug; and when the cost is high, that's a constraint on supply, because the government can't buy an infinite amount of it. So whenever supplies are constrained, it makes sense, from a public health perspective, to prioritize giving it to the people who are most at risk - which is men having sex with men, at least in western countries. It's kind of like how the Covid vaccines were rolled out first to the oldest and most vulnerable populations (because supply was limited), and it was opened up to more and eventually to all once the supply was sufficient. It may be that once enough people are on PrEP and costs of HIV treatment level off (because fewer people are getting infected) PrEP can be expanded to more populations. That, or the funding could be increased.
  25. BootmanLA
    Not per the most recent studies I've been able to find. This one, from last year, says the effect is about 3.3 years: [think before following links] https://academic.oup.com/sleep/article/44/8/zsab058/6204183 I suspect that as meds have improved, the longer-term impacts have declined. And in any event, results are going to vary from person to person; it's not like HIV *always* turned every 50 year old's brain into the equivalent of a 65 year old.

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