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  1. BootmanLA
    You do you, of course, but I don't think men are obligated to enjoy a particular sexual activity just because it's what someone else wants, and they're not "selfish/lazy/boring" for doing so, any more than I would think you're lazy for not wanting to fuck women. I know guys who just don't like performing oral. I know guys who adore it above all else. I know guys who can't do it much if at all because of TMJ or other jaw issues. None of them are selfish, or boring, or lazy. I know guys who never fuck, and guys who never get fucked - and some who fit into both categories, and some who fit into neither. We like what we like, and I think it's pretty shitty to shame people for how they're wired. For the OP - I don't think there is a recognized (or "community-accepted") nickname for people in this category.
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    Lots of people have those feelings. That's exactly why PrEP exists.
  3. BootmanLA
    AGAIN, you didn't seem to read RawTop's posting. One of the ways they control the spammers that plague sites like this is by only gradually opening up abilities. More participation over a longer period of time = more message capacity. You've made a total of 58 posts and replies in nearly ten years of membership on this site (five of which have been in the last day and two of which are in this complaint thread). That's roughly one every other month. That is not the sign of a person who is participating extensively in the site. Reading? Sure, you may be reading a lot on here, and that's great. But the site only succeeds when people *contribute* to the site, in terms of content, as well.
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    The New York Times ran an article today that notes the case of a third person cured of HIV, in her case by a blood transplant using umbilical cord blood from a partially matched donor. The previous two persons cured of HIV were cured by bone marrow transplants from donors who had a genetic mutation that blocks HIV. According to the doctors, the umbilical cord blood treatment route offers the potential of a greater number of people who can have the virus eradicated from their systems. It's probably behind a paywall, but for those who have NYT access: [think before following links] https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/15/health/hiv-cure-cord-blood.html
  5. BootmanLA
    My usual response to something unsolicited and off-topic is "That's nice." and leave it at that.
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    As has been noted several times throughout this forum: the moderators do not divulge exactly what combination of participation items (number of posts, number of responses generated, etc.) triggers a move from one level to another, because doing so would tip the hands of those who want to game the system in order to spam-post or spam-message the membership. I will note that the system indicates you've only made 43 posts and replies in total over the years. That's not "nothing", but it's also not a huge amount of participation. One can be an "old hand" at reading this site without actually advancing very much. I always advise people: keep posting, keep commenting, and the rest will follow pretty quickly once you make it a pattern. I don't think a couple of warning points that old would really make a difference now, other than perhaps having set you back a little bit when you first got them.
  7. BootmanLA
    For starters, "Mylan" is (or rather was) a company, not a specific medication. Mylan merged with Upjohn (itself a subsidiary of Pfizer) back in late 2020 to become a new company (Viatris). So comparing Truvada to Mylan is impossible; one is a specific medication, one is a manufacturer of medications. Viatris makes generic versions of medications that have gone off-patent, like Truvada. Their generic version of the drug is, like Truvada, 200 mg of Emtricitabine and 300 mg of Tenofovir disoproxil fumarate (I find no references to a 200/245 formulation). So chemically, the generic produced by Viatris should be identical to Truvada. Of course, the coloration, shape of the tablets, etc. may be different.
  8. BootmanLA
    You're clean? You mean you take showers regularly? "Clean" is an offensive term when used to mean "do not currently have an STI". It by its nature implies that anyone who does have an STI is "dirty". Lastly, if you "never really thought about STIs" then don't be so damned sure you're "clean" (to use your word). Many STI's do not present symptoms though they can be detected with lab tests and treated, but only if you actually bother to check for them. Assuming you're "clean" because someone else claims to be "careful about who he introduce you to" is an excellent recipe for getting an STI that progresses pretty damned far.
  9. BootmanLA
    Bear in mind that (although you're certainly correct), the original post was the typical "Fap Fap Fap Isn't this a hot idea Fap Fap Fap Look at MEEEEEEEEEEE how depraved I am Fap Fap Fap" post. I think if we put all the topics and posts that were purely masturbatory fuel pretending to be serious discussions into one forum, this site would capsize from the unbalanced weight in that area.
  10. BootmanLA
    I know it wasn't your question, but it's worth addressing. First, you now know this provider (whether it's a specialty doctor or your primary care physician) can't be relied on to nag you to come in for a refill consult appointment. Perhaps they should, perhaps they don't view it as their responsibility, but in the "it is what it is" camp, assume they're not going to. Your choices (going forward) are: find a new primary care provider that is better at notifying you (which can be a crapshoot), or utilize technology to keep yourself updated. On the day of your medical appointment, either make the next appointment (for 90 days out), or at a minimum, ask them how much lead time, typically, you need for getting a non-emergency appointment. If it's two weeks, set a reminder on your phone for THREE weeks ahead of the ninety-day mark. Set a second reminder at the two week mark, in case you dismiss the first one and then forget. My own doctor always makes the next appointment before I leave his office for the current one, and they're very good at automated email notifications to get lab work done, etc. beforehand. Not all practices are good about that, however.
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    I do not believe there is a "regularly found in nature" viral load level that would be described as "almost certain" for transmission. While you're correct that there's a general increase in risk of transmission starting with "essentially zero" for an undetectable VL and rising along with the VL. But even when a person has an uncontrolled HIV infection, there's still a much better than average chance that a single sex act will not infect another person (absent that person himself already having a weakened immune system). As for what the shape of that curve is, between the extremes of "undetectable" and "uncontrolled HIV infection with a VL in the high 6 figures or higher", there just isn't evidence to graph it, and frankly, it would essentially be a waste of resources that could be far better spent on other, actual serious issues.
  12. BootmanLA
    Again: it's not for the top to determine "relevancy". If the agreement is "you'll pull out without cumming inside me", then that's the agreement. Violating it - WHICH IS THE TOPIC OF THIS THREAD - is a violation, period. Full stop. It's not the top's place to decide it's an irrational concern. It's not the top's place to decide it's not important enough to honor the deal. That's how consent works. Consent is not founded on "I stick to the agreement as long as I think the agreement makes sense." Now it's true that this is (probably) increasingly unlikely a scenario to encounter. But IF the scenario exists, the only decent options are (a) stick to the deal or (b) decline the deal and move on to someone else.
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    You're correct that it was killed by FOSTA-SESTA (the actual acronym of the act). They were pretty quick on killing it because their lawyers understood the enormous risks they'd be taking under the law. In fact, CraigsList sex ads were one of the acknowledged primary targets of the campaign to push the two bills that became this law. If I were their lawyer, I'd have strongly recommended pulling the sections immediately upon the bill's enactment as well.
  14. BootmanLA
    1. Because people have differing ideas about what level of risk they're willing to take. 2. Because it doesn't matter what the point is - when a top agrees to not cum in a bottom and violates that agreement, it doesn't matter that he thinks the risk is pretty much the same as with his precum. What matters is that he unilaterally changed the terms of engagement and that's a shit thing to do. Period.
  15. BootmanLA
    Not necessarily. A bottom on PrEP is not "chasing" even if he is "taking raw seed".
  16. BootmanLA
    You're overthinking this. A lot. You found out you enjoy sex with men. Great. You found out you don't want sex with women. Also great. You found you can have both emotional as well as physical attraction to a man. Also great. You found out he at least somewhat shares your feelings, you still want to be able to have sex with other people, and he's okay with that. Great, great, great. I literally see nothing in any of this to be concerned about. So as for "now what", just stop the fucking worrying about whether you'll be thinking about X while you get Y and so forth. You're wasting mental energy on non-issues.
  17. BootmanLA
    This is a tough one. If you're essentially monogamous with each other (I'm reading between the lines here), or at least you two don't have bareback sex with anyone else, then risks are low - not zero, by any means, but low. Go on PrEP, recognize that it works, and just tell him up front not to warn you he's about to cum and not to pull out when he does. Once you've done it once, or a few times, you'll find it easier. But if you are NOT limited for raw fucking to one another, I can understand a little hesitancy - even though pulling out is not a guarantee of safety. Again, get on PrEP. There's no reason not to, unless you have a wife or live-in girlfriend that you'd have a hard time explaining it to (and even then, unless they're privy to your finances and/or health paperwork, you don't have to keep the medication where they can see it). All that said, there's no shame in NOT letting someone cum inside you. Regardless of what you read on here, it's YOUR call what you allow to happen, and if you're not comfortable with it, maybe that's a sign you aren't ready for that, at least not yet.
  18. BootmanLA
    As I recall, Bork (a) received a hearing from the Judiciary Committee and (b) received a floor vote in the Senate, whereupon he was not confirmed by the widest margin in Senate history after serious legitimate questions about his judicial philosophy, including his rejection of the Civil Rights Act. The Reich Wing's distortion of his actual record and the subsequent portrayal of this as character assassination is one of the greatest feats in whitewashing history.
  19. BootmanLA
    Can't speak for the second half of that contrasting pair, but I'd say you have the first half down pat.
  20. BootmanLA
    You're looking in the CENTER of that page. Look in the column to the left.
  21. BootmanLA
    I've rarely had call to respond to something unprovoked like that, but I think my variant would be "I wasn't planning on asking you, but if your need to reject is so great you have to pre-emptively do it to people who have no interest in you, be my guest."
  22. BootmanLA
    I'm sure that exists. But I'm not so sure "superiority rejecting men" is all that common a motivation. Rather, I suspect a lot of guys on there are looking for stimulation for their masturbatory fantasies and so have no intent to actually meet. I don't think most of those guys are sitting back feeling superior at all. I think they figure they're not likely to succeed in person, and so limiting interactions to the virtual world in turn limits the rejection.
  23. BootmanLA
    You ask several distinct questions up above (I've pulled them out from the commentary, to highlight them). But they boil down to the following: 1. Why do I want more sex but find myself unable or unwilling to pursue it? 2. What do I need to do to change this? The first question, honestly, sounds like you could benefit from some therapy. Not that you're broken or anything; it just sounds like you are questioning yourself, which suggests you don't understand yourself completely, and therapy is a good way of accomplishing that - learning about yourself. A good therapist can help you figure out why you're blocking yourself from what you want (or think you want, at least; it may be that with deeper analysis, you find you don't really want the sex, but you're assuming you do because you think it will fulfill some other need. Just a thought). The second question gets answered after the first one is solved, and it may solve itself once you know why you're doing this to yourself. As for the final question: that's the rub: what worked for other people may or may not work for you, and finding out what YOU are about is a faster way to solving the problem than just randomly trying things that other people have found worked. Not least because (at least on this site, and online in general) you have no idea how valid or truthful any responses you get are.
  24. BootmanLA
    I'd seen other articles on this variant this morning. I wouldn't say they characterize the damage to the immune system as "higher"; rather, it does the same thing as other variants of HIV, but faster. As I read the various pieces (together), this new variant: 1. infects more readily because it gets access to your system more readily (this is the part that makes it easier to contract); 2. multiplies much more rapidly in your system, again because it gets access to your cells more readily; and 3. it starts diminishing your immune system more rapidly, such that you progress to AIDS-level infection within 2-3 years instead of the more typical 6-7 years. As you noted, though, this variant does seem to respond equally well to treatment. So for a person who gets tested regularly and whose infection is detected early and begins treatment immediately, there shouldn't be any issue with health, overall. The thing to worry about is when the virus goes undetected for a good while, the reservoir of t-cells in the infected person's system may diminish significantly and not fully rebound, such that there's little to no option for a med holiday if side effects are becoming problematic.
  25. BootmanLA
    Fair point. I think where your prior post didn't really follow this pattern, though, is right at this juncture: The final part of the first sentence ("I find that...") is clearly a statement of what *you* believe/act on, and clearly 100% your call to make. But the next sentence (and the one that follows, after the gap) are fairly categorical statements that "X group of people do Y" - which is kind of, you know, speaking on behalf of a lot of people who may not share your perspective.

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