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It shouldn’t. As I understand it rawTOP blocks IP address ranges, these are allocated internationally to countries so it’s fairly easy to determine which country a user is in from their IP address. It’s similar to how streaming services show different things in different countries based on the rights/licenses they have.

Does seem to be rather temperamental as to when this screen appears. Just thought it quite funny a couple of days after mentioning it I’d finally got the VPNs are blocked messaged.

Uhoh. Did I poke the bear? Seems that I can’t access BBRT via a VPN on mobile now

See also, this previous thread

I've been keeping an eye on this topic since it first started, since as a UK resident it directly affects me. But have been also cautious for various reasons. For all those railing against the current UK government, the introduction of age verification for adult content has been on the cards for many years under governments of all different stripes. Folk have said 'voting matters', yet at successive elections none of the main parties has advocated for anything other than continuing this line of practice. If anything they're stuck in a vicious circle of trying to out compete each other on who can be more draconian and curtail more personally liberties, with public discourse being constantly inflamed by our ever more awful newspaper and media commentariat ecosystem. While the internet has made it much, much more easy to access adult content, it is worth recalling that the UK has historically had some of the most stringent anti-porn laws in the western world (which it also exported, via Empire, to other shores). The Obsecenity Act is still active law, first enacted in the 1800s and replacing various royal proclamations, it controls the production and publication of pornographic material. Through other legislation it is also still technically illegal to send obscene material through the post, though in the post-VHS/DVD age this hardly matterns now. While enforcement of these laws has always been somewhat mixed, it's only because of a more relaxed stance at the BBFC (British Board of Film Classification) since the start of the 2000s and the Human Rights Act that "hardcore" pornography has been generally available (in physical form) in the UK. But the Internet makes a mockery of all these previous laws designed for the non-Internet age. These new laws are merely a moden expression of long held moral sentiments and executive perogative to constrain access to what is deemed "obscene material" by the powers that be. The attempts by British governments since the mid-2000s to weaken end-to-end encryption come from a similar admistrative tradition that views citizens as subjects and that 'for the public good' the Crown has an inalienable right to their information. Though government ministers and senior officials seem to routinely forget that weakening end-to-end for one weakens it for all, including them. Returning to the matter at hand, for what it's worth I think the risk and impact of enforcement action being taken out against BZ itself is low, but it's non-zero and therefore I understand the action rawTOP's decided to take. It is also quite possible, probable even, that the UK's ISPs might further restrict access to adult content. Since 2013, UK-based broadband and mobile (cell) providers have been required to 'content filter' users access to the internet, meaning you have had to actively opt-out of content filtering and declare that you want to see "18+" content (porn, gambling, etc). There isn't really anything we (UK users) can do about the situation especially this late in the day, so we have adapt (e.g. getting a VPN) since we're rather a niche community here and not big enough to affect public policy. We also probably don't want the likes of the D*!1y M*!1 snooping around here and getting all Mary Whitehouse on us.

Thankfully @rawTOP supports the use of VPNs and has been advising folk for a while that they ought to consider getting one. I currently use NordVPN, which has been fairly decent over the years of using it, though I'm considering switching to Proton. Unlike the owner of barebackrt who actively bans VPN users from accessing that site. Using a VPN on my laptop almost always means I can't log in and get a webpage (made by them) accusing me of being a fraudster, rather than wanting privacy from my home ISP or the hotel wifi provider etc. When accessing bbrt on my phone/ipad and have the VPN active, I don't seem to get the warning as often but no idea why since it's the same VPN across all devices.

Though I haven’t actually been to Nixon so can’t personally vouch for it. Been far too long since I’ve been to GC actually, really ought to treat myself to a trip soon.

Haha. Yeah, from what I’ve heard pretty much everyone there fucks raw. Just that breed is specifically dedicated to it. Based on their website, their schedule is as follows: Thurs 3rd - Breed Fri 4th - Wet & Piss (unlimited beer and water included in €20 ticket price) Sat 5th - Bears & Puppies (free entry, no dress code, but presumably there might be more folk in pup gear than usual) Sun 6th - Wet & Piss Mon 7th - Free code (free entry, no dress code) Tues 8th - Wet & Piss Weds 9th - Sportsmen (free entry, no dress code, but assume sports kit oriented) Thurs 10th onwards - Free code

I’ve heard Noxon can be pretty sleazy, the owner ([think before following links] https://x.com/ubagonoxon) certainly is one hell of a sexy, sleazy, piggy bear. Though they had their “breed” party yesterday and aren’t doing their “load” party during bear week ([think before following links] https://www.noxonclub.com/).

Can I ask what country or general region you’re from? I assume this is your regular general doctor, not an HIV specialist? Their knowledge is rather out of date, their advice feels much more like what you would expect in the 2000s rather than the 2020s. So, if it’s possible, I’d also recommend trying to change doctor. Perhaps get in touch with a HIV/sexual health charity in your city/country that can give you tailored advice based on the latest knowledge and research as well as options for changing doctors. In regards to your specific questions: 1. Like many long term conditions it’s possible your current medication might start to be less effective, but there are several different classes of ARV drugs these days so I wouldn’t worry too much about this. 2. The multi-strain/super-infection risk is low. It was a widely held fear in the 90s/00s that “super infection” might be possible. Research has not shown this to be the case, it’s very rare and only documented in those not on medication. 3. It certainly is the case that folk with HIV/AIDS who are not on medication are at higher risk of pneumonia - a weakened immune system is likely to lead to more opportunity for a chest infection that won’t cure itself and thus develop into pneumonia. There is an increased risk of certain cancers but this has been reducing over time with the increased availability of better drugs to treat HIV. 4. If you have another infection that requires antibiotic then you may well need to stop taking DoxyPEP while you take the other antibiotic to avoid any bad interactions between the two drugs. But on taking DoxyPEP in general, it certainly reduces the likelihood of other STDs. There are many countries (France comes to mind) where there has been a long history of overprescribing of antibiotics and therefore significant fears about antibiotic resistance developing. But if you’re very regularly sexually active with multiple unknown partners then it probably is best to stick with DoxyPEP. A few hundred thousand gay men taking it isn’t going to add substantially to the pre-existing risks of antibiotic resistant super-bugs emerging.

Hep C is a principally blood-borne virus and only present in cum at the very initial phase of infection. As with HIV, Hep C infection for tops is rare, it requires some degree of irritation/micro-tearing that exposes blood vessels such that the virus can enter the blood stream. It doesn’t need to be a full on situation where you notice blood, think like how you can get scratched on the hand by a thorn on a rose, you don’t profusely bleed from that but your skin has been broken and there’s a route for something to get into your bloodstream that’s like what happened in Leather69’s case. Somehow a micro-tear will have occurred in the skin of his cock, and either there was a load in one of the bottoms he fucked that came from somehow with a recent Hep C infection or he fucked a bottom with Hep C that had tears in his ass. Fisting notably increases the risk of Hep C because it increases the chances of creating micro-tears in the receiving partner’s ass (or deep tears depending on how rough you are). And obviously sharing needles massively increases the chances. Personally I’ve only know folks contract Hep C through either of these methods not regular fucking, not saying it doesn’t happen that way as Leather69’s case proves, but its just more likely if fisting/shared needles are involved. PrEP has nothing to do with HepC transmission, it only guards against HIV infection. Hep C requires a completely different set of drugs to treat.

You can access a list of content you follow, which (when I remember) use as a sort of quasi favourites or bookmarks list. Downside is that you can’t sort or search it. In the menu select Account > Manage Followed Content, the first page under that will provide a list topics you follow.

IIRC, long ago (I’m thinking like 10+ years ago) it was possible to upload video to your gallery but I believe it was disabled for three reasons: (i) hosting video files massively increases the hosting and bandwidth requirements (and thus site running costs), (ii) video comes with a lot more moderation and copyright headaches as well as increasing the likelihood of DCMA takedown notices, (iii) raw top launched a separate tube site for video posting (raunchyfuckers) but that’s since gone into abeyance.

@viking8x6 thanks, my main reason for posting it here was in the hope of being in service to others that might have the same question in the future, but noted re not relying on this as a way to get the attention of moderators. Thanks for the reply, yes as you say slash fiction is already a tricky one and I can fully appreciate it being complicated further by the addition of HIV fetishisation into the mix. As it’s not an outright no, I’ll see where my inspiration takes me and if I can turn it into something worth posting, and will bear in mind your points re copyright, respectfulness and judiciousness. Like I said I’d already thought about some level of obfuscation so it wouldn’t end up in innocuous google searches. The quote of JKR’s views made me chuckle given that I suspect there’s a lot of LGBT-coded fanfic out there that, given her views as professed via her Twitter account, she almost certainly despises.

Having checked the rules I think a story idea I've had some initial thoughts about is ok, but I just want to be sure. Basically it's a chasing fanfic based on an existing book/TV series. So I was wondering if there are any prohibitions on derivative works based on existing material. I was probably going to change character names and some details to make it less likely that a random person search for content relating to the series wouldn't find it, but folk here that know it could make an educated guess about the connection.