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  1. It makes sense though that we don't set age of consent at puberty.  Hormones are raging then and while the pleasure could be exquisite, decisions made then more often than not find themselves in the "regrets" stack.  I can see the argument for 16, and wouldn't be leading a campaign to change that.  But I've read cogent articles suggesting why 21 might be a better age.  

    It is good I think that across the globe different ages gain this; and we can observe the effects of that to the benefit of the rest of us.  

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  2. Thanks.  Yes the last 40 years have been pretty fraught with loss.  

    For the record, this IS the political section, hence my commentary.  As far as your loss, man that had to be hard to endure.  Glad you're still here.  And I'm glad you made it through.  If we can't agree to disagree then we didn't learn our lessons of the last half century very well did we?

     

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  3. 16 minutes ago, BlindRawFucker1 said:

    I have to admit that BBRT is easier for me to navigate.

     

    I do wish that either the site, or guys would differentiate between poz undetectable and poz detectable.  It would make things a lot better.

    Most definitely.  

  4. I think it is US guys....  Each of us grappling with our evolving social norms as our society adapts to the myriad subtle changes going on around us.  Stupid stuff like having to get VPNs for example.  

    Jury is still out on which seems most workable here in SE Wisconsin; but I am sure things are experienced differently in Chicago, which isn't all that far away.

  5. 43 minutes ago, MascTop said:

    Thank you. Do you happen to know anything about the risk of viral spikes/blips and how that could affect being undetectable? I was fully UD on my last test (below 20 copies), which was within two weeks of these encounters. Just wondering if that’s something I should be concerned about. I’ve been fully adherent to my ARV as far as I remember.

     

    The basis of u=u were the partner studies, done 15 to 20 years ago when we could only measure down to 200 copies.  At that level of viral load there were no partner to partner infections for serodiscordant partners that weren't show to be from the positive partner.  As long as you're below 200; even if you are above 20 please don't fret it.  Viral blips while common still fall within the <200 metric.  When they don't that indicates that the individual is in treatment failure and alternative ARV's will be tried.  

  6. On 8/31/2025 at 10:50 AM, sub4oralcum said:

    Isn't cheating and sexual conquests (along with stealthing and secretly pozzing among others) a huge part of what many people on this site celebrate?

    I don't think so.  Some celebrate being poz, and some are intentionally trying to get there.  But while there are some here who seem to get off mostly on stealthing, I think that is a minority opinion. 

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  7. 1 hour ago, blackrobe said:

    First, I'm fine. Lot's of therapy and personal work under my belt getting around and through what it did to me.

    If you are a minor, you can't legally consent so by definition all sex a minor has with an adult (and perhaps peers) is non-consensual in a legal sense. My larger point is that we can't imagine how events will impact us, so trying to do it isn't useful.

    It is of course, those words "in the legal sense"....  And while legally I have no disagreement, we become aware of ourselves as humans at least a decade before we are legally an adult.  If that teen has the ability to say yes or no to start or stop the activity, then legal be damned, they consented.  Your own experience has to show you that...  

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  8. 2 hours ago, blackrobe said:

    I totally get being strongly drawn to someone and not even being able to articulate why or connect it with sex. That describes me pretty well before I was raped as a kid. The impact of your first sex isn't the kind of thing you can imagine, regardless of who initiates. Lots of factors play into whether it's an ecstatic or traumatic experience. 

    First, sucks you were raped.  No one deserves that.  Rape though while it involves sex parts typically, isn't what I was suggesting.  Rape is by definition non consensual.  If coach had talked with me and we agreed we were both interested, I don't think that would have been traumatic even if, for example, I was in my earlier teens.  If I had been raped?  Man I don't know.  I am grateful I wasn't.

    How are you @blackrobe?

  9. Indeed, for a long time I've struggled to understand how sex with an adult would have damaged me.  One of the coaches in high school was a stud I craved, even when I didn't really understand why.  I find it hard to believe that if he had made a first move; or if I had (obviously I wasn't ready, brave enough, or such); that would have somehow damaged me.  Sex at its core is something we discover.  It seems to me by design to be a trial and error, trial and succeed sort of human experience.  

    No one taught me how to masturbate.  I figured it out unaided; and while once I started and would read "Ann Landers" teen advice; the antijack movement then didn't deter me.  And somehow I had a productive career, and solid relationship and a comfortable enough retirement.  Have I made plenty of missteps (eg: mistakes)?  Oh hell yes.  And learned from them.  

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