I don't think it's anything sinister or complicated:
Public spaces: McDickalds or Starfucks probably doesn't want somebody at one of their tables with an orgy on the screen.
Bandwidth: Watching porn consumes a lot of bandwidth--it's a large percentage of internet traffic as it is.
"Public WiFi" is the private property of whoever is letting you use it, so they can make whatever rules they want.
(Pubic WiFi would be something entirely different.)
I think the term "public" is being used two different ways in this thread:
I've had sex in bathhouses, bushes behind gay/nude beaches, and at a gay sex party. While this was with or in view of strangers, they were all willing participants (or voyeurs), and nobody's rights were violated. I'm not sure I would call this "public," but the presence of (willing) strangers has an appeal.
I've also had/seen sex in the shower rooms of gyms; this would probably be considered "public" and thus inappropriate, but on a couple of occasions it was difficult to resist. (Once at university I was seen by another student, and I stopped immediately...a few years later at a YMCA I was caught by a staff person, who joined in.)
Some guy having a wank on a street corner is definitely public and definitely inappropriate. It could easily be considered harassment as @flozen suggests above.
I'll break my rule for a moment:
@raphjd said in BootieJizz is a fraud:
BTW, I love that you are keeping up your childish "I'm not talking to you" so you post to others so you can reply to me.
Such profound narcissism! I was replying to the ridiculous fiction that was ignoring facts. Notice that there is another participant in this thread. It is not all about you.
You are so mature.
Good call.
I would make two observations here:
@john32123666 Requests for a re-seed are permitted if one uses the "Request Re-Seed" button on the torrent page:
Those requests, and requests for a new upload, aren't permitted in the Forum.
@flozen said in Public sex:
@Watever2000 A "gay foam party" is held in a private venue, and you engaged in sex where every attendee understood the likelihood of such behavior.
It is worlds away from the examples of public spaces I gave above your reply, as well as from the other posters. Glad you had a lovely time.
Our responses crossed in the ether. Great minds think alike. 
@jsl76 You're quite right about Putin's agenda being carried out here. He's a very clever dictator, in that he's able to get lots of people to promote his cause without them knowing that they're doing it.
Putin knows from personal experience that governments (such as the Soviets) collapse from within rather than from outside pressure. His support of Trump in 2016 enhanced discord in the States, as well as a weakening of NATO. Not surprisingly, he also supported Brexit (to weaken the EU) and Scottish independence (perceived as weakening the UK). After the Brexit referendum, he called on PM Theresa May to rapidly implement Brexit because "it was the will of the people." Putin's support of popular preference (i.e., democracy) was, needless to say, quite out of character for him.
@krad3434 One way to help a ratio is to download a new torrent and then select only a few (maybe 10% by volume) of the files to actually be downloaded to your computer. (This is easy to do with uTorrent by unticking boxes; it's probably similar with other clients.)
This way you'll be among the first to get that material, and then be a "source" for other downloaders who are likely trying to grab all the files. It also increases the probability that you'll be left with something playable if the torrent is taken down quickly.
The only disadvantage to this strategy is that a torrent for which you haven't downloaded all the files will still take up one of your download slots, even if you have all the stuff that you selected. After the initial surge of people downloading from that torrent, you might want to delete it if you have a small number of allowable slots.
@raphjd <This is not a political comment.>
This has to be one of the funniest headlines in years: We have both "Joe Biden giving Boris Johnson a hand with his sausage," and the same fellow "beating off the EU."
This rivals my favourite from some years back--and article about how one could pickle gherkins and cucumbers at home. The title of the article? "You can put pickles up yourself."
@frostycab said in Idea to greatly eliminate incomplete uploads / seeding problems - FEEDBACK PLEASE!:
torrent sites are only able to operate based on the fact that they don't host any copyrighted material.
This is absolutely on target.
Case closed.
@cp2000 I hope what I write here isn't a "therapy session," as @ianfontinell-0 puts it...
Thank you for sending the links to the torrents. I downloaded some of the material, and it's pleasant to view. But to the greater point of "straight" guys having "gay" sex, and enjoying it, we need to make some distinctions. (Note, though, that the guy on the torrent page was never seen to engage in any gay sex, even if he showed his hole.)
Categories like "straight," "bi," or "gay" are difficult to define, but they're about who people are attracted to, who they form deepest relationships with, etc. It's something of the mind.
Actions like "gay sex, [and let's assume that it's two men] are just that--activities. They don't necessarily reflect someone's orientation. Many of the models/actors whose films appear on this site are in fact straight guys, some married with kids, but they can enjoy a good blowjob, fucking a tight, slippery hole, or having a prostate orgasm. They especially enjoy being paid for doing this stuff. It doesn't mean that they're gay.
You mention the possibility of generational differences: I think you're asking if "straight guys having sex with another man" is limited to "millennials." I don't know of any studies on this, but I think the answer is no. Rather, I think guys who want to experiment or play are more likely to do so within their own generation, as that's who they can best relate to, and they probably have most of their friends in their same generation.
Thanks for raising an interesting topic.
@manhandler said in Terrible News for the Vaxxed: by 2025:
@eobox91103 Yes, the inventor of mRNA was cited in the article, for one. You think HE'S a CONSPIRACY NUT? HMMM? I don't think so, and he echoes what the former VP of Pfizer said, as well as the inventor of the PCR test. It's all singing to the same tune, and you are playing ignorant because it doesn't fit your belief system.
PLEASE learn to read. There was no reference to a source. For a web page to assert something without any backup doesn't count. Show me an reference.
But you can't. You're the one with the fixed (i.e., broken) belief system who doesn't believe in fact.
Responding to your trash posts is a fucking waste of time.
@Rotron said in Vanishing torrents ...:
Back out?
I can't speak for brother @blablarg18 , but I think that with nearly 200 posts in this thread, we've beaten this to death. Unless we can profile and defeat an Evil Troll who is causing problems, we will probably just have to accept torrents going up, and torrents coming down. Keeping them up will take more than Viagra.
@blablarg18 Note that those words I used were applied to concepts, not to specific people...although I grant it would take above-average reading/grammar skills to notice this.
Note that the preceding post uses "you," or a derivative, seven times...demonstrating my point.
@chanelkokoro said in Party of family values part 1 
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We have to define where life begins. Science has defined it as viability. Because if you define life at the potentiality for life such as at conception that rabbit hole never ends. That means by the time you get that dick up there is a 3rd person in that room. have you ever condemned yourself for all the lives you've killed cumming in your toilet?
but then, why do conservatives claim to be pro life, but anti birth control and anti sex education that would lead to less abortions? how do y'all claim to be pro life and then try to gut and defund the programs that would help sustain that life? make it make sense.
"Viability" is a tricky concept: As medical science improves, smaller and smaller fetuses could be considered viable. But there could also be an argument (which I don't think anybody has made) that a child isn't "viable" until age 8 or 10, given that for some period of many years, s/he is dependent on other humans to provide food, shelter, etc. The young of other species (I'm thinking of turtles and fish, and likely others) are abandoned when hatched, so they are by definition viable at birth. I don't know the way out of this mess.
As for birth control and sex education, the conservatives' view on that baffles me. If conservatives don't want women to terminate an unwanted pregnancy, why don't they seek to prevent those unwanted pregnancies from occurring in the first place? Quite illogical on their part.
@Rotron said in My uploads keep getting taken down:
Did he get banned for uploading another DMCA'd title? Will that get you banned in the forum too?
(1) One data point: I've had several torrents taken down for copyright reasons, sometimes a couple of them in a single month, and I'm still here.
(2) I could understand that somebody could be banned if they keep reuploading something that gets taken down.
(3) I can understand the site needing to have a rule saying, "Please don't share copyrighted material."
(4) I can very much understand the site not wanting so say, "we have rule (3) above, but we don't enforce it."
@Boredbored said in The new search cannot display pages past 10001-10050 aka page 200:
Basically the title, manually editing the search bar to a different page past 200 still shows page 200 for some reason
I've also noticed this phenomenon--but it hasn't been a problem for me. If I'm doing a search, it's usually because I'm looking for something in particular--maybe a torrent in the "military" category with the name "Kyle" in the title or description. That's not going to get many results, and I can go through them easily.
If I do a search that has >10,000 results, my search parameters have been too vague, and I'm not going to sift through even 1000 results. While it would be nice to address this "feature," I think it's probably rather low priority given the many other issues that pop up on a website this complicated.
@shami94 said in This is what liberalism does to people:
Just checking in to see how raphjd's personal echo chamber is going. It's been a while but I see it hasn't changed.
It's the same: Some factless conspiracy-theory piece gets posted, and then when it's debunked, he devolves into insults because because there's no rational response to the truth. It's driven many people away from not only this forum group, but the forums in general. (Some of the latter effect might be due to the crappy new interface put up several months ago.)
Sometimes I wonder if it's all a satirical caricature. Nobody with a double-digit IQ could really believe some of the stuff that gets posted.
@MrMazda At the risk of being off-topic (and therefore interesting): How does one insert a YouTube object into chat like you did in your post?
@feetsox You're very welcome. I hope your success rate with reseeded torrents is better than mine!
