Posts made by eobox91103

@kytec G'day from Canada, and welcome. I have some good friends in Queensland, and it's always a pleasure to visit down there.

@vmalar Please re-read what I said, and I'll also try to simplify it for you: There's a big difference between a parent who circumcises a child without his consent, and that child who grows up to be a circumcised man.

I think the parent was wrong to enforce this upon the child. While this might fall under the category of child abuse, it cannot be compared to the holocaust.

But the guy who was circumcised is not wrong. He had nothing to do with the decision, and he has a right to enjoy his sex life--and his penis--to the fullest. Telling him that he is defective and mutilated serves no purpose.

@bi4smooth said in American circumcision:

...there is ABSOLUTELY no cause to discriminate against people with or without a foreskin! Virtually NONE of them had a say in the matter!

This is very important. Much of the anti-circumcision "intactivist" conversation can have the effect of causing what might be called Foreskin Dysphoria--a concept that being circumcised is deficient, and that such person would have an inferior sex life, etc. We cannot demonise people for a situation that they had no control over. I have many circumcised friends who have very satisfying sex lives.

@bi4smooth said in Where are the Biden supporters?!:

There's a lot to unpack here - forgive the length:

Your unpacking skills are admirable. Can I call you the next time I move?

In my mind though, the CENTRAL ISSUE in both "fights" is the complete and utter lack of CRITICAL THINKING - not only by the parents who weren't taught how to think critically in THEIR schools 20 years ago, but ALSO by the students not being taught this basic skill in our schools NOW - out of fear that somehow they'll grow-up thinking DIFFERENTLY than their parents!

This is absolutely on point. It is so much easier, though, for people to follow a Dear Leader than to engage their own minds--especially when they are being fed simple solutions to complex problems.

....

PS: Know who else gets up-to $164k/mo in pension? Former Speakers Paul Ryan, John Boehner, Dennis Hastert (in spite of his criminal convictions), & Newt Gingrich! (ALL Republicans!)

I think it's $164K/year, not month...but the fact-free websites wouldn't want to hear that.

@martin526 & bi4smooth I agree with what's been said above, especially the "pulling out before you cum" stunt.

One peeve of mine is bored actors. I realize that it's a paying job, and one actor might not be turned on by another actor...but hey, guys, you are acting. Act like you're enjoying it even if you aren't, but don't overdo it.

Then there's lack of communication between actors. Yes, we know that the reason you switched from doggy style to missionary is because the director told you to. But again, it's acting: Have the bottom say, "I want to try it on my back."

Also, let's be creative: It seems that 90% of the time the bottom sucks the top's cock first, and then maybe the top reciprocates before they start fucking. How about switching it up more 50/50 so we can be a little surprised at the outcome (so to speak). While top/bottom identification can be obvious from the start when there's some "macho" guy paired with an effeminate twink, if it's two Fratmen-type guys, leave us in suspense for a while.

On a more general level, these problems don't occur as much in purely home-made porn. The lighting and camera angles aren't as good, but real people having real sex often make better videos than the "professionals." Maybe the pro directors need to get laid more often.

@lololulu19 said in HOAX - Black woman charged with posing as white male KKK member, leaving terroristic threats in mailboxes:

@raphjd That's nothing, in the USA, we have
Hmm, thought you were Scottish

@raphjd a senile pedophile with dementia posing as the President!
Wasn't he voted out of office, and now lives in Florida?

@bi4smooth said in Question About Using Bonus Points:

So far as I can tell, if you STOP SEEDING, the site will eventually STOP listing the torrent as "downloading" - e.g. you CAN abandon a download - but to do so, you have to REALLY abandon it...

Just remember that "stop seeding" means removing the torrent from your client's torrent list. You can keep the files you've downloaded, and even keep the .torrent file on your computer if you want to come back to it in the future. In uTorrent, this means right-clicking on the torrent in question, and either selecting "remove" (which keeps the .torrent file, but it's inactive), or choose "remove and delete the torrent [and perhaps the downloaded files if you don't want them]."

Full disclosure: Brother bi4smooth has convinced me that uTorrent is a POS and I'm going to migrate to qBitTorrent, but I don't know how that one works.

@bi4smooth said in Quick questions about uTorrent:

@eobox91103

uTorrent has a colored past.

You DO NOT want the latest version, nor any of the recent versions. There is a forum post about how to install the "recommended" version. I think there is a link to it in the QTM howto?

I personally use qBitTorrent...

Thanks for the information. I did see the post about the "recommended" version of uTorrent, but following those instructions still got me a block from my anti-virus software (Norton 360).

I'll have to give qBitTorrent a try--it seems to get high marks from many people. I don't look forward to setting up all the various options of where to put torrent files, downloads, etc., but it sounds like it will be worth it in the long run.

@devouredsoul said in Quick questions about uTorrent:

if you're still using uTorrent i would stop as they have put in malware in previous versions. i would switch to something like qBittorrent. And yes like others have said you do have to keep the client open if you want to seed/leech

I had used previous versions of uTorrent without problems; the current version (3.5.5) crashes all the time, but when I try to install an older version, my antivirus software blocks it...so maybe I had malware and didn't know it. I'll have to check out qBittorent.

In any event, if one leaves uTorrent running in the background (i.e., minimised), it's a good idea to check it from time to time to see if it's crashed. I don't think it seeds after crashing.

@poernerlook said in Question About Using Bonus Points:

@eobox91103 said in Question About Using Bonus Points:

but set your torrent client to only download maybe 10% of the files.

First of all, thanks for your reply and for the tip!
I tried once downloading only part of a torrent and it acted as if I'm still downloading the torrent even after I started seeding. Is there a way to fix that?

Short answer, no. If you haven't downloaded all the files, the system counts this as one of the files that you're downloading. If you're up against the limit of how many simultaneous downloads you can have, this won't work for you. (I don't know how this limit is determined, or where to find it...for me, it's 100, but then again my share ratio is over 6.) It will also count against the number of daily downloads you can start, which can be found at https://www.gaytorrent.ru/rationator.php .

It takes some time to get started on this site and build up a good ratio. The key is to download fresh material, but not huge files, until your ratio and download buffer get up to comfortable levels. There are people who join up and download a 45 GB DVD, and then they'll be in "ratio jail" for a long time.

@poernerlook said in Question About Using Bonus Points:
my ratio will change as if I have uploaded 2.5gb of content to the site?

Thanks in advance

That's how it works. To calculate your new ratio (after the exchange, add 2.5 GB to your upload total (shown at the top of the search screen as UL: XX GB) and then divide it by your existing download total.

One helpful trick to increasing your upload numbers is to find a new torrent (as in the past hour or so) that has many files in it. Download the torrent, but set your torrent client to only download maybe 10% of the files. You'll get those quickly, and soon be seeding them to everyone else who wants all the files. Even if it's not material that you want, this will boost your ratio. Give it a try and see what happens.

@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.

@robsam I think those other categories are OK. I have the "fetish" category turned off for my default search settings, so I don't see much of that stuff...except occasionally some watersports videos that get labeled something else.

@chanelkokoro said in Party of family values part 1 :

...There are plenty of things that we used to do that had no medical merit or had a different purpose that we later discovered was actually beneficial.

When ancient middle eastern communities were putting together their social rules, cloaked in religious imperatives, there was some practical wisdom to some of them: Consuming pork and/or shellfish in a hot desert climate without refrigeration was clearly unwise, and thus prohibition of such found its way into kosher "laws." Similarly, making a garment out of different fibres (wool and cotton, for example), was a bad idea because the fabric would eventually shred...and thus that was prohibited. Was circumcision a "sign of being part of the community" or a practical measure to keep penises clean when there was no running water? Scholars have debated that for ages.

Circumcision only reappeared in non-Jewish or Islamic communities in the late 19th century in the United States when the medical community thought it would prevent masturbation, which was considered by many to be a sin (again rooted in the Old Testament "reproductive imperative," but that's another topic.) There does not appear to be a medical "need" for the practice today.

I think it's important to advocate for eliminating circumcision except when medically necessary (e.g., severe phimosis that impedes sexual function), but at the same time I avoid phrases like "male genital mutilation." It's not helpful to have circumcised men (or boys) feel that they are somehow inadequate or deformed because of something that happened to them as infants. This is especially true with younger men/youth who already have enough body image issues going on that they don't need to add another one.

PS: Slightly off-topic fun fact on circumcision: Note that Michelangelo's famous statue of David, Jewish shepherd boy and future king of Israel, shows an uncircumcised youth. Not historically accurate...but that wasn't the point. (On the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, Michelangelo also gave Adam a belly button, even though he was not "born of woman.")

@bi4smooth said in Is it just me? WHO pulls out of a fine ass to cum on a dude's face?:

I don't get it... SO MUCH porn these days features this "ending"...

2 hot guys fucking - sometimes even flip-flopping - and at the last minute... when the top is about to cum... he pulls out, quickly re-positions himself, and shoots his load on the other guy's face... not even in his mouth, just "across his face"...

Porn directors like to show cum shots on screen, presumably because they believe that's what the audience wants. I agree that's it's unrealistic--in real life fucking or sucking, most guys (giving or receiving) want an internal cum shot.

Another "unrealistic" part of porn is that the actors never communicate what they want--the director is telling them what to do. The best sex happens when guys say what they like--and don't like--as they're doing it.

@bi4smooth said in Man Threatened With Arrest For Wearing MAGA Hat:

Look! One bad cop and it's the start of a dystopian nightmare! Dogs are raping cats! Children are grading teachers! Dems are going to force you to save your own damned life by wearing a cloth mask...

I liked the TX School Board who made masks part of the dress code. Appropriate!

It's possible that we don't have a bad cop here. Let's take another look at the video: There's no sourcing for it, no date, no location. There's a queue of people in the background, so I suspect it was probably taken at a voters' polling station...where there's a "neutral zone" of 50 meters or so from poll activities where one cannot campaign or display campaign signage, literature, posters, etc. Given that most people in the queue were wearing masks, this could have been the November 2020 presidential election in the US.

We all know that "Make America Great Again" is a campaign slogan for a specific person and the political party for which he is Dear Leader. Displaying that slogan too close to a voting place would be just as illegal as wearing a shirt that said "Build Back Better," which was a chief slogan for the Dear Leader's opponent.

So, the cop may very well have been doing his job. We don't know enough about the situation to judge. (Of course, "knowing enough"--or even "knowing"--is frowned upon in some political circles.)

@flozen It's disappointing when something is labeled "voyeur" or "hidden," and the subject clearly knows he's being recorded--sometimes holding the camera himself. A guy wanking in a locker room mirror might look "risky," although if he's a trainer at the gym and the place is closed, there's no risk.

The three films you mention were indeed hidden camera material, part of the "Straight Off the Mat" series, showing weigh-ins and showering at university wrestling matches somewhere in the US. I did some searching on those a while back, and needless to say it caused some reaction among that community. I seem to recall that university names were blurred out, but I'm not sure. (There was similar reaction to the "Allen Snaps" still photos taken at California swimming and water polo matches. While those didn't show nudity, they featured bulging speedos, some worn by pre-18 guys.)

There remains, though, the issue of privacy and its potential violation thereof. In most jurisdictions, photographing someone is a violation of privacy only if the person photographed "has a legitimate expectation of privacy." In real hidden camera material, the subjects have not, by definition, given consent to being photographed. But to what extent does someone on a public nude beach, or in a communal locker room/shower, have a "legitimate expectation of privacy?" He is giving de facto consent to those around him to see him nude, but does that consent extend to people watching a video? I haven't researched the case law on this; if someone has, please provide input.

This is entirely different than the growing number of "over the stall wall" phone videos of lads wanking in the toilet. These guys do not want to be seen by anyone and clearly have an "expectation of privacy."

And, finally, there's the issue of age: Much hidden camera material has younger men as subjects, and while it's nearly impossible to determine a guy's age by looking at him, there's no guarantee that this anonymous person is 18+, which is the marker for "child pornography" in most places. University students are usually 18+, but I've seen some toilet wank videos where the subject was most likely younger. That's not something I want on my computer...or on this site.

A final technical note: I'm baffled by the quality issues of some older VHS-to-digital conversions. There's a lot of cheap and effective software available than can correct brightness, contrast, and saturation. I don't know why people haven't used that.

@viskykick Thanks very much for this. The older videos are intriguing because cameras were quite large back then. Today anyone can turn on their mobile phone camera and put it in their pocket and nobody notices.

Many so-called "spy" videos are in fact staged, and sometimes it's hard to tell. I tend to think that many that are taken in a shower room must be staged, because one can't easily hide a camera while taking a shower--but they're still hot.

@andergarcia said in EU begins legal action against Hungary over anti-LGBT law:

It may be a bit "radical", but countries like this shouldn't be members of the European Union... I don't have anything to do with governments like this one

https://www.euronews.com/2021/07/15/eu-begins-legal-action-against-hungary-over-anti-lgbt-law

Hungary has certainly disqualified itself from being a "civilised" nation. Orban's homophobia is just the tip of the iceberg of his horrible record.

Not surprisingly, some time back Trump praised Orban (https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/may/13/trump-latest-viktor-orban-hungary-prime-minister-white-house), saying he was "highly respected all over Europe."

@ianfontinell said in It's just too bad to stay as it is:

Browsing the forum as it is at the moment is just... Not worth it. It's too annoying. Each 30 seconds connection is lost, then you're randomly kicked out and have to login again but each time this happen there's an unnecessary captcha to make things even more annoying.

I really want to browse the forum, there's lots of interesting stuff but I guess people won't have this bs for much longer. Just close it already until it's fixed or at least revert it back to the old one. If it's so hard to fix make another one, I'm sure there are lots of people here who would gladly help with that, myself included.

I sadly agree. The forum is pretty much useless now. It's a real shame, because it used to be that people posted lots of thoughtful comments--some gay-related, other household hints, etc.

It's especially tragic given that occasionally there would be a post from someone, likely young, experiencing serious depression and seeking support, or at least conversation, from people in the forum. This new forum software has likely destroyed that mechanism.

Even if things got fixed, I think enough people have been alienated from the forum that it will probably never return to its previous value.