Does cock rings make you last longer or is it a fetish thing? I once saw a guy wore a cock ring in the locker room. I thought that was a little strange.
Oh, there are two reasons to wear a cock ring to the gym. One, it lifts your balls and cock forward/out giving you a bigger 'package' when dressed (a push-up bra for men if you will). Two, it screams "I'm available for man on man action!"
Cock rings restrict the flow of blood into, and out of, your cock. Since your heart is pumping the blood in, and the flow out is more passive, the net result is more blood in your penis resulting in a slightly longer/thicker/harder cock. Your body naturally does this to make your cock hard whenever you pop a woody. In addition, your brain is easily tricked - you smile when you are happy, but smiling when you are not happy makes you feel better. Same with your cock, the more sexually aroused you are the more blood there is in your cock, and, using a cock ring to increase the blood in your cock makes your brain think you are more sexually aroused. And, there is nothing like a nice hard cock to give you the confidence to keep going like the Energizer Bunny. Finally, your balls pull up into/closer to your body as you are about to cum. A cock ring restricts this process, and in that body over mind thing again, you can last longer. If you think the cock ring looks sexy, that too gives a little boost – that is why I use a leather one over another type.
If it is too tight, a cock ring is physically uncomfortable, and the lack of fresh oxygenated blood will result is pain - think of when your arm or leg 'falls asleep'.
These are all minor effects; you will have to try one to decide if a cock ring works for you.
http://myprepexperience.blogspot.com/ this blog has more than 100 posts from the last 2 years from people on PrEP.
http://www.hivplusmag.com/research/2014/11/05/prep-demand-study-halted-because-it-was-so-successful
"PrEP on Demand" Study Halted Because it Was So Successful
BY Mark S. King
November 05 2014 3:42 PM ET
Research subjects took two pills at least two hours prior to sexual activity, and then one pill for each of the next two days.
The data supporting the use of Truvada as pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) continues to build, with another European study halted this week due to high efficacy rates.
A French study of gay men at risk for HIV infection, known as IPERGAY, was closed due to high success rates so that Truvada could be made available to all 400 trial participants. Half of those participating had been taking a placedo.
While complete results of IPERGAY will not be available until early 2015, trials are typically halted if high efficacy rates are acheived earlier in the process. Professor Jean-Francois Delfraissy, director of the French National AIDS Research Institute (pictured), called the their early results "a significant breakthrough in the fight against HIV and AIDS."
Even more intriguing was the IPERGAY regimen design. Rather than the one-pill-a-day dosing used in previous trials, subjects were given a "PrEP on demand" dosage schedule. The regimen calls for two pills at least two hours prior to sexual activity, and then one pill for each of the next two days. Previous trials have also shown efficacy with as few as four pills per week, but the "Prep on demand" model appears to focus the medication around actual sexual activity, when the body may need it most. (See graphic below.)
Only two weeks ago, a British study known as PROUD was also ceased because efficacy surpassed what was originally anticipated by researchers. Participants there who had been taking a placebo were called back to clinics and offered Truvada. Presently, the United States is the only country in which Truvada has been approved for the purposes of pre-exposure prophylaxis, although that is likely to change in light of the these new study results.
"These studies demolish several assertions made by critics of PrEP," said Gus Cairns of AIDSMap. "Firstly, that condoms work better than PrEP. They don't. Secondly, that people won't adhere to PrEP. They will. And thirdly, that there will be a public health disaster if people switch condoms for PrEP. There won't be. Condoms will remain an important part of HIV prevention and probably the method used by the majority of gay men for some time to come and there will always be men who prefer rubber to pills, as there are women to the contraceptive pill."
Cairns believes that while the evidence for the use of PrEP is reaching critical mass, even more options for HIV prevention must be sought and studied. This year may have the same historical impact as 1996, the year combination therapy emerged, he said.
"We need more," said Cairns. "We need a microbicide lube we can add to this. We need similar prophylaxis for STIs. We need a vaccine. We'll get them in the end, and eventually the days when the only thing we had to protect ourselves from HIV was a piece of rubber will recede into the past."
Cock sounding videos really turn me on, and that is something I would like to try, but I have not yet.
I find a lot of fetishes seem to evolve into seeing how far you can go and I just don't get that. A hand, not for me but ok; an arm to the elbow wtf? A small to medium sound turns me on; a big fat rod or catheter, no way. Bottoming for 2 of 3 guys sure; being a cum dump for 10 or more, no. That is just me I guess and to each his own.
Imho, i believe beard is 1 of th most sexy things which a male can have hehe
what do you think? do you consider other part of the body more handsome? tll me
I agree. I am so glad beards are back in fashion.
.. but I'm not ready or willing…
That just about sums it up
Should I do this just to please him?
What do you mean by share? A threesome? I think he needs to explain why that would be a turn on for him, and why he thinks it would be a turn on for you. And you need to explain to him why you think the situation is unappealing. Hopefully you come to an agreement one way or the other, but even if not, you will better understand each other.
You say you are "not ready or willing." But those are two different things: 'not willing' says no never, 'not ready' says not now but later. And if you are 'not ready', what would make you ready?
Sex is always bad when one (or more) of the people involved are not 100% into it. And when someone is really nervous it can be down right funny, or really, really sad.
The situation sounds emotionally charged between you and your lover on this issue. Just remember that emotions are always real. You experience them so they are real. They may or may not be based on false beliefs. Emotions can be stated, but they should never be up for discussion. If you need to discuss anything it needs to be the beliefs.
This guy and I picked each other up on the sidewalk after the bar had closed for a one night stand… and it lasted for 18 years. We talked on the walk back to his place, and then for another two hours before we took our clothes off. The sex is going to happen at some point and I do not think it matters when. If the relationship lasts depends on if the sex is good enough and if you have things to talk about before, after and even during the sex. In my limited experience, it is when the talking stops that the relationship ends (or does even start).
"So I have this straight friend that treats me like his girlfriend minus the sex. … he gets passed upset when he doesn't hear from me..."
Are you purposely not being in contact? Are you uncertain about what is going on and sometimes force some distance between you? From his side he may just get the sense that you are intentionally ignoring him at times and he is just thinking hey we are good friends, wtf, why are you behaving like an a-hole?
Personally, for me, I really enjoy my independence and alone time. In your situation I might say, hey you are being a little possessive and we are not even dating, and if we were boyfriends I still do not like being treated that way. This signals you do not like what he is doing, but it also gives him the opportunity to pick up on the whole dating/boyfriend thing.
"We are pretty close, and he has a hard time expressing any emotion except being pissed about one thing or another."
Unfortunately many men are taught from a very young age that anger is the only emotion they are allowed to expressed - never show weakness, never show you care, never show you got hurt.
You can always call a time out. say hey, let's talk about something neither of us is pissed off about.
"He definitely knows about my sexual orientation. We have been friends for atleast 3 years now, and I make no effort to hide who I am from him. No he isn't currently in a relationship, or broken up with anyone recently."
"All of my gay friends tell me that he likes me, and that I should just stop holding out, and make the first move because he won't, but i'm afraid to. What do you guys think. I mean I would love to give him some ass, but I don't want to lose a friendship over something stupid."
Personally, I have never had a close friendship with someone after the sex has ended. I know it does happen, but just not for me. I remain friendly with them, but not close. So I think you have a legitimate fear over ruining a good friendship. At the same time it sounds like you do want to have sex with him too. Keeping the relationship between the two of you nebulous may be frustrating to you some days, but maybe you like it that way too in some ways.
"Straight Boyfriend"
Human sexuality really is a continuum. For most people 'maybe you haven't met the right guy/gal yet' is a ridiculous statement, but maybe for your straight friend and you, it does apply. He may be sending mixed signals because he is having mixed feelings.
Clarifying things is most often a good thing, but rigid relationship roles do not allow for change.
Moving pictures can say a thousand words too:
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Those settings do not seem to work for me. I am going to keep playing around with settings for a bit.
Just so I can understand the ways of the world a little better, why does the gt.ru tracker have scraping turned off?
I just switched my gt.ru torrents to Vuze and encountered this problem. I figured out that force starting all of my completed torrent works. Is it OK to do that? I'll try the suggested settings and see if they make a difference.
Just so I can understand the ways of the world a little better, why does the gt.ru tracker have scraping turned off?
Thanks guys, very informative. I have 2 more questions. My torrent client started without the external drive I have the videos connected, so I had to manually restart all my seeds. The seeds seemed to go from queued to seeding in a completely random order different from alphabetical or the order I started them. What determines the order in which the seeds become active? I do not keep non GT.ru torrents active much past a 1:1 ratio but how many GT.ru torrents should I keep seeding? All? Only a few? The most recent 250 as listed on my user details page?
I have some questions about seeding. I was a download hog recently so my ratio is crap at the moment, and getting back to a positive ratio sooner rather than later would be good.
Earlier today I was seeding a file to someone at 300+kB/s. He got over 500MB from me. Then nothing seeded for an hour. My user details page shows people are leeching some of the files I have available, but I'm not actually uploading anything to anyone. Later I was uploading 4 or 5 different files to various people, then after that another period of nothing. Am I doing something wrong or is seeding normally random like that?
Could someone PM me with the name(s) of a good DVD ripper (for Windows), please. I have DVD Shrink from years go, and I have downloaded some I found with google, but they are no better.