Work colleagues... I steer clear of that. In general, these would be guys in my own department, peers who I work alongside on projects, or who I work for, or who work for me.
I think some gay men act under the assumption that sneaky peeks are never noticed, but often enough, they are. In the worst-case work scenario, you don't need your name thrown around the company lunch room, and reaching your superiors, as the guy who pervs at the urinals.
IMHO, of course.
So, this board is titled Health & Fitness. It's designed for members to ask questions and receive tips and advice about wellness -- including gay-focused wellness, hence the HIV & AIDS subcategory.
If you're sharing whether or not you sneak a look at guys disrobing or showering in the locker room, it's perfectly fine, but really a discussion related to Voyeurism:
https://community.gaytorrent.ru/category/91/voyeurism
...with long-existing threads such as
https://community.gaytorrent.ru/topic/20805/guys-in-the-locker-rooms
...and
https://community.gaytorrent.ru/topic/39315/public-showers
I know there are other threads here that also don't concern wellness, but by making a note of this one, it's a start.
@bi4smooth A very impressive dissection of roles and responsibilities!
I would be fine if the meatier (sorry, not sorry) topics such as reproductive physiology, masturbation, sexual orientation, consent, contraception, STDs, etc., were perceived as first-line parental jobs.
But knowing how many parents fail, I feel these topics should also be reinforced by the middle-school system through early high school -- especially for students transferring to upper classes from deficient middle school programs.
And with my secular (non)beliefs, I would keep God in the parents' optional explanation of why we're incented to pursue sex as a feel-good biological imperative, and let the schools offer the alternative of an evolutionary approach.
If you're a vibrant lover of life, sex education and exploration should have no expiration date, so bi4smooth, please provide links to your 1980s porn appearances, so that we may grow in knowledge, length and girth. 
@gerggently said in Sex-Ed for 18-24 Group:
My only comment on this is that sex education should be taught from about aged 8, with zero religious input into it.
Leaving sex ed too late, or not taught at all as bible-thumping states would like, is harmful to a person's development. No one should be learning about sex from porn.
Good point. With better health and nutrition, the onset of puberty has been trending downward, perhaps 10 or 11 in some cases -- thus, education needed here.
And nothing wrong with kids a bit younger getting a less clinical description -- one that doesn't involve storks, or baskets left on doorsteps!
And on top of the very good points made above, so many young adults reach 18 with no proper job done by the parents -- often called the Talk. Then, the "fundies" get incensed when basic sex-ed is suggested within the high school curriculum.
Now, to self-answer my question -- what raphjd properly terms nettiquette -- I learned most about sex between 18-24 from porn. Early, dial-up Internet days.
Went to a college in a city small enough that my peers would party at the one gay bar, but rarely hook up. (After age 24 is another universe, lol.)
Very very nice, and especially the entire natural landscape. Thanks!
https://www.livescience.com/pornography-sex-education.html
Porn Is the Top Source of 'Sex Education' for Young Adults
"...In a nationally representative survey, a quarter of 18- to 24-year-olds listed porn as their "most helpful" source of information on how to have sex. This made porn the most-mentioned source of information, even above asking one's own partner."
So...
At that age, did you get more sex information from porn, partners, friends, or another source?
@rathyy As a secularist and former fashionista, I am more prone to follow the teachings of Yves Saint Laurent.
@mrmazda Yes, this can be an effective diet regimen -- as long as you avoid the coming-down food binges and, of course, don't stroke out.
@qct0010 First, sorry I don't have that guy. Per his profile, he is EXTREMELY concerned with the sharing of his content, and then writes at top:
"I will not upload any video even photo any longer. XHamster deletes all."
That's curious. Of course, he's mistaken if he thinks all his stern warnings will prevent someone from posting what's already been shared -- eventually. Good luck.
- Do you think having sex when you were young helped your cock grow?
I'd be interested in a citation from an accredited medical journal that has studied this. I don't think the idea has an ounce of scientific merit, but hey, prove me wrong.
and...
Horny questions about my adolescence -- pass.
With respect, this is a file-sharing site -- it's as simple as that.
If you created a no-cost, easy-to-use system, that's great! I do recall that my best pal had the Allavsoft program specifically to record the public shows on Chaturbate, athough it also claims to work on hundreds of sites..
For CB, you see a room you like, paste the link into Allavsoft, hit the button, and in a few seconds you're recording your favorite performer at highest automatic resolution. It can do multiple shows at the same time. You can edit (cut out parts with no action), splice together, etc..
Pretty sure it downoads mp3s from YT, and other, really handy abilities. They have a free trial. It does cost for an annual subscription, he seemed to think it was a very good deal..
https:// www. allavsoft .com/
@bc22 said in How big is your porn folder?:
Lots of leftover 1TB and 2TB hard drives, several of which have been reformatted and zero'd out to be repurposed as cloned replacement basic drives for guest computers.
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I have three leftover 1 or 2TB externals -- but unlike yours, which have been repurposed, mine are in limbo. All have porn, and have been knocked over or dropped, guess they range from from 5-8 years old.
One clicks, one whirs, and other makes no sound. I do suspect there's a few things I'd like to recover.
Unfortunately, the world of hard-drive recovery repair is full of extortionists, hoping for a clientele of dumb small-business people who would pay anything to recover their client list.
And even if I found some young, independent techie at reasonable rates, I don't feel comfortable letting my drives out of the apartment.
I've seen Youtube vids on home repair, but they seem very iffy for someone with no practice. For now, they are a project for a future day.
@bi4smooth I'm impressed you got 16TB of fun uploaded into cloud.storage.
I subscribed to Carbonite and tried to use it, but it was so slow, I was laboring to get it past the second TB, so no good. I was using a slower Internet provider at that time, so perhaps...
Now I am using a twin 8TB as a backup, which of course still leaves me open to fire, flood or theft. I know clouds are great, but I feel like I read an article that some scan your uploading for particularly reported illegal images. And while I think I'm clean -- lol -- I can't say I've seen every image unzipped from generous torrent collections.
Or maybe this is just an Internet rumor.
I bought an 8 TB external hard drive for, ahem, "erotica." I'm deleting a lot of low-res (>720p) files, so I think I will end up at just under 6 TB.
If you do go external, be sure to back it up. Porn is so very, very precious.
I'm enjoying a lot of the aesthetic improvements in the new design, so I wanted to note on the Forum boards, how much more pleasing the "generic" member icons are -- the circle with the member's initial, in a range of groovy colors.
It's a great improvement over the previous "empty man" icon -- the circle with just a white head and shoulders in a grey circle, if I recall. Of course, I'd encourage anyone to go beyond the colored circles, and add their own photo or graphic -- let your creativity free!
Yes, a handful of 404s over the initial week of the remodeling, but now they are gone -- I may never know who squashed this bug, but thanks.
(I will say, my login page no longer auto-fills my name/password -- or at least, I believe it did on this site at one time! Anyone with similar experience? A minor situation, I may ask the Helpdesk, and not the end of the world.)
@raphjd The topic is Dr. Levine's nomination, so there I remain.
Because it was used as a criterion for Dr. Levine, I'm amused by the irony of the "best for the job" logic for her. Just look at the previous Administration -- with its staggering number of tense resignations and firings -- and each and every one of those appointees and hires, sooner or later, deemed "really, really, not best for the job at all."
I'm optimistic that with her focused expertise, Dr. Levine won't join the group above.
And again, as this thread concerns Dr. Levine's nomination, I won't engage on politicians (Kamala) or topics (small-business bailouts) unrelated. Have a good one -- I am over and out.