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Correction.  In the last paragraph of my last post, the word 'facts' should be replaced by the word 'evidence'.

I'm downloading now and it seems to be fine

@MrMazda:

So again I will reinforce that while it is not impossible to contract it from an undetectable partner, if you were to contract it from an undetectable partner, you would be the first case where transmission has occurred, including through several more recent studies that have been conducted, trying to determine an exact risk factor of transmission with bareback sex…... So.... All that being said, make of it what you will, but in all honesty, if the person you're having unprotected sex with has an undetectable viral load, I really wouldn't be worried. If anything, I'd be more concerned with another STI such as syphilis, gonorrhea, chlamydia, crabs, etc than I would about the risk of getting HIV from unprotected sex.

I agree with most of what you've said, including the statement that STDs other than HIV are likely to be more of a concern.

You're falling into a common pitfall when interpreting the results of studies however.  The simple scientific axiom 'Absence of proof is no proof of absence", applies here.  Your statement that if you were to contract HIV from someone with an undetectable viral load, it would be the first case where this had occurred, is not supported by the evidence.  You may well be the first recorded case; you may well be the first case where such a lil was proven, but the evidence from any non-exhaustive study can only ever push the estimate of probability downwards: That estimate can never reach zero.

It may sound like I'm nitpicking and there's a good case for saying that's true, but the perfectly understandable misinterpretation of research results does lead people to unsupported conclusions and that's potentially a slippery slope.

Bottom line on this. Unprotected sex with someone with an undetectable viral load is unlikely to result in the transmission of HIV.  The true probability is not and can never be known no matter how many studies are carried out. All that can happen is our confidence in a low probability, which potentially can be moved closer to zero with further studies, can be increased.

Anyone saying the probability is zero, or that transmission has never occurred in this way, may be correct, but it's a guess that isn't backed up by the facts.

If you experience a drop in quality with iMovie, it's probably a matter of your settings being wrong.  iMovie in itself it very efficient in the process of transcoding and will only transcode where necessary.

Check your export settings as your first port of call.

Mine is Mac OS which of course is essentially BSD Unix with lots of extras on top.

I have a lot of time for Linux too - my favourite flavour is probably Ubuntu, probably because I've used that more than the others.

@MrMazda:

From the perspective of a barebacker myself, I can say that there is more to take into account than just the risk of HIV. For example, if a person maintains an undetectable viral load, it is statistically safer to bareback with someone who is undetectable than it is to engage in sex with a condom with a partner with a high viral load. On the most part (at least for me) the sensation and the thrill that you get out of barebacking is unmatched to that of sex with a condom. While I am fully aware that there is a risk of other STI infection, the reality is that some people get a thrill out of the feeling of a hard cock dumping a load deep inside.

All that being said, it's not necessarily about risking one's life if you're educated about how you do it. Sure, I cannot deny that there is always the risk of contracting another STI, but when compared to HIV, most other STI's that you can get are quite mild by comparison. Also, having maintained an undetectable viral load for many years now, I can say with pride that I have NEVER been responsible for infecting someone else. So in short, there's more to consider than just whether the person is HIV+, as this alone is not a cut and dry factor.

When you say that you've never been responsible for infecting someone with HIV (I'm assuming that means you've never infected anyone with HIV), have you followed up and verified the HIV status of all partners you've had?  If not, while it's true that unprotected sex with someone with an undetectable viral load is less likely to result in the transmission of the virus, it isn't a zero risk.

An undetectable load doesn't mean that the viral load is zero, and doesn't mean that virions aren't transferred to a partner.

I support your right and that of your partners to choice but broad statements such as yours that I mentioned, could easily lead people to a false sense of risks and potential consequences.

131

It's a nice palindrome, plus, copied from Wikipedia…

131 is a Sophie Germain prime, an irregular prime, the second 3-digit palindromic prime, and also a permutable prime with 113 and 311. It can be expressed as the sum of three consecutive primes, 131 = 41 + 43 + 47. 131 is an Eisenstein prime with no imaginary part and real part of the form 3n - 1. Because the next odd number, 133, is a semiprime, 131 is a Chen prime.

A girl in the scene doesn't bother me unless she gives a bad blowjob - seldom do I see a woman in a porno give a decent one - or she makes a lot of noise.

Other than that, the fact that there's a wet pussy around is neither a turn-on or a turn-off for me.

I don't care about the size of a dick. Tiny or humungous are all the same to me.

A good-looking man (good-looking in my terms) gets my interest any day.

If someone was daft enough to ask me (I'm well past the age most guys retire from porn), then yeah, I'd probably do it.

Most of the front rows, plus quite a few of the other players of the teams in the Rugby World Cup.

Right now, I think it's Elementary.  I've been a big fan of Sherlock Holmes for about 30 years.  With the gender changes, location and time period changes, they could have made a huge mess of it, but they've managed to produce something that's new, fresh and remarkably true to the spirit and feel of the books.  Character progression over the three seasons has been excellent.

Sense8 comes in a close second.

They certainly can be damn hot, but top of my list is probably the pacific islanders.

Hell, I've wanked to Shrek in the films but then perhaps I'm a little odd.

@shdwrulr:

Right now I am into Ingress. You have to actually visit locations and compete against another faction. I find it interesting.

Many of my colleagues are also into Marvel Future Fight.

I'm a bit fan of ingress too.  I play for the Enlightened Faction. It's a good location based game that is quite engaging.

For very engrossing armchair game, take a look at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D_2zoYSsBz4.  Be warned that this is a walkthrough of chapter one which is a guided training exercise. You won't spoil much by watching.  Although the video is of a PC version, the sound and graphics are every bit as good on a phone.  Available for iPhone and Android. the Room and The Room 2 are available now.  The Room three is expected to be released any time now.

Whether or not to advertise your sexual preference is a purely personal thing, of course.  I think the real test though would be how you'd respond if someone assumed you were straight, or outright asked you.  Would you correct them or tell them you're gay?

As long as you're harming nobody - and it clearly sounds as though you're not doing so - there's nothing wrong with keeping your orientation private.

Being out however, has positive benefits for others.  For 10 years, I taught, and was out.  I'm typically thought to be joking when I come out to people.  I don't fit the fem stereotype, so I could easily have been closeted. Instead, I was able to present a positive, confident, professional, successful role model for gay students and was able to counsel quite a few of them on various issues they were facing.  In that circumstance, being out was right for me and a positive for many of those I taught.  I also make close friends with a colleague and became a family friend.  He husband was at the time a senior police officer.  She confided in me once that her husband told her that knowing me - the first out gay man he'd known - had completely changed his attitudes towards gays.  I'd put the person to what was before, just a label.

Bottom line. Do what works for you, but bear in mind, being in the closet misses the chance to increase visibility and so misses the chance to help others on their journey.

Yours is a common story, slightly complicated by your Aspergers which will make you a little less able to gauge the feelings other people in the way most people are able to do.  The difference may be less than in other circumstances though; gay people are often wrong about the reactions they expect from family and so in that, you're no different.

I always advise a simple rule about coming out.  Come out to those you're comfortable coming out to, when you're comfortable coming out to them.  That seems to work pretty well for most people.

Bear in mind that there are lots of ways to come out.  You could do it at a big family gathering, and do it all in one go, or, probably more wise, do it one person at a time.  I've known some people who have expected difficulties from parents for example, who have told sibling, aunts, uncles, grandparents, and when telling the parents, have had plenty of back-up in case of issues.

Depending on whether your sister's friend is someone you think you can trust, perhaps consider sounding out the friend about how your sister will take it.  She celery isn't uncomfortable around all gay people - she's been around you for a rather long time I expect.

Take it slowly, make back-up plans just in case you get a bad reaction, and make sure you have a good support system of friends in place.  Things really do get far easier when you're out to people and n longer have to be guarded about such an important part of your life.

Good luck and let us know how things go.

Hugs.

I've been wondering what that little recycle icon meant. Thanks for explaining it.

@raphjd:

In the UK, there are plenty of cases where teachers use homophobic slurs against students.

With crap like that, how is homophobic bullying in schools by students ever gonna end when the teachers are doing it?!

In the UK that would undoubtedly get the teacher dismissed and possibly prosecuted - if there was evidence to support the claim.  Even without evidence, the accusation would get that teacher watched very carefully.
As a legal layman, I have no idea if a recording of such abuse would be admissible in court, but it's damn sure that if it conclusively demonstrated the abuse, it would get the teacher sacked and hopefully shit-listed.

Astronomy, Photography and most science-nerdy stuff.