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Sorry kokopelli, i just wrote that obsession with one's own belly fat can be vain and self-centered. But of course it can also be a smart involvement with one's good looks and good health. It is hard to define a line between smartness and vanity.

Sorry forky, this makes little sense. A vain and self-centered person will be obsessed WITH HIS OWN BELLY, AND BE VAIN ABOUT NOT HAVING ONE. An obsession with the belly of others, in the scheme of the gay meat market, is simply a desire that fewer gays have a big belly so that they remain more attractive for the benefit of those who want to have sex with attractive gays. In this sense they are... perhaps... selfish.

Well, they are different like it is effect and cause. A beer belly is not full of beer but of belly fat. Reader tried to explain it quite well, but he treats belly fat as overweight. While moderate overweight is seen more favorably these days, belly fat has still a quite negative connotation. One can be overweight without belly fat, or slim with a big belly. I'm sorry to have let out my "morbid obsession" about belly fat according to Reader. In reality more than an "obsession" it is my good heart trying to help those who suffer the belly stigma. Reader is obviously not one of these since he does not care about his belly. He feels comfortable thinking that his belly merely makes him "overweight", which is not bad. However, he should investigate a little more into the health risk of visceral fat, and perhaps he would rather trade the "overweight" from a fat belly to an overweight due to a very big and heavy cock. (one observation though, the "overweight" comes from an estimation of body mass index, and I don't know if the cock enters into this calculation)

What happened to him? After being sooo critical, now he left without contributing with a post about Hotel Joiner Policies ??

I have to admit that I let my imagination run free sometimes. But... doesn't progress start with conception? Artistic monuments like the Vatican, the Taj Mahal, Disney World started with designers seeing them in their minds before they became reality. Tens of professionals take on the design of amusement parks to provide the best for the enjoyment of the public. So why not design a place that provides the best to people willing to travel and enjoy their gay nature to the fullest? Why have the pleasures of the flesh be contaminated with accessory environments like formal city life, transportation, tons of unattractive people, pollution, and be spread out over a vast metropolitan area making them difficult to find and coordinate their visits? There should be some gay billionaire willing to build a model gay resort in some country that is friendly to gays...

In the past, a big belly was a respect inspiring sign of wealth and power, of having others do the hard work while one enjoying good food and leisure. Some may still think this way, but this is mostly passe.

Thank you, Reader. I don't have any morbid obsession with belly fat, as you said in another thread. However I started writing about it years ago in another gay forum, because so many Asian gays in their 30s start displaying a belly, and I don't like this. Otherwise still decent looking men start losing attractiveness because of a belly! It is said that our emotions are handled by our belly and stress has a big effect in putting on belly fat. Loss of tone in the core muscles help the abdomen to protrude and form a disgusting shape. The damage is not only visual but also spiritual. Now, you probably are able to forget about having a belly and maybe you even feel comfortable with it like a symbol of opulence and richness of your food. If so, enjoy it, and maybe you can exhibit a nice golden chain of a pocket watch with it. If you are not totally satisfied with a big belly, the Internet is full of information on how to reduce and even get rid of it, and much can be written about without hijacking other important threads.

The Chinese should be sufficiently smart to realize the benefits of the pink dollar, and they have plenty of land to create a pink friendly environment in one of their extensive cities if not throughout their whole country. After all, there is the tradition of the Ming Dynasty, accepting of homosexual "friendships". Imagine a model town on the coast of the China Sea, with a vibrant gay scene, maybe linked by high speed rail to Hong Kong as their connection to the outside world. Maybe a dozen gogo bars, twenty gay saunas with attached accommodation a la Babylon holding weekly events, other tens of hotels for other visitors, and three or four mandatory nude beeches where periodic festivals are held to elect beauty princes. The whole town could be made nudity-optional everywhere, and a unique and safe monetary system could exist that allows to make payments validated by fingerprints or iris recognition, so that people don't need to carry anything with them. Tourists could walk nude through shaded grassy walkways from their hotel to the beaches and other gay establishments, food courts, and plenty of nice forests with discrete hidden spots.

HOTEL JOINER POLICIES should apply indiscriminately to all visitors. In the same way, it seems that nature has indiscriminately provided to all of us the muscles that make up a six-pack. Like me you too must have a six-pack, although it could be covered by layer upon layer of belly fat. I am heartened that you too can do what it takes to have the fat removed and have the six-pack nicely displayed. It is never too late!

Thanks for the chuckle!

Nearly seven inches of water is a very strong rain precipitation that few populated areas are able to cope with. The culprit is most probably the climate change that raises havoc in many countries. This is the case in the US, and we are supposed to have a better infrastructure than Thailand... hahaha. But our "president" seems to think that it is more important to preserve the jobs of coal miners than to protect the climate, as long as his mar-a-lago resort does not flood.

You can even invite them to come down from their platforms and skinny dip with you in the flood waters.

"Security" here means that the browser you use can check if a website it displays is indeed what it represents itself to be. This is important when a website asks for identification and password, for example. If one enters this information on a website falsely created by a hacker, such information can be stolen. Those websites that have "certificates" that identify them for the browser have an address starting with "https" instead of simply "http". In the case of GayThailand, this would be relevant if you make bank transactions through GayThailand, which is not the case. You should check that the websites of your bank and brokerage are "https", which the authentic ones surely are. Ryanasia must be concerned that by GayThailand website not being secure, some hacker may steal his password and impersonate him here. Hmmm... this could be interesting if the hacker is cute and posts some trip reports full of nude pictures and hot sex...

I've learned that an old guy with a beer belly has a lot more fun with a beer than an old guy with a six-pack who instead of a beer sips on a mango drink sitting in Babylon at the pool with a cute boy he met at the gym.

Many visitors go to third world countries because prices are cheap. You don't find tuk-tuk-s in Tokyo or Singapore. I move mostly on legs throughout Tokyo and Singapore, and they are not third world.

Thailand wants temples not churches.

Mexico has been caught in the moral jaws of the Catholic Church since its existence, Mexican men are known "machistas" and "faggot" is a serious insult. Yet, you can get married same-sex in the capital, Mexico City.

Maybe it would be better if you are a troll. The details of your relationship and your intentions don't bode well for neither of you two. "Naive" is not exculpatory.

From https://www.avert.org/professionals/hiv-around-world/asia-pacific/thailand : "Thailand provides antiretroviral treatment (ART) for free as part of the country’s universal health insurance scheme.. It is one of only two countries in Asia and the Pacific that has more than 50% of people living with HIV on ART, the other being Cambodia. In 2015, 64% of adults who are eligible for treatment were receiving it, alongside more than 95% of children. In October 2014, Thailand extended ART to all those living with HIV, regardless of their CD4 count (which indicates the health of the immune system), in line with the most recent WHO treatment guidelines. Since then, more thorough identification of new cases has been introduced to ensure people start receiving treatment as soon as possible after diagnosis. Thailand committed to reach 90% of eligible adults and children with life-saving antiretroviral therapy by 2016. However, the adoption of these new treatment guidelines means it has now missed these targets." In the absence of a cure for HIV, the rational way to eliminate it is to treat everyone infected so that their viral load goes to nearly zero and it is nearly impossible that they pass the virus to others. This is something good that can be said about Thailand. In contrast, a very rich Singapore is far behind in social programs, offering little help and much bashing to people with HIV. Their lack of concern is a curse of their homophobia...

I still think that riding 6000 miles in a plane is safer than riding 600 meters in a tuk-tuk. And while I have to ride the plane, I can do perfectly well without the tuk-tuk.

How poetic! I like its addictive allure, and to orderly explore its chaotic beauty

You will keep deluging yourself in beer in the next life? Haven't you learned something in this one?

Chakran is far from being a good example of a BKK sauna. The few times I went there I was underwhelmed. I have to defer answering your question to the time I may have such "big fluffy hairy tummy". If it is not in this lifetime, I might have to catch you in a next one. In the meantime, you can form a visual image of such thing by looking in the mirror.

Yes, it makes sense that what a Tawan star learns at "Tawan university" can be learned anywhere there are cocks and asses.

ESSENTIAL Bangkok experience? Smart travelers are those who return home unhurt! In my first visit to BKK I rode a tuk tuk with a guide who took me on a tour. I found these vehicles had nothing of "romantic" but are a dangerous contraption, an example of poverty in a third world country. I have never stepped into these things a second time.