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Honeyboi, what I think is that you weren't so much anti-Black Party as anti-sex. Sex is dirty, right? People have sex and they get stds! Doesn't matter where they have sex. Could be at the Black Party, could be after the Black Party, could be after meeting online or at a gay bar. You color your anti-sex tirade with an anti-Black Party exterior, but it's really gay sex that bothers you. Most of the people going to the Black Party don't have sex there, but you would shut it down. Tsk tsk. Gay men really shouldn't have sex because of those stds. I had a great time at the Black Party, and I went twice. But if you had your way, neither I nor the thousands of guys who enjoy it would be able to go. It would be shut down!

Well, I personally think that crap like jimboiyvo's posts should be shut down, but no one listens to either of us anyway. The guys in the picture above look silly in those silly outfits. Fortunately the Black Party itself is a lot of fun.

Using the word "theater" together with Los Angeles can be cringe-inducing. But I was tempted to go in and see The Gift when I got an email offer from the Geffen Theater. The cast isn't bad: The email offer used some rave quotes from Variety, but I was smart enough to check the LA Times review too. The Times says that the play, a comedy, is "pretty much pointless," and "wraps itself in banalities." The story is "not even remotely credible," according to the Times, and that saves me a trip to LA and the cost of the ticket! http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/arts/culture/la-et-cm-jekyll-and-hyde-review-20130214,0,2494742.story *** Also playing in LA is Jekyl and Hyde, a revival of the surprise Broadway hit of a few years ago. It stars Constantine Maroulis of American Idol fame, along with Deborah Cox. The show is on a pre-Broadway tryout, and if the Times is correct, and I don't doubt that they are, the theater world would best be served if the musical died in LA. Cox gets kudos for her singing, Maroulis for his acting, but the musical "runs amok." It's way too loud for the times critic. http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/arts/culture/la-et-cm-jekyll-and-hyde-review-20130214,0,2494742.story *** The Times also has an article saying that the conservative Foursquare Christian church lost some 2 million dollars on the Kathie Lee Gifford Broadway musical Scandalous. Good. I lost about $65 on the show, which I left at the intermission.

My point was that the entire culture excludes others, thus yes, it is xenophobia. But were we to try to find a starting point to change it, as gays we would look to our fellow gays to stop excluding gays because of their national origin or any other reason. I am with EXPAT that I won't go beyond Narita to contribute one dime to this society until change occurs.

He has not posted in ten or so days, unusual for him. I hope he is okay and just taking a break.

My assumption is that Totally Oz writes the reports since they are posted under his name. The writer had the task of mentioning racism and discrimination in Japan, while at the same time posting a positive and upbeat report. He did a good job. It is never any fun to be discriminated against. I once went to the baths in LA with a friend who was turned away as "too old." He was 46. Gay guys taking their sisters to a dance club suddenly learn of rules designed to keep women out. (No open-toed shoes, for one.) And in Japan, westerners quickly find that their money is so welcome in the shopping mall, but not at the dance club or the sauna. Of course, it is not really their money that is unwelcome, it is them! Japanese like to socialize with other Japanese, and foreigners simply are kept out. And we have not even begun to discuss weight and looks, just skin color. In Bangkok, they have one nice street in Patpong that is devoid of vendors and full of clubs catering to the Japanese-only trade. It's not to pick on the Japanese that I mention this. Discrimination is practiced widely enough that we don't even notice it when there are no fat people present, or old people, or fill-in-the-blank people. But for gay men to discriminate so widely against other gay men as the the Japanese gays do is really a bit much, I want Asian men to be free of discrimination in dealing with the western world, but the Japanese are not helping.

We are less than hour from the New Year here in Hong Kong. The bf and I are in, but we have a (partial) harbor view, so can see many of the skyscrapers lit up and decorated in New Year colors. Dinner was festive as families gathered at restaurants all over town. And lucky for us, the bf's family was able to join us as well. In Hong Kong, every tall white man is accosted multiple times a day. By strange men on the street! But they either want to sell you a suit or a "copy" watch. It actually gets quite annoying. Lots of women offer massages too, but no guys. The restaurant where we ate was managed by two cute guys who look all of 14, but I am assured that they are much older! Cultural differences! (Oddly enough, two men said to me at different times today: " You are a lucky man." How did they know?) So, it's another opportunity to celebrate a new year. This is the year of the snake, and I could easily come up with the top candidate for snake of the year, but that wouldn't get my year off to a good start, would it? So, I'll just wish all of you a happy new year, wherever you are.

Oh, don't worry. They will come!

It shouldn't take the words of someone else to answer the question, no matter how many words it takes him. Hmm, let me try it: I exist because my parents fucked and I popped out. I exist because the Almighty wanted to see what he would look like as a human. Which one works for you?

I like lurkerspeaks and want him to have all of the fun he can get, but the words "high school" worry me. Yes, 18 is the legal line, but I think a guy should graduate high school before he is turning tricks. I hope that you have seen his ID.

Having considered the opinions expressed above, I guess it's fine with me, too, to post links to this site at other sites, even in situations where they might be deleted.

It's been years since I braved a Saturday night out to the movies, but I had a free pass about to expire, so last night I went to see Parker. The movie stars the hunky Jason Statham, but his character has suffered so many wounds that it is a map of his prior battles. But it is hunky, and he is shirtless at points. Jennifer Lopez is also in the movie, an almost embarrassingly bad actor. The guys around me didn't seem to mind. Parker starts out with a caper that is quite fun to watch, and then it ends with a caper that is good but not quite up to the first one. In between we watch preparation and planning (yawn) with the occasional fist fight. But, it was free right? I had a nice seat all picked out, but then a Hispanic family with a small child sat behind me. Mommy kept kicking my seat, so I moved behind her. This put me in a circle of people who wouldn't shut up during the movie. And the young child in front of me acted quite predictably. When he finally bored after about 30 minutes, they gave him a cartoon-watching device that had a nice, bright light in the darkened theater. He also couldn't keep his mouth shut or sit still. Yet no one, even me, said a word about it. Perhaps if the parents had forgone their Jumbo popcorn and super-sized drinks they could have afforded a baby-sitter. So, I endured the movie more than enjoyed it. But it was free!

Some 35 years ago I was briefly involved in a court case that made the national news. At the time there were just the 3 major networks, and they all sent sketch artists into the courtroom. I was a focus of one of the sketches, which aired that night across the nation, along with my name. (No, I was not the defendant!) Not exactly fifteen minutes, but a few! There was a bitter-sweetness to it as I was still closeted and went home to watch the stories all by my lonesome self.

That is so often true- the cock gets better with age. Guys learn how to use it by practice, practice, and practice. Then, of course, there are those born with a natural talent...

Well, my mistake for not noticing how old the thread is. In a perverse way, I am glad that I don't have to compare my weight loss to yours after all, but I do wish both of us the luck on that. I should have wondered if you had yet gone to Sao Paolo as well.

And yet another book, this one by a Jesuit-educated Pulitzer Prize winner named Garry Wills, and it's called Why Priests? A Failed Tradition. The book is written up in today's Sunday Times column by Frank Bruni, who goes on a rant about Los Ageles Cardinal Mahoney for covering up so much crime committed by priests against young boys: "...the new book by Wills, a Pulitzer Prize winner who has written extensively about Christianity and the church, says that at the start, Christianity not only didn’t have priests but opposed them. The priesthood was a subsequent tweak, and the same goes for the all-male, celibate nature of the Roman Catholic clergy and the autocratic hierarchy that this clergy inhabits, an unresponsive government whose subjects — the laity — have limited say. “It can’t admit to error, the church hierarchy,” Wills told me on the phone on Thursday. “Any challenge to their prerogative is, in their eyes, a challenge to God. You can’t be any more arrogant than that.” http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/27/opinion/sunday/bruni-catholicisms-curse.html?ref=opinion

Firecat has it right on the nose. Oz is a big-hearted guy. I, too, saw some of that in Thailand as I walked the streets of Pattaya with him and saw all of the guys he knows and his generosity and concern for them. Why would it be any different in Brazil? I didn't know about the weight loss, so congratulations on that, Oz. I wish I could lose some.

For me, reading the book might help me understand better some of the things I was taught in school, and why. The sexual repression that Catholics get came from these very guys who were having wives and mistresses, yet did not allow it for future generations. Such a horrible mistake, but why? It was good enough for them.And so on.

LOL...no, it is not a mistake. You still made a good point, after all.

My post wasn't about Asians looking their age, or not, it was about how tiring the career of a bar boy or sauna boy would be and the likelihood of them doing it into their thirties. The sauna guy is not living the life of the jet-setting escort, he's working his tail off every night. It's hard work regardless if he looks 20 30 or 40.

Good points, MsGuy. I am tempted to read the book, but my library doesn't have it. Let's see how much it is on Amazon...that $27.95 price tag drops to $16,10 with free shipping since I am Amazon Prime. Maybe later.

What does Adam Smith think? We all know that the Politics forum there is not the best place to play because of deej. Several posters told him so the other day but it seemed to go right past him. Many of us agree with his political positions, but that's not enough for him. So my vote would be to do nothing that would link that forum here. Keep the sites separate. It's not as if folks there do not know how to find this site if they choose.

That hardly qualifies as naked to me. I'd rather look at EXPAT's "likes" than see Naked Glee.

I so rarely read the reviews it wouldn't matter to me. I usually forget that they are there.

It just hit me that Ice is 31 years old. Not too many guys are still working the sex trade at that age in Thailand, at least in my experience. Maybe that's why he runs hot and cold- he is tired! I went to Hero massage last year and left quite disappointed, but it was mostly my fault as I went on looks alone and did not get the advice from the mamasan which may have helped make a better choice. I probably have one trip to Hero massage left in me and would want only a good choice! But I like ice's looks.