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No! No more celebrities on ego trips. Proven government experience required, along with foreign policy expertise.

A former girlfriend took the opportunity of attempting to ruin the mood after James Franco won a Golden Globes Award for Best Actor. She asks Franco: "Remember the time you pushed my head down in a car towards your exposed penis & that other time you told my friend to come to your hotel when she was 17? After you had already been caught doing that to a different 17 year old?'" Yet another actress claims that Franco did not pay her well enough for doing sex scenes in his movies. Well! If I were faced with James' erection all hot for my attention, I would have taken a different course than did the complainer. And you wouldn't have had to pay me at all for having movie sex with him. No siree. It shows that context is key. One person's offense is another person's chance. No?* As for the 17-year old, call me by your name. ** *Nothing herein is meant to suggest that the women alleging bad acts by Franco do not have a right to make their allegations and be heard in court. ** Nothing about the movie reference is intended to suggest that a 17-year olfd is fair game for older men. Obey all laws on this topic.

PopeFrancis, thanks so much for the excellent trip reports. I like the wise usage of white space too!

Yawn.

Oz, you have always been exciting. Now get excited!

"Everyone's been getting" Anal bleaching is wonderful when needed. But everyone doesn't need it! I don't know anyone who has done that. Maybe a new boy band could adopt the name Anal Bleachers and then it would take off! But, to date, I haven't needed it and don't expect to. But if anyone here has done it, please post a photo so we can all know what it looks like !

I can probably imagine the before and afters, but I can't imagine myself having the procedure. A Thai newspaper has a few more details including a first um, hand report: http://www.nationmultimedia.com/detail/national/30335410

For anyone interested, penis bleaching by laser is now available at a Thai hospital. Check out this article and then book your flight to Bangkok and make that appointment! http://www.nydailynews.com/life-style/health/penis-bleaching-bigger-article-1.3737468 (They didn't have any before and after pictures!)

My interest in this story has more to with Jesse, the photographer who helped his whole family shape up. Jesse did quite well himself, becoming a hunk with a six pack. https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/5257932/weight-loss-transformation-chinese-family/ You will find other pictures in the Sun story, but the above is my favorite! For example, Jesse looks great in a tight t-shirt!

Friends are thinking of going to Costa Rica in March, but they are a bit worried about crime as they are older and, as one put it, "we can't run as fast anymore!" But I remember seeing posts, or hearing guys say they went there and had no problems at all. Can anyone provide more info about trips there? Thanks!

No, there is no animosity on my part. I wish him well.

Picture him in a soldier's uniform, just so long as it is not a German one1

I should add that I think the video is spectacular! The Sao Paolo Chamber of Commerce would be proud to show it

No doubt Larstrup has an interesting point of view on this. He usually does, so I look forward to hearing it. He is not a fan of mine, so I expect that perhaps his response...has nothing to do with me?

A question for Oz about cookies. After I visited the link he posted, I noticed that it came with a new cookie for boytoyvideo.com. The question is why do you-the video company I mean- need a cookie on my computer just because I visited a link Oz posted? Ridding oneself of cookies is not possible. But I often wonder why some auto dealer always has a cookie on me. Walmart, lowermybills, many others who I have never visited. I remove them and they come right back. I have set the browser to not allow third party cookies, but I don't think it does any good. Nonetheless, I am like Oz in that I never buy videos. So I don't need that boytoyvideo cookie, and they don't need me!

"Pity, actually, I could have claimed my escort costs from my insurance! " Perhaps the president will consider allowing that soon!

floridarob, mentioning addiction in response to a trip report could be inflammatory! But this is Pope Francis' trip report thread, so on that, it is for another thread

Tartegogo, since you asked, to me it is a case of you guys being on a different page and neither of you intends to be offensive about it. You can take the word "you" to mean Tartegogo, or you can take it in a more generic way. "If one wants to throw away his money, what's it to me?" Throwing it from the balcony, I think, gives it an indifferent twist. The suggestion is that however you do it, it is not worthwhile. But again, it is his opinion. You received some criticism for things in your trip report. You handled it very well. My suggestion here is that you resolve that you are confident that giving presents is a benefit to you. You like to do it. Who cares if floridarob doesn't agree with you? It just simply doesn't matter. You get to do what you think is the best thing to do. As for his criticism, consider that he is a different individual with a different personality. He expresses himself in a way that you don't. You can ignore him, or you can accept that his way of speaking is more direct, even more blunt, than others. It is not a reflection on you. What it does is affirm that we are a group of diverse individuals. If we all agreed, if we were always polite and kind, wouldn't this be a boring place? So chalk it up and move on. You have more people here agreeing with you than disagreeing. Your trip report has been very popular. One size does not fit all, so get used to it! Is that me being blunt? Anyway, you can disagree with me too. I won't be troubled, but I like it better when we see things in a similar fashion. Just not so similar as to be dull!

Cute, too.

Finally I can disagree with Tartegogo! floridarob has his own opinion, based upon his experience, and it isn't sick or hypocritical. It's just different from yours! I don't give presents, but I do tip. I never send money after I leave. That's just me and I wouldn't expect anyone to blindly follow my opinion. One example is tipping a go-go dancer. I will sit in a bar for awhile watching the guys, but I don't off one. I give the guy I liked best a tip though, just for pleasing me with doing his job. I don't see that as throwing money away, but someone else might. Okey-dokey with me.

Many years ago there was a bar on Folsom Street in San Francisco named the Stud. Not the current one. This one had a trough for a urinal, and it was easy for anybody to stand outside the toilet and watch guys pee. One night I was doing just that, and someone came in and placed a glass under me. So naturally I continued peeing. When I went back into the bar, he was standing there drinking my pee. He never acknowledged me in any way, but it was an odd pleasure to see someone drinking me. I thought that perhaps I could bottle the stuff and sell it! There is a market for anything, as one of our prominent members seems to have discovered!

My first gay bar was Dugan's Bistro in Chicago. It was such an eye opener for me as I finally realized that there were masculine, handsome gay men. I had only seen what was the obvious, the feminine guy with a swish. Dugan's had a very hot go-go boy dancing on a podium wearing nothing but a jock strap. My fascination with go-go boys began then. How could a guy get up on a stage and be openly proud of his sexuality? It was new to me. We followed the first visit there with a first visit to a bathhouse. I am still a lifetime member of Man's Country, if it exists anymore. I was so shocked at the open sexual activity. People were having sex everywhere, and I was fascinated. So, if places like these close, how does a young guy enter the gay world? Does he start with Grindr? Yuck.

Before one can change his mind to yes, there must have been a no first. In the first example, there was a clear no. Then he may have chained his mind, or else might argue that I gave him no choice, in which event, his no still stands. The second example is a nonverbal change of mind. In either case, it is my word against his, but the point is that I am trying to honor his wishes. I would have preferred the masseur to have verbalized his change of mind.

Part of the fun is the hunt! Especially in DC and NY the guy should be able to find someone on his own. The hunt, the chase, the catch! To be 34 and in the big city!

He has apologized: http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/lewis-hamilton-told-nephew-boys-don-wear-princess-dresses-article-1.3722005 Looking at his picture in the article, I wonder when he stopped being cute.