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Today's coverboy Justin is recovering nicely after having had his stomach stolen. The evidence of the theft can be seen in his picture, where the missing part has been replaced by strands of muscle: http://www.daddysreviews.com/images/justin_6_nyc_080907.jpg

RE: Noah's Arc The gang from Noah's Arc have been signed for a movie version to start filming in March. Should be fun.

RE: Noah's Arc Now that Noah's Arc has been canceled, I guess it doesn't matter much, but I did watch season one with the bf and we both liked it a lot. It did get better. Christian Vincent is a hunk, and when they introduced Wilson Cruz as a character, I was hooked. What better boyfriend material is there than Wilson Cruz? But, as for Darryl Stephens, I lost a little interest. Those wacky hairdos and silly outfits he wore...not the butch guy I thought. Yes, I know he was playing a charcter, but....

I bought the DVD's of the first season of Noah's Arc because I think Daryl Stephens is so sexy, but geez...he sure plays a fey Michael Jackson type here. I only saw the first 2 episodes. Does it get better?

RE: "Boy Culture" Rod, you showed your cock at the movie theater??? Remember what happened to Pee Wee Herman. We don't want to have a Pee Wee Hagen! Incidentally, in an interview with the gay magazine dot, two of the actors in the movie made a point that they were in real life straight. Andrew was not one of them, so I guess there is hope. But if the guy that played Joey is straight, well, then, he is a damn fine actor!

I didn't.

X is the focus of the movie, but his 2 cute roommates are featured prominently in the story. A cute blond, "Blondie", should have gotten more screen time. The younger roommate Joey is a puppy who is madly in love with X for reasons unstated. Joey, cute as he is, becomes tiresome quite soon. The other roommate, Andrew, is the hottest guy in the movie. Sultry good looks and a firm masculinity made him the guy I wanted to take home to mommy. X himself is so self-involved to the point of being obnoxious. Finally, Gregory, the older man and the 12th of X's "disciples" is quite good and interesting to watch. The sex between him and X was a bold move on the part of the filmmaker, and not all that hard to watch!

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"pleth‧o‧ra  /ˈplɛθərə/ Pronunciation Key - Show Spelled Pronunciation[pleth-er-uh] Pronunciation Key - Show IPA Pronunciation –noun 1. overabundance; excess: a plethora of advice and a paucity of assistance." So there was an overabundance of old people and fags with boy toys...How many should there have been? Did you have a boytoy with you or were you just an old fag in the plethora? Why do you need to put down the audience when your ostensible purpose is to let us know that you enjoyed the show? Deej driving to Vegas: http://x1d.xanga.com/456a13020953546983618/b31663576.jpg

As both straight and gay parents move into San Francisco's gay mecca, there is increasing pressure on merchants in particular to clean up storefronts and signs that are racier than kids should see: COLUMN ONE: A Haven's Sex and Sensibility Protective parents -- straight and gay -- are objecting to racy storefronts in S.F.'s Castro district. Some merchants are defiant. By John M. Glionna, LA Times Staff Writer April 21, 2006 SAN FRANCISCO — Brody Paul and his kid brother Zander are making their after-school rounds in this city's Castro district — one of the most openly gay neighborhoods in America. Brody, 12, shops for mouthwash and Clearasil. His brother wants No. 2 pencils. Veterans of tolerant San Francisco, they're unfazed by the two women holding hands and the graffiti etched into the sidewalk: "Nick Loves Olaf." But along Castro Street, the main business drag just two blocks from their home, the boys encounter images more difficult for children to digest. A video store where they regularly rent Disney films stocks triple-X gay porn flicks in plain view. Across the street, next to their favorite pizza joint, the front window of a gay sex shop called Rock Hard displays a large Day-Glo purple sex toy, leather trusses and graphic manuals. "It's scary. It kind of makes you shudder," says Zander, who just turned 8. "It's not scary," Brody corrects, offering a typical child's view of anything sexual. "It's just gross." Although the Castro has long been called Boys Town, that moniker has assumed an ironic new meaning: The gay bastion is now an unlikely hub for families with children. For more than a decade, heterosexual parents have been drawn to the quarter-mile-square Castro to raise their families in its quaint Victorian homes and small-town atmosphere. In recent years, the Castro's same-sex couples have also increasingly chosen to become parents, a revolution that has brought even more children. In the Castro, restaurants oriented toward gay singles now offer child-size portions and even highchairs. One coffee shop features a hot chocolate "Castro Kids Special," a popular item during the morning rush that the owners call the "stroller hour." At Cliff's Variety store, children shop for toy unicorns and jasmine-scented clay putty alongside cross-dressers perusing feather boas and rhinestone tiaras. And at this year's Gay Pride Parade in June, one float will celebrate gay families, featuring kids clad in construction-worker outfits and singing Village People songs. But this new Castro has not emerged without tensions. The racy storefront displays have pitted protective parents against equally militant gay residents. Many parents — both heterosexual and gay — say the suggestive ads are inappropriate for children. Gay activists want to preserve a sexually liberated atmosphere that embraces such gay-themed holidays as "Leather Day" and — in celebration of hairy men — "Bear Day." Some complain that gay culture itself, which has long celebrated free sexual expression, is under attack — not just by straights, but by gays and lesbians as well. Last year, a lesbian mother of two, now 6 and 2, complained about a sadomasochistic tableau in a clothing shop window that featured a male mannequin chained to a toilet. "As an adult I find this disgusting," she wrote in an e-mail to city officials. "As a parent I find it unconscionable." After failing to persuade merchants to post suggestive ads above the line of sight of small children, the mother, who asked not to be identified, said she plans to move from the Castro. Another parent complained when an antiques store displayed a kitschy life-size statue of an aroused naked man. Owner Robert Hedric said he reluctantly covered the offending portion after police intervened. Hedric, who is gay and said he moved from Germany to the Castro for its lively gay culture, worries that family-friendly sensibilities will quash the neighborhood's spirit. "What surprise is next? Are they going to outlaw the Gay Pride Parade?" he asked. "This is the Castro, not the Vatican." Jeremy Paul, the father of Brody and Zander, doesn't expect Castro Street to be St. Peter's Square. But he was offended by syphilis-prevention ads posted around the neighborhood that featured a happy, tune-whistling cartoon penis. He was particularly incensed when a flier was left on the windshield of the family car, where his children found it. "I'm happy people can enjoy a lifestyle that's denied to them back home in Kansas, but there are appropriate standards of behavior, regardless of your sexual orientation," said Paul, a building permit consultant. Mark Welsh, the gay manager of Rock Hard, has toned down his displays — but is now drawing a line. "I have always pushed the envelope to show what I can because if there's one place on the planet to flaunt sex, it's here," he said. "There's a place for these ads. Sex is why the Castro was founded." Welsh, 50, who favors leather vests and form-fitting jeans, was once married and has an 18-year-old daughter who lived with him in the Castro for a decade. He said he never stopped her from wandering the neighborhood out of fear she might see a lurid window display — even his own. "I raised her to know that it was OK for men to kiss and hold hands in public," he said. He said parents calling for change are a minority — and that "nobody, whether gay or straight, is going to tell me what to wear, what to say, how to act or what to display in my own shop. Gay culture will survive." In the middle is Supervisor Bevan Dufty, whose district includes the Castro. Dufty, who is gay, wants to start a neighborhood gay family resource center. But he also supports merchants who want to feature racy displays. He wants to keep the Castro "sustainably gay." Dufty, a 51-year-old New York native who sometimes models underwear for gay fundraisers, sees both sides of the issue. For two years he's been trying to become a parent; he recently used in-vitro fertilization with a longtime lesbian friend, who is pregnant. After the birth, the pair plan to live together but lead separate romantic lives. "I think bringing a child into this world is one of the most fulfilling things you can do in a lifetime — I'm ready," Dufty said. "Ours will be one of the many nontraditional families peopling the Castro." At a Castro coffee shop, he was recently approached by parents who knew of his quest to become a father. "Am I doing this right?" he asked as he held a squirming infant. "Am I holding his head right?" The Castro has always been evolving. In the 1970s, the former Irish-Catholic enclave saw the arrival of gay-owned bars such as Toad Hall and the Missouri Mule. The neighborhood soon became a haven for gays who were attracted by a buzzing new counterculture that was defiantly outside the mainstream. In the 1980s, the Castro endured the AIDS epidemic, struggling to remain a bohemian stronghold for gay bartenders, artists and musicians. But rising rents in the 1990s drove out blue-collar veterans, leaving only the wealthiest. Then came young families. Twelve years ago, Jeremy Paul and his wife, Lyssa Kaye Paul, were among a wave of heterosexual parents to colonize the Castro. They embraced the neighborhood's flair. But sometimes they didn't feel welcome. Gay waiters scowled while taking their order. Men sneered at them on the street. The cold shoulder got considerably warmer a few years ago as more gay couples had their own children, part of the so-called Gayby Boom. Now more than 250,000 children nationwide — 47,000 in California — are being raised by same-sex parents. "Many gay people once referred to couples with children as 'breeders,' a term with considerable bite to it," said Thom Lynch, executive director of the Gay Lesbian Bisexual and Transgender Community Center. "It's rarely used anymore. Now many gays are breeders as well." But the gay civic leader says the Castro's parenting trend still irritates some. Asked if he wanted to become a father, Lynch responded icily: "I had the urge once. But it passed like gas." Sande Leigh, principal of the Harvey Milk Civil Rights Academy, a public school named in honor of the slain gay supervisor, recalled how during her first year at the school, in 1997, she rerouted the Halloween Parade: "We had to move the children to the other side of Castro Street because of the suggestive posters." Despite the Castro's sexual edge, Leigh calls the neighborhood a perfect spot for her school, which attracts many gay volunteers. Welsh, the Rock Hard manager, raises money for toys and supplies. "We're not about censoring the Castro," Leigh said, "and the Castro is not about censoring us as a place for kids." The editor of a publication aimed at gay mothers and fathers thinks Castro parents should accommodate the neighborhood, not the other way around. "That culture existed long before they arrived," said Angeline Acain, a New Yorker who's editor and publisher of Gay Parent, a nationally circulated magazine. "If you see a window display you find offensive, don't take your kid down that block." Parents counter that the Castro should be sensitive to the needs of children. They say bouncy castles have a place — just like gay bars. "Our kids need a place in the community," said July Appel, executive director of the nonprofit Our Family Coalition and a lesbian mother of two. "The Castro is big enough for everyone. Gay cruising has its place. But so do playgrounds." Fred Kirkbride, who owns a Castro Street antiques store, said that a community that has for years argued for tolerance by heterosexuals should be more accepting. "Isn't it amazing how long we fought to be accepted by straight society? Now we want to keep straights and their children out of here," he said. Kirkbride agreed that many store displays have gone too far. "I used to keep my parents away from those windows," he said. "I didn't want them to think all gays were into animal bestiality." Slowly, both sides have shown compromise. Because children often accompany their parents to the Gay Lesbian Bisexual and Transgender Community Center, the facility now forbids nudity in the hallways — requiring the center's bondage classes to stay behind closed doors. "Twenty years ago we couldn't have had such a rule," said center director Lynch. "People would have fought it." Nancy Koch, a lesbian mother, noted that a clothing store manager recently warned her about taking her 12-year-old daughter into a back room where suggestive leather outfits were displayed. As more families move in, she said, businesses that accommodate the sensibilities of families will survive, while those that are less child-friendly will not. The mother maintained that exposure to the racy ads has not harmed her daughter. "There's not much to shock her," Koch said. "Sex has been in her peripheral vision for a long time." Organizers of the two-day gay pride event near City Hall, the nation's most prominent gay celebration, now provide a children's area with licensed day care. They also encourage families to attend on Saturday, which they have arranged to feature fewer risque events than Sunday. "It's important that the gay community has this place to express itself," said event organizer Lindsey Jones. "We don't want to put too many parameters around that." But Jeremy Paul says the Castro still has a way to go. His younger son, Zander, recoils at seeing men wearing leather chaps and little else at a local gay-oriented street fair: "He'll say, 'Dad, do I have to see those flabby butts again?' " Welsh winces when he hears that. He says children have no place at the fair anyway: "It's an adult event. It's for us. Kids should stay home." For now, many men will remain annoyed each time they spot another baby stroller invading their beloved gay mecca. "We're not going to neuter ourselves for anybody," said Joe Gallagher, a gay barber who often runs raunchy ads featuring muscular men in the local gay press. "We're not going to jump just because these people complain. The rest of the country isn't big enough? They've got to try and take over the Castro as well?" Zander Paul says he is comfortable with his Castro childhood. "I'm not bothered by living near gay people. It's natural," he said. "For me, the word 'gay' has two meanings. One is you're happy. The other is you like boys."

You busted in your pants? Sounds like a Depends fetish to me!

Me too... I like baseball biceps best. http://www.xtrera.com/images/biceps.jpg

RE: Norton...Paul...Boston...Eastbay..Godiva and Grace I hope you are recovered by now. Also, nortonman02 hasn't posted since asking how he could know if his escort is disease free. I wonder if he made the wrong choice... While I am at it, where is Godiva these days? Or BostonGuy?

RE: UnBelievable Mistake Scientists rush to destroy pandemic flu strain WHO concerned samples may set off global epidemicThe Associated Press Updated: 7:36 p.m. ET April 12, 2005Thousands of scientists were scrambling Tuesday at the urging of global health authorities to destroy vials of a pandemic flu strain sent to labs in 18 countries as part of routine testing. The rush, urged by the World Health Organization, was sparked by a slim, but real, risk that the samples, could spark a global flu epidemic. The vials of virus sent by a U.S. company went to nearly 5,000 labs, mostly in the United States, officials said. “The risk is relatively low that a lab worker will get sick, but a large number of labs got it and if someone does get infected, the risk of severe illness is high and this virus has shown to be fully transmissible,” WHO’s influenza chief, Klaus Stohr, told The Associated Press. It was not immediately clear why the 1957 pandemic strain, which killed between 1 million and 4 million people — was in the proficiency test kits routinely sent to labs. It was a decision that Stohr described as “unwise,” and “unfortunate.” That particular bug was “an epidemic virus for many years,” Stohr said from the U.N. health agency’s headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland. “The risk is low but things can go wrong as long as these samples are out there and there are some still out there.” The 1957 strain has not been included in the flu vaccine since 1968, and anyone born after that date has no immunity to it. Dr. Nancy Cox, chief of the influenza branch at the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta, said her agency was notified of the situation Friday morning. She also said officials strongly doubt someone deliberately planted the dangerous germ or that this was an act of bioterrorism. “It wouldn’t be a smart way to start a pandemic to send it to laboratories because we have people well trained in biocontainment,” she said. The concern over the shipment of pandemic flu virus to thousands labs renews questions about the safe handling of deadly germs — an issue that led to toughened U.S. rules after anthrax was sent in the mail in 2001, killing five Americans. Most of the flu samples — 3,747 — were sent starting last year at the request of the College of American Pathologists, which helps labs do proficiency testing. The last shipments were sent out in February. Dr. Jared Schwartz, an official with the pathology college, said a private company, Meridian Bioscience Inc. of Cincinnati, Ohio, is paid to prepare the samples. The firm was told to pick an influenza A sample and chose from its stockpile the deadly 1957 H2N2 strain. Stohr said U.S. health officials also reported to WHO that some other test kit providers besides the college used the 1957 pandemic strain in samples sent to labs in the United States. Schwartz identified them as Medical Lab Evaluators, the American Association of Bioanalysts and the American Association of Family Practitioners.

Well, I guess we can't rest too easily on this news: WHO Expert: Bird Flu Strains Could Combine By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Published: April 6, 2005 BANGKOK, Thailand (AP) -- Two strains of bird flu in Asia may combine to create a highly lethal and easily transmissible virus, a U.N. health official warned Wednesday, amid widespread fears that the disease could cause the next human pandemic. The U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization on Tuesday confirmed that birds in North Korea were infected with the H7 bird flu strain that sickened nearly 90 people and killed one in the Netherlands two years ago. It is distinct from the H5N1 strain that has decimated poultry populations across Asia since December 2003 and killed at least 50 people in Vietnam, Thailand and Cambodia. Both strains can jump from birds to humans but only the H7 virus has been shown to spread from person to person, raising concern that it could unite with the deadlier H5N1 strain and cause a global pandemic. ``The fact that two viruses -- one with a proven track record of transmitting easily into people and another with a mortality rate of between 50 and 80 percent -- are circulating in Asia at the same time is something to keep a very close eye on,'' William L. Aldis, the World Health Organization representative in Thailand, told The Associated Press. If H7 and H5N1 came into contact and exchanged genetic material, it could create an ``organism with H5 lethality and H7 transmissibility,'' said Aldis. H7 caused eye inflammation and flu-like symptoms in dozens of people in the Netherlands, but there have been no reports of human infections of any strain of bird flu in secretive North Korea. Health workers have killed some 219,000 birds on three farms near the capital, Pyongyang. Governments of 10 Asian countries have slaughtered millions of fowl to arrest the spread of H5N1. Based on the number of humans infected with H7 in the Netherlands, ``one would have to assume that this H7 is not very lethal ... but it's highly transmissible,'' Aldis said.

Last Saturday President Bush quietly issued an order allowing for individuals suspected to have bird flu to be quarantined, and yesterday the Times reported that stocks of Tamiflu are shockingly low. Tamiflu may or may not provide relief in the absence of anything else to combat the virus. Meanwhile, the bird flu in North Korea was found to be of a different strain than the bird flu in Vietnam and Thailand. The Korea strain transfers to humans easier, but is less dangerous. Hoarding Tamiflu is discouraged in the Times article.

The World Health Organization has again issued a warning that the bird-flu epidemic could turn, and turn soon, into a world-wide pandemic. Why isn't this being taken more seriously? Millions could die, making the tsunami look like a minor thing. WHO issues alert over flu pandemic fears By Frances Williams in Geneva Published: January 21 2005 02:00 | Last updated: January 21 2005 02:00 The World Health Organis-ation yesterday warned a global influenza pandemic based on the deadly bird flu virus "may be imminent" and again called on countries and drug companies to develop a vaccine. The warning came as Vietnam reported the death of an 18-year-old girl from the virus and said it had confirmed the first case of human infection in the north of the country. Up to 10 more suspected human cases are under investigation. In a report to this week's meeting of its executive board, WHO said the H5N1 bird flu virus was endemic in poultry in east Asia and appeared to be evolving "in ways that increasingly favour the start of a pandemic". There were similarities with the virus that caused the 1918 flu pandemic, in which more than 40m people died, WHO noted. It cited the severity of the illness, its concentration among young, healthy people and the occurrence of primary viral pneumonia which cannot be treated with antibiotics. A mutated virus that transmitted easily between humans would probably be less pathogenic than bird flu, which has killed 38 people in Vietnam and Thailand since the outbreaks of the H5N1 virus in poultry were reported last year. However, since no one is immune to this virus, even on a best-case scenario WHO experts believe there could be up to 7m deaths, and at worst up to 100m could die, with up to a third of the population falling ill. The two most recent pandemics, in 1957 and 1968, together claimed more than 3m lives. WHO, which is urging its 192 member governments to draw up plans to cope with a flu pandemic, said efforts to develop a vaccine had made progress "but not with a speed appropriate to the urgency of the situation". Since there would not be enough vaccine supplies to meet global needs, countries should consider quarantine and travel restrictions. "Each day gained could mean an additional 5m doses of vaccine," it said. Yesterday's death brings to 26 the human death toll from bird flu in Vietnam. There have also been 12 deaths in Thailand, which this week confirmed the first outbreaks of the virus in poultry in two months.

RE: Fun Fun Fun What a great thread! Thanks, Godiva. It's nice to have you back.

It hasn't run out of gas yet!

Benjamin, you don't mention spit. Frankly, the thought of you spitting on your dick before insertion sounds like all the lube I would need, but then, I am here and you are not!

West Side Club is notorious for the stand and pose crowd. If any real sex happens there, it is very late and usually, I am told, involves crystal.

jackhammer. Why? Because he massages my ego better than anyone in LA!!!

"Most of these day workers are financially desperate. It's easy to get someone to do what you want when they are desperate, especially when you have a bit of cash. Therefore, I would not attempt to hire one of these guys for fun in bed. It just doesnt seem right to me." Utopia, you obviously haven't been reading the Rio threads where this is frequently discussed. (Someone even commented that you need to talk to the boy as if he was your servant because Rio is a class-oriented society!) Nonetheless, the fact that one is economically deprived and sexually gifted presents opportunites for both him and his admirer. If there is no force or coercion involved, I see nothing wrong with hiring the person for specialized day labor. The person without the money has every right to make a willing decision on how to advance his fortunes. Just treat him respectfully.

Rod, your modesty is very becoming! Someday I will try your massage so I can back up my claim that you are the best. Of course, I won't tell you that it is me...