Comments by CC99 (page 41)

I know they are more liberal than average but they also talk about what things are like back home. The Middle East is still very religious but I see that there's a wind of change so to speak. Nobody really likes Iran, the Iranian government is widely detested in the Mid-east. People are wanting to see more secular dictatorships and ditch theocracies. Democracy would be ideal but a lot of people have lost faith that democracy can work for the middle east.

I doubt that anybody on this forum besides Nicole has as many friends from the Middle East as I do. My mom even joked once that I know every Arab kid at my school. Out of all the Arab people I've met, every one of them seems to think that the PC SJW crowd in the United States is mindbogglingly stupid. Coming up with these bizarre reasons to explain why things in the Middle East happened and acting like its constantly America and the CIA's fault that everything happened. Those kind of people exist in the Middle East too and a lot of people think they're stupid. The Arab Spring was caused by mainly young people wanting to see a change in the Arab world. At the time it was mostly authoritarianism and dictatorship that was blamed for a lot of the Middle East's problems. People thought that the terrorism and religious extremism was a byproduct of authoritarian regimes, but after the events in Syria and Iraq, a lot of the younger people in the Middle East now are actually okay with the idea of the Middle East having secular dictatorships that can keep control in the country. I think a lot of them have lost hope in the idea that a Middle Eastern democracy can be stable because of how often knocking a dictator out of power has turned the country into a bloodbath of terrorism. But a lot of the young people in the Middle East now are getting sick of terrorism and sectarian extremism tearing the region apart for the past four decades. Saudi Arabia and Iran are some of the most widely despised regimes in the region. Assad's regime is despised now because of the atrocities they committed during the Syrian revolution but a lot of people are actually becoming surprisingly okay with the way that Assad's regime rules over Syria during peace time. Syria is very secular, and most people there don't to have a dictator that's as brutal and ruthless as Assad or Saddam Hussein but do want a dictator that's strong enough to keep the sectarian tensions under control so that they don't have to constantly worry about terrorism. A lot of the Arab people I've met were either atheists or very casually practicing Muslims. One guy I know who actually grew up in Saudi Arabia told me that when his kids are older, the only thing he will tell them about religion is "I personally think Islam is the closest to being accurate, but you can make your own choice." Now he is more liberal than most Saudis are but I think its worth noting that a lot of people in the Middle East, especially outside of Saudi Arabia, are starting to resent what religious extremism has done to the Middle East and don't want any part of it anymore. I'm interested to see what will happen to the Middle East in 15 years. I think it could be a very different place from the way it is today.

When I was 16 I was very anti religion but since then I've grown mostly okay with it. That being said, the Middle East specifically has a lot of problems that were caused primarily because of people holding very strong religious beliefs over there. It's so bad that a lot of Middle Easterners now are getting really frustrated with it. I wouldn't be surprised if, in the next decade or so we see some major cultural changes in the Middle East. The Arab Spring may have failed politically but I sense a cultural and social revolution may be happening sometime in the near future.

I went to strip clubs in high school too. I think a lot of high schoolers like to check it out when they turn 18. Personally I think Richmond clubs are actually pretty decent but they are somewhat tourist unfriendly. I drive about 30 minutes to get to Paper Moon. I think it's worth it. I've never gone there and not found a girl I liked but you will probably need at least $120 to have a decent time there. If you're not prepared to spend $120 or more I wouldn't bother.

@Nicole even I don't want to flirt just to flirt and have nothing happen. Almost no guy does.

^Lmao, I guess that kicks @wellhungsac out of the forum.

Well the layout and quality might be different, but the idea is the same. A brothel just means a place where you pay for sex. Most US strip clubs may not offer intercourse as something you can get there but the basic idea of paying for sexual gratification of some kind is the same. This means the motivation for a guy going to a strip club and the motivations for going to a brothel are going to be very similar. Its not like "apples to oranges," with going to a brothel making you so much more pathetic than going to a strip club as Flagooner is saying.

From what I hear, most girls like it trimmed but not necessarily shaved so that's the look I typically go for. I use an electric razor.

I wouldn't say I was "disrespecting TJ." I do want to go there one day after-all.

Everybody go to TJ now.

@Cristobal That's a good point.

I agree, the last thing we want on this website is homogeneity.

Whenever you start telling other people they should share your preferences, just think about what the outcome of that would be if you were to actually convince more people to share your preferences. If the outcome is desirable, go ahead. If its undesirable, better to leave it alone or even purposely not tell people how great you have it or more people could ruin it. In this instance, imagine every whoremonger in the US started going to HK every month? Millions or maybe even tens of millions of men pouring in all over the country to go to HK. I would feel very sorry for the girls employed there if that happened.

Classic example of people arguing against me, taking a sentence I said and butchering it so that they will look like they have a point. I didn't say most strip clubs are brothels, I said that people here have noted that strip clubs which are essentially brothels are not uncommon. A brothel is basically a legal extra club. Given that both strip clubs and brothels however involve men paying women money to do things that give them sexual gratification, means they are practically the same. The only difference is the menu of options for achieving this.

You guys should read this blogpost this guy made. https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/08/31/radicalizing-the-romanceless/ Btw, because I know you guys well, "section I" or "section 1" is supposed to be satirical which you will find out later in the argument of the blogpost. The "criticism" of the person working minimum wage jobs is not the author's criticism but rather a point of comparison to the kind of criticism lonely guys receive. Unfortunately, the author did not make this fact very clear until close to the end of the blogpost, but I thought I should tell you ahead of time so you don't read it and get frustrated.

"I liked the whorehouse as a novelty. It is a completely different experience though. Comparing a whorehouse to a SC is like apples to oranges." No its really not. A whorehouse is basically an ultra high mileage strip club. After-all, many strip clubs as you guys have noted are essentially brothels.

@IceyLoco Its $350-1,000 an hour. Not per night, that's the major difference. Those numbers are practically unheard of in stripping. That's more like a "per night" thing. That being said, $500 is definitely high end. I won't pay for anything above $400 an hour. Quite frankly, $400 an hour is pushing it. I especially wouldn't be inclined to accept those kind of prices from an escort working independently because there's not much justification for setting the price that high. If she was working for an agency it would make sense but if the escort is working independently, then $300 is perfectly reasonable. There's no reason to set it at $400 or $500 an hour as an independently working escort unless you live in NYC or LA.

Richmond clubs are actually pretty decent. Bit expensive but they're all two way touching. Paper moon and pure pleasure usually has pretty hot girls working.

"Even when the man is unmarried, he does not appreciate being left smelling like bodily fluids, cheap Bath & Body Works lotions, strong perfumes, or having other tangible evidence about his rendesvouz with you." That is not true of me lol. I absolutely love having my clothes smell like a girl's perfume so I can smell it in the car while I'm driving home and remember the night I just had.

haha @Nidan that's cute. I didn't understand sarcasm either until I think I was 13. From my experience, my "symptoms" are not nearly as obvious or clear as they were when I was a little kid. This has the benefit in that people can't usually tell just by interacting with you that you are on the spectrum but it can also have the opposite effect in that because its not immediately obvious that you're on the spectrum, people might not be as understanding if you're not "obviously" autistic. Moreso, I don't know if I would say somebody becomes "less autistic" its more a matter of learning better how to blend in or understanding people better the more experiences you have. You also start to become conscious of stimming behaviors that you weren't really noticing before and stop doing them. Although I still find myself fidgeting with my hands and fingers a lot and when I talk to a pretty girl, and I have an extremely hard time making eye contact with them. @IceyLoco I have two dogs at home and they are adorable but I don't have a dog at college because it'd be unfair to take my dogs with me there and because I will be graduating in a month, if I get a dog I'll have to introduce the new dog to my dogs back home and that could make everything very weird. I also think that dogs are very expressive emotionally so its much easier to pick up on a dog's emotions than a human's. Although I have a hard time making eye contact with humans, its very easy for me to make eye contact with dogs.

That was directed to GoVikings.

^Does this happen to be the case at Paper Moon downtown? Cause that's where the girl I was talking about in my post was, I just kind of assumed she wasn't a dancer but maybe that assumption was misplaced, in which case, I really should have asked her if she was a dancer lol.

Dogs are amazing creatures. I feel like my mood is instantly lifted whenever I see a dog.

Fuck you Icey lol.

I one time went into a club where the girl at the front desk was actually the hottest girl there lol. She was wearing a miniskirt with a slit going up the sides that revealed more of her thigh and she was seated on a chair with her legs up but also positioned her body to the side even though she was looking forward. I'd say she was like an 8 in looks. It is a REAL SHAME that she wasn't one of the dancers lol.