Comments by Alexfox

Hiking/backpacking/rafting in southern Utah and northern Arizona. There’s enough weird and beautiful scenery in the area to make you feel like you’ve visited planets across the galaxy.

I used to feel a little sorry for a fellow university student I once knew named Mary Fuchardt.

If you’re going to follow strippers around on the road, be careful: Four Strippers Kill A Man After He Helped Them Change Their Flat Tire https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/four-strippers-kill-man-helped-112059532.html

There used to be a beautiful big Monterey cypress behind my place. Eventually it got too big and was taken down. I was sad to see it go, but since that time my annual spring affliction of itchy eyes and sneezing fits is a thing of the past. Over a third of the Japanese population suffers from the same cedar/cypress pollen allergy.

Try: https://jamirodman.com/sex-industry-dictionary-acronyms-glossary-lingo-codes-terminology/

For those not aware of the internet archive, deleted web pages often have a lingering presence in cyberspace. The glossary, for example, is here (scroll down to the bottom and click on the link): https://web.archive.org/web/20230307101835/https://app.tuscl.net/

For those not aware of the internet archive, deleted web pages often have a lingering presence in cyberspace. The glossary, for example, is here (scroll down to the bottom and click on the link): https://web.archive.org/web/20230307101835/https://app.tuscl.net/

“Name one other person besides Sir Edmund Hillary who ever climbed Mt. Everest. You can't.” I think lots of people are aware that Tenzing Norgay was his partner. I’m also familiar with Unseold and Hornbein, the Americans who did the first traverse. Unseold eventually got killed on Rainier. As for the Half Dome cables, I’ve done them 3-4 times and as someone without vertigo didn’t think it was a big deal. I had to do the same bypass of a petrified individual. Keep 2 hands on the cables during all of your movements and you’re in good shape. A narrow cliffside trail without protection is another story.

Let’s consider the general situation of a PL LDKing without prior consent, and the girl getting upset. There are two basic questions. 1. How did she know the PL LDKed? A) He told her B) A wet spot appeared C) She felt it 2. Why was she upset? D) She didn’t want to be exposed to a potentially dangerous secretion E) She felt the PL got more than he paid for A & B are both totally under the PL’s control. Regarding B, one solution would be to add an impermeable layer under the pants. Say, a 3-ply sheet consisting of paper towel, plastic wrap and paper towel, stapled together. Or wear sufficiently thick pants, empty the prostate before heading to the club, or whatever. C could be solved by asking the dancer to shift position at the appropriate time. Objection D is legit, but obviated by solving B and if necessary, describing the protective measure(s) employed. Objection E is not legit, in my view.

I’m very positively impressed when a dancer’s tits get hard and stay hard for a while. Of course, I do what I can to facilitate that.

Sorry, left out my Desmond Morris link: https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Naked_Ape/FB5Ddqv8nO0C?hl=en&gbpv=1&bsq=hemispherical

This campaign is based on the premise that society and the law should be as gender-neutral and free of "misogynistic double standards" as possible and thus "there is no reason that a woman’s breast ought to be inherently offensive, when a man’s chest isn’t.": https://www.vogue.com/article/free-the-nipple-instagram Additionally, it is claimed that "Breasts are not inherently about sex. Their primary function is to feed babies.": https://www.cnn.com/2023/03/16/opinions/berlin-topless-swimming-free-the-nipple-thomas-ctrp/index.html The reaction to a certain Instagram post of Florence Pugh's: https://media.glamour.com/photos/62cb22498180be2a8606f72b/master/w_1600%2Cc_limit/1407830573 was cited as an example of overreaction. CNN also notes that in Germany has had "...  a more relaxed mindset around nudity in general. Freikoerperkultur, (or FKK), which translates to 'free body culture,' is a national movement that dates back to the late 19th century. ... According to Gregor Gysi ... the 'pornographic gaze' of the West has spoiled what was once a treasured pastime." It's hard not to sympathize with the evenhanded and well-intentioned approach of "free the nipple".  The claims above, however, ignore a basic biological difference: female boobs and tits have several biological functions that men's corresponding body parts lack.  Lactation is only one of them. Human breast tissue is composed of 90% adipose tissue by volume: https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fonc.2020.01554/full#:~:text=Breast%20tissue%20is%20composed%20by,and%20adipose This fat is unrelated to lactation and is not present in other primates.  Its presence tends to give human boobs a protruberant, hemispherical shape.  The zoologist Desmond Morris noted many years ago that the shape of human breasts appears to have evolved to mimic the shape of the buttocks, and thus to serve as a means of attracting male attention and arousing male desire from the front, which would be advantageous for primates that stand erect and communicate face to face. Interestingly, this signaling function does not appear to be restricted entirely to males, or even to humans: https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/PENINSULA-Ex-worker-is-third-to-sue-over-2727427.php It's likely true that more frequent exposure to boobs and nipples would lead to some degree of desensitization.  To what degree that would be a benefit is debatable.

Your precautions should be helpful. However, look at STD spread from the standpoint of the disease organism. It wants to spread as quickly and widely as possible. Thus, to the extent behavior like yours is common, there will be selection pressure for a disease to evolve into an asymptomatically transmissible form. STDs that can sometimes infect in this manner include HIV, herpes, HPV, hepatitis, chlamydia, gonorrhea and trichomoniasis. Consider that while your risk is proportional to the number of partners with whom you have unprotected contact, the risk to society in general from your behavior goes up exponentially with the number of such partners (because anyone you might infect can then infect others). Vaccines are available for hepatitis A & B as well as HPV. Testing is available for HIV (types 1 & 2), herpes (1 & 2), hepatitis (A, B & C), chlamydia, gonorrhea, trichomoniasis, syphilis and cervical HPV. Note, however, there is no test for oral HPV or male genital HPV. Regarding DATY (an activity that has been celebrated elsewhere recently), let's take the example of HPV-associated head and neck cancer. Oral HPV infection is detected in 3–5% of adolescents and 5–10% of adults. The risk of HPV-derived head and neck cancer increases 5-fold in those with six or more oral sex partners compared with those who haven't had oral sex. The average age of onset with this is 40-55, and white males are the demographic at greatest risk (women are more likely to have an HPV infection of the genitals than men). Between 2001 and 2017, the average yearly increase in HPV-driven oropharyngeal cancer in U.S. males was 2.7% (1.027 raised to the 16th power is a 53% increase.) HPV vaccination should provide substantial protection. However, HPV vaccination rates have been too low to reduce disease transmission. Future decades are expected to see a continuing increase in incidence, with a shift to an older white male population.