@lololulu19 said in Why is porn blocked on the internet?:
Just because we don't LIKE something doesn't mean we have the right to eliminate it
WiFi in a public place is a service owned by that place (e.g., a restaurant). They're paying for it, and they "have the right" to make the rules.
If someone wants to make their own rules, they can use their own connection to the internet--such as through a mobile phone.
@geobear40 said in Straight porn vs gay porn, your thoughts:
They are both overly scripted. First they do oral then this position than that position and finally the cum shot.
Amen to that...and in male-male porn, the first guy to suck is almost always the bottom. (It doesn't happen that way in my bedroom.)
@adonismix said in Straight porn vs gay porn, your thoughts:
I think it's either that, or an issue where the audience (primarily heterosexual and male) feels as if a more attractive man is some sort of competition.
I agree. Porn is a business, after all, and the customer base for male-female porn is overwhelmingly male...males who don't want to be threatened by guys with better bodies, bigger cocks, etc.
Conversely, many straight women like male-male porn: They're not as much interested in watching women, but they like watching guys...either solo or paired up.
@bear1515 said in How often do you consume porn & do you think you're addicted?:
like most things [porn] can be addictive, and if you feel that you are neglecting important stuff to watch porn, or it's affecting you negatively, then there's a good chance you're addicted and you should work on reducing it.
An addiction to porn is not unlike addiction to alcohol or drugs. There's a useful self-assessment test at https://www.psycom.net/am-i-an-alcoholic-alcohol-use-disorder. This is targeted at alcohol addiction, but one can substitute "watching porn" for "drinking alcohol" and have a reasonably reliable test.
There isn't, though, a direct correlation between consuming a lot of porn (or alcohol) and being addicted to it. Someone could watch porn for several hours per day and not be addicted, and conversely someone could look at porn for a few minutes every few days and be addicted.
A friend of mine is a therapist specialising in addiction treatment. He has an even simpler self-assessment test than the one linked above: He asks clients who are questioning whether they're addicted to something to abstain from it completely for two weeks. If they can do this successfully, it's likely that they're not addicted. If such abstinence is a struggle, then it's possible/likely that they are addicted, and further assessment is indicated.
Nothing in this post should be construed as medical advice. Readers are urged to consult a licensed health professional for specific guidance.
@bi4smooth said in Option to turn off Trans content?:
If there is content on the site you don't want to see, there are ALREADY filters on the browse and search pages - learn to use them.
Hey folks, let's calm down. We don't need yet another anti-trans rant in the forum.
As @bi4smooth reminds us, we can turn searching for trans material in our search preferences:
Untick that box and you should be happy.
@bc22 Let me try this with an uploaded image:
which should show up above.
I don't think it's anything sinister or complicated:
Public spaces: McDickalds or Starfucks probably doesn't want somebody at one of their tables with an orgy on the screen.
Bandwidth: Watching porn consumes a lot of bandwidth--it's a large percentage of internet traffic as it is.
"Public WiFi" is the private property of whoever is letting you use it, so they can make whatever rules they want.
(Pubic WiFi would be something entirely different.)
My grandfather didn't see that well, which explains why he fell into it.
When I die, I want to go peacefully in my sleep like my grandfather…not screaming in horror like the people riding in his car.
Most accidents happen in the home...so for heaven's sake, don't drive your car in the house.
My mechanic said I should use more lubrication, so I asked him to bend over the car so we could try it out.
@twinkerzzz said in Why are porn star ID request posts being deleted ?:
Do / should requests to ID a particular porn performer constitute an 'upload request' ? Surely an upload request is different to an ID request ?
Clearly an ID request is different from an upload request. If you want to find that information, a good resource is PornBaseCentral, at https://pbc.xxx/wiki/Main_Page . That said, I think people should use judgment in how they use the ID information they get--as much as we might enjoy a performer's on screen activity, we need to let their private lives remain private if that's their desire.
Also just out of interest why is the new rule concerning upload requests in existence ?
Nobody has answered this, but I think it's because the site wants to protect itself: The forums and the torrent pages are public--one doesn't need a username/password to read the material, only to post or download torrents. That means anyone can see this stuff, including copyright owners. If someone requests an upload of "Tasty Twinks from Transylvania"*, a copyright owner could see that his material is being requested and thus can watch for it and potentially take action if it shows up.
.* I'm using that film name as a placeholder, not as a covert request. I don't think that title exists. If it does, it's made by the same company as "Bushy Bears from Boston," "Hairy Hunks from Huntsville," :Filthy Fratboys from Florida," and, from their straight division, "Naughty Nurses of Nashville." You get the idea...
@frostycab said in Option to turn off Trans content?:
this train-wreck of a thread.
Such an elegant expression; I may use it myself some time.
I thought that if I answered the OP's question, things would settle down. Perhaps the Gentle Moderator could even lock this thread.
@john32123666 Requests for a re-seed are permitted if one uses the "Request Re-Seed" button on the torrent page:
Those requests, and requests for a new upload, aren't permitted in the Forum.
...for free WiFi.
I imagine that other kinds of "connections" with him would also be pleasant.
@pupkinvasya said in Official Social Media Accounts of Porn Personalities:
perhaps revealing the identity of the actor can harm him
I agree. In the US, with a name and approximate age, it's not hard to find where a person lives, works etc. I hope people who get this information are responsible with it. If models want to keep their porn life (present or past) in the closet, that's their right...although that can be hard to do.
@krad3434 One way to help a ratio is to download a new torrent and then select only a few (maybe 10% by volume) of the files to actually be downloaded to your computer. (This is easy to do with uTorrent by unticking boxes; it's probably similar with other clients.)
This way you'll be among the first to get that material, and then be a "source" for other downloaders who are likely trying to grab all the files. It also increases the probability that you'll be left with something playable if the torrent is taken down quickly.
The only disadvantage to this strategy is that a torrent for which you haven't downloaded all the files will still take up one of your download slots, even if you have all the stuff that you selected. After the initial surge of people downloading from that torrent, you might want to delete it if you have a small number of allowable slots.
@OKCancel-0 said in This really is a town in Sweden:
Made me think of a place in Austria that used to be called Fucking
See https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Tn2Yf8jjuM for more on that.
@pupkinvasya said in Official Social Media Accounts of Porn Personalities:
@eobox91103
Well, Club1821 is difficult to consider as a porn career, it's more of a casual side job.
Very true. I don't think this guy--or many of their "models"--did any other on-camera stuff. (A few of them did some "Hot Sessions" videos, but not many.) From what I've read, the guy who ran that site was a middle-aged creep who liked to get 18+ guys to undress for him. He also liked to give them hand jobs/blow jobs if they'd let him.
And, please tell, being a pornmodel is a positive point in the resume or rather not :).
It wasn't on his CV. I thought he looked familiar during the interview, but I only confirmed his earlier "work" when his photo was posted in the firm's directory, and I could see a small birthmark on his face that lined up with the Club 1821 stuff. I think he was/is quite straight. Even if he had been "playful," I don't do that with people from the work environment. As the wise old rabbi once said, "Never put your meat where you get your bread."
And yet, the name in club1821 and the real one are the same?
No, he used a stage name with Club 1821. The name he used with us was real, because we had to do all sorts of background checks and tax filing.
I can't address some of the more technical aspects of settings and such, but one technique that works quite well is to find a torrent with many files (freeleech or not) and then just select a few of them for download--perhaps 10% of the total volume). Those will often download quickly, and then as other users are clawing at the system to get the whole content, many will be directed to me for the 10% that I have.. This works best when there are only a few seeders vs. many leechers, such as in a newly uploaded (or newly freeleeched) torrent.
It's not unusual to get, over time, a ratio of 30-50 for such a torrent, which I keep seeding even if I'm not interested in the content. For example, as I type this, there's a newly uploaded torrent called "Tom fucks a nerd," that has only one seeder (likely the uploader) and so far three leechers (likely to be more soon). There are 296 files in this torrent, and if I set my client to get just 30 of them, my ratio on that torrent will be huge within a few days.
The only potential drawback to this approach is that the system will count this torrent against your "maximum number of simultaneous downloads" limit since you haven't downloaded all of the material. If that's an issue in your case, you can delete the torrent from your system after a couple of weeks after bumping up your ratio,
@frostycab said in Idea to greatly eliminate incomplete uploads / seeding problems - FEEDBACK PLEASE!:
torrent sites are only able to operate based on the fact that they don't host any copyrighted material.
This is absolutely on target.
Case closed.
@valldelxeno said in When did you lose your virginity?:
@eobox91103 What's your body count then, if you've made up for it?
Personally I feel like mine is kind of low, I'm 28 and my body count is about 50...but almost all of that sex was compressed into a year. Can't wait to get back to that lifestyle...
When I was 28, my count was less than ten...due to both a late start and needing to study 26 hours/day in graduate school. When I hit 30 I thought I was "over the hill," but it was quite the opposite: I had more time for the gym, as well as my own place for "entertaining." I probably went ten years with one encounter per week. Do the math on that, and it's in the middle three digits.
I'm neither proud nor ashamed of that--it's just something that happened. I had a "visiting associate" post in a city with a very gay neighbourhood, and it wasn't unusual to bring a guy home that I met at the gym so we could finish what we started in the showers.
I can understand a feeling that one might have "lost time by coming out late," as I very much felt that way myself. (I do some volunteer work with a youth organisation, and there are kids coming out at 14--or earlier--these days.) But everyone is on their own timetable, and at the risk of sounding like a trite greeting card, everyone's schedule is exactly right for them. The current pandemic has put a damper on things, but I prefer to be cautious. I'm skeptical if some guy says that his dick is long enough that we could fuck even while distanced by two meters.
It's staged. See https://pbc.xxx/wiki/Category:Czech_Gay_Fantasy_models for a listing of some of the models that worked it.
Too bad it's not real; it would be fun to visit.