Adding My Two Cents (LOL)
[QUOTE=Mogwai;2971800]Darwinism is all about natural selection and survival of the fittest, isn't it? It wouldn't surprise me if people who bareback all the time, built up more resistance against STDs than people who never or only occasionally bareback. Just my two cents, I don't know if there is any scientific evidence for this.
...[/QUOTE]I don't think there is any scientific evidence of this. And the lack of it suggests we can forget acquiring any "herd immunity" here on ISG (or within the red light communities). 555.
How times have changed. I remember 40 years ago on Soi Cowboy seeing Dr. Condom sponsor "street fairs" with maybe 5 or 6 informational booths right in the middle of the soi. They were complete with "games" in which every "competitor" would get a free condom. Occasionally the good doctor would enter a go go bar with his assistants and hand out condoms to the girls. Some would blow them up and bat them around like balloons. Covering up was solely a decision made by the customer. Interestingly, in the 70's, getting a blow job could be a challenge; now seems the girls would rather suck than fuck.
Back to regular programming.
Sam.
Wish we had a clearer ruling on that
[QUOTE=HorseTrader;2971765]Some of it yes and some of it no. The forum rules prohibit safe sex flaming or safe sex bragging in the general discussion threads, that flaming can be done in the safe sex threads. It's OK to mention your experiences with or without condoms, but it cannot be the main focus of a report.
[URL]http://www.internationalsexguide.nl/forum/custompages.php?pageid=ForumRules[/URL][/QUOTE]It is interesting that the "it cannot be the main focus of the report" admonition appears only in the [B]No Safe Sex Complaints[/B] section of the General Rules and Posting Guidelines and, imo, quite clearly only in reference such complaints and "safe sex taunting":
[QUOTE]Specifically, references to having sex without a condom may be made only by incidental reference and shall not be the focus of any report. [B]Such[/b] "safe sex taunting" reports will be deleted without comment.[/QUOTE]The highlighting of the word "Such" was by me.
I would argue that the thing being said may be made only by incidental reference and shall not be the focus of any report is specifically "safe sex complaints and safe sex taunting" and not any reference to, say, where and how to get as much BBFSCIP as possible, even if the question and reference to BBFSCIP is the total focus of a report.
That is no different than when a question and the total focus of a report is about surcharges for Anal, Threesomes or Lesbian action. Reports on those topics, the total focus being on them or not, are acceptable but a report that is focused on complaining about those activities or taunting other members for engaging in them is not acceptable.
That is how I read it anyway unless there is a new ruling and clarification of it by the board authorities.
Man is part of nature last time I looked.
[QUOTE=Mogwai;2971800]Darwinism is all about natural selection and survival of the fittest, isn't it? It wouldn't surprise me if people who bareback all the time, built up more resistance against STDs than people who never or only occasionally bareback. Just my two cents, I don't know if there is any scientific evidence for this.
And beside that: it wasn't nature that came up with the condom, was it? LOL.[/QUOTE]Obviously, we both have a bias, I was thinking more along the line of their extinction as a specie like the Dodo bird.
Lots of Info Here Confirmed by a Nana Plaza Dancer
Happened to see an interesting YouTube video that featured a gal said to be a dancer at a Nana Plaza go go bar. The interviewer asked her a lot of questions and her answers confirmed much that is written on this board. If you have 20+ minutes to kill (and are interested) you can view it here: [URL]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PBz1TGaur24[/URL]
Sam.
P.S. I posted this to the BKK forum, as the information is BKK-related, though I suspect much / most of the info presented would apply to other RLDs in other cities.
Regarding a couple of potentially misleading words:
I think there are two words in the Posting Guidelines section of the ISG General Rules regarding posts about Safe Sex or BBFS / BBFSCIP that can sometimes lead to a misunderstanding of the Guidelines on it because they are somewhat awkwardly placed and used.
[QUOTE=EihTooms;2971749][b]General Rules[/b]
According to ISG General Rules and Posting Guidelines, talk about BBFS, BBFSCIP or any other sexual activity between consenting adult men and women is perfectly acceptable and appropriate in this and other general discussion threads.
What is NOT acceptable is for Members to criticize other Members for not following what they consider to be safe sex procedures. They may do so only in the Safe Sex Thread.
[B]Posting Guidelines[/B]
[URL]http://www.internationalsexguide.nl/forum/custompages.php?pageid=ForumRules[/URL]
[b]No Safe Sex Complaints[/b]
Forum Members wishing to criticize other Members for not following what they consider to be safe sex procedures may do so only in the Safe Sex Thread. Members may not comment upon, criticize or confront other members on this subject in the general discussion threads. Any such "safe sex complaints" posted in the general discussion threads will be deleted without comment. However...
[B]No Safe Sex Bragging[/b]
Members may not repeatedly post about or otherwise taunt other Members regarding their refusal to follow safe sex procedures. Specifically, references to having sex without a condom may be made only by incidental reference and shall not be the focus of any report. Such "safe sex taunting" reports will be deleted without comment.
If you want to criticize another member for not following what you consider to be safe sex practices, then send him a PM.
It does no good to criticize members for not following what other members may consider to be safe sex practices for the following reasons:
It never serves to change any one's behavior.
It's a disincentive for members to contribute.
It almost always leads to arguments.
It provides a "cover" for Serial Antagonists to provoke other members.
To address the usual arguments:
If a guy wants to engage in sex without using a condom, that's his risk and his business.
If a girl wants to engage in sex without using a condom, that's her risk and her business.
If YOU want to protect yourself from either or both of the aforementioned parties, then YOU should use a condom for sex all the time and thus YOU will be protected from the allegedly unsafe sex practices of the other parties.[/QUOTE]Those two potentially misleading words are "However" and "[B]Bragging[/B]" as seen in the quote above between the first and second paragraph of the Posting Guidelines.
The placement of the word "However" suggests that an opposite or "on the other hand" admonition is about to follow the previous admonition. But that is not what follows. What follows is simply more of the same admonissions to post [B]No Safe Sex Complaints[/B] or "safe sex taunts" in the general discussion threads such as the Bangkok Reports and Pattaya Reports threads.
And the word "[B]Bragging[/B]" in the very next topic headline, [B]No Safe Sex Bragging[/B], that does immediately follow that word "However" is misleading because for many if not most men we expect to hear "bragging" from someone experiencing lots of BBFSCIP from many different women rather than from someone who rarely or never experiences it.
But read the entire section again and you will see the latter is exactly what that Guideline is about; admonishing Members not to "brag" about how wonderful they are to always engage in safe or safer sex, always wearing a condom for FS and perhaps other sex acts and lording it over the rest of us not doing so and for being sinful slackers.
To be clear, that Guideline is saying don't "brag" about engaging in safe or safer sex.
In the past some of us have been attacked by other Members for supposedly violating the ISG General Rules or Posting Guidelines for "bragging" about getting BBFSCIP with this or that lady, always preferring and negotiating for it etc as mentioned in our reports when in fact that admonission is not about that at all. It is about the exact opposite of that. The attackers had misread and / or misunderstood the Guideline about it.
Once we put those two words aside and not be misled or distracted by them, we see that every sentence in the Posting Guidelines on the topic of Safe Sex is telling Members who don't want or don't like others experiencing BBFSCIP or engaging in any sex act they deem to be unsafe or unwise to Shut The Fuck Up about it in the general discussion thread and keep your opinion and philosophy about that to yourselves, especially with regard to devoting the main focus of a post about it. The only possible exception being some comment in passing that is not the main point and focus of your report or post.
Otherwise, the Guideline makes it quite clear to take your "we should all wear condoms and be safe" opinion and philosophy to the Safe Sex Thread and keep it out of the general discussion threads such as the Bangkok Reports and Pattaya Reports threads.