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These Models Know How To Keep Each Other Warm And Cozy

These Models Know How To Keep Each Other Warm And Cozy

1Cozy5-Hawai-2XistThis Underwear Expert exclusive shoot by Jerrad Matthew is the first of a three-part “Warm Up” series featuring models Callum Aylott and Josh Stevenson in thermal clothing. Retreating from the world and its inclement weather, the men wear styles of underwear and thermal clothing that provide high amounts of coverage through a single layer — the ideal comfort for staying in bed with a cuddle buddy. By making the one layer count, the models are dressed appropriately for going nowhere in their thermal clothing.

Technically speaking, onesies offer the most full-coverage, but this photo shoot features two onesies, each with different levels of coverage. The Rufskin onesie worn by Josh (the stud with tattoos) is styled like a tank, and thus more breathable than the American Apparel onesie. The American Apparel onesie is designed with long sleeves and modeled by Callum (the cute ginger). Of course, if you’re fortunate enough to have a cuddle buddy, a long pair of boxers, say by Jor or HAWAI, is all you really need in your thermal clothing wardrobe. Your cuddle buddy should make up the extra warmth.

You can see more of this photo shoot, and for more information on the looks modeled, by going to The Underwear Expert.

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Photo Credit: Jerrad Matthew for The Underwear Expert

 

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Kiss & Tell: These Photos Of Same Love Speak A Thousand Words

Kiss & Tell: These Photos Of Same Love Speak A Thousand Words

largesq_15nazir007-8660bThe photos keep on pouring into the GayCities Kiss Contest. Kissing in undies, snogging at the beach, locking lips while performing a hand stand, dressed as Dracula at a club, in front of a serene lake. Whatever.

It’s all there and more in the gallery of GayCities Kiss Contest submitted by GayCities members.

Not only do you get to show the world your love and affection. You also get a chance to win the ultimate romantic prize: a San Francisco vacation, including a two-night stay in the Marriott Marquis 2,000-square-foot Presidential Suite.

So join the fun and enter your own images by  Feb. 28 for a chance to win.

Gay/straight, black/white, boy/boy/girl/girl/boy/girl, young/old, it don’t matter. We just wanna see more lovin’.

Check out the Kiss pics below. Don’t be shy, boys & girls, submit it.

 

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Chris Bull

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Does This Man’s Wife Deserve To Know His Kinky Gay Adult Film Past?

Does This Man’s Wife Deserve To Know His Kinky Gay Adult Film Past?

Screen Shot 2015-02-26 at 9.44.23 PMHere’s a cautionary tale whether you’re gay or straight, or as our protagonist seems to be, ehh a little bit of both.

We’ll have to travel back to a more rudimentary time, when logging onto the internet was a process that meant enduring some truly horrific noises, Nintendo 64 was the latest and greatest in gaming technology, and “Tumblr porn” would have meant you had a thing for acrobats. That last point, now that we mention it, doesn’t sound too bad.

The year is 1996, and Jimmy (ed. note: we don’t know his name so we’re going to call him Jimmy, just go with it) is a fresh-faced 20-year-old working a dead end job doing security at a gated community. It was the mid-’90s after all — if you didn’t have a McMansion, how would people know you were important?

Once night Jimmy got an innocent sounding offer — provide some additional security for a “house party,” make some extra scratch. Not a bad deal.

He quickly realized that the party was actually a cover for a professional porn shoot. What gave it away? Probably all the naked people having sex in front of cameras, but who’s to say really? Jimmy did his job without gawking too much, and was rewarded for his discretion with a regular gig.

And like a true Hollywood fairytale, a director plucked him from obscurity. “Hey kid!” we imagine him saying, cigar muffling his consonants. “You wanna be in the pictures?”

As Jimmy tells it:

“I was 20, looked about 14 under the right conditions, (clean shaven, and in right clothes). He asked if I did acting, told me if I was willing to give it a try he’d pay me $1000/day, I made $200/wk at my current job. He sweet talked me, $1000 to have sex with a beautiful woman. I had only had sex with two girls at that point, and I told him that. He seemed happy to know I was, ‘fresh.’”

Well he did it, though to his initial shock he’d been cast in a “mother/son” incest fantasy. Still, the money was right.

After four days of filming, the work suddenly stopped. But Jimmy had caught the bug (no, not chlamydia). He was hungry for more, and after a month of radio silence, contacted the director seeking more work.

“He said he didn’t have any more work like that but if I was willing to try something else he could get me some work. I said I’d try anything, I should have clarified that. He got me a job, a one day shoot on the other side of the state he said they were eager to work with me so I drove over there.”

It’s easy to laugh at this point; you know he meant gay porn, don’tcha Jimmy boy? But internet porn wasn’t what it is today. If you weren’t actively seeking something out, it was a lot easier to remain oblivious.

Jimmy arrived at the shoot and said no way. The director asked what it would take, and Jimmy came up with $5,000. “How about $2,500?” asked the director. They settled on $3,000. Jimmy wasn’t a great negotiator.

“I drove home $3000 richer, with a very sore asshole. After that I had work almost every weekend for the next year and a half. I finally stopped when I met a girl and figured she would never love a guy who fucked more guys than she had. I’ve never told my wife, I was her second and I have no idea how many people I’ve slept with, onscreen and off.

Next month is our 18th anniversary.”

Despite the obvious moral questions, he’s come away from the experience learning one solid life lesson that other straight guys would be wise to consider:

“I’m not gay, but gay sex can still feel really good. Prostate stimulation feels awesome.”

Now 19 years later, Jimmy doesn’t know if he should continue holding onto his secret as tightly as he must have clenched that first day bottoming. Perhaps that’s why he posted such an elaborate anonymous confession.

He worries (for good reason) that his wife, who he describes as “very reserved,” would freak out upon discovering that her husband had budding porn career.

Does Jimmy have a responsibility to tell her? He says he only quit the industry four months before his wedding. What happens if/when his wife finds out another way?

Or can the past really stay in the past?

“I don’t really see sex as gay and straight. There is just sex. At least my remorse has fueled a desire to make it up to my wife, even after all these years I still feel I owe her for what I did. I try to be the best husband I can.”

Dan Tracer

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New York Is a Leader in the Fight Against Sexual Assault on College Campuses

New York Is a Leader in the Fight Against Sexual Assault on College Campuses
Sex assault and rape are huge problems on our campuses in New York and across the country. Indeed, evidence suggests that the information gap in this area adds to the problem and proves to be highly misleading for students and families.

Although all colleges and universities that receive federal funding are already required to publish data on campus crimes pursuant to the federal Clery Act, spotty compliance leads to a distorted snapshot of crime and safety on campuses and results in a limited ability to compare such data across schools.

The truth is, states don’t have to wait for the federal government to act — they have the ability to take this on themselves and, given the enormity of the problem, we cannot wait any longer.

That’s why Governor Andrew Cuomo is tackling this issue head on — he is calling for policy changes in all colleges across the State, making New York a leader in combatting sexual assault and rape on college campuses.

In his Executive Budget, Governor Cuomo presented a comprehensive plan to protect the safety and rights of all students attending college in New York. The proposal codifies a sexual assault prevention and response policy previously adopted by the State University of New York, applying it to all colleges and universities — public and private — in New York State.

He also launched the “Enough is Enough” campaign to highlight the importance of this policy to help ensure all New York’s college and university students are protected from sexual violence while at school.

The policy includes four critical components, which give more power and protections to the victims:

  • A statewide definition of affirmative consent;
  • A statewide amnesty policy to ensure students who are victims of sexual violence can report them with immunity for certain campus policy violations;
  • A Sexual Violence Victim/Survivor Bill of Rights to be distributed to every student, and confidential reporting protocols to ensure colleges use best practices when handling a case of on-campus sexual violence that provides both care and respect to the victim;
  • Comprehensive training requirements for administrators, staff, and students, including at new student orientations.

These measures will ensure that all of New York’s college and university students have a very clear understanding of consent, their rights as victims, and the safeguards in place to keep them protected.

By enabling students to complete assessments of their campus life and environment, we are giving them the power to provide more accurate information about what is actually taking place on our campuses during the day and at night. It also will provide better data to make more robust comparisons of all colleges and universities in the State – an extremely helpful tool for current and prospective students and their families.

We all know that drafting and passing a piece of legislation is the first step, but it’s the implementation of the law that is key. With the passage of this proposal, each college and university in New York State will be required to comply with its provisions and submit the anonymous campus surveys as proof of campus happenings, or risk losing State funding. They will also be required to make the policy clear to all students, faculty, administration and the general public.

Sexual assault, domestic violence, dating violence and stalking affect thousands of college students in New York State and across the nation. In addition to the trauma caused by such violence, many victims drop out of school, experience difficulty working, and see promising opportunities cut short in the aftermath of their incidents.

We must do more to protect our students from on-campus sexual assaults, and providing students with increased protections as well as ensuring more accurate reporting are vital to achieving that goal. Governor Cuomo’s legislation ensures that students and their families have access to important information and helps foster an environment of respect, safety and awareness on our campuses.

Not only will these policies make New York a leader in fighting sex assault, but they will also provide a legislative template for every state in the nation to follow – with this, we can stand up and say that all campuses must and will become places free of sexual violence.

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Two New Studies Find PrEp Reduces The Risk Of HIV Infection By 86 Percent

Two New Studies Find PrEp Reduces The Risk Of HIV Infection By 86 Percent

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The days of taking Truvada once-a-day may soon be over.

Past research has claimed that daily use of PrEP can dramatically lower one’s chances of being infected with HIV. Now, two new studies support those claims, but one of the studies takes it a step further.

500 gay men in the U.K. participated in a study retest the effectiveness of taking the standard, once-a-day dose of PrEP. Researchers found this strategy lowered one’s risk for HIV infection by 86 percent.

400 gay men participated in second study jointly conduced in France and Canada and looked at what happened when PrEP was taken on a less regimented schedule. Rather than taking a pill everyday, they took two pills between 2 and 24 hours prior to having sex with another man, followed by another two pills 24 and 48 hours after sex. The second study found the exact same degree of protection — 86 percent — as the standard, once-a-day regime.

“These results are extremely exciting and show PrEP is highly effective at preventing HIV infection in the real world,” said Sheena McCormack, Professor of Clinical Epidemiology at the MRC Clinical Trials Unit at UCL, and Chief Investigator of the U.K. study. “Concerns that PrEP would not work so well in the real world were unfounded. These results show there is a need for PrEP, and offer hope of reversing the epidemic among men who have sex with men.”

But don’t get too excited yet, fellas.

In a statement released by the CDC, Dr. Jonathan Mermin said that it’s still too soon for people to completely abandon the once-a-day regimen, saying more research needs to be conducted.

Mermin noted that the new strategy was only tested on men who were having sex an average of 10 times per month with eight partners every two months, which means that some of them were taking as many as eight pills per week, exceeding the once-per-day dosage.

“Researchers do not yet know if this regimen will work among MSM who have sex less frequently and would therefore be taking PrEP less often,” Mermin said.

Still, the new results are encouraging.

“I am immensely pleased and overwhelmed, a little emotional even,” said study participant Stefan Laros. “[F]or the first time in 30 years I feel there is hope for people like me, who struggle with consistent condom use, but who want to protect themselves — and just as importantly — their sex partners against HIV infection.”

Related stories:

QUESTION: Is It Finally The Right Time For HIV Negative Guys To Start PrEP?

Ben Patrick Johnson Blames Larry Kramer’s Resistance To PrEP On “Generational Gap”

Is Truvada As Effective At Preventing HIV Infection As We Thought? Maybe not.

Graham Gremore

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