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Wow thanks for letting me know about the videos. Rare for jupiter guys to be on underwears lol. And eventhough the amount of boys are less, the amount of shirtless boys are higher than usual!

Given that the R number is based on number of infected cases against period of time, if a gov decided to reduce testing significantly due to overwhelmed by number of community spreading, the R number can go down instead of up, when in reality, the situation is worsening.

Critical parameters for accurate R numbers are ample testing, hence, if the country is not testing enough of its citizen, R number can be deceiving

Regarding nudity in gogobars, i dont think the boys have issues. Some might but i believe most dont. I mean, they do get naked during shows like big cock, sex show and jerk off shows. I do believe its the bar decision or police thats limit the boys from being naked?

Seems like the golden years of gogo and gay bars was marred and possibly kept alive by exploitation of underage offerings. Those bars that were closed due to clamped down of underage sex workers deserved to be closed, as well as those who frequent these bars. If current offerings is a direct result of thailand now free of underage sex workers, so be it. The more recent changes precovid is definitely due to availablity of apps such as grindr that makes hooking up, free or paid, much simpler, without middle man, and available 24/7. Having said this, everyone have access to the apps anywhere, even back home. What i dont have at home and went to thailand to find are the gogo bars, many selections of guys at the massage/bars, cheap overnight rate, plenty of delicous and cheap thai food. We do have massage here, usually cheaper, but none have the masseurs available in front of you for u to choose like arena. Another uniqueness about thailand is ST and LT, where in most places, the charges are by hours, and overnight is usually much higher (4-5 times higher than 1 hour charge) thus making overnight in thailand so cheap. Hence i tried as much as i can to get a LT when im in bangkok. Admittedly, its getting harder to get one that i like and also open to LT. Hoping my regulars will still be around when i can go there

Cases here have been reducing now. Around 1k cases a day and we have 30mil population. Highest was around 5k a day, when we were already back to nationwide lockdown, except for essential sectors, and limit of 10km raidus for getting necessities. We were relatively covid free before the state election in december last year, poor handling of this events resulted in current high cases.

Oh and i recalled that you vaccin needs to be within 3 month of your travel. Which is weird indeed.

No banned of social apps here, be it tinder or grindr lol.

The 7 days plan is for vaccinated person with negative test result. Not sure if its already implemented but 7 days is still 7 days too long for me.

Financial problem alone might not be the major reason for suicide but i believe the relationship and family problems are also due to or worsen by financial difficulty. If u lost a job as a sole provider to your family, and as a result, your partner leave u, that could be a trigger. Mental health issues needs a support system and often those will be your partner or family. Having issues with them could mean losing your support system, which can very well leads to suicide. Hope thai will survive the pandemic. On an unrelated news, I just watched the news that myanmar citizens are starting to seek refuge in border thailand cities. Made me think how this will affect thailand who are also suffering right now.

Sad news really. 6 asian women amongs the 8 killed. And the murdered even made an attempt to say that he is not racist and blame it to his sex addiction. The police even backing the murdered in a sympathetic tone saying he has a bad day.

Malaysia

It happened less than youd think. And mostly when it does, based on reports of those who were there, its mostly to arrest illegal immigrants or those who abuse their social pass to work. And this raids happened in both gay and straight places. The customers rarely gets charged. Now there are also raids with religious officers, but they can only charge muslims, and the sharia law here are only regarding those not covered by the civil law, and punishment were limited too. Yes it happens but not a hindrance for most of us here and its no where near brutal. The reality here, eventhough the soceity and gov dont want to face reality, if u go to any shopping malls, u can clearly see gays, trans, working in the many shops selling cosmetics and womens shoes/handbag. Go to the gym in the city, u can see gays working out, go to certain toilets in bus station or malls, u can see gays cruising. Ive been lucky enough to never face any raids myself, even though i used to regularly goes to the massage centers. But gay sauna and massage centers here are not so easy to find. It is often in shoplots upper stairs and no signs outside, locked door with cctv to see if u are customer or not. Lol

Gay life in malaysia goes on as usual. Since they are illegal anyway, u can still get massage, go to sauna, and covid restriction only happens outside the premises. So if i cant cross district previously, only those within the district can go to those places. Now, it has relaxed a bit. Almost all businesses can open including cinema, massage, gym etc. except night club and bars, which is only allowed to operate as restaurant. Legal Massage sop is strict, masseur will wear face shield, mask, and gloves and temperature check with apps check in made compulsory. The gay massage being illegal doesnt really follow any of this, but now only accept appointment, with no walk in. Some gay sauna limit the amount of people at a time with people wearing masks except when having fun. We cant travel freely yet, no interstate crossing allowed, but tour group tourism allowed on low risk states. One of my regular masseur did stop working due to covid. As far as i can tell, he hasnt working since december last year. He can afford to do this though, as i believe he has a local BF/daddy supporting him.

Sadly, no stimulus money here. There are gov helps but mostly for the poor. I guess i should be happy im not qualified, meaning i earn more than the national poverty line. My income is fixed but this year, no bonus nor salary increment. Usually this would be really bad as the bonus has been substantial, but since i cant travel, i have less needs for those bonus lol. Sad reality, still couldve saved those bonuses for upcoming trips but nope, no bonus this year. On the plus side, no mass retrenchment either. Having said this, i did buy a new laptop with external monitor mid last year, partly using my bonus last year. This year, no big purchases yet.

The few (very few) that i know travelled had to follow the quarantine requirement. Normal tourist travelling has been super limited here.

Many also went back to hometown and find work there. Essential industry like food agricuture etc. Of course the popular one with many regulars can occassionally asked from their regulars to send them money.

We had travel bubble with singapore before, sadly only for work. Vaccinated travel bubble sounds great

I dont have any on mine and im not a user of boytoy. Are u a member of both sites before it merges?

I believed when i research a bit on rules of having guests in laos before, there is a rule that prohibits local in foreigners hotel room. Whether it is still enforced, not entirely sure since i never tested it as i went there with a cambodian hehe.

Has been almost free last year october, then our politicians cant stop playing with matches, and now we are worst than most in asean except for indonesia and philliphines. Despite that, last week lockdown was relaxed and apart from observing SOP and inter-state travel ban, we are pretty much open. Of course international travel has been closed since march last year and no dates yet when itll be open. Vaccines has begun for medical frontliners and politicians as well as high risk teachers as school is now open as well. As for me, ill have to wait for second phase (should start in Apr) but there will be around 8mil people in this stage. Vaccine certificate/passport has been discussed and there is push for allowing interstatr travel between low risk states. As of now, only group travel tour is allowed. My state is still high risk though. Now, what ill do when im free. Right now, im pretty much free to go eat at restaurant with friends, go to movies, get massage, and hire money boy. Social distancing in movies and restaurants, masseur has to wear mask, protective face shield, gloves. Money boy is illegal here so no SOP, as long as you are not caught i guess lol. When im totally free, travel, travel, travel. I usally travel at least 3 times a year, more times if i count work travel as well, but for the past year and this year, ive not travelled at all, work and fun.

Thailand today halt the use of Astrazeneca vaccine over fear of blood clot. https://www.cnbc.com/2021/03/12/astrazeneca-covid-vaccine-suspended-in-some-countries-over-blood-clot-fears.html

While it is moving in the right direction, any amount of quarantine still deter normal tourist to come. 7 days is definitely a lot less than 14 days, but 3 month requirement is over the top. With current vaccine wait and shortage, anyone who had the vaccine early cant possibly go for another vaccine shot within 3 month. I dont even know if that is safe. How they decide on 3 month vaccine expiry date, im not sure. But perhaps they are again being overly cautious and want to see if this is doable and will revisit further relaxation afterward. One can only hope

I dont have really fluid sexual tendency, just stereotypical gays that like men since as long as i can remember. Even watching straight porn, i focus on the guy. Im at a point where my family is expecting me to get married and i cant possibly do that to any girls, to marry a guy who had no feeling towards her at all. Having said this, when watching straight porn, im not at all repulsed by seeing women naked, but not excited by them, or more like feel indifferent. Even my preference for men are those straight-acting manly men.

If u want to see me miserable, put me in the middle of that crowd lol. Id probably head to the empty top floor if my boy want to go there haha.