In my own way, I revealed I was struggling with the same thing.Īnd yep – Mike knows that I’m bi but has never been judged me on that. He started talking about wishing he could hook up with women and was tired of the whole social distancing thing. Not in the psychedelic kind of way but instead, just more detached – know what I mean? As things got cloudier, my ability to focus got blurrier. We were blowing clouds and watching The Oath on Crackle. This wasn’t a surprise because in the past, we’ve shared a smoke together.īut on this occasion, things were different. Cloudy hazeĪt any rate, a few weeks ago, on a Friday night – Mike busted out some 420.
Kind of cool, huh? During these training sessions, we got to know one another better and in ways that I can’t explain, increased our level of trust. Mike even started showing me ways to workout using resistance bands and a kettlebell. And to top things off, he played soccer and basketball.ĭuring the first couple of weeks of lockdown, we tried passing the time like a lot of folks do – Netflix, board games, and super long walks to get in cardio. But he’s obsessed with it to the point where it is annoying. To give you an idea, his hobbies include duck hunting, NASCAR racing, and non-stop ESPN. And to keep it real, I can honestly say the guy is as straight as they come. I don’t know why their relationship collapsed but, I think it had something to do with communication issues.ĭuring the entire time we’ve lived together, Mike has never once shown an interest in men. I was able to hang on to my job for a week, but ultimately got furloughed due to lack of demand.īoth of us are single, with Mike breaking up with his girlfriend shortly after the New Year. On the very first day of the mandatory shutdown, Mike’s gym closed. He's a gym trainer and sports freak How It First Happened We’ve always gotten along well but, I can’t say we were ever close. For his part, Mike worked as a personal trainer and fitness coach. Prior to going into lockdown in March, I was employed as a sales manager in the transportation sector. We live in the Midwest and share an apartment together in a large metropolitan city. My roommate – Mike – is 24 and identifies as straight. There are also volunteering options in the United States. The three nonprofits I recommend support girls’ education in sub-Saharan Africa, cataract surgery to repair blindness in Asia and Africa, and help for low-income students in the United States so they can complete high school and enter college. Thanks to readers for donating $4.8 million so far to my annual “gifts with meaning” initiative. We may never eliminate child sexual abuse material online, but we can reduce the number of girls and boys who at 14 have their lives shattered by a wealthy corporation monetizing their most mortifying moment. But some combination of civil liability, criminal prosecution, government regulation, sanctions by credit card companies and banks, and international cooperation to prevent companies from moving to less regulated countries, can induce better behavior. I don’t pretend that there are simple fixes. That means fixing America’s dysfunctional foster care system and tackling our unconscionable levels of child poverty. We can also do much more to support children to make them less vulnerable to exploitation. It is not prudishness to feel revulsion at global companies that monetize sexual assaults on children it’s compassion. This is Jeffrey Epstein on an industrial scale. Most of the results probably don’t involve children, but too many do, and the site is luring pedophiles who can then upload their own videos.
All three are on lists of the 10 most visited websites worldwide, each of them attracting more visitors than Netflix.Ī search for “less than 18” on XVideos, the most visited porn site in the world, returns thousands of videos plus these suggestions for additional searches: “training bra,” “really young,” “she s not adult,” “pre teens” and “11yo.” And a search for “middle school” leads to a suggestion that one also try “elementary school.”
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