Eros Daily Musings and Digressions

if dating profiles were honest… (sexagenarian and the city)

If it were a bit warmer today, if high school graduates could read, if the New York subway system had hard plastic barriers up (that opened when the trains came) so that no one could jump or fall or be pushed on the tracks, if diet coke were good for you, if my maternal grandparents were still alive and healthy, if I weighed 15 pounds less, if Chai came directly out of one of my faucets, if there were no rats in Manhattan, if there were already a good health insurance system in effect in this country, if all the women who wanted to get pregnant could and all the women who didn’t want to be pregnant weren’t, if — if — if –

Well, let’s get to the point: if dating profiles were honest, well, hey, then where would the sport be in internet dating??

All the fun would go out of it.

Yeah, and dating profiles — or at least the profile of one man I dated recently — would read something like this:

If it’s a warm day when we meet, I’ll be wearing a t-shirt, and you’ll notice a bluish-purplish mark on the inside of my left wrist. What is it? you’ll wonder. Well, I was a heroin addict in my youth, and that’s what it comes from. You gotta problem with that? If so, go away.

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scientists film HIV spreading for the first time

For the first time in the history of HIV/AIDS, a team of scientists from UC Davis university in California, and Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York filmed an HIV infected cell as it infected a healthy cell — and it’s going to change the way HIV is treated because it’s not replicating the way everyone thought it was. To film it, they inserted a protein into an infected cell (a clone of one, to be precise) that glows green when exposed to blue light, and the captured it on digital film. You can see HIV in action above; it’s fucking creepy. Basically, it creates an intentional bridge to a healthy cell through which it trucks the infection. Sneaky. To understand why HIV has spoofed science with its infection process, the Telegraph UK explains:

For decades it was believed that HIV was mostly spread around the body through freely circulating particles, which attach themselves to a cell, take over its replication machinery and make multiple copies of themselves.

In 2004, scientists discovered that cell-to-cell transfer of HIV also occurred via virological synapses, but it was not understood why the process was so effective in spreading the virus.

Due to this, previous efforts to create an HIV vaccine have focused on priming the immune system to recognise and attack proteins of free-circulating virus.

The new video footage indicates that HIV avoids recognition by being directly transferred between cells. (…read more, telegraph.co.uk)

Sex 101 Comedy Show in NYC April 11th

One of our very own Babelanders has created a comedy show about sex! It’s going to be a perfect mixture of knowledge and comedy. If you live in New York, you should absolutely check it out.

Here’s what the creator has to say:

Well hello there honey bunnies. I am giving a spectacular lecture on the ins and outs of being a great lover. You’ll learn everything you need to know about being on your back, on all fours or hanging from the ceiling, while also getting a few laughs. Cause what is sex if not funny.

We’ll be featuring special side kicks:
The Fabulous Shannon Sutherland
Alex Michaels
Julie Notwicz
Alison Grillo
Scout Durwood
Jason Black
and
Poppi Kramer!!! (of Biggest Loser Fame)

April 11th at 7 pm

The City at The Broadway Comedy Club

53 between 8th and 9th.

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