Now then, I am not necessarily here to sell you some tablets or creams or whatever but just to have a quick look at some of the things out there that claim to help you get, and keep, a better erection. I know we’ve all see the spam e-mails that come in trying to flog us Cialis tablets and the like but forget about them, I am going to try and search out some of the more serious products available on the web today so you now that you can shop in relative safety.

But first of all, why get a ‘better’, harder and longer lasting erection? Well, o.k. so it makes sex more enjoyable; some people clearly don’t need these products while others use them for a confidence boost. When you take a Viagra you know you are going to get a stiffy no matter what. But if you actually need to look for these kinds of product for a medical reason, if you truly can not get an erection, then you should be visiting your doctor not reading this. This is for fun rather than therapy.

I mentioned Viagra and that is probably the most famous of the remedies available. Originally it was only prescribed by doctors for cases of impotency as taking it without consulting your doctor first can be dangerous – particularly if you are taking certain other medicines. Later though the tablets sneaked onto the market and you seem to be able to pick it up just about anywhere these days. But it may not always be the real thing so watch out. (See viagra.com for the definitive Viagra site.)

On the back of Viagra came other meds with similar names. I for one have tried Kamagra which looks similar and does the same thing but which you can buy on-line. I’m not saying that you should do this of course, I only bought some after a recommendation from a trusted friend and after trying some. I knew I wasn’t on any other medication and I wasn’t using poppers (amyl nitrate) which is another thing you should avoid when taking erection meds. Why? Because basically all these things do is open up blood vessels and allow more blood to go to, and stay in, the penis. If you take other meds and things – like poppers – that do a similar thing, you will be laying yourself open to medical problems.

But on to a more cheery thing: a side step, you don’t have to take drugs to get a better erection; buy a cock ring, strap it around your cock and balls and when you get a stiffy it will stay stiffer for longer. This is a simple alternative then there is just turning on some hot twink porn to get aroused.

Back to the drugs: you can find plenty of herbal remedies on line at the moment and you might rather try these first. After a quick search I found: goldenroot4u.co.uk a blend of 15 safe to use herbs (but I’m not sure which ones!) clinico.co.uk/blue-rhino.asp ‘the UK’s foremost male potency pills’ and thehormoneshop.com/list.htm which had a list of Uprima, Viagra and Soft-Tabs among other things.

I guess my problem with searching for erection enhancers is twofold: firstly there are so many things, including drugs and toys, to choose from I don’t know where to start and secondly I don’t know who to trust. I see so many spam e-mails that I tend to distrust anyone selling sex enhancing drugs. But maybe I am just being cynical – that last site, the Hormone Shop, had pages about all kinds of sexual health, medical conditions and advice so I tend to trust it more. The one that I do trust though is proenhance.com and this site is definitely worth a look if you are thinking about searching our some erection enhancers for yourself.

What do the male porn stars take? There are many erection products out there and even injections that go right in the penile area.. ouch! We did find one really hot product online we have seen talked about in forums called VigRx which has clinical results to prove its effectiveness.

Gays and Lesbians have the assumption that they have more discretionary income than many straight families.  Marketers tend to send a lot of ads our way that involve lots of spending on things we really do not need.  This is why we need to look into setting a budget and watching things we spend money on for our family at home or just for ourselves.

Setting a household budget for a gay family is all about setting financial priorities and making sound decisions about spending.  If you are trying to save for a vacation or retirement, or just looking for a way to free up more cash, setting a budget is the way to do it.

To set a budget for your household, the first to do is to calculate total monthly income.  When you think about income, only consider regular, reliable sources of income such as your job, child support, or alimony.  Since you can’t be certain of variable sources of income from one month to the next, it is best not to include them.

Next, determine the total amount of monthly expenses.  When you set a budget for your household, you must take into account the financial needs of each household member.  Consider the expenses that are necessary to for survival like rent, utilities, transportation, and food as well as fees for the children’s school and extra-curricular activities.  Write down each of these expenses and the associated monthly cost.  Then total them up.

Subtract the total household expenses from the total income to determine how much money will be left over after all the bills have been paid.  If the result is a positive number, that’s good.  You have enough room to save money or take a vacation.  If your result was a negative number, don’t fret, there may be room for adjustment.

Take a look at your itemized list of expenses and decide if each item is a required or optional expense.  For each of the items you listed, ask yourself, “What will happen if this expense is not paid?”  Many of the items will have an obvious answer.  If you don’t pay your rent or mortgage, you will likely be evicted or foreclosed.  If you don’t pay your utility bill, the service will be disconnected.  Denote all your required expenses.

Your list of expenses might include some luxuries that are disguised as a necessary expense.  Do you have cable television?  This is an optional expense that can be eliminated free up cash in your budget.  Cutting off your cable television can save hundreds of dollars a year.  You can make tradeoffs so that you don’t completely cut out home entertainment.  For example, if you cancel your cable television, you can sign up for an online movie rental service.  You’d be surprised at all the little ways you can free up more cash in your budget through a close examination of your spending.

Do you really need that Gucci Handbag?
Do you really need to eat out every night?
Do you really need an iPhone that costs $600 when you can get a touch screen Palm Treo for $199?
Probably Not.

Another thing to look at is how much you are spending on your credit card payments.  You may look into consolidating all of your bills into one which in some cases decreases your interest.

Learn ways to organize and spend your money more wisely.  This will make your money go further and make the gay household much happier in the long run.

I wanted to know more about this guy because I’ve seen his name in various different places on the web; so I did a search and here are some of my findings.  This will also be the start of a gay celebrity profile we will feature here on Daily Dose of Queer where we look at various gays and lesbians including high ranking businessmen, athletes, and even porn stars.

Well it was an easy start: chrisgeary.co.uk is his own site and there you’ll find a page telling you just about everything you could ever want to know. For a start he is British, that’s not so remarkable, but here are a few other things that you may not find so straightforward. He studied agricultural based business management in what the Brits call ‘The West Country’, he has worked as a farmer, he used to own a house outside of Miami, his dad works for the Ministry of Defence and his parents don’t approve of his website.

Why? I guess because Chris now spends his time working freelance for various gay sites and publications, he supplies models shoots and reviews as well as writing for QX Magazine (UK) and running a go-go boy agency supplying dancers to nightclubs and events throughout the UK and across Europe.

Quite a mixed bag but a successful one and Chris now lives in a penthouse near London’s famous Tower Bridge. If you take a look at one of his photos you’ll see a big beefy guy who works out and has a body to be proud of. But it was not always like this; Chris has a medical condition known as Pectus Carinatum, more commonly known as a ‘pigeon chest’ where the sternum, the chest bone, protrudes forward. He admits to being very self conscious about this when he was younger, never going topless, but he also says that his gym workouts and large muscles now disguise this condition and it doesn’t bother him at all.

If you go and view his site you will find it a great mixture of personal information and images. For example there is a link over to his boyfriend’s site erikdechavez.com which is also a neat mix of the personal and the erotic. On Chris’ site you can view his collection of favorite images and you’ll get a pretty good idea of what he likes to view. There are wrestling galleries, horny twinks and ‘model boy’ galleries, videos, spy cams and international news and reviews. Some of the areas of the site are free, so bookmark them and pop back later for updates and news; others are links to premium sites (pay to join) that Chris recommends, but they do have preview areas and are well worth a look.

This is very much a Brit site which makes a refreshing change from all the US sites out there so if you’re interested to see what goes on in Gay Britain you can check out the news from London, Manchester and Birmingham (among other places) and down near the bottom of the home page you’ll see all the latest news and additions from the site. Chris Geary regularly updates the site with gay scene news and the site is a good mix of on-line entertainment and real-life events and happenings. If you want to get really involved you can make use of the message board; here you’ll find forums for guys in the UK and Australia (see Aussie Boys here), the US and China and for guys into wrestling, story writing and modeling.

So, from farmer to top gay internet celebrity in a few years, it just goes to prove that anything is possible when you put your mind and body to it. Take a look at chrisgeary.com and you’ll find it a friendly, informative site with plenty of interactive elements and a great community feel. He’s someone to aspire to and is pretty damn hot too!

While Delta has changed its image and is actually stepping above American Airlines in terms of gay sponsorships there are also amenities to be considered. A new airlines recently launched into the United States that has imported some gay fabulous touches in comfort and design.

Virgin America is set to launch in the U.S. on August 8, 2007. You can buy tickets now but they only fly in and out of NYC, D.C., San Francisco, Los Angeles, and Las Vegas. The new airlines will give you a new touch in ambience with a mood lighting system. Virgin also gives you in-seat plug ins for your laptops and phones, more comfortable seating, hundreds of in-flight movies to select from, and thousands of mp3’s to listen to. But where is the internet and text messaging?

Jet Blue is offering text messaging and internet while in-flight. I think this is the best amenity yet. Although, there is no voice calling allowed which could probably get annoying anyway. I would rather escape in the world of the internet while I am trapped inside a plane. Why doesn’t American, Delta, Continental, or US Airways offer this yet?

I try to support Delta and American Airlines when I can because of their gay friendly policies and their openly gay advertising but I am glad to see competition. Who knows maybe Virgin America and Jet Blue will start supporting gay causes more so we do not feel as guilty for flying their airlines.

For those of you who are flying the friendly skies I recommend you get on a rewards program. You can benefit from several airlines programs to rack up frequent flyer miles ranging from AAdvantage miles to Delta Skymiles where you normally need 45,000 points or so to get a free flight. The fastest way to build up miles would be to get a credit card that has no annual fee and gives you up to a bonus for using the card. You can get up to 20,000 frequent flyer miles on some airline credit cards. One thing to keep in mind is that you can have all the free miles in the world but it is all about being comfortable and enjoying a good experience while your sitting on that plane so the best thing to do is to upgrade to first class using these miles.

I would like to mention that American Airlines was the first airlines to offer domestic parnership benefits and they were also the first to establish a gay travel resource online at AA.com/rainbow.  Stay tuned to our site for continuing coverage of gay travel deals and places to enjoy.  Enjoy the friendly skies and stay away from those horrible tarmac situations!

I do not understand how the meth addicts have to ruin a perfectly good word… Party. They are also ruining another good word… Play. It took me a long time to figure out what PNP meant in chat rooms and at the club but now I know it means Party and Play which means to have sex while under the influence of ice or crystal. I am not here to lecture about gays having sex or converting to Buddha but I am sick of everything meth.

Meth is ruining lives in the gay community and we need to focus our efforts on getting rid of it. The main thing we can do is reach out and try to help our friends that are on ice, crystal, or Tina.

Tina and other methamphetamine type drugs could also be hurting the club scene. These people sit at home and never make it out to the clubs. They constantly smoke on the ice pipes and think they are doing something productive when in reality they have accomplished nothing but the start of a deep cycle to ruin their lives.

When I first moved to a major city I meet some of the coolest people in which I developed a close friendship with. A few of these people I watched fall hard by “trying” some Tina. They thought they could just try it a few times to give them energy to enjoy late night afterparties that followed long hours of dancing. They soon used the drug to help them make it to work and even gave them more confidence than ever before. They did not want to loose that confidence so they kept buying more and more to help them with work and with the nightlife. One person told me it gave them the confidence to get promoted at work.

In a few days or weeks every one of these people who had ever tried this messy substance were up days and days without any sleep. This lead to hallucinations and their minds turning them into someone they are not. They stole from me and everyone they could, lied, cheated on their boyfriends, and even lost their jobs. They developed an extreme confidence and thought they could not do any wrong. The only thing that could help them was getting into trouble or rehab and most of the time that does not even stop this addiction.

I believe in the legalization of marijuana among the legalization of other drugs that do not show proven harm but meth is the worst and most evil thing I have ever witnessed. Yes, it is the most evil being out there to take the soul of someone and change it into something they cannot get away from.

The comedown is supposed to be days of depression and the worst come down of any hangover or day after ecstasy pill. I have heard it is 30 times worse than those combined.

How do we stop meth in our community? We can look for signs of meth use and reach out or maybe get more groups setup to counsel people struggling with this “disease.” I have never done this myself but have been around people on it and am just amazed how horrible it is and what it can do to so many lives. I would like to see the word party changed to its original meaning again!