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Last month I decided to take a break from Brazil and visit London. While in London, I had a great time. In addition to visiting the typical landmarks and touristy things, I went to a long-term London male brother called, Villa Gianni. Villa Gianni is located at #32 Nevern Place, four short blocks from the Earl's Court underground station. It is so easy to find the place. Simply walk out of the underground station, make a left turn, then walk two blocks then turn left on Nevern place, then walk to # 32. After arriving at the facility, you ring a bell at the red painted door that has a 32 on it. The place is in the lower basement of the building. I was greeted by a very friendly fairly young good-looking manager on duty. The manager explained how the system works, i.e., what is involved in contracting with a rent boy at that facility. The manager guided me down a hall way to a room that has a one way glass that allows a viewer to see the rent boys but the rent boys cannot see the viewer. Each guy stands in front of the glass window and demonstrates and shows off what he has to offer to entice you to choose him. The manager told me what each guy likes to do. If you like what you see, you advise the manager and make a choice. The price for one hour is 90 pounds, Sterling, payable after the event concludes. That price is incredibly cheap especially for London, one of the most expensive cities in the world. Considering the low, to nearly non existent, risk to clients (not being scammed by fakes and bogus ads), this facility is awesome. If the escort is more than satisfying, a handsome tip to the escort is definitely in order after the session, even though the escort does not ask for a tip. I returned the next day but the mix of available escorts was not to my liking (nothing but twinks) and I did not stay long. As a general rule, the mix of escorts is predominantly Brazilian. Considering that I like Brazil so much, I was quite pleased. Of course, there are rent guys from many other countries at the facility. It all depends on when you go there. The only thing I do not like about the operation is the fact the rent boys must go through suggestive actions and sort of put on a show to entice clients to choose them. I think it is a little degrading to the rent boy to have to go to a one-way window and show off his wares while not communicating directly with a client. Another good thing about an operation like this is we do not have to contend with fake ads and bogus/stolen photos or escorts demanding money upfront then not performing. In all fairness, I went back the next day and the place was filled with lots of twinks. Although twinks can be nice, they are not interesting for me as romantic partners. I suspect that some members of this forum would have been thrilled on the day that I left because there were not "butch" Brazilians available at the time I was at the brothel. The manager stated that a second shift comes on at six in the evening. This means that there are two crews of working guys each day. What a splendid operation this is. I heartily recommend the place even though there is a risk of not always finding the specific type of guy you like. -

HUZZAH 11.08.14 The GOP Senate: A New Utopia Dawns By P.J. O'Rourke Happy times are here again! Republicans have won the Senate, and they surely won’t screw it up this time. Right? Like all good Republicans, I’m so happy I could frack the moon. I could drone strike the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, I’m flying that high. I’m feeling good enough to lay 1,179 miles of pipe with my honey-bunny Keystone XL. And now that the GOP has bedded the House and the Senate, she is, ahem, about to come – delivering crude oil from Canada to the Gulf Coast and all the wetlands, wilderness areas, and sensitive eco-systems in between. And that’s just the beginning of the wonderful events that are about to transpire. This is more exciting than the Newt Gingrich congressional triumph of 1994. Obama is a bigger sitting duck than Clinton. And Obama is a lame duck too. No Democratic Senate or House candidate was sitting in the voter blind with Hope and Change decoys on the electoral pond calling, “Barack! Barack! Barack!” Even the Dems ducked Obama. Extraordinary things occurred the last time Republicans took legislative power away from a liberal quack. To sum those things up in just two words, which still stir the heart of every right-thinking member of the Grand Old Party: Monica Lewinsky. Was that fun or what? And there was the Contract with America, with its balanced budget and term limits Constitutional Amendments and its Personal Responsibility Act to discourage having children out of wedlock. In 1993, 27 percent of American children were illegitimate. Now it’s, um, about 40 percent. But, come on, what kind of self-respecting Republican writes a contract that he can’t wiggle out of with the help of lawyers? And practically everyone in Congress is one. Anyway, President Obama is going to have to change his style of governing. Maybe just nine holes of golf after an American ISIS hostage is beheaded. Maybe showing some spine with Putin by renaming the mixture of mayonnaise and ketchup that goes on salads and Reuben sandwiches “Liberty Dressing.” Maybe giving Deborah K. Jones, our Ambassador to Libya, a 9mm SIG Sauer and a pair of nunchucks. Some other suggestions for the President, if he wants to get off on the “right” foot with the 114th Congress: Buy an Obama family vacation time-share in an East Jerusalem Israeli settler condo to help repair relations with Bibi Netanyahu. Have the IRS take a peek up the skirts of Emily’s List. Trade Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl back to the Taliban, preferably for a Washington Redskins QB who’s less injury-prone. Of course the Republicans will have to make compromises too. We had our own set-backs on Tuesday night, particularly here in my home state of New Hampshire -- or New Hamster as we now call it, due to a Massachusetts invasive sub-species of Order Rodentia known as Massholes. The males wear socks with sandals. The females make their own jewelry. And they didn’t even turn out for their old friend Scott Brown. May they all stand in a puddle and stick their tongues in a Prius charge port. And NH Second District Democratic congresswoman Annie Kuster failed to have a Last Stand against opponent Marilinda Garcia despite the willingness of the Tea Party to dress up as Indians and dump Annie in Boston Harbor where she belongs. Actually, Brown lost the Senate race to Democrat incumbent Jean Shaheen because Scott once posed nude for Cosmo. “Naked male Republican” is not a thought anyone, Republicans included, wants in his or her mind, even if this particular one happens to be buff. Most of the Republicans America just elected ain’t. And I’m glad of it. We’re seeing more of the old-fashioned establishment-type Republicans who keep their pants and pantyhose on. And who don’t get them in a wad over every little piece of legislation. The 114th Congress is not going to be full of people who, every time a bill is brought to a vote, have to go dig up the grave of James Madison and ask Jim if the bill is Constitutional. We Republicans are beginning to understand that gay marriage, abortion, and drug legalization aren’t issues any more. Constitutional Amendment against gay marriages? What’s with that? Constitutional Amendment against first marriages. Now we’re talking. There’s an easy fix to the abortion debate. Don’t make it legal. Don’t make it illegal. Make it retroactive. Kid gets to 18? And he’s still a bum? Whack. And I had something deep and profound to say about drug legalization too, but the bong went out. A lot of us Republicans are having trouble getting the leaf blower started. I foresee a “clear path” to bipartisan immigration reform. “Operation Fast and Furious” continues to rankle some Republicans. But the President could easily reposition it as a friendly “pro-gun rights” gesture by outgoing Attorney General Eric Holder. Obamacare won’t be overturned. No broad-based federal entitlement program has ever been eliminated. Free cat food breeds kittens. But Obamacare can be modified to be more acceptable to Republicans. No-fee Levitra for all white males over fifty. Who says Republicans are deaf to the needs of women? The President made some initial errors in his handling of the Ebola crisis. But I’m sure an address to a joint session of Congress, with the President presenting sound scientific evidence that Ebola is not spread by “dark money,” would get the two parties seeing eye-to-eye on the subject. And in the matter of foreign policy the President has already met the Republicans more than half-way. Indeed, he is pursuing exactly the same foreign policy in the Middle East that Republicans were pursuing when we were in the White House – rendering everything in the region FUBAR. I look forward to a golden sunset for the Obama years, a peaceful twilight of across-the-aisle cooperation and mutual respect and esteem from the Noble Capital at one end of Pennsylvania Avenue to the People’s House at the other. And then... It’s a short, smooth, brightly lit stroll to the Oval Office for some towering figure of a Republican Party presidential candidate to be decided later. Perhaps it will be newly elected Texas Land Commissioner George P. Bush. And 2014 showed the way. Never mind that young people, women, Hispanics, and blacks forgot to vote. In two years those young people will have done a lot of growing up. What happens when you’re a grown-up? You vote for someone named Bush. Women will probably forget to vote again. You know how forgetful women are. “Did I lose an earring?” “Where’s my purse?” “I could have sworn I left the car keys right here.” And Republican policies for robust job growth and business opportunity will have moved Hispanics and blacks to the top of the socio-economic ladder. Once you get an in-ground poll, you’re a good Republican. Anyway, this good Republican can dream, can’t he? http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/11/08/the-gop-senate-a-new-utopia-dawns.html

Nice story. When friends or people in your community need help even small gestures yield big results. Imagine the relief of this boys family to have weeks of work reduced to 1 day when more important thing in their life needed attention. There's video in the following link: http://sports.yahoo.com/news/harvesting-hope--how-one-farm-community-came-together-to-help-one-of-their-own-172913084.html The boy would have loved it out there last Saturday. He would have been up before dawn, feeding the cattle, feeling the brisk wind as it reddened his cheeks. He would have relished walking across the soft Illinois dirt in his work boots as the sky turned yellowish pink. The other boys, his football teammates, would all be sleeping. Not Hayden Schaumburg. He didn't live for Friday nights the way he lived for Saturday mornings. But Hayden wasn't out there last Saturday. So the people came instead. ______________________________ View gallery . Hayden Schaumburg (GoFundMe) Two weeks ago, Schaumburg charged down the field to block for his Watseka High teammates on a kick return. There was a fierce collision, and the 16-year-old junior collapsed onto the field. "Went down in a heap and never moved again," says his head coach, Steve Lucas. "I've been around this game for 40 years. I knew it wasn't good." Lucas ran onto the field and looked into his player's eyes. They were searching. "Hey, Dad, are you there?" Hayden asked. Clint Schaumburg arrived and bent over his son. "I'm here," he said. "Dad," Hayden said, "I'm scared." ______________________________ Hayden Schaumburg is one of those rare kids who happens to be popular and successful and not the least bit pretentious about it. He's the "hardest working player on the team," says Lucas, and he's also on the track team, in the show choir and a member of the National Honor Society. "If I had his heart in my other players' bodies," Lucas says, "we'd never lose a game." Hayden's heart, though, is in farming. He's his school's chapter president of the Future Farmers of America, and at 16 he was already working the 2,000 acres of land owned by his dad in the county seat about 90 miles due south of Chicago. Hayden has learned to drive the combine and manage a small plot filled with sweet corn. He's shown cattle at the Iroquois County Fair. "It's been embedded into him since birth," says family friend Shawn Peters. "It's truly what he enjoys. He knew when high school football was over, he'd be done playing. He accepted that." Hayden wanted to go to agriculture school at the University of Illinois, and then come back home to help his dad. ______________________________ Hayden was laid out on the football field for 45 minutes that October night. His mom, Jolyn, stood watching with her hands covering her mouth. There was a plan to airlift him north to a Chicago-area hospital but it was too windy. So Hayden was taken by ambulance. "It's stuff you're not prepared for," Peters says. "I was a little bit in shock. This is the stuff you see on TV. And being from Podunk, sometimes TV is not enough." Hayden needed eight hours of surgery. He had broken his neck. His coach drove up to visit him, not knowing what to expect. "As a coach," he says, "you think this only happens somewhere else." Lucas walked into Hayden's hospital room and saw a player he considered as a son, lying there sedated and helpless. Hayden wanted so badly to greet his coach, to show him some emotion. He shrugged his shoulders so emphatically that the nurse had to reset all the machines. The coach began to cry. ______________________________ "Is there anything I can do?" is a question many of us ask when consoling someone who has been hit by tragedy. Most of the time, there isn't an answer to that, other than prayer. In this case, though, there was something. And it seemed so clear and obvious that nobody in town remembers who came up with the idea. "It just kinda happened," Peters says. "This is what a farming community does." ______________________________ View gallery . (Courtesy of @TheChadColby) With the Schaumburgs still by their son's side at Loyola Medical Center, their farm back home sat waiting to be harvested. And so last Saturday, before dawn on the first day of November, more than 100 people arrived at the Schaumburg farm. Some came with tractors, some with auger carts, some with semis ready to load. Some brought lunch, some brought bright yellow safety vests, and some just came with their bare hands and their time. At 6:30 am, the people of Watseka said a prayer for Hayden. Then they got to work. Eight combines moved slowly through the crops of corn, tearing it out of the ground and removing the kernels. People and machines kept coming as the temperature climbed through the 50s. By late morning, there were 16 combines and 30 trucks ready to haul the harvest to the grain elevators in town. "Very emotional," Peters says. "Very focused. The whole aura about the day was upbeat. It was positive. Everybody knew what it was about: helping your fellow man." By mid-afternoon, more than 1,000 acres had been harvested. Weeks of work was done in a matter of hours. One combine driver lifted Hayden's 10-year-old brother, Evan, into the cab so he could take a short turn at the wheel. The people of Watseka marveled how the day before was windy and the day after was bleak and that Saturday was so perfect for farming. "There was something much greater than us at work that day," Peters says. In all, more than 125,000 bushels of corn left the farm in less than 10 hours. ______________________________ Every Watseka player wore Hayden Schaumburg's number on his helmet. (Courtesy of The Daily Journal) On the night he was hurt, Hayden's football team, the Warriors, ran out the clock. The opponents pulled their starters. There was thought of forfeiting the next game, but Hayden wouldn't want that, so the Warriors played. Watseka High has University of Alabama-styled helmets, with the numbers on the right side, so the players decided to tear off their own numbers and stick on Hayden's – 66. They all played as No. 66 that night. They all played for No. 66. The season has since ended, and yet support continues to pour in from all over the state. University of Illinois head coach Tim Beckman even called. "I just got a poster and checks from Champaign," Lucas says. "They don't know us from the man on the moon. It's just amazing." It will be a while before the Schaumburgs return to town. Hayden will have months of rehab, and the family has set up a website to raise money. There is promise, though. Hayden has more sensation in his arms and he had a full meal for the first time just this week. He is off his ventilator. The family is not ready for an interview, but already one of Clint's comments has been passed throughout the community: "It's gonna be tragedy to triumph." Nobody cares how long that triumph takes, as long as it happens. Hayden is a tough kid from a tough town, and in places like Watseka they have plenty of patience and plenty of hope. "I just want to see him walk to the middle of the field with that 66 jersey on," Lucas says, "as my captain." There is a football field, and a cornfield, and an entire town of fields, waiting for a Friday night or a Saturday morning when that boy comes home.

Before leaving the subject of Spain, there is another rent boy sauna in Spain (Madrid), called sauna Adan. I have been to sauna Adan, in Madrid, as well as visiting sauna Thermas, in Barcelona. I think that sauna Thermas in Barcelona is a great and fun place. That sauna has been discussed previously. I think that sauna Adan, in Madrid, is a poorly run and depressing place. The employees at that facility are consistently rude and arrogant to both customers and to rent boys. The presence of good looking available rent boys somewhat offsets the negative behavior of the rude employees. Customers and rent boys, alike, complain about the behavior of the rude employees working at sauna Adan but the rude and arrogant behavior continues. This has to have a negative affect on revenue of the sauna. This is because paying customers do not sit around in the sauna buying food or drink. They do their thing with a rent boy then leave as quick as possible. While in Madrid, I generally (but not always) avoid sauna Adan and, instead, always visit a great hustler bar called Black and White - This is a fun place with usually a couple of dozen (or more) rent boys at any one time. This means that the choice of rent boys is abundant. http://www.nighttours.com/madrid/gayguide/black-white.html With regard to a rent boy sauna outside of Spain and Brazil, there is one in Zurich called, Paragonya Wellness Club http://www.travelgayeurope.com/venue/paragonya-wellness-club/ I have been to that sauna many times. It is located in a business type building. One would never suspect that it is a hustler sauna from looking at the building or the sign on the door. The place is clean and efficiently run. Each time I was there the place had many rent boys. Many were South Americans and many were Asians while some were from Eastern Europe. The sauna is in a good location and it is possible to have a good time. There used to be a fun hustler bar near Paragonya called Carousel Bar. There were often more hustlers at this bar than there were at Paragonya. For reasons I do not know, Carousel Bar suddenly closed a couple of years ago and has not reopened. I hope this helps even though my post is a bit tardy based on the initial thread creation. -