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Isn't there an award the Boytoy members can present to Tomcal for best story, best directing, and best casting? TOMCAL P.S. The video attachment was wonderful

- Let me add my few cents about Brazil - Tomcal, you got it right! What an interesting and accurate, well-composed post. What deep introspection! I agree about not honoring requests for “presents” or being a transporter of goods to Brazil. When I first started going to Brazil, I had countless garotos, hotel employees and English-speaking Brazilians making requests for me to bring back items for them. I was never reimbursed nor was an offer ever made to reimburse me. It was common for me to bring an extra suit case in order to satisfy the numerous requests. Those were the early days when I was naive. Now, the fancy passed by and little remains of the attitude I had when I first traveled to Brazil. I, similar to Tomcal, take only a carry on bag which precludes me from bringing back for garotos and others, anything large. I continue to bring small items but I no longer get burdened with shoes, jackets, computers, kitchen appliances and so forth. Those days are over. Again using the logic of Tomcal, I also keep my Brazilian activities in perspective. Although I am very fond of several garotos that I met over the years in Brazil, I am too realistic to believe the poppycock stories about their feelings of “love” for me. I know that they like me but I also know that if my money was not the center of why we met and continue to meet, they would not be in my life. Clearly, to like is not to love. I took several of the garotos on vacation away from Brazil. Most had never been on an airplane much less out of Brazil. Among other things, I enjoyed their company but their company was more exciting after I saw the reactions of the garotos in other countries wherein they did not know the local language. They suddenly learned to relate how Americans feel when Americans first enter Brazil and do not know the language. Over the years, I helped several garotos make a better life for themselves. One garoto was able to finish law school with my help paying his tuition and books. Today, he is working in a law firm and I feel good about that. Another garoto I helped set up in business and today, that garoto is married, with children, and is self reliant. There are others with whom I have not done as well as the previous two I mentioned but we remain friends and I often hear from them. There is an inexplicable feeling one gets from helping another person who could not otherwise break out of a financial quagmire. Of course, there were some garotos that I met over the years for whom I had no feelings. Those were “one time” encounters that lacked “chemistry” for creating a lasting friendship. I don’t regret meeting those garotos. They are not in my life and I occasionally see them at saunas or on the streets while I am in Brazil. But, they are only a distant memory. Yes, as Tomcal wrote, “These guys are good at their jobs and really provide the boyfriend or lover or exciting sexual partner illusion when you are with them, and as soon as you leave they are providing the same illusion to the next customer!” It is true that the garotos are good at their jobs. In fact, I would go so far to say that they are better than “good” they are superb at their job. It is the special qualities of the garotos that motivate me to continue visiting Brazil so often and only occasionally visit other countries. Immediately after Carnaval is over, I will leave again for Brazil for another few weeks, making it my trip number 123. Yikes!

You very nearly snared me in to your centireading post the other day with the Wodehouse bait but, at the time, I had places to go and things to do. But two Wodehouse lures in a single week is too much to resist! I haven't read any of his stuff a hundred times, but I'm up in the dozens easy. What's more, I can pick up any of his stuff and get a good yok, day or night, rain or shine. For instance, I went looking for one of the phrases that suggested critiquing Wodehouse's writing was like "taking a spade to a soufflé" and I came up with Stephen Fry's page on him. Right there in the middle is Fry's experience in flipping open a random book and finding a bit of dialog between Bertie Wooster and Jeeves 'discussing a young man called Cyril Bassington-Bassington'. "I've never heard of him. Have you ever heard of him, Jeeves?" "I am familiar with the name Bassington-Bassington, sir. There are three branches of the Bassington-Bassington family - the Shropshire Bassington-Bassingtons, the Hampshire Bassington-Bassingtons, and the Kent Bassington-Bassingtons." "England seems pretty well stocked up with Bassington-Bassingtons." "Tolerably so, sir." "No chance of a sudden shortage, I mean, what?" Now I know that some folks may think the only thing remotely funny about this is the desperate and unoriginal light it casts upon me for stealing from another website but, honestly, I laugh harder every time I read it. Who's to say what tickles a funny bone? One of the things I like about this Board is that folks can come on here and feel free to post what they enjoy and feel like sharing with others. Sometimes, though, some posters limit themselves to showing up only to criticize what others post and sometimes even try to make a poster feel like he's the reason more posters don't participate. And, to some folks, that may seem like a spit in the eye. Not that there's anything wrong with that. And, as far as any talk of ‘stealing’ the post from another site, perhaps it would help if I were to turn full rights over to the OP with my compliments. Hell, I’d have hauled the thing over here myself it I thought I could lift it!

Unless you are totally disabled, you can visit Brazil. And, yes, your personality will mesh with the garotos. Actually, many people think the idea of visiting a foreign country is difficult. It really is not. The most difficult part of the trip is the long ride in the airplane. If you go business or better, time flies by as fast as the aircraft. After you arrive in Brazil, you have just as many comforts at hotels as you have in the U.S. and other countries. Following your check in at your hotel, getting to the saunas is simple. Some people use a taxi, some use a bus while most use the Metro (except in Porto Alegre). Once inside a sauna, it does not require even knowing the language. It does require a little restraint because as soon as you enter, there is a good chance you will be propositioned immediately or shortly thereafter. You need to settle in and look around before you decide on a garoto. I know it sounds hard to believe. However, it really is easy to visit Brazil unless, as I said, your health is really bad or you are totally disabled. One example I can site, and I think that Tomcal might remember this person, back in 2003 there was a little restaurant that attracted countless garotos after hours. The place was called Corujinha's in Rio de Janeiro. There was a very large man named "Paco" who weighed at least four or five hundred pounds. His health was not good but he wanted to go to Rio to visit with the garotos. Yes, he had plenty of garotos. Paco actually had assistants who lifted him from a car and then assisted him to a chair at the restaurant. At the restaurant, Paco "held court" and had more garotos at his disposable than he could handle. The above is just one example of how a person can visit Brazil even though not in the best of health. If it is at all humanly possible, I heartily recommend that you visit at least once. Prior to visiting, you need to do your homework and find out exactly all details of your trip. The only thing you will not plan in advance is how many garotos you will have come to your hotel or how many your will visit it the saunas. If you are serious about going, I can send you a lot of material that will help you have the best time possibile in Brazil. Think about it.

I don't doubt your point, mvan1. I would speculate that cultural differences must be working themselves out in the background but I have no idea what. I also suspect that your (and tomcal's) expectations of those relationships mesh well with those of the garatos and that others might have a very different experience. In any case, thank you both for your entertaining and instructive posts. I only wish my health permitted me to take just one visit with you to Brazil and find out for myself if my personality meshed half so well with the boys. There's just no substitute for direct experience. :tongue:

Yikes indeed! I just want to say that both you and tomcal are stating the best approach I know to the business of hiring rent boys (not only garatos). Not so soft headed as to get burned by all the paid for displays of affection and not so bitter/cynical as to miss out on the genuine fun and satisfaction one can have when one allows friendly relationships to develope. Think of it as much like any other business relationship. You're delusional if you think your lawyer or accountant is inclined to handle your business w/o getting paid his going rate. But then sometimes your butcher might cut your steak off the good end if if he likes you. Human beings are complex critters. Making friends with someone you're making money off of is well within our inborn repertoire. For the life of me, I don't know why so many posters here insist otherwise.

Tom loved seeing all four together at MM. What fun!!!

Ai yi yi. Charles Manson calls off his wedding -- for the weirdest reason You've heard the phrase 'she only wants you for your body,' but it seems that serial killer Charles Manson's bride-to-be took that a bit too literally... 27-year-old Afton Elaine Burton announced her engagement to jailed killer Manson back in November, but their wedding plans took a dramatic turn when journalist Daniel Simone looked into the case, the NY Post reports. Supposed superfan Burton had hatched a plan to gain the rights to Manson's body when he dies in order to make cash by displaying his corpse to the public in a glass case. At this point, even Charles Manson is, like, I'M OUT. Simone - who is investigating Manson for his book The Retrial of Charles Manson - said that Manson scrapped the wedding plans because 'he’s finally realized that he’s been played for a fool,' but don't feel too sorry for this jilted lover yet. Manson is allegedly not impressed with Burton's plan to entomb him in glass for the public to gawp at for a particularly Manson-ish reason: He's convinced that he is immortal. Simone said: He feels he will never die. Therefore, he feels it’s a stupid idea to begin with. That clears that up, then. Check out Afton Elaine Burton talking about her affianced before her little quick money scheme was exposed. [Link to video below] If the real life Manson is just a bit too weird for you, the movie Manson Girls is in development, starring The Devil's Rejects' Bill Moseley in the titular role. http://moviepilot.com/posts/2015/02/11/charles-manson-calls-off-wedding-for-the-weirdest-reason-2683374?lt_source=external,manual

I found out I'm allergic to corncobs.

Well lookin arrives at last and it's not a moment too soon to have him pouring a bit of his soothing oil on our little tempest in a tea cup. Not to mention giving us a distracting flash of Beiberness. But I have to ask... What the hell took you so long?

What you wrote is true. At the same time, for reasons that I cannot put into mere words, there is a special quality about many Brazilian garotos that is not found in escorts in any other country I have visited; and I have visited many countries. As Tomcal wrote, I also do not hire in the U.S. anymore. Quite simply, you cannot find anything comparable in the U.S. to what is readily available in Brazil. Search high and low in the U.S. and you will not find it. It is not just the price differential paid in Brazil versus in other countries, including the U.S. It is the emotional and overall feeling you experience when involved with most garotos that keeps one coming back again and again and again. Having an encounter with a Brazilian garoto versus a hire in the U.S. is like comparing caviar with a baloney sandwich. The clock watcher escorts in the U.S. (and many other countries) have their useful place as do the easy-going Brazilian garotos have their place. My preference is for Brazil. There is no place like home - take that another step, there is no place like Brazil.

One of our local restaurateurs called Senator Eastland (an old buddy of his) shortly after passage of the Public Accommodations Law and asked what he could do. Big Jim advised he had three options: 1) Close his restaurant; 2) Integrate his restaurant; 3) Go to jail. LOL police departments, schools, retailers, all the die hard segs I knew back then, not one of them chose to go to jail. Well, one did beat the ever loving hell out of a Yankee kid who accompanied 2 black guys asking for service in his restaurant (it being his opinion that the Civil Rights Act didn't cover uppity white boys), but that's another story.

I certainly would not have limited myself to 1-2 drinks of wine before ANY state of the union address. One needs to achieve a state of euphoria to make it through. Even though I do not agree with Justice Ginsburg's politics or philosophy, I respect her as a person. Best regards, RA1

God Bless you Tomcal. Loved the video attachment. I think that Grandma and I will have to make a run down there one of these old days.

Perhaps she could find a stand-in.

Many thanks, tomcal, I'm hoping some of those boys will laugh and joke and horseplay their way into my dreams tonight. And sincere thanks to you also, Mvan1, but my COPD is a bit too far gone for me to go traipsing off to the saunas. Or even traipsing anywhere much over a 100 yards at a time. My rent boy days are behind me now. Which doesn't mean I don't have memories of days past to keep me warm, lol, not does it prevent me from very much enjoying y'all's adventures second hand here on BoyToy.

I know the feeling.

Participation should be positive, or at least 50/50. When a members only contributions are criticisms, without bringing anything else to the table, they are not here to be a part of this community... They are here to cause trouble, insult and spread a personal agenda. It doesnt take a genius to know it aint rocket science. Its a troublemaker ! Do they have a right ? FUCK NO !!!

"...About an hour after U.S. District Judge Callie Granade's ruling, Mobile County opened up its marriage license office and started granting the documents to gay couples, according to David Kennedy, an attorney for one of the couples who wed." http://www.cbsnews.com/news/judge-rules-alabama-county-must-marry-same-sex-couples/ Now to see whether the resisters in other counties relent.

Wonder if Chief Justice Moore will go stand in the courthouse door? I'm pretty sure there's an Alabama precedent for that. "Segregation Now. Segregation Tomorrow. Segregation Forever!"

Nothing like a string of upbeat, constructive posts to prove one's commitment to bettering a forum. As callipygian explicitly posted a hyperlink back to the source location where lookin originally made his post, your calling it 'stealing' is hard to interpret as other than deliberate hatefulness on your part.

Charles Manson's fiancee wanted to marry him for his corpse: source The New York Post This plot was too crazy even for Charles Manson. Manson’s engagement to a woman 53 years his junior was part of a wild scheme of hers to profit by putting his body on public display after his death, says the author of an upcoming book. Manson’s fiancée, 27-year-old Afton Elaine Burton, known as Star, sought to wed the convicted mastermind of the Sharon Tate murder and eight other slayings so that she could gain possession of his corpse, according to journalist Daniel Simone. Burton and a pal, Craig Hammond, planned to lay out Manson’s remains in a glass crypt, Simone says. The pair figured their bizarre California version of Lenin’s Tomb would draw huge crowds and make big money. But Manson, 80, does not want to marry Burton and has no interest in spending eternity displayed in a glass coffin, Simone told The Post. “He’s finally realized that he’s been played for a fool,” Simone said. Another reason the madman balked at the plan is because he believes he is immortal. “He feels he will never die,” Simone said. “Therefore, he feels it’s a stupid idea to begin with.” Charles Manson in 2011 (left) and in 1970Photo: AP Manson’s and Burton’s marriage license expired Thursday. “They plan on renewing the license, and things will move forward in the coming months,” says a statement posted on Burton’s and Hammond’s website. Burton and Hammond — who uses the nickname Gray Wolf — could not be reached for comment. The wedding was postponed “due to an unexpected interruption in logistics,” the site says. Manson entered a prison medical facility for treatment of an infection about two months ago and cannot receive visitors, Simone said. California prison officials would not comment on either Manson’s medical condition or his whereabouts. Simone and a collaborator, Heidi Jordan Ley, are seeking a publisher for their book, “The Retrial of Charles Manson.” Manson and other inmates at Corcoran State Prison in California are helping the project. The authors say they spoke with Manson regularly before his phone privileges were suspended two years ago. They also corresponded with Manson and his inmate friends by mail. According to the authors, Burton and Hammond hatched their plan to display Manson’s corpse about two years ago. Initially, the duo asked Manson to sign a document that would let them take his body when he dies. Manson and BurtonPhoto: MansonDirect.com/POLARIS “He didn’t give them a yes, he didn’t give them a no. He sort of strung them along,” Simone said. Burton and Hammond regularly brought Manson toiletries and other items. Stringing them along kept the goodies coming, Simone said. When it became clear last year that the purportedly death-proof Manson would not green-light the plan, Burton and Hammond switched to the marriage idea, Simone says. If Burton married Manson, the pair realized, California law would give her possession of Manson’s remains upon his death, Simone said. Simone believes Manson never intended to marry Burton. “Manson never consented to the wedding in the first place and never will,” he said. Another Simone book, “The Lufthansa Heist,” about a $6 million armed robbery at Kennedy Airport in 1978, is due out next month. He co-authored it with “Good­Fellas” mobster Henry Hill, who died in 2012. http://nypost.com/2015/02/08/charles-mansons-fiancee-wanted-to-marry-him-for-his-corpse-source/

I will disclose a state secret: lookin is actually P.G. Wodehouse.

His name on Gay Romeo is GAB_RUSSEL.

I'll be in Paris soon and would like to meet Gabriel. Can anyone provide a link or at least the handle he uses on Gay Romeo?

I wish to take this opportunity to Thank TomCal 1000 times for sharing his real world experiences on these boards. Unlike a lot of the folks here he actually goes out and lives a life filled with travel,adventure and sex with beautiful men. Tom-please keep up the fun times!