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I have to speak to this. I just do not understand the need for anyone to tell others what they can post on a website forum. I have always been able to go to a site and past by posts that I do not like or feel I wish to read without getting upset or my blood pressure raising. If you or anyone else wishes to post on this site, please do so. Post what you wish and if others like with you post they will respond. If they don't, they won't. But, do not stop posting because others feel that your posts are not to their liking. You can't win a popularity contest with everyone. You only need to look at the posts you create and see that others have liked them and participated in their growth. Like others, I don't always read every thread and some I read once and don't visit again. But, I would never tell someone, "stop posting about sports because I don't like it." True, sports is the most boring thing to me on earth and hookers are the most exciting. I am odd that way. But, if others like sports and they post about it, I'll eventually find a topic I like and participate. I do like College Football when Alabama or Auburn is the subject. LOL But, that is about it. Or, I like sports when UFC is in the topic but honestly, I find fighters to be extremely hot and have ultimate fantasies about many of them. A forum should be a place for others to post and enjoy the topics they like. Tomcal is a great example. He is great when the topic of Brazil or Garatos comes up. But, I rarely see him post in the theater forum. That does not mean he can't. He just has his own interests and because of this has talked countless people into going to support the Brazilian economy. Grandma, I have always enjoyed your posts and the photos and I know it takes great time and effort. Thank you. Post them when you want and don't post then when you feel you don't want. I'll participate when I want and not participate when I don't like them. I rarely look at the straight guy photos. But, give me an Asian them or a Black on White theme and I'm all over it. Posters, please realize that you are all valued on this site for your posts, your participation and your tolerance. Tolerance goes in all directions and if you don't like one subject, start your own. It will rise or fall based on interests of others.

While some terrible tragedys have occurred thruout the world, seems like some have occurred on Boytoy as well, which cannot be overlooked ? HITO, although being naive and sexually ambiguous, has found a boyfriend (you say WHAT ?) and picket fence, left us for parts unknown, and is living Cluelessly ever after..... MsGuy is being held hostage in his basement by his alter ego Chance, and is only allowed bathroom breaks to fill up the Hellmans jar with his urine. Feces in reserve for Adam. Lookin is beside himself trying to come up with the next rhyme and riddle, and to maintain his standing the "the nicest person in cyberspace".... MsAnn stopped kissing MY ass, and retreated to her doublewide after being outted as my nemesis BigValgirl from "that other site".... Axiom, since his return from Habana where his Cuban sexual interlude proved a bit "lackluster", no longer comments on the Scorching Lushness of the Boytoys (although Grandma HAS stopped giving himr Boys to comment on).... RA1 continue to offer his "Best Regards" although I do not know why ? AND Flotsum and Jetsum (better known as zippyzone and Callipan) failed to step up to the plate by offering Anything positive, interesting, constructive or Sexy, even after Grandma has given them plenty of room to do so. Some people just prefer to attack and Hate on the accomplisments of others rather than creating their own. However, OZ continues to oversee and keep us all in check, without the SIZZLE, and Adam..... well Adam is tearing thru his treasure trove of useless textbooks and articles to regale us with more information we do not want, need or can ever use in our mundane, everyday lives, while continuing his lifelong research of "chicks with dicks" Hope that the following weeks with bring something explosive & exciting here. I am ALMOST wishing for a Draker or SteveEscort sighting ! Cheers, Grandma

Refer back to the above response of tomcal. I agree with him, especially where he wrote: "It is really what you feel comfortable with." There is no fixed rule on how much to pay a garoto. The garoto you invite to dinner (that you meet at a sauna) generally does not expect any money for going to dinner with you. Often, those garotos don't have money to buy dinner or any food while in the sauna and they are usually happy for a free dinner invitation. Therefore, there would be no expectation of payment for their time while at dinner with you. As to how much to pay them if they spend the night - that varies. Sometimes, garotos come to your hotel with the expectation of only a "brincadeira" (colloquial for a sexual encounter). Sometimes, through compatibility, the garoto does not leave and spends more time. If, following the brincadeira, you invite the garoto to dinner, as I wrote, it is a plus for the garotos (and a plus for you if you continue to enjoy the company of the garoto). Enjoying a garoto's company, initially, can be awkward because of a language barrier. Nonetheless, having their presence is usually enjoyable. Over time if you continue to visit Brazil, you will learn Portuguese as most garotos speak zero English. This means, until you can communicate with a garoto beyond sexual encounters, not being able to have a conversation with a garoto can be bothersome. A computer translator can help with communication with a garoto and will also help you learn a little (or a lot) of Portuguese. I have found that being able to communicate with garotos makes being with them more enjoyable than a mere physical encounter. Sometimes when a garoto comes to a clients' hotel room for a brincadeira, the garoto has no expectation of spending the night; it just happens. Paying garotos in a sauna is quite a different matter than "paying" them if you are taking them to dinner or if they stay at your hotel at night. These are things you will learn, over time. What you will extract from this forum is guidance rather than learning fixed rules for how much to pay garotos away from a sauna. The amounts mentioned in tomcal's post are reasonable. Those amounts are not firm nor are those amounts "set in stone" as there are many factors that determine how much a client gives to a garoto who spends the night or goes to dinner. If you go to Brazil often enough, you might very well accumulate a lot of garoto "regulars" that you will get to know away from the sauna. If you continue to have "brincadeiras" with these garotos on a regular basis, your payment structure might change. Some of these garotos could eventually become friends. Again, as tomcall said, "It is really what you feel comfortable with."

What a small world. Or at least, the sauna world in Rio de Janeiro is small. I also know Allison. I first met him at a sauna in Rio that is now closed. That sauna was named Estacao. It was located not far from Pointe 202, in Copacabana. Allison often worked in the saunas with a partner named Anderson who seems to have disappeared from Rio to live and work in Sao Paulo. I have seen Anderson in Sao Paulo but not recently. It is good to know that Allison is around and still looks good. -

YO, thanks Ozzie man.....that was well stated !

I am having nightmares based on this.

The new law passed in Indiana may be a preview of the 2016 election. Nothing gets conservatives riled up more than someone "oppressing their religious freedom" to oppress. Apple's Cook tweeted some interesting tweets as he and the owners of Yelp are starting to show their disappointment with the law. Even the NCAA is considering changes. As all of this happens, it really makes me wonder how many gains have we actually made? Yes, we now have the right to marry in many states. But, when laws like this are created, it makes me wonder what is to come.

Hey question here.... If i invited garoto from sauna to come with me for a dinner, how much should I pay him ? and if he come to your hotel for overnite how much is avg rate ? Thanks guys, I will be in Rio this coming Friday and can't wait !!!

L. Ron Hubbard: The First Tea Partier? Bill Schulz, The Daily Beast HBO’s brutal Scientology take down, 'Going Clear', and Ted Cruz’s presidential talking points have made one thing, well, clear: Both the Tea Party and Tom Cruise’s religion have a lot in common. My two takeaways from Going Clear—HBO’s searing look at scientology dropouts (“searing” means “lots of blurry reenactments,” yes?)—were thus: A ) Tom Cruise’s ramrod posture should make chiropractors weep with admiration. And B ) L. Ron Hubbard hated paying taxes almost as much as he loathed gays. L. Ron’s oft repeated (by detractors) and disputed (by E-Meters) line of, “If you want to make a little money, write a book. If you want to make a lot of money, create a religion” is a behind-the-curtain explanation of why he turned his self-help rip-off of Aberactive Therapy into something ten times more profitable once he stopped giving a percentage of prescribers’ payments to Uncle Sam. (Looking at you, federally-exempt title of “religion”!) Sadly for Chub Hub, that dream would only be realized ten years after his “death.” While LRH was still carrying around his earthly, ascot-accessorized human form, he developed the Sea Org. This Dianetics-fueled special force encompassed three of LRH’s favorite things: true-believers earning 'slave labor wages', juvenile, naval uniforms that harkened back to the WWII career LRH always lied about, and—thanks to the watery wall of international waters—a get-out-of-jail-free card with the tax man. Conversely, today's Tea Partiers prefer military themed garb of an earlier vintage and choose to avoid funding the Republic via the more legal route of, well, moving to Texas. Speaking of Glenn Beck, the media/Mormon face of these Revolutionary War reenactors—he believes that his founding father, Joseph Smith, has the final say over whether you get into heaven, and that the always gossipy Jesus visited America shortly after His resurrection to talk shop with the Native Americans. In his book, don't forget, sexual deviations are akin to murder, and—since the Holy Spirit goes to bed at midnight—all teen dates must end at roughly the same time. Whereas L. Ron Hubbard, Clearwater, Florida’s gift-shop face of Scientology, believes that 75 million years ago, intergalactic ruler/scamp Xenu dumped a bunch of his +++own, exterminated citizenry into Earth’s volcanoes, due in part to a tax audit (!), which unleashed their pesky souls (i.e., “Body Thetans”, or “BTs” to those in the abbreviated know) who finally found a home on us humans and plague us to this day. But the even more prevalent belief is that celebrities are not like us. And while Ted Cruz wants to build a wall to keep illegal Mexicans out, Scientology’s tiny emperor, David Miscavige, supposedly runs an on-campus gulag to keep poorly behaved adherents in. In conclusion: This column has assured the fact that I will never work at The Blaze or in Hollywood. Thanks, Daily Beast! In a more conclusiony conclusion: Don’t Tread On Me*, avoid SPs**, KSW*** and ****KJTS. *Tea Party-ese for “F you, Government”. **Scientologese for “Suppressive Person” *** Ditto for “Keeping Scientology Working” ****Ditto, ditto for “Keeping John Travolta Straight” (Okay, I made that one up.) http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/03/29/l-ron-hubbard-the-first-tea-partier.html

About four years ago I went to Fortaleza. It remains one of my favorite memories of Brazil. The beaches are huge and warm, but there is a non stop breeze that just wraps you up in a clean, free feeling. I loved it. While there I went to what I think is the best sauna in Brazil, facility-wise that I have visited, the Dragon Club. The garotos were great, if not numerous, but overall an experience I will build on soon with a return trip.

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http://www.newyorker.com/humor/borowitz-report/indiana-defines-stupidity-as-religion?intcid=mod-most-popular March 26, 2015 Indiana Defines Stupidity as Religion Credit Photograph by Chip Somodevilla/Getty INDIANAPOLIS (The Borowitz Report)—In a history-making decision, Gov. Mike Pence of Indiana has signed into law a bill that officially recognizes stupidity as a religion. Pence said that he hoped the law would protect millions of state residents “who, like me, have been practicing this religion passionately for years.” The bill would grant politicians like Pence the right to observe their faith freely, even if their practice of stupidity costs the state billions of dollars. While Pence’s action drew the praise of stupid people across America, former Arizona Governor Jan Brewer was not among them. “Even I wasn’t dumb enough to sign a bill like that,” she said.

"Liberals claim to want to give a hearing to other views, but then are shocked and offended to discover there are other views." William F. Buckley, Jr. "Let a thousand flowers bloom." Indirection worthy of RA1.

Money is often the deciding factor. The Texas-Sized Anti-Gay Backlash Over twenty anti-LGBT laws have been proposed in Texas this year, including one just like the maligned bill that passed in Indiana this week. But advocates say they’re not going to pass. Bob Daemmrich/Newscom Jay Michaelson 03.29.15 By now, anyone who follows the news knows what the anti-LGBT backlash looks like. There are four recurring legislative actions: “Religious Freedom Restoration Acts” (RFRAs), or ‘Turn the Gays Away’ bills. The most recent one got passed in Indiana this week to much uproar. Then there are various ways to opt out of recognizing legal same-sex marriages. And don’t forget “Bathroom Bills” that prevent transgender people from using the appropriately-gendered bathroom, or the state laws prohibiting cities from protecting LGBTs. Or, if you’re in Texas, all of the above. And then some. As reported by the Texas Observer, lawmakers in the state that gave us Rick Perry and George W. Bush have proposed over twenty anti-LGBT laws this legislative session. Also reflecting national trends, the batch of hate bills ranges from the familiar to the bizarre. In the former category are all four of the usual proposals: an enhanced RFRA (Texas has had a regular RFRA since 1999), Bathroom Bill, Marriage Refusal, and Trans Bans. This is not a coincidence, since, notwithstanding the “states rights” rhetoric, these laws are usually written by national conservative organizations like Alliance Defending Freedom, whose previous credits include California’s Proposition 8 and the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA). It’s a nice irony: Beltway wonks writing “states rights” laws. But this is Texas, after all, and so everything is bigger – including the unintended consequences of the backlash. First, two of the twenty anti-gay proposals are constitutional amendments that would basically put Texas’s RFRA on steroids. Most RFRAs have the same formula: government may not “substantially burden” religious exercise without a compelling state interest. But Texas SJR 10 and HJR 55 would remove “substantially.” Unlike a lot of legalese, that word can move mountains. If any burden on free exercise, no matter how slight, is forbidden, then it’s easy for any litigant to claim a de minimis burden and prevail in court. As someone who keeps kosher, for example, it definitely burdens my exercise of religion not to have kosher food at the Alamo. Not a substantial burden, but a burden nonetheless. Bring on the Hebrew National! Texas’s conservatives hate gays so much, they’re willing to help Muslim fundamentalists. Or, to take an example from the RFRA fight in Georgia, suppose my reading of the New Testament tells me I should be able to beat my spouse and child. If all I need to show is any burden, should surely get an accommodation from Texas. Do I even need to mention Sharia Law here? Another delicious irony: Texas’s conservatives hate gays so much, they’re willing to help Muslim fundamentalists. Then there are the three “Bathroom Bills” currently circling the Texas legislative drain. Why three? Well, it’s Texas. The winner of Texas’s All-You-Can-Hate contest, however, is Rep. Cecil Bell , who is both the sponsor of four separate bills (and a ringer for Yosemite Sam). Bell’s bills are all pretty bad, but the “Preservation of Sovereignty and Marriage Act” (POSAMA, of course) is the kicker. Remember the Republican-conceived ban on the District of Columbia holding a referendum on medical marijuana? They knew they would lose, so they forbid DC from spending even a penny to count the votes. Bell’s bill is similar. It would prohibit the use of taxpayer funds to license a same-sex marriage. So, you know, you may have a constitutional right to get married – but, alas, we don’t have the money to register it. This last week, however, the Texas House Committee on State Affairs spent who knows how many taxpayer dollars on two hours’ worth of testimony on “biblical” marriage (polygamy—though I doubt that was mentioned), federalism, and so on. Interestingly, POSAMA may end up losing because of another of its provisions: shifting the authority of marriage licenses from county clerks (who are locally based and may vary in their practices) to the secretary of state. County governments are outraged, since they depend on the revenue from marriage licenses. Ironically, the confederate-rhetoric-spewing Cecil Bell ends up being a partisan for centralized government over local control—and has made unexpected enemies as a result. Now, I’ve made plenty of Texas jokes so far, but the truth is, this isn’t your grandpa’s Lonestar State anymore. Contrary to stereotype (and Rick Perry), these bills may all die, for several reasons. First is the most interesting trend to emerge in the culture war this year: the pitting of Republican versus Republican, or Big Business versus the Christian Right. In Texas, the Texas Association of Business – the state’s Chamber of Commerce – has opposed the RFRA-boosting amendments, its president stating that “this will certainly make our state look very much unwelcoming when it comes to business recruitment.” As one would expect, TAB didn’t make moral arguments; it made economic ones. Toyota is moving its U.S. headquarters to Plano, and as part of its corporate policy, worked to pass an anti-discrimination law. One former TAB chair (a Republican) said that the laws would put the 2017 Super Bowl—currently set for Houston— at risk. This is a new reality. And while business opposition wasn’t enough to stop Indiana’s RFRA from passing this week, Texas is not Indiana. TAB is enormously influential, and Texas boasts of being pro-business—which is hard to do when you’re opposing your chamber of commerce. More broadly, this is just bad PR. Texas has changed, and articles like this one undo a lot of the progress the state has made to shed its backward image. Sure, Texans are still cowboys—but they don’t want to be seen as hicks. In fact, Texas is a lot more diverse than stereotypes may suggest, and its business-first conservatism is often more Rand Paul than Rick Perry. Many Texas Republicans may not be pro-gay, but being anti-gay isn’t really at the top of their agendas. In fact, one lesbian state legislator (from Austin, natch) has said that it might be best to just run out the clock on the legislative session, while lawmakers focus on other issues. Reading between the lines, that sounds a lot like a Republican privately saying “I can’t oppose this bill, but I won’t support it either.” Still, old habits die hard, and in a state as large as Texas, there’s a lot of ideological ground to cover between Austin and Rep. Bell’s home town of Magnolia (now an exurb of Houston). There’s also a tremendous amount of rhetorical misinformation out there. Anti-trans “Bathroom Bills” don’t solve any problems: there are no reported cases of transgender women (“biological men” in the bill’s sponsor’s words) exploiting their gender identity to assault women in locker rooms. But there are plenty of cases of those same transgender women—often indistinguishable from cisgender women—being brutally assaulted by men. In addition to hate and fear, Bathroom Bills bespeak a great deal of ignorance of who is really in danger. Nor is it a sin to arrange flowers for a wedding. Nor is a corporation’s owner morally responsible for how an employee uses her health insurance. Nor does it make sense to chant the mantra of “states rights” while trampling on local communities’ authority to pass anti-discrimination laws. These kinds of rhetorical subterfuge can be very effective. (Just ask Hobby Lobby.) “Religious Freedom” bills don’t succeed when people know what they really are. But like a good Texas German sausage, it’s sometimes hard to know what you’re getting.

Everythings BIGGER in Texas........

But it keeps the shrinks in Cadillacs. Best regards, RA1

Thanks for retiring me. Shall I look to you for a pension? Ditching into the Hudson would be simple compared to explaining things to you. Best regards, RA1

TheOpenMat.com has a feature storu on Mike Pucillo, a three-time All All-American and 2008 NCAA Division I Champion at Ohio State, who came out with the support of teammates and friends. Finally, on a December morning, Pucillo reached for his phone and tapped out a lengthy text message to his best friend and college teammate, Reece Humphrey. The gist of the message was this: I’m gay. “I think telling him was an unbelievable weight off my shoulders (and) I didn’t think I would feel that good just telling him,” said Pucillo, the first openly gay Division-I national champion wrestler. “Reece has always been someone with a very open mind and I thought maybe he would understand.” Pucillo and Humphrey had been teammates for four years. They lived together as seniors. When Humphrey got married, he picked Pucillo as a groomsman. Humphrey thought he knew Pucillo well, but this was a bombshell. “Holy shit, buddy!,” Humphrey wrote in his response text message that December morning. “I’m honestly so happy for you! I had no clue, but all I can say is I love you so much! I won’t tell anyone ever. It’ll always be your decision and I’m freaking crying that you chose to tell me first. You’re my best friend and I am so pumped that you got the first step off your back. As big of a deal as I’m sure it seems, it’s really not. You are a badass and you are a tough-ass wrestler, but literally no one would ever care about your sexuality."

Exactly! LOL

Perhaps, but who knows WHO they will come back as ?????

People will no doubt come back soon enough...

This article from Boston.com reports that the percentage of Bostonians who want Tsarnaev sentenced to death has dropped during the course of his trial thus far: http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/2015/03/28/most-bostonians-don-want-tsarnaev-die-will-the-jury/7HhQgc9vmGB5I9DM3yqz2J/story.html?p1=feature_sec_hp Reminds me some of why I was proud to live there.

Nice profile, much better than the usual with this kind of thing. Apple's Tim Cook leads differentBy Adam Lashinsky, Fortune http://fortune.com/2015/03/26/tim-cook/

So many questions, so little time. Best regards, RA1

Simply men who are quiet, unlike you. Best regards, RA1

A certain dose of vitriol keeps the forum entertaining. Perhaps TotallyOz can enlighten me, but I was not aware that a member here is obliged to read every post and know the details of every feud. Silence is a powerful weapon.