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Bobbalino, i appreciate the advise you try and give on your posts but i find your posts difficult to understand the whole thing even after reading them or trying to several times! Now i admit i am not the smartest guy but i am fairly literate, and i kind of skim over your posts because they are difficult for a average guy like me to get all the fine points of your posts! Possibly English is not your first language? If not i apologize!

Unless you are very attractive and speak Portuguese, your chances of picking up a guy on the streets is minimal...not saying it wont happen but very unlikely.... You can always invite a sauna guy you are interested in out for dinner or drinks or back to your hotel/apartment.... You should definitely bone up on some Portuguese so that you can communicate as most of the locals do not speak English

To my knowledge Rio does not have any hustler bars, saunas take the need for those away...there are places where you can pick up guys but NOT recommended unless you know Rio well and speak Portuguese... Tomcal, I have seen a lot of the sauna boys in Lapa after they have left the sauna or on the beaches during the day...I have seen them on both Copacabana and Ipanema... I think it is important to clarify that there are sauna guys that are strictly gay for pay and then there are the ones they are gay but work in the saunas.... Depending on a slew of things from how attractive you are...how generous you are...how well you speak Portuguese....etc....you may be able to get some attention out and about in Rio from the gay guys as well as the gay guys in the saunas.... Unless you are paying for their time....the ones that are strictly gay for pay, you wont be getting any acknowledgement from them outside of the saunas... Over my years of traveling back and forth to Rio...I have seen guys all over the city in their everyday life and have had some speak or acknowledge me and other simply nod and keep it moving...

Most of the guys favor a non-escort scene once they leave "work" in the evenings! They may go to a club/bar venue but there is no hustler bars per sei in Rio(or most of the rest of the world)! Saying that you can get lucky at one of the gay bars like ToNemAi, where i have on 3 occassions picked up guys, but i was by myself and i am sure that is why i was noticed! Its my impression that even the gay sauna boys dont nexessarily hang around gay benues on their off times. I base this on my FB where about 80 or so of my "friends" are past or present sauna guys and where they post photos of where they were the previous night! Most times it is a party/Club/bar that you wouldn't classify as gay. I know the guys that i have stay at the apartment with me when i am there do not go with me to the saunas in the evening. but will meet me back at the apartment to go to dinner when i get back after 9:30 - 10:00 pm! They all seem to hate going there if they are not wotking and this is regardless whether we are talking Rio, Sao Paulo or Porto Alegre! But they will go to a gay bar OCCASIONALLY, but not every night! And these guys are gay!

100% agreed.... I said it before.... I have tried to figure out what language he is trying to speak...as it is not or does not sound like basic English..... I just stopped even trying to read his posts.... Maybe he wants to assert how intelligent he is by typing in a way that has us question what his native language is... Ill continue to not those posts...

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