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Many here are more qualified than I to discuss Sao Paolo's only sex worker sauna, but it has become a tradition of sorts to fly home out of Sao Paolo and take the very late nonstop. We put our luggage into storage lockers at a high fee of 120R. Then, a 157R cab ride got us to Lagoa where the entrance fee was 65R. The hubby found a cute guy who spoke English and they had a good time together. I liked a young white boy, even more endearing with his NY Yankee cap. In the 15 seconds it took for me to decide to talk to him about hiring, he disapreared and I didn't see him again until it was too late. We went back to GRU, but couldn't find our lockers and so spent way too much time on that. It was a circus trying to find American. I like Lagoa and have been there several times. The remodel makes you feel like you are sitting in a restaurant with a bunch of charming boys, many with exposed erections. It's clean and big, but I know my opinion won't be too popular- the guys aren't very cute compared to Rio!

Today is a holiday in Brazil, so we knew that if he were here, Lurker Speaks would have gone to his favorite lunch place, Galito's, in Ipanema, to eat their little chickens, the house specialty. So the husband and I, fond as we are of Lurker Speaks, went there today for lunch. We set aside an empty chair for him, and then both ordered the cute little chickens which were chopped right in front of us, blood spewing everywhere!....oops, wrong story. The cute little chickens were tenderly raised until ready to be of service to mankind and cooked for us. Our orders came promptly, the food was as good as ever, and Lurker Speaks had a presence in Rio that he was unaware of. On a holiday at that!

It is impressive but i really think that those numbers need to be properly discussed as you said. In South America you have places (like favelas in the north of Rio de Janeiro) which are like Saturn and that unlikely in the rest of the world, they're well marked and well separated from the rest of the city. You cannot go there, they're a completely different reality, they have parallel laws, and therefore they compromise the true purpose of these statistics. I cannot find the article, but something like 85% of the homicides in Rio, happened inside the most dangerous favelas, and mostly involved drug dealers. Anyway in 2015 in Sao Paulo (12,000,000 people), there were 650 homicides. In Rio de Janeiro (6,500,000 people), same year...1370 deaths. In Chicago (2,700,000 people) 460 homicides in the same year.