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Two things..... how did you forget to tell this story??? And the mistake I see here, is your friends said "Americano"..... if they used the National term for Very Important Whore "TOM", the police would've bowed down to you.

On my last weekend in Porto Alegre on Friday I followed my usual routine and went to Meezziniu around 5:00 and then at 10:00 headed over to Bar Mixx. For those that don’t know it is one of the last old fashioned hustler bars left in the world! I love it! But this Friday night it got busy around 10:30 and I went to one of their back rooms with 2 guys. I left about 11:45 and they have a bouncer that is outside while you wait for uber or taxi. There were 5 guys about 10’ from me talking and another guy that was standing about 3’ from me. All of the sudden out of nowhere 6 cops with assault rifles appear out of nowhere and are shouting to put your hands up and face the wall! I was on the phone and was just staring in amazement! The guy standing next to me and put his hands up and looked at me while 5 of the cops pushed the guys up against the wall the 6th cop looked at me and yelled something and the guy standing next to me yelled to him “Americano”! The cop then turns away and this guy i dont know shoves me back in the bar! I walked out 2 minutes later and everyone was gone back to usual calm! I am assuming they were looking for drugs! The whole thing happened in less then 30 seconds from the time they appeared to the time I walked back in the bar!

And since your memory is getting bad lately..... I'm willing to bet that you probably had sex with one of the police either sometime before this encounter or shortly after

The private room(s) (#1?) are 10E per hour. The better guys insist you get it because it's so much nicer and more private. AC that works, double bed. 9x12 ft. The free cubicles can be like fucking in a Sears changing room. Guys are nicer to you in the nicer rooms.

Very South American. It could happen in Rio, in Buenos Aires, In Bogota, anywhere. You are actually lucky if this is the first time you witness this kind of scene.

Cany10011 IME Barcelona and Madrid are the last holdouts of the saunas with rentboys scene in Europe. But both Berlin and Budapest have plenty of fellas on the regular sites- and on Grindr. This forum has much information about the pursuit of our hobby in various European cities. I urge you to take some time and do some reading of the posts in this forum.

I left last Thursday to Brazil, and I took a flight I really don't like but it was the one that worked logistically...I thought! I took the LAX to GRU direct flight (12-1/2 hrs. ugh) and we ended up boarding on time but sat on the runway for over an hour and landed in Sao Paulo and hour and 15 mins late! which means I missed my connection to Belo Horzonte, but anticipating a possible problem I had bought the changeable ticket on GOL airlines so I went to their counter and they said that their 3:30 flight was booked full, so then I asked about flying out of CGH the city airport and the girl said Yes they have a flight at 1:15 and the shuttle bus is free between the two airports, it was now 10:15 so I took that option. it is a 1:15 bus ride to the city airport, and I was really tired but the ride was comfortable. when I got to CGH I went to the counter it was now almost noon, and the girl at the desk says " the gate is just closed you have to go on a later flight!' I go "what? it isn't leaving for over a hour from now!" she goes " no it is leaving at 12:10" the agent at Gru at looked at the wrong time!! so I asked her what was available and she says " our 3:00 flight is sold out but I can put you on the 6:30 flight"! that means I wouldn't have gotten to the sauna until after 9:00pm so I said forget it and I canceled BH and am spending the weekend here in SP and flying to Rio on Sunday(which is a whole nother story, as I then had to change my routing and that was a night mare but it's done! . I get to Lagoa about 6:00 pm last night and it was already pretty full. as I sat at the bar there was one guy who was standing against the wall who was playing with his "fucking enormous dick"! and he was handsome! nicely toned muscled but not steroid body. Rodolfo who owns Lagoa came over and said Hi and I asked him about the guy and he gave the thumbs up. We went up to a room and he was Great. I am seeing him again tonight. after we got done I was back in the bar area when 23 yr old 1/2 Italian 1/2 black guy came up and started talking to me and he show his dick, which was a match to the' first guys! then a guy I have known for a couple of years came over and his dick was also comparable so the 3 of us went up to a room, me and 20 " of dick, I might add, really thick dicks! so I asked who is bttming of the two of them and they both laughed and the guy I had known said he would. we laughed and had a lot of fun, both really great guys! One thing about Lagoa is that the crowd stays later there then the Rio or Porto Alegre saunas! It was now about 10:30 ( I usually leave the rio saunas around 9:00) and the 1/2 Ital 1/2 black guy came over and sat down and his enormous dick was hard again and he says lets go up again! I told him I liked the idea but wanted to get something to eat, so we ordered sandwiches and he kept kissing me and he is a amazing kisser! so I go to get a key for a room and a blonde athletic guy stops me, really handsome and says "lets go to a room". I was with my friend and told him " no just the two of us are going up! He says"can't I join you?" and I said no and we started down the hell and the guy was with says "i really want fuck him and he will bottom"! so...we went back and got him and took him up with us! at this point I hadn't slept in about 36 hours so I got back to the hotel at midnight and crashed! and that was my first night in Brazil this trip!

I agree. The police were probably targeting young men in poorer neighborhoods. i also wouldn’t overlook the possibility that it was an attempted shakedown for some money. That happens often, it’s happening much more in Santo Domingo these days — especially if they suspect they are getting gringo dollars.

Oz, when I'm stressed, a muffin basket always helps.... Please, have one on me..... ( the cream cheese is in the mail)

Unfortunately, this is a normal scene for men of color in South America AND in America proper. It’s not something that white guys by themselves would normally experience or witness, so it may be hard for them to believe it happens so regularly. The “Americano” thing usually works well. In Santo Domingo, an American friend and I (we were both men of color and can be easily mistaken for locals until we open our gringo mouths) were in a car with 4 Dominican men on our way to the big Western Union superstore when three armed cops did a stop and frisk and demanded to look through the entire vehicle. My first instinct was to start talking as gringo-ey as possible, not speaking any Spanish and prominently using words like “American” and “United States”. The cops never laid a hand on either my friend or me, and never searched us. Our Dominican companions said that those kinds of searches are common, and happen almost daily when local young men are in a group. It’s one of the few times I was able to pull out that sort of privilege, since something like this wouldn’t really occur to men of color in the USA — no matter what they sounded like or how they dressed.

Hamburg has 3 hustler bars. As in Berlin it's mostly Romanians, though not as rough as the ones in Berlin. Berlin has 6 hustler bars within 2 blocks. 90% Romanian. 1% German at best. The only thing in Budapest was the wonderful Action Bar but it's permanently closed. Nothing else even though Bel Ami has a studio there. Ditto Bratislava.

Do you need to be willing to risk your reputation and pursue crazy ideas? Is that what leads to great breakthroughs? First of all, it helps to be ignorant. The time when I did my best work was when I was most ignorant. Knowing too much is a great handicap. Especially if you’ve been teaching for some years, things get so fixed in your mind and it’s impossible to think outside the box. I was in the lucky position of jumping into physics without ever having taken any courses in physics. I’d only been a pure mathematician up to that point. Is the great scientist also naturally subversive? Yes, undoubtedly. You’ve got to destroy what exists in order to build something new. You need good taste, of course. If you destroy indiscriminately, it doesn’t help at all. That’s where intuition comes in—what parts of the old building should be taken down.

You never actually got your Ph.D., did you? No. I was so lucky. I slipped through the cracks. You didn’t want a Ph.D.? No, I hate the Ph.D. I think it destroys people’s lives. I had actually three tragedies which I witnessed with people who came to work with me and came to grief. One of them committed suicide and two ended up in mental institutions. I blame the Ph.D. system for that. I think it really was a disaster for many people. Why? Because the Ph.D. system grinds people down? Yes, and it’s completely inappropriate for what most people need. It was designed for German academics in the 19th century and it was fine for that. But for any other kind of life, it’s totally wrong. It takes far too long. It forces you to pretend to be a researcher when most people don’t want to be researchers. It’s become a union card and I think it’s highly disruptive, particularly bad for women. For women to waste five or 10 years of their lives is more of a disaster than it is for men. Because they might have family responsibilities as well? Yes, because there’s a biological clock. It’s ticking much more for them.

Then you met Richard Feynman and you ended up working with him on quantum electrodynamics. I never worked with Feynman, but I learned a tremendous lot from him. He was a young professor and I was just a student, so I listened to Feynman, and of course he was a genius. He was also a clown and loved to perform, so he always needed an audience. I was very happy to be the audience. What made Feynman different from other scientists? He was extremely original. He had his own way of doing science, which was different from everybody else. That’s why he had a hard time communicating. He never wrote down equations. Most people in physics write down an equation and then find the solutions, but that wasn’t the way Feynman did it. Feynman would just write down the solutions without ever writing the equations. It seemed like a sort of magic because he thought in terms of pictures instead of equations. He had these little pictures in his head and he scribbled little pictures on paper and nobody understood what they meant. My job was to translate Feynman into language other people could understand.

Freeman Dyson: Feynman would just write down the solutions without ever writing the equations. It seemed like a sort of magic. After the war, you went to Cornell as a graduate student in the late ’40s, and you ended up working with one of the towering figures in physics, Hans Bethe. Did he become your mentor? Yes, very much so, an extraordinarily good one. He was amazing with students. He had a lot of students and he always found the right problem for each student, just difficult enough but not too difficult. He was an ideal person to have as a mentor. I owe a tremendous amount to him. What was the right problem for you? It concerned quantum molecular dynamics, which was bursting open at that time. There was a group of experimenters at Columbia who had been looking at the hydrogen atom with tools they developed during the war. Microwaves were invented for military purposes—for radar—and microwaves were just what you needed to study quantum mechanics with great accuracy. Willis Lamb was the chief experimenter, and he was tickling the hydrogen atom, measuring very precisely the energy levels of hydrogen. It turned out the standard quantum theory gave the wrong answers, so something new was needed and Bethe understood what it was. If you put the reaction of the atom’s radiation field onto its mechanics, it gave the right kind of behavior. Bethe had this extraordinary ability to do simple calculations which were quite sloppy but gave roughly the right answer. Then he gave me the problem of doing the same calculation, which I did much more accurately. http://nautil.us/issue/43/heroes/my-life-with-the-physics-dream-team

Only deep nerds need attend the following. Dirac established the most general theory of quantum mechanics and discovered the relativistic equation for the electron, which now bears his name. The remarkable notion of an antiparticle to each fermion particle – e.g. the positron as antiparticle to the electron – stems from his equation. He was the first to develop quantum field theory, which underlies all theoretical work on sub-atomic or "elementary" particles today, work that is fundamental to our understanding of the forces of nature. He proposed and investigated the concept of a magnetic monopole, an object not yet known empirically, as a means of bringing even greater symmetry to James Clerk Maxwell's equations of electromagnetism. Gravity He quantised the gravitational field, and developed a general theory of quantum field theories with dynamical constraints, which forms the basis of the gauge theories and superstring theories of today. The influence and importance of his work has increased with the decades, and physicists use the concepts and equations that he developed daily. Quantum theory Dirac's first step into a new quantum theory was taken late in September 1925. Ralph Fowler, his research supervisor, had received a proof copy of an exploratory paper by Werner Heisenberg in the framework of the old quantum theory of Bohr and Sommerfeld. Heisenberg leaned heavily on Bohr's correspondence principle but changed the equations so that they involved directly observable quantities, leading to the matrix formulation of quantum mechanics. Fowler sent Heisenberg's paper on to Dirac, who was on vacation in Bristol, asking him to look into this paper carefully. Dirac's attention was drawn to a mysterious mathematical relationship, at first sight unintelligible, that Heisenberg had reached. Several weeks later, back in Cambridge, Dirac suddenly recognised that this mathematical form had the same structure as the Poisson brackets that occur in the classical dynamics of particle motion. From this thought he quickly developed a quantum theory that was based on non-commuting dynamical variables. This led him to a more profound and significant general formulation of quantum mechanics than was achieved by any other worker in this field.[51] Dirac's formulation allowed him to obtain the quantisation rules in a novel and more illuminating manner. For this work,[52] published in 1926, Dirac received a PhD from Cambridge. This formed the basis for Fermi-Dirac statistics that applies to systems consisting of many identical spin 1/2 particles (i.e. that obey the Pauli exclusion principle), e.g. electrons in solids and liquids, and importantly to the field of conduction in semi-conductors. Dirac was famously not bothered by issues of interpretation in quantum theory. In fact, in a paper published in a book in his honour, he wrote: "The interpretation of quantum mechanics has been dealt with by many authors, and I do not want to discuss it here. I want to deal with more fundamental things."[53] The Dirac equation For more details on this topic, see Dirac equation. In 1928, building on 2×2 spin matrices which he purported to have discovered independently of Wolfgang Pauli's work on non-relativistic spin systems (Dirac told Abraham Pais, "I believe I got these [matrices] independently of Pauli and possibly Pauli got these independently of me."),[54] he proposed the Dirac equation as a relativistic equation of motion for the wave function of the electron.[55] This work led Dirac to predict the existence of the positron, the electron's antiparticle, which he interpreted in terms of what came to be called the Dirac sea.[56] The positron was observed by Carl Anderson in 1932. Dirac's equation also contributed to explaining the origin of quantum spin as a relativistic phenomenon. The necessity of fermions (matter) being created and destroyed in Enrico Fermi's 1934 theory of beta decay led to a reinterpretation of Dirac's equation as a "classical" field equation for any point particle of spin ħ/2, itself subject to quantisation conditions involving anti-commutators. Thus reinterpreted, in 1934 by Werner Heisenberg, as a (quantum) field equation accurately describing all elementary matter particles – today quarks and leptons – this Dirac field equation is as central to theoretical physics as the Maxwell, Yang–Mills and Einstein field equations. Dirac is regarded as the founder of quantum electrodynamics, being the first to use that term. He also introduced the idea of vacuum polarisation in the early 1930s. This work was key to the development of quantum mechanics by the next generation of theorists, in particular Schwinger, Feynman, Sin-Itiro Tomonaga and Dyson in their formulation of quantum electrodynamics. Dirac's Principles of Quantum Mechanics, published in 1930, is a landmark in the history of science. It quickly became one of the standard textbooks on the subject and is still used today. In that book, Dirac incorporated the previous work of Werner Heisenberg on matrix mechanics and of Erwin Schrödinger on wave mechanics into a single mathematical formalism that associates measurable quantities to operators acting on the Hilbert space of vectors that describe the state of a physical system. The book also introduced the delta function. Following his 1939 article,[57] he also included the bra–ket notation in the third edition of his book,[58] thereby contributing to its universal use nowadays. Magnetic monopoles In 1931, Dirac proposed that the existence of a single magnetic monopole in the universe would suffice to explain the quantisation of electrical charge.[59] In 1975,[60] 1982,[61] and 2009[62][63][64] intriguing results suggested the possible detection of magnetic monopoles, but there is, to date, no direct evidence for their existence (see also Magnetic monopole#Searches for magnetic monopoles).

So last night(thurs) was my last night in Rio and one of the guys is a amazing Chef!! So he made a roast dinner that was really one of the best I have had! There were 7 of us at the apartment for dinner which took him 4 hours to prepare! After we got done the one guy who is from Belo Horzonte, said he wanted to get drunk tonight(he typically doesn't drink) so we went down to Farme de Amoedo and stopped in at ToNemAi since they had just finished remodeling and it looks like a weho or Chelsea bar now with corresponding prices! They need to get rid of the hanging pendent lights on the right side! Not only is everyone hitting their heads when they get up or sit down but they are way too bright! We got back to the apt and started packing since I had to leave at 7:00 am and give the keys to turn in to one of the guys since they could sleep in as they didn't have to check out until noon but one of them isisted on driving me to the airport as he said he would get a early start back to São Paulo! One of the guys lives in SP, One in Belo Horzonte and 2 in Rio! I arrrived in Porto Alegre a couple of hours ago...

My best friend refuses to vacation with me because he says he'd feel like he's staying in a YMCA.

Personally, I'm extremely selective on travel partners and housemates -- especially on trips where a lot of sex will be involved. One wrong travel mate or housemate can fuck up the entire trip. And honestly, when I go on vacation to another country, I'm not very interested in socializing with other Americans. Getting away from them is half the fun. So, that's a no from me. Good luck to you.

I have been traveling to Rio for years and know that anything is definitely possible but there are a few things you may want to take into account, the same way you would in the states....regardless of cost 1. The ability for said guys you are hiring to mesh with each other or want to have sex in front of each other 2. The guys willingness to do whatever it is you are interested in 3. Somebody interested in the same type of guys you are interested in Again, not raining on your parade but just a few things to take into account Since I have decided to rent an apartment versus staying in a hotel for New Years (and possibly moving forward) I may try arranging a few things I haven't done in Brazil (the few things they are)

Except this was in Porto Alegre and everyone involved was as white as Minnesota! But I do believe it was “economic” discrimination since this is in a not so great part of the city and the guys that hang there are from the poor neighborhoods! Kinda like the Irish in Boston or NYC a 125 years ago! it happened so fast and I was too dumb to realize what was going on that I didn’t comply when he was yelling hands up! But being I am 6’5” he probably didn’t need to be told I was a gringo, and that’s why I wasn’t shot for not complying! :-)