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I am not sure what you want me to say? I said what imho are the best nights at 117 for the last number of years, Saturday and Weds nights are the worse there not saying you can’t find some one on those nights but your odds increase exponentially on Tues-Thurs-Sun nights! Sat nights are not great anywhere unless there is a special event going on! Saturday is date night for the sauna guys! :-)

Was it better then, or now?

Sign in a shop that I frequent: Pick any two You can have it cheap. You can have it fast. You can have it well done. Best regards, RA1

My current favorite guys.

Is it really physically impossible for you to visit 2 places in the same city in 1 late afternoon and evening?

I arrived in Lama land Saturday morning after an overnight flight form Dallas. My Air B&B host in San Miguel had arranged for someone to meet me at the Lima airport. I got to the apartment and checked in, from the contacts that I made via Manhunt prior to coming I knew that the neighborhood was relatively safe and right next to the coast. The apartment was perfect, the guys could just buzz the phone and I would let them right up, this usually happened for repeat visitors since I am using the apps and want to actually see who I am letting into my apartment. My first and only pay guy was a masseuse that I found online who only charged me 60 Sol for an hour massage after that long flight. I spent about 2 weeks in Peru 8 days in Lima and 7 in Cusco. If you are going to Peru for primarily for guys I recommend that you stay in Lima as there is much more variety and the guys are a bit more mixed. I basically had a different guy every day and most were middle class guys who wanted to hook up with an "exotic foreign import" and practice their English. The pay scene definitely exists but, as with any Latin country that is not Brazil or Colombia the fitness level of the guys may not be up to everyone's standards. These guys were mostly athletic looking guys with normal builds. From my experience you will only seen a preponderance of the gym built guys in Brazil or and the cam models of Colombia. Still, I had a great time in Lima. I met a lot of guys and the most I had to do for some of them was an Uber ride and a meal. Several spent the night at my apartment and I even spent an afternoon at the home of one guy in Miraflores who really got my attention. If you are going to travel to Lima for fun and pleasure, I recommend the Miraflores District in Lima. Miraflores appears to be the tourist and the major Upper-Middle Class enclave in the city. The majority of the best stores, clubs and apparently English speaking guys are there! If you want to go out and experience some nightlife you can try the Valve Todo Downtown near Kennedy Park, it is a huge Latin Dance club with a lot of guys to choose from. Also, please visit the Larcomar shopping mall, I hate visiting malls on vacation pero, this one truly was special, built into the cliff you can literally have dinner suspended over the cliff with a breathtaking view of the Pacific ocean. While I was in Peru I always enjoyed a local cocktail called the Pisco Sour, I think I had it with virtually every meal! The El Centro portion of Lima appears very run down when compared to Mexico City but, it has a lot of history and if you are not easily spooked you can walk around outside the main plaza. Most of my guys came from Miraflores and San Miguel but, I wonder if I missed an opportunity to get good guys by not staying closer to the Centro? I really enjoyed my 8 days in Lima, the museums, guys and restaurants were all to my liking. Now Cusco is roughly 11,000 feet above sea level so unless you ski or hike at similar altitudes be prepared to spend at leas 1-2 days acclimatizing. Cusco is also a much smaller city; 300k compared to Lima's 8 million. I did meet one guy who I will only describe as an Inca Prince for fun 2 times. However, you will mostly find fellow tourists and will probably be too tired from lack of oxygen to really let your Mr. Hyde loose. I had a fantastic time in Cusco as well, I met a lot of interesting people, explored the historic city and ventured to Machu Picchu via Peru Rail. However, Cusco is mainly for spiritual experiences or bucket lists. Do not go there with the expectation of meeting a lot of guys; unless you are fine with fellow tourists and there are a few hot ones mixed in with the hippies. I would definitely do Peru again as I travel for cultural tourism as well as meeting great local guys. If anyone has any questions about Lima or Cusco I would be happy to answer them to the best of my limited knowledge. Happy Hunting!

So happy to hear I may be stimulating your, er, brain.

Not at all. But I do know you better than I did.

You think you know me better than you do.

No, you don't.

"Do I look like I give a damn"

I certainly wish for their financial ruin, at least. Once all the idiots have run out of money because they spent it on stupid projects like this, the brights will happily continue to run the world.

The Code of Hammurabi: The Best Rule To Manage Risk Reading Time: 7 minutes Almost 4,000 years ago, King Hammurabi of Babylon, Mesopotamia, laid out one of the first sets of laws. Hammurabi’s Code is among the oldest translatable writings. It consists of 282 laws, most concerning punishment. Each law takes into account the perpetrator’s status. The code also includes the earliest known construction laws, designed to align the incentives of builder and occupant to ensure that builders created safe homes: If a builder builds a house for a man and does not make its construction firm, and the house which he has built collapses and causes the death of the owner of the house, that builder shall be put to death. If it causes the death of the son of the owner of the house, they shall put to death a son of that builder. If it causes the death of a slave of the owner of the house, he shall give to the owner of the house a slave of equal value. If it destroys property, he shall restore whatever it destroyed, and because he did not make the house which he builds firm and it collapsed, he shall rebuild the house which collapsed at his own expense. If a builder builds a house for a man and does not make its construction meet the requirements and a wall falls in, that builder shall strengthen the wall at his own expense. Hammurabi became ruler of Babylon in 1792 BC and held the position for 43 years. In the era of city-states, Hammurabi grew his modest kingdom (somewhere between 60 and 160 square kilometers) by conquering several neighboring states. Satisfied, then, with the size of the area he controlled, Hammurabi settled down to rule his people. “This world of ours appears to be separated by a slight and precarious margin of safety from a most singular and unexpected danger.” — Arthur Conan Doyle Hammurabi was a fair leader and concerned with the well-being of his people. He transformed the area, ordering the construction of irrigation ditches to improve agricultural productivity, as well as supplying cities with protective walls and fortresses. Hammurabi also renovated temples and religious sites. By today’s standards, Hammurabi was a dictator. Far from abusing his power, however, he considered himself the “shepherd” of his people. Although the Babylonians kept slaves, they too had rights. Slaves could marry other people of any status, start businesses, and purchase their freedom, and they were protected from mistreatment. At first glance, it might seem as if we have little to learn from Hammurabi. I mean, why bother learning about the ancient Babylonians? They were just barbaric farmers, right? It seems we’re not as different as it appears. Our modern beliefs are not separate from those of people in Hammurabi’s time; they are a continuation of them. Early legal codes are the ancestors of the ones we now put our faith in. Whether a country is a dictatorship or democracy, one of the keys to any effective legal system is the ability for anyone to understand its laws. We’re showing cracks in ours and we can learn from the simplicity of Hammurabi’s Code, which concerned itself with practical justice and not lofty principles. To even call it a set of laws is misleading. The ancient Babylonians did not appear to have an equivalent term. Three important concepts are implicit in Hammurabi’s Code: reciprocity, accountability, and incentives. We have no figures for how often Babylonian houses fell down before and after the implementation of the Code. We have no idea how many (if any) people were put to death as a result of failing to adhere to Hammurabi’s construction laws. But we do know that human self-preservation instincts are strong. More than strong, they underlie most of our behavior. Wanting to avoid death is the most powerful incentive we have. If we assume that people felt and thought the same way 4000 years ago, we can guess at the impact of the Code. Imagine yourself as a Babylonian builder. Each time you construct a house, there is a risk it will collapse if you make any mistakes. So, what do you do? You allow for the widest possible margin of safety. You plan for any potential risks. You don’t cut corners or try to save a little bit of money. No matter what, you are not going to allow any known flaws in the construction. It wouldn’t be worth it. You want to walk away certain that the house is solid. Now contrast that with modern engineers or builders. They don’t have much skin in the game. The worst they face if they cause a death is a fine. We saw this in Hurricane Katrina —1600 people died due to flooding caused in part by the poor design of hurricane protection systems in New Orleans. Hindsight analysis showed that the city’s floodwalls, levees, pumps, and gates were ill designed and maintained. The death toll was worse than it would otherwise have been. And yet, no one was held accountable. Hurricane Katrina is regarded as a disaster that was part natural and part man-made. In recent months, in the Grenfell Tower fire in London, we saw the effects of negligent construction. At least 80 people died in a blaze that is believed to have started accidentally but that, according to expert analysis, was accelerated by the conscious use of cheap building materials that had failed safety tests. The portions of Hammurabi’s Code that deal with construction laws, as brutal as they are (and as uncertain as we are of their short-term effects) illustrate an important concept: margins of safety. When we construct a system, ensuring that it can handle the expected pressures is insufficient. A Babylonian builder would not have been content to make a house that was strong enough to handle just the anticipated stressors. A single Black Swan event — such as abnormal weather — could cause its collapse and in turn the builder’s own death, so builders had to allow for a generous margin of safety. The larger the better. In 59 mph winds, we do not want to be in a house built to withstand 60 mph winds. But our current financial systems do not incentivize people to create wide margins of safety. Instead, they do the opposite — they encourage dangerous risk-taking. Nassim Taleb referred to Hammurabi’s Code in a New York Times opinion piece in which he described a way to prevent bankers from threatening the public well-being. His solution? Stop offering bonuses for the risky behavior of people who will not be the ones paying the price if the outcome is bad. Taleb wrote: …it’s time for a fundamental reform: Any person who works for a company that, regardless of its current financial health, would require a taxpayer-financed bailout if it failed should not get a bonus, ever. In fact, all pay at systemically important financial institutions — big banks, but also some insurance companies and even huge hedge funds — should be strictly regulated. The issue, in Taleb’s opinion, is not the usual complaint of income inequality or overpay. Instead, he views bonuses as asymmetric incentives. They reward risks but do not punish the subsequent mistakes that cause “hidden risks to accumulate in the financial system and become a catalyst for disaster.” It’s a case of “heads, I win; tails, you lose.” Bonuses encourage bankers to ignore the potential for Black Swan events, with the 2008 financial crisis being a prime (or rather, subprime) example. Rather than ignoring these events, banks should seek to minimize the harm caused. Some career fields have a strict system of incentives and disincentives, both official and unofficial. Doctors get promotions and respect if they do their jobs well, and risk heavy penalties for medical malpractice. With the exception of experiments in which patients are fully informed of and consent to the risks, doctors don’t get a free pass for taking risks that cause harm to patients. The same goes for military and security personnel. As Taleb wrote, “we trust the military and homeland security personnel with our lives, yet we don’t give them lavish bonuses. They get promotions and the honor of a job well done if they succeed, and the severe disincentive of shame if they fail.” Hammurabi and his advisors were unconcerned with complex laws and legalese. Instead, they wanted the Code to produce results and to be understandable by everyone. And Hammurabi understood how incentives work — a lesson we’d be well served to learn. When you align incentives of everyone in both positive and negative ways, you create a system that takes care of itself. Taleb describes Law 229 of Hammurabi’s Code as “the best risk-management rule ever.” Although barbaric to modern eyes, it took into account certain truisms. Builders typically know more about construction than their clients do and can take shortcuts in ways that aren’t obvious. After completing construction, a builder can walk away with a little extra profit, while the hapless client is unknowingly left with an unsafe house. The little extra profit that builders can generate is analogous to the bonus system in some of today’s industries. It rewards those who take unwise risks, trick their customers, and harm other people for their own benefit. Hammurabi’s system had the opposite effect; it united the interests of the person getting paid and the person paying. Rather than the builder being motivated to earn as much profit as possible and the homeowner being motivated to get a safe house, they both shared the latter goal. The Code illustrates the efficacy of using self-preservation as an incentive. We feel safer in airplanes that are flown by a person and not by a machine because, in part, we believe that pilots want to protect their own lives along with ours. When we lack an incentive to protect ourselves, we are far more likely to risk the safety of other people. This is why bankers are willing to harm their customers if it means the bankers get substantial bonuses. And why male doctors prescribed contraceptive pills to millions of female patients in the 1960s, without informing them of the risks (which were high at the time). This is why companies that market harmful products, such as fast food and tobacco, are content to play down the risks. Or why the British initiative to reduce the population of Indian cobras by compensating those who caught the snakes had the opposite effect. Or why Wells Fargo employees opened millions of fake accounts to reach sales targets. Incentives backfire when there are no negative consequences for those who exploit them. External incentives are based on extrinsic motivation, which easily goes awry. When we have real skin in the game—when we have upsides and downsides—we care about outcomes in a way that we wouldn’t otherwise. We act in a different way. We take our time. We use second-order thinking and inversion. We look for evidence or a way to disprove it. Four thousand years ago, the Babylonians understood the power of incentives, yet we seem to have since forgotten about the flaws in human nature that make it difficult to resist temptation. https://www.farnamstreetblog.com/2017/11/hammurabis-code/

Great taste!

Good

Ah! Sorry to be slow.

line from the song

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/the-12-year-old-prodigy-whose-first-language-is-mozart/

Sounds like Axiom is willing to do the job for free.

I'd be interested in finding out about your experience since I liked your post and what you were asking!

Why do you think a home made rocket will get far enough off the ground to crash? Most likely it will self destruct on the launching pad or simply fizzle. Best regards, RA1

Bel Ami's Jack Harrer. One of my all-time favorite boy toys. Here he is with slight RH enhancement. A gift to all my size queen fans. Happy Holidays!

Tuesday’s, Sunday’s and Thursday’s are the best nights at 117(in that order) Weds definitely Pointe! I have often gone to all 3 Saunas in the same night! Starting at Meo Mundi at 5:00 going to 117 at 7:00 and endining up at pointe around 9:00. They all are within a few blocks of a Metro/subway stops on the same line be.

I made friend with a local older gentleman in rio who told me the boys can behave “a bit different” when outside of the “thermas”, and he advised that I should never take the boys out of Sauna, also citing safety reasons. in my experience it is perhaps true. They can be less enthusiastic, plus the “standard” charge for going to your hotel is R300, as of Sept 17. I met a few American guys who said they were charged R300 also when taking the boys out. I did not feel unsafe tho.

...Freud published a short piece on the Family Romance in Otto Rank's The Myth of the Birth of the Hero (1908) – the study later appearing separately in print both in German and in English.[2] Freud had anticipated the theme in the 1890s, in a private reflection on Conrad Ferdinand Meyer.[3] In his article, Freud argued for the widespread existence among neurotics of a fable in which the present-day parents were imposters, replacing a real and more aristocratic pair; but also that in repudiating the parents of today, the child is merely "turning away from the father whom he knows today to the father in whom he believed in the earliest years of his childhood".[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Family_romance

@floridarob: 80 Divas was still open it is one of the few places in Lima, that I know of, where a guy can find a decent strip show. They do have quite a few saunas and massage guys in the city. The guys in Lima are really cute and were very willing to please, age wasn't an issue at all. The only drawback as far as this site is concerned is the relative lack of gym bodies when compared to Brazil or Colombia. Still, if you are just traveling for some cultural experience, restaurants and a few good times Lima is definitely a good destination.

A few years ago I read of some sort of "house of boys" gay resort just outside Lima that was very well reviewed. Thanks for the review ! So few people report back.