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Very interesting article on the declining fortunes of Rio, along with some stellar photography. https://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2018/01/25/grasping-rios-beauty-and-tragedy-joao-pina/?action=click&pgtype=Homepage&version=Moth-Visible&moduleDetail=inside-nyt-region-0&module=inside-nyt-region&region=inside-nyt-region&WT.nav=inside-nyt-region

Here in Thailand you can get a "happy ending" from the police with a proper bribe. And, there are some hot police guys.

Gotti, it was my first time to Bar Fama, and I loved it, but it is not for everyone, it is kinda sleezy(I loved it), and if you are somewhat timid, shy or convervative in your social life, it is not for you! The bar/seating area is not that large but there is a large black curtin on the right side as you walk in and that is the dark Room, where it is very dark and where you and a guy can have any kind of sex you want. there is a stage with a dancer on it and at the back of the bar there is a bathroom. the bathroom has a larger outer room where guys are blowing each other or kissing, and then there is the bathroom which has a lock and you can go in there and have privacy. We were there from about Midnight to 1:30 and there were about a dozen to 15 guys available, many waiting around the doorway to the bath room or in the bathroom. I walked in to take a look around and was immediately approached by several guys. One of the guys I was with was a very good looking guy with a lean toned build but who was slightly either drunk or on drugs but very functional otherwise, nice guy.. I was with two different guys there, and before anyone asks the pricing....it's is variable and based on your negotiating skills. I liked it, I had fun and I will definitely go again! I was there with Acir the owner of Meo Mundo and he also commented that several of the guys were surprisingly good looking because the impression was that it would be street boys but overall on that Saturday night it wasn't.. I will say that more then 2/3 of the guys appeared to be straight guys looking to make some quick cash.

Think I have mentioned before that while resident at Jale in New Haven, I had two great assets: a friend with a car, and another friend whose girlfriend was a student whose parents had immigrated here from Sichuan province in their 20s. Thus this girlfriend spoke/read Cantonese. So just about every Saturday afternoon, we would load into the car and speed down to NYC. First the contemporary art museums (you never knew what madness might be in the new temporary exhibits there, and then seeing the Old Standbys never grew old either), then go on down into Chinatown for dinner. Where we had a standby favorite restaurant, where our Cantonese guide would order not off the printed sweet/sour English menu, but the native-character vertical-strip menus pasted to the wall up near the ceiling. Never ate better in my life! ...One recalls Nixon's advice to Reagan before RWR's first trip to China: 'Don't ask what it is, just eat it.'

Apparently, AS, you spiced it up a bit much for some. Best regards, RA1

i just returned from 12 Days in Brazil and For what it’s worth, these were imo the best nights! Lagoa SP - Friday great and Saturday almost as good Pointe 202 - Wednesday exceptional and Monday very good Club 117 - on Tuesday packed and Thursday not bad and Sunday was so/so Meo Mundo - i did not go

I was told that Bar Fama does not get going until after midnight, this was my first time there and we got there I think after midnight but not later then 12:30 and the place was fairly busy. The bar is on a busy street but I was told don't walk around take cab or uber to the door and back!(it was easy and Uber took less then 2 minutes to arrive at around 2:00 am when we left.

EXACTLY what he looked & sounded like when I saw him live (him age 53) in 1982 at the Agora Ballroom in New Haven. thk u!

Tomcal, thanks for the outstanding report, so Bar Fama is not only a hustle bar but a hustle bar on steroids! I can't think of anything similar in the States, where back rooms are pretty much frown upon, can't even imagine a back room with available hustlers doing their trade on the spot. Puzzling more people don't write about such unique place, thanks to you we already know Saturday is a good night, hopefully soon we will have more data about other nights, I don't remember which night of the week I was there and was kinda dead, I just remember it was a night before a local holiday and the admission was around R$30,00, about 2 years ago, so the price might have changed.

Looks great!! Thanks for posting about it and including the trailer.

'For the love of God, Montresor!'

I have known similar Ozzies. On a similar note I had the most authentic Chinese food while in Brunei at a family type place hosted by Limeys who knew the drill. One needs to have numbers at such places to be able to enjoy a bit of everything. Best regards, RA1

When an Amurrican goes into a Korean restaurant in the US, my former boss (who being from Australia knew everything ) revealed to me (us sitting in just such a very nice family-run Korean eatery in Cambridge, MA) that if you want natively hot Korean dishes -- not the denatured stuff they know to serve us round-eyes -- you have to ask for it as: Singapore-hot. [This is a true fact.]

I read it and agree it was a cooked up charge. Racial and other injustice seldom is beneficial. Best regards, RA1

"For the love of God"

This thread needs some spice!

Reading Tomcal's post, seems to confirm what I suspect is going on in Rio. The big sauna night in the city is no longer 117's Tuesday night, the crown now belongs to Point's Wednesday. Hopefully this won't go in Junior's head and spoils the situation as has happened in the past. Changing cities would be great if Tom could elaborate on his visit to Bar Fama, seldom covered on this forum while a lot of people claim on something to do in SP besides Lagoa. I've been twice to the place, a couple years ago, one time was great, the other there was hardly anybody there (at 1 AM), can still be described as a hustle bar? Any updates woul be greatly appreciated.

Oh, Oz. What you don't know! Atlantis gay cruises are notorious drug parties, or so I hear. We went on one once and never saw any drugs, but friends who do them regularly have no trouble finding them. As I recall, a West Hollywood dealer was busted big time once, and word was he was the house dealer! https://www.advocate.com/news/daily-news/2011/02/13/drug-bust-atlantis-cruise Krumholz got 21 months in jail.

There was a flap here in Raleigh and other NC cities a couple years ago when Republican state legislators started to realize what all these proliferating 'Asian Massage' parlors really are. Can we say nuru? They started agitating in the press for local law enforcement to Do Something About This Outrage. The local police departments spoke back in one voice: Look, we have violent crime and armed robbery and domestic violence and gang violence and drug crime, and which of those do you want us to stop pursuing, to deal with these little Asian girls giving people a happy ending? Or give us a truckload of state money, and we MAY be able to fit them into our already-impossible agendas. My mother gets her hair done in a funny sleazy little strip mall right next door to just such an Asian Massage parlor: And around the side of the mall is no less than a Pole Dancing Studio!