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Just came from Las Vegas! It's packed with people although the usual big crowd outside of pingueros wanting to get in seems to be missing. It's been raining here apparently the past few days so maybe that kept the crowd away. The quality of the guys are not bad at all although only a few will compare to the guys from Brazil. But it’s just my first day, maybe I’ll see more later on. Also, somebody got a proposal today! The couple is from Miami. I went to Malecon too and just a handful there.

The tables are indeed reserved, for those purchasing bottle service. They have many regulars. I was able to buy a table close to the front for 10 CUC plus a few drinks (no bottle). There is no rate for the guys in Las Vegas, because not all of them are selling themselves, and the ones that do, it's totally negotiable. The guys in front of Las Vegas and around the corner quoted me anywhere from 5 CUC to 30 CUC. Many of them did not want to quote a price, saying "If I go with you, whatever you wish to give me would be appreciated", basically. I wrote up a report about my first trip here:

Thats is a pity that I haven't seem this forum before, last year I spent 1 week in Havana, after a Cruise. But actually no action at all, just found some guys on grindr , however they were really below average. I went to Malecon few times to check what was going on, but none of the guys gave any signs that they were there for "sale".... well, I am a 30yo Brazilian, so maybe they got me as a local.... Las Vegas was closed on the day I tried to go. I went to downtown Plaza Central, but the guys who were sitting there were not attractive at all... once when I was having dinner on La Rampa, a cute swiss guy (28-30 yo) asked if he could seat with me, since the restaurant was fuĺl... we had a great conversation, and I understood he was gay, but I was a bit afraid to ask the confirmation. After dinner he told me that he knew a nice club close by, and invited me to another drink (of course I accepted, already quite excited to have some action after a week) - this club was in a basement in La Rampa. Entering the place, I realized it was a brothel! A straight brothel! What a deception... we were immediately approched by 2 girls around 19-20yo. Of couse, I politely refused, but the swiss guy decided to go with her LOL ... again after some drinks, with a broken heart I walked back to my "casa particular". LOL

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lara_Parker http://darkshadows.wikia.com/wiki/Louis_Edmonds I have posted here about how they both (almost!) fucked me.Alas.

If you can get through all eleven minutes, it becomes a little walk down memory lane. AND Louis Edmonds (Langley) had quite a nice run.

Thanks, he was not using a cap on Wednesday... but he was indeed very friendly, and he also came with this proposal to go to my hotel.

THIS is how to do it.

Thanks to the god I do not believe in for Adam4Adam. I do not have to go to the Black Pride events, the events are coming to me!

At times??? '...I've met a few board members (you know who you are!).... we (myself included) are always thinking with the little head, lol

Thank you. At 12 they actually raised the cover to $30 and the lines got longer to get in. update: B, my Marine above, was working and said he made very, very low tips. I told him after someone waits in line for 45 minutes to pay $30 cover they do not feel like fucking tipping.

Yes, indeed. We have a new poster here, a local who can easily help us with information we might not get ourselves. So I say, Welcome to the forum, Latindude! I am sorry to hear of your experience, but glad you came here to inform us. I look forward to more posts from you. Thanks for joining in!

All rather than criticizing and berating this poster, we should appreciate that he is willing to share his mistake openly for other avoid. We we all think with our little head at times and make choices that aren’t the best. So instead of being holier than thou, lets use his experience as a learning one.

I hooked up in A4A and did not go. I am too old to go out after a hot fuck. I am happy I didn't, I hate long lines and overcrowded places. If that is the prospect, I am not going on Monday either. Your Argentinian toy's body is very tempting. I think I can cover his face with the national flag and do it for the Motherland.

Have a Happy & SAFE Weekend - love, Grandma

But just to make it clear that despite of my unfortunate experiences, I really loved Cuba, and I had a lot of fun, it is a true cultural experience!

Paracelsus GERMAN-SWISS PHYSICIAN WRITTEN BY: John G. Hargrave See Article History Paracelsus, byname of Philippus Aureolus Theophrastus Bombastus von Hohenheim, (born November 11 or December 17, 1493, Einsiedeln, Switzerland—died September 24, 1541, Salzburg, Archbishopric of Salzburg [now in Austria]), German-Swiss physician and alchemist who established the role of chemistry in medicine. He published Der grossen Wundartzney (Great Surgery Book) in 1536 and a clinical description of syphilis in 1530. Education Paracelsus, who was known as Theophrastus when he was a boy, was the only son of an impoverished German doctor and chemist. His mother died when he was very young, and shortly thereafter his father moved to Villach in southern Austria. There Paracelsus attended the Bergschule, founded by the wealthy Fugger family of merchant bankers of Augsburg, where his father taught chemical theory and practice. Youngsters were trained at the Bergschule as overseers and analysts for miningoperations in gold, tin, and mercury, as well as in iron, alum, and copper-sulfate ores. The young Paracelsus learned of metals that “grow” in the earth, watched the transformations of metallic constituents in smelting vats, and perhaps wondered about the transmutationof lead into gold—a conversion believed to be possible by the alchemists of the time. Those experiences gave Paracelsus insight into metallurgy and chemistry, which likely laid the foundations of his later remarkable discoveries in the field of chemotherapy. In 1507 Paracelsus joined the many wandering youths who traveled throughout Europe in the late Middle Ages, seeking famous teachers at one university after another. Paracelsus is said to have attended the Universities of Basel, Tübingen, Vienna, Wittenberg, Leipzig, Heidelberg, and Cologne during the next five years but was disappointed with them all. He wrote later that he wondered how “the high colleges managed to produce so many high asses,” a typical Paracelsian jibe. Rejection Of Traditional Education And Medicine Paracelsus upset the traditional attitudes of Schoolmen. “The universities do not teach all things,” he wrote, “so a doctor must seek out old wives, gipsies, sorcerers, wandering tribes, old robbers, and such outlaws and take lessons from them. A doctor must be a traveller.…Knowledge is experience.” Paracelsus held that the crude language of the innkeeper, the barber, and the teamster had more real dignity and common sense than the dry Scholasticism of Aristotle, Galen of Pergamum, and Avicenna, some of the recognized medical authorities of his day. Paracelsus is said to have graduated from the University of Vienna with a baccalaureate in medicine in 1510. He then went to the University of Ferrara in Italy, where he was free to express his rejection of the prevailing view that the stars and the planets controlled all the parts of the human body. It is believed that he received a doctoral degree from the University of Ferrara in 1516, and he is presumed to have begun using the name “para-Celsus” (above or beyond Celsus) at about this time as well. His new name reflected the fact that he regarded himself as even greater than Aulus Cornelius Celsus, a renowned 1st-century Roman medical writer. Soon after taking his degree, he set out upon many years of wandering through almost every country in Europe, including England, Ireland, and Scotland. He took part in the “Netherlandish wars” as an army surgeon. Later he went to Russia, was held captive by the Tatars, escaped into Lithuania, and went south into Hungary. In 1521 he again served as an army surgeon in Italy. His wanderings eventually took him to Egypt, Arabia, the Holy Land, and, finally, Constantinople. Everywhere he went, he sought out the most learned exponents of practical alchemy, not only to discover the most effective means of medical treatment but also—and even more important—to discover “the latent forces of Nature,” and how to use them. He wrote: Career At Basel In 1524 Paracelsus returned to his home in Villach to find that his fame for many miraculous cures had preceded him. He was subsequently appointed town physician and lecturer in medicine at the University of Basel in Switzerland, and students from all parts of Europe went to the city to hear his lectures. Pinning a program of his forthcoming lectures to the notice board of the university on June 5, 1527, he invited not only students but anyone and everyone. The authorities were incensed by his open invitation. Ten years earlier German theologian and religious reformer Martin Luther had circulated his Theses on Indulgences. (See Researcher’s Note.) Later, Paracelsus wrote: Three weeks later, on June 24, 1527, in front of the university, Paracelsus reportedly burned the books of Avicenna, the Muslim “Prince of Physicians,” and those of Greek physician Galen. This incident is said to have again recalled in many peoples’ minds Luther, who on December 10, 1520, at the Elster Gate of Wittenberg, Germany, had burned a papal bull that threatened excommunication. Paracelsus seemingly remained a Catholic to his death; however, it is suspected that his books were placed on the Index Expurgatorius (a catalogue of books from which passages of text considered immoral or against the Catholic religion are removed). Similar to Luther, Paracelsus also lectured and wrote in German rather than in Latin. Paracelsus reached the peak of his career at Basel. In his lectures, he stressed the healing power of nature and denounced the use of methods of treating wounds, such as padding with moss or dried dung, that prevented natural draining. The wounds must drain, he insisted, for “if you prevent infection, Nature will heal the wound all by herself.” He also attacked many other medical malpractices of his time, including the use of worthless pills, salves, infusions, balsams, electuaries, fumigants, and drenches. However, by the spring of 1528 Paracelsus had fallen into disrepute with local doctors, apothecaries, and magistrates. He left Basel, heading first toward Colmar in Upper Alsace, about 50 miles north of the university. He stayed at various places with friends and continued to travel for the next eight years. During this time, he revised old manuscripts and wrote new treatises. With the publication of Der grossen Wundartzney(Great Surgery Book) in 1536 he restored, and even extended, the revered reputation he had earned at Basel. He became wealthy and was sought by royalty. In May 1538, at the zenith of that second period of renown, Paracelsus returned to Villach again to see his father, only to find that his father had died four years earlier. In 1541 Paracelsus himself died in mysterious circumstances at the White Horse Inn, Salzburg, where he had taken up an appointment under the prince-archbishop, Duke Ernst of Bavaria. Contributions To Medicine In 1530 Paracelsus wrote a clinical description of syphilis, in which he maintained that the disease could be successfully treated by carefully measured doses of mercury compoundstaken internally. He stated that the “miners’ disease” (silicosis) resulted from inhaling metal vapours and was not a punishment for sin administered by mountain spirits. He was the first to declare that, if given in small doses, “what makes a man ill also cures him”—an anticipation of the modern practice of homeopathy. Paracelsus is said to have cured many persons in the plague-stricken town of Stertzing in the summer of 1534 by administering orally a pill made of bread containing a minute amount of the patient’s excreta he had removed on a needle point. Paracelsus was the first to connect goitre with minerals, especially lead, in drinking water. He prepared and used new chemical remedies, including those containing mercury, sulfur, iron, and copper sulfate, thus uniting medicine with chemistry, as the first London Pharmacopoeia, in 1618, indicates. Paracelsus, in fact, contributed substantially to the rise of modern medicine, including psychiatric treatment. Swiss psychologist Carl Jung wrote of him that “we see in Paracelsus not only a pioneer in the domains of chemical medicine, but also in those of an empirical psychological healing science.” John G. Hargrave LEARN MORE in these related Britannica articles: Switzerland: Science >Paracelsus (Theophrastus Bombastus von Hohenheim), who in the 16th century brought chemistry into the field of medicine; Daniel, Jakob, and Johann Bernoulli of Basel, who made significant contributions to mathematics; the innovative mathematician Leonhard Euler; the naturalist and pioneer Alpine scholar Horace Bénédict de Saussure… history of medicine: The spread of new learning …and alchemist who called himself Paracelsus. Born in Switzerland, he traveled extensively throughout Europe, gaining medical skills and practicing and teaching as he went. In the tradition of Hippocrates, Paracelsus stressed the power of nature to heal, but, unlike Hippocrates, he believed also in the power of supernatural forces, and… poison …the German-Swiss physician and alchemist Paracelsus first stressed the chemical nature of poisons. It was Paracelsus who introduced the concept of dose and studied the actions of poisons through experimentation. It was not until the 19th century, however, that the Spaniard Matthieu Orfila, the attending physician to Louis XVIII, correlated… chemistry: Alchemy The German-Swiss physician Paracelsuspracticed alchemy, Kabbala, astrology, and magic, and in the first half of the 16th century he championed the role of mineral rather than herbal remedies. His emphasis on chemicals in pharmacy and medicine was influential on later figures, and lively controversies over the Paracelsian… physical science: Chemistry Paracelsus, a 16th-century Swiss natural philosopher, was a seminal figure in the history of chemistry, putting together in an almost impenetrable combination the Aristotelian theory of matter, alchemical correspondences, mystical forms of knowledge, and chemical therapy in medicine. His influence was widely felt in succeeding… https://www.britannica.com/biography/Paracelsus https://www.britannica.com/biography/Paracelsus

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