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this was posted on MR’s Facebook Page tonight! interesting read.... PORTUGUESE: Manhattan Rios.... Somos a melhor? Não. Somos a maior? Não. Somos a mais bonita? Talvez. Somos a mais limpa? Com certeza. Somos a mais chique? Sim. Cada casa tem a sua peculiaridade: A melhor localizada, A maior e mais famosa, etc... Eu não tenho a pretensão de ser a melhor mas uma coisa eu garanto. Quem vier pra Manhattan Rios vai ser bem tratado, desde o dono até o que faz a faxina... Além de que, aqui na Manhattan, o que a gente valoriza são os nossos meninos. De bom atendimento, eu entendo... Uma ótima noite a todos ... ENGLISH: Manhattan Rios.... Are we the best? No, I'm not. Are we the greatest? No, I'm not. Are we the prettiest? Maybe. Are we the cleanest? Of course. Are we the fancier? - yeah. Each house has its peculiarity: the best located, the biggest and most famous, etc... I do not claim to be the best but one thing I guarantee. Whoever comes to Manhattan Rios is going to be treated well, from the owner to what does the cleaning... besides, here in Manhattan, what we value are our boys. Good service, I understand... A great night everyone...

I’m enjoying your posts (and detailed reviews) @Latbear4blk I’d just like to take issue with what you wrote about younger men/older men as my experience runs counter to yours. I have vacationed in Buenos Aires 15-17x, each visit lasting a month or so. I am tall and lean, tanned with very short hair, and was often told that I looked ‘very European’ and not Argentine. After my first visit to the city when I dressed smart/casually, I tended to dress more formally (shirt and tie, jacket or suit) and I was hit on repeatedly by attractive younger men (18-30) both online and in the street. I can’t say what motivated the younger men. Undoubtedly it helped that I was seen as a foreigner with hard currency (or “dollarized” as I heard a few times). I was happy to be generous and as a single traveller I was happy to take them out and, of course, I picked up the bills. To my surprise, I was not asked for money. I dated many very nice young men who were invariably well-mannered and well-educated. My view FWIW is that Argentina remains a patriarchal society; the local economy remains difficult; and society can be quite cliquey. Generally older well-dressed men are seen as rich and powerful, and such a foreigner can be seen as very attractive to a young Argentine trying to make his way in the world.

With props to @Larstrup ...

I arrived to Buenos Aires last Wednesday, today is Friday, and I am already exhausted. As usual, if you are interested only about sex, just skip to the last parts of this post. I need to take a break, so I am going to devote the day to catch up with some writing. Right now I am siting at a Starbucks in the Centro Cultural Recoleta waiting to have lunch with a friend in the Buenos Aires Design terrace. This is the Centro Cultural Recoleta, one of my favorite places in the city. I performed there in my times as an actor: These are different views of the Buenos Aires Sires Design, a mall where the local upper middle class buy furniture and decorations. It has a beautiful terrace with bars and restaurants and a view of what is called Plaza Francia, even when it is not the right name. One of the first things that struck me of Buenos Aires: Starbucks ubiquity. Two years ago I noticed a few locations but I thought they were not going to be successful. Buenos Aires is a city with a very strong culture of cafés, like Paris, Rome or Madrid. Traditional cafés are spread all over the city and are the place where friends get together for long sessions of chatting without consuming more than one espresso. I thought Starbucks, with their expensive offerings and tailoring more to individuals than to groups, would fail. Damn I was wrong. They are everywhere, at least in the neighborhoods I move in (downtown, Recoleta, Barrio Norte, Palermo). They have taken over the best locations in those areas. Many of the locations are just like any regular one in the States, but many have a very fancy look and clientele. The ones around my place in Recoleta look like luxurious stores in NYC Upper West Side. McDonalds and Burger King have also increased their presence and also took over the best locations. Unlike the States, where these junk food chains target the lower end consumer, here they are a trendy place for the middle class. As soon as I have the chance I will take a picture of the prices, so you can compare. For the local market their prices are high, and the quality of their food is just as trashy as anywhere else. When I was still living in the city and McDonalds was a novelty, there was a huge scandal. The local equivalent of the FDA analyzed McD burgers and found they contained a significant percentage (I do not remember the number) of art worms to meet the protein content specifications. Everyone predicted it would be the end of the chain in Beefland, everyone was wrong. Here you have a picture of Starbucks prices. Today exchange is U$S 1= $AR 27.91 Unusually, the dollar went down. However, you never know in this country I am still holding my advise on keeping your dollars and go selling them as you need. If you lose, it is going to be very little, but you have the potential to make a difference if you gain. The dollar can go down a few cents but can go up a lot. Here you have more pictures of the area around the Centro Cultural Recoleta, just three blocks away from my place. Recoleta is the fanciest area relatively close to downtown. There are fancier ones but they all are further away. I already warned you about traffic in Corrientes City. Buenos Aires is not better. Streets with one lane fit two cars. No one respect lanes. Riding a taxi cab is very much like riding a roller coster in an amusing park (it is just not amusing but authentically scaring and dangerous). In this city we add an additional danger: you are not sure not even in the sidewalks. In one single block you usually have many garage entrances and cars going in and out. Be very alert to the warning light or they will ride over you when you were walking feeling perfectly safe. The urban design is pretty different to the American cities I know. It does have the regularity of Manhattan Streets, it is easy to get oriented and to navigate. But we do not have here rectangular blocks like in Manhattan, or blocks with alleys and driveways like in DC and most American urban areas. The blocks here are perfectly squared, about 100m (meters, remember we are in the Metric system in the rest of the world) each side. There are no alleys or driveways. All buildings have private backyards one against the other, in what is called a “Pulmón de manzana”. Here you have a picture of the one in my place: This is the Iglesia Nuestra Señora del Pilar. I used to attend a catholic elementary school associated to this church. During Holidays season (which is summer here), my mother would make me join a Catholic Charity choir. They would dress me on the traditional altar boy outfit (yes, I would melt with those red warm dresses in summer time) and we would go around the big department stores (they do not exist anymore, we used to have to huge ones, Harrod’s and Gath & Chavez) singing Christmas Carrols. Next to the church, you have the also famous Cementerio de la Recoleta. I am fond of cemeteries, out of all the ones I have visited around Europe and the States, this is one of my top favorite ones. Many aristocratic families have a tomb here, the place is a treasure of architecture and sculpting. Juan Domingo Perón mummified corpse used to rest here, this is the place from where his hands were cut off. He was now transferred to his own museum. Right in the corner of the cemetery there is a mall that in my times was a Movies theater complex. They kept many cineplex theaters but added a generous number of stores and eateries. That is two blocks from my place. Just half a block from there, you have the local residency of the Opus Dei: One of the many particular things of this city is the unbelievable number if bakeries and kioscos. Soon I will take a pic of a bakery so you can see the local offer. "Kioscos" are small stores that originally would sell only cigarets and candy. They expanded the last 20 years to offer also other products, increasing their side. This is a very typical one, they are everywhere: Let’s talk a little bit about sex. I apologize if I repeat myself, but keeping posts in more than one place makes me lost track of where I am sharing my observations. I know I already shared this, but I do not think it was here. My observations about Corrientes and the Argentinean NE being a place with a subculture where younger men chasing for older gentlemen were more prevalent compared to other places, seem to be correct. During my first two weeks in Corrientes I would get about 15 hits every day (it was even more at the beginning but I set up the filters) , during my third week the ratio went down to 5 daily. I have been in Buenos Aires now for about 3 days. I only got two hits from Grindr, and in Scruff a masseur/escort contacted me to visit him in one of the local saunas. I am using the same apps and did not change a word in my profiles and stats. I met two professionals. I already posted about the first one Douglas, a Carioca moved to Buenos Aires. I have a review almost finished and hopefully I will post it today in the blog. Yesterday I found gold. Carlos Aleman, a 21 y.o. Venezuelan that would be one of my favorite regulars if he was living closer to me. The experience was outstanding. The boy is a natural and indeed one of the top five lovers I have had in my life, for free or for a fee. I did not start writing a review yet. I am negotiating a second meeting with pics and video. Physically he kind of remind me of Ashton Summers, with a body not so sharp but equally beautiful and sexy. However what made the difference was not his looks but his performance. The boy freaks in bed, it was really special. His fee was higher than Douglas’, $AR 1,500. Tonight I am meeting a few members of the local forum. I am not sure how many will show up, but hopefully I will have some input from the locals beyond our online exchanges. I found a gay bar owned by two American expatriates that follows times more aligned with my habits: Fluxbar. I have never been there yet. Our gathering is tonight at 22 (another local particularity: we use military times here). I will share how it went in my next post.

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Unbelievable how this hi-jacked thread is now back on topic. Thanks Tom for sharing.

I recall there was a thread here from a poster (a "hot" Cuban American) complaining about some older and uglier customers could negotiate lower rate than himself at 117 and could not understand why. Well, here is your answer.

You both may be on to something with Argentina. The one time I was there I dressed in my normal shorts, flip-flops and t shirts and was not attracting anyone to say the least. ( I felt like a leper). Locals have their own precept of what a "successful, important" man dresses like. btw- I forgot ....there was one sex club- can't call it a sauna because there was not one---that attracted a lot of hot guys, half visiting airline flight attendents, with exceptional good looks and bodies. A few young locals . I forget the name. Outstanding. And there was another , that may have had a sauna, on the 2nd floor of a very old building that was always crowded with hot guys. Very big place with easily 100 guys and sex all over.

You may be right my friend. Consider I am not a tourist, I spend most of my time hunging out with relatives and old friends. I am visiting the gay circuits very rarely. As I do not have time to cruise, all my cruising is online. I did have more time in Corrientes, but here in Buenos Aires my schedule is tight and I am going straight for the efficiency, straight to the taxi boys. I am just comparing my online experience with the same apps and the same profiles between Corrientes and Buenos Aires. Also, I do not have formal cloths and I know that can make a difference in the local fashionable culture. You have not visited Corrientes. Who knows, perhaps with your older wealthy European aura the boys over there follow you like if you were in Morocco.

I learned today that my mother spent her childhood in a completely different place than the one I always assumed she did.

Hey, I just wanted to say that I envy all the beautiful art work everywhere. Thanks for sharing the pics!

Makes sense, thanks

I learned that just because you think you have the flu and you treat yourself for the flu and you seem to be getting better but go to the hospital expecting them to compliment you on your treatment that they might not do that. Dengue Fever

Here is the issue. The main site and the forum are two different platforms. We want the same names on both and the same dates, etc. It is not an easy task. We just paid a lot of money for a better solution than we had and there are still some kinks to work out. But, I like Invision as it gives so much leeway. But, they like to control username/password and that is created on the main site first and not possible for their system to control. In essence, all the sites you listed are big sites (one). We have two and we keep trying to get them to play well together.

Milton of course had Satan saying the immortal line: 'Hell is myself.'

Is this part of from the Divine to to the ridiculous? I wish no part of hell on earth (or anyplace else). Best regards, RA1

It worked! Thank you, sir.

I guess there's no going back. The worst part of it all: Whether we like his talent or not, Justin Bieber is a cultural icon. He will influence young boys and girls for a very long time. I cringe at the thought of all those parents whose kids will want to do similar things to their bodies. I cringe. As a parent, it's very difficult to control the behavior of our children, no matter how much or how little we try. The pain of unconditional love can be devastating. My son got his first tattoo during his freshman year at college. It was small, on his forearm. He did not warn me or ask my permission. I'll never forget my discreet reaction and my follow-up lecture, warning him of the perils of visual extremes in our society. I always ended my lectures by saying, "No matter what you do or what you decide is best for you, I will always love you." Luckily for me he heard and understood the intent of my warning. He never got another tattoo, and the skin on his tall, lean body remains beautiful.

You had me at clean!

Here you have the review on Douglas, the Carioca boy. https://ilikepinga.com/2018/07/13/douglas/

What ever works for you, I applaud. Best regards, RA1

Getting the thread back on-topic, if this is a form of story-telling, then I'd rather change the channel or read a different book. I'm OK with a few here and there, but when it becomes a shirt sleeve, I'd rather my guy be wearing a Gaultier.

Valid point...But I agree, I never ate that crap and never liked his commercials, so I'm hardly one to consult.,

If I stopped dealing with racists, I would starve to death by the road after my car ran out of gas while I was trying to flee their company. Not to mention," there but for the grace of God..." and all that kind of stuff. Actually my answer is a bit of a cheat. I never liked his stuff in the first place. Give me the real stuff, authentic Italian pie from Pizza Hut every time.

I forgot to add this picture: It is one of my favorite home made dishes, from my mother's hands: guido de lengua (cow tongue stew). In Argentina every single part of the cow is eaten. You have no idea how delicious this dish is.

(1) Racism isn’t a zero-sum game, where only one marginalized group gets shorted while every other one wins a medal. It’s quite perplexing that this is how you view it works. (2) Racism isn’t measured by who wants to fuck someone or give them a blowjob. Plenty of racists during the slavery and the Jim Crow periods in the American South sought sexual pleasure from black people. And to this day, some people, gay or straight, with overt or covert racist attitudes and beliefs will have sex with and even partner up with a person of another race. I know of several white gay guys who sleep with and date black, brown or Asian men and are racist fuckheads.

Badboy remember this was 20 years ago! My response would have been different today, one thing that no ones says about me is that I am shy or afraid to voice my opinions, but I am judicious enough not to make a scene at a party, but rather wait for a one on one conversation at some point! Also I have learned that you are not going to change a ignoramus's opinion, and it's not worth my time!

Thanks everyone for your comments! i remember a conversation i had one time when i had a Cuban BF from ‘97 to ‘99, he has been in the Cuban Navy and when the ship docked in Mexico he hopped on a plane to Houston and made it here! He worked as a trainer in Miami and i thought he was beautiful! When he came to LA for his first visit i had a party with about 25 guys to introduce him and one person came up to me and said “why didn’t you say your BF was Black?” I said “I told you he was Cuban!” It never dawned on me i had to define his skin tone! (He was really black like fresh from Nigeria Black) But it never occurred to me to make a point about it..i was very naive 20 years ago about things out of my wheelhouse! Anyhow, i understand preferences for similiar types person to what we are, i have always liked differences! i grew up in Minnesota where everyone was Blonde, blue eyed and named Johnson/Anderson or Hanson! :-) and that is not usually what i am attracted to...unless i am in Prague!

This is why it is extremely important to proof read what you type...This right here is racist as fuck... Underhanded racist compliment....

I would tend to agree with this. Speaking as a person of color, there is less a stigma against dark skinned guys south of the border. I would argue that most American Blacks do not consider guys from South America or south of the border to be black at all, though many are of African descent, so that can be argued intellectually, but does not transcend into personal prejudices. I personally have not associated those kinds of prejudices with populations outside of the US. Americans tend to have a more stringent and twisted sense of what is considered black and what is not. In the US, if you have any percentage of black in you, a majority of the population will consider you black. That has been my personal experience.