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Medellin has a gay hustler street with a gay sex hotel. The only ugly guys in Medellin are there. Other than Club Tobi, the best way to see Medellin meat-on-the-hoof is Chaterbate where maybe 1/4 of the rooms are from Medellin. It's an especially tough town if you don't prearrange some guys. Bogota has a huge gay part of town and Theatron's top floor has naked erect flesh begging for money. There are maybe a dozen gay clubs with"massuers" but they are more expensive than Medellin and you don't get much. Also, unlike Medellin, Bogota is not noted for great looking guys. II's worth the trip just for the Gold Museum and the Botero Museum. (Medellin, Botero's home, has one too). There's 3 completely different areas: the Caribbean coast with mostly black guys and beautiful resorts and beaches, Medellin with mostly Spanish and Spanish/Mixed, and Bogota high in the Andes with a mix of Spanish and Incas. All the Columbian threads are lost among the multitude of Brazilian threads in the South America section. This is why our Prague thread is so good; it's one continual thread for several years where everything is. I tried to find most of the past couple year's Columbia threads. Since I did the work I'll start with mine first:

You are a bad boy! Spanking is in order!

Axiom you sound like a school teacher... i have been staying in Apts for 8 years now in Brazil, 4 X a year, and usually 2 sometimes 3 different cities! so roughly 45+ times and they have All said “no overnight guests or non registered guests”! I have had overnight guests every time, every night! including my last stay where the owner of the apt lived next door and 5 guys were staying with me!

OK, I finished Bogota and ready for the report. I spent 3 days here before 5 in Medellin and now 2 days back before going home. I felt a duty to report on this little-known place and was determined to crack it's hard-to-penetrate shell. From worst to best: Neighborhoods: TEUSAQUILLO-- Just above downtown, from about 35th to 50th Calle, a trendy fashionable neighborhood with embassies and several universities. SAUNAS: CLUB BALTIMORE SAUNA Actually in a hotel (the Maria Isabel). Gets lots of mentions. That doesn't mean it's good. I went in and the entrance was outrageous- like $60 but I was assured it was worth it because they had A (as in one) masseur who was standing in front of me- he was a 2 at best and I did a u-turn. CASA ROMANO SAUNA Has very titallating ads promising sex shows once a week and strippers once a week. In an old mansion next to the Israeli embassy. I went, I paid to get in, and was introduced to the single masseur they had; he looked like a twin of the 2 I was introduced to at Club Baltimore. Two saunas down quick. COMPLICES SAUNA Also deceptively titalating ads. Just because someone's good at html doesn't mean they're also attractive. Not sure this place even has a masseur but no one of the few people I saw there was better than the ones I shunned already. 3 down quick. CHAPERINO- (Known locally as Chapigayo)- The vast GayBorHood of Bogota. From about 50th to 70th Calles. Bogota has about 9 million people and Chapinero has maybe a quarter million. The south side toward 50th is more run down but safe while the north side bordering the "Financial District" has the Hilton and Marriott. The center part around the Theatron nightclub on 58th is so totally gay that straights seem out of place. Dozens of gay bars and nightclubs and saunas and shops from one end to the other. One of those areas where you can sit and just watch the parade of trendy attractive young urban gays (and drool). STARBOYS Not a sauna but a video club (there are several) listed as having masseurs. It doesn't. Small booths with glory holes were all empty although the owner or manager was a really pleasant guy who smiles and chats machine-gun like sweetly even though he knows you don't speak Spanish. SAUNAS: MEDITERRANEO SAUNA- Also very tempting ads. This place didn't just disappoint but totally creeped me out. You're not allowed to wear towels or briefs; you have to be totally nude. You're given a washcloth and told to hold it over your privates. Tiny building with cheap rates; 15K COP admission, 30K 30-minute massages. I'd pay a lot more to get out if I were trapped in. One of the masseurs was a decent young black guy, there was a cute young towel boy, and there was a cute young guy in the jacuzzi with someone but I never got close. The other masseur I met, and who approached me several times, was terribly out of shape, maybe 35, hairy and too pushy. Probably worked at the St. Moritz when he was 25. I wanted to wait and see if there were other masseurs with clients but a customer with really bad teeth, a really bad comb-over, and a face out of Deliverence kept following me and groping. Through the washcloth. An evening here would not have turned out well. Go forewarned. DAGOAS SAUNA I didn't even go in. I approached the desk and got a bad feel plus I had already had sex twice in 2 hours and was tired. It's in the old address of St. Moritz Sauna and that's how I stumbled on it. It advertises entrance plus 30 minute massage for 45K. Might be wonderful. I doubt it. What is wonderful is the blond security guard outside the gay bar next door. Why I went by three times but no contact. BABYLON SAUNA Where the financial district starts. Highly recommended by many people. Great ad. Entrance was 20K COP but it's published massage rates are very reasonable. It's only open from 3pm until 9:30pm (most of the saunas are only open from 1 until 10pm). Ad has photos of 3 masseurs, I only saw 2 of them, not the white one. All the staff and all masseurs are Amero-Indian and very stocic. Not a word. Very nice facilities and one of the half dozen masseurs really appealed to me- a guy with the body of an American football player. Pure beef. Tights like tree trunks. But he kept texting on a cheap old cellphone the whole time I was there and never looked up. Maybe I should have made a move. I didn't. SAINT MORITZ SAUNA Finally ! Gay El Dorado. At least a half-dozen masseurs. All white (as opposed to Babylon's all native). The friendly towel boy checking you in is cute as a button. The shy 18-yr old manning the bar is one of the cutest guys I've ever seen but doesn't massage. From his expensive braces and expensive designer t-shirt I'd say he's kept well by someone, probably the owner, but will be turned out to massage in a year or so. As soon as I get through the door I'm approached by a tall masseur with big pectorals with an offer for total release massage for 40K. Hairy guy with short hair who looks like the photo to the right on boytoy. Once my eyes go down I notice he's not exactly a six-pack tummy. Very slight lovehandles. Big nipples. Then another guy just like him approaches. Both 25-30 and hairy and very pectorally. Then I notice two more like them. Finally I meet with a shorter guy with no body hair, a nice tatoo of an angel wing, totally smooth skin, the firmest butt I've ever seen, a six pack and hard pectorals and biceps. He wants 150K COP for "Complete", 70K for Basic. That's high for Columbia. What I learn the hard way is St Moritz does not have published rates like every other sauna and you're dealing directly with the masseaur who gets 100% directly from you. Deal with masseurs at St Moritz the way you would with prepagos in negotiations. I talk him down to 120K COP for "Complete" but later learn that doesn't include (from him) any oral other than kissing and certainly no anal. Still it was well worth $48 US for the lengthy hand-job and French kissing from such a stunner. He dresses immediately to go out as I guess he's made a lot of money for him. I go to shower. In spite of St Mortiz being big and very very nice I discover the shower is tiny and has only tepid water on hot. I go out and joke about it to the shy perfect 18 yr old bartender. He tells me I should have gone to a shower upstairs. I hit on him again. He considers it a compliment and grins huge but explains, no, he doesn't. Ever. His smile alone is enough. If I were here longer I would concentrate on Grindr- I've gotten 49 messages in 2 days in spite of having no photo- just "Daddy" as a name and "visiting from USA" in description. Also I would work the cute bellhop in my hotel who's winking at me now on my last day, and I'd work the streets in Chapigayo. And I'd return to Babylon and St. Moritz a lot, and check out some of the other couple dozen saunas and Theatron. THEATRON I didn't go. It's not open Monday or Tuesday and opens at 9 or 10 other days. It costs $13 US admission including unlimited volka drinks but I don't drink. Theatron is the largest gay nightclub in South America. In an old theater building it has 10 bars. Everyone on CB in Columbia I asked and everyone in Medellin I asked for suggestions just said all I need to do is go to Theatron- anything I want I'll find at Theatron. Anything. My flight's at 9am and I'm off to bed. Ciao Columbia.

OK, not exactly. But it would be fun to see them kiss and have make-up sex. Michael Avenatti has made a new career of eviscerating Michael Cohen on TV. So imagine my shock and awe when Avenatti coyly revealed on ABC's This Week that "there's been an evolution" in their relationship. Apparently, Avenatti recently ran into Michael Cohen on the streets of Manhattan, they talked, and now they're staying in touch. Whoa! That is a serious shift in the lez-be-friends zeitgeist. Watching George Stephanopoulos, Alan Dershowitz, Dan Abrams, and Michael Avenatti go at it on TV, is more fun than a visit to the new Broadway play "Straight White Men." Dershowitz, who never tires of listening to himself talk, and gets a smiling boner at the mere sound of his voice, always delivers good TV. His ego is SO supersized, anyone who dares to appear with him is lucky to get one word into the discussion. I've never seen Abrams so on top of his game. With testosterone levels soaring and forehead lines screaming for more Botox, Abrams almost explodes his hair implants to take on Dershowitz, up to the bitter end of the segment. I love that Abrams got his last word in. And "Alan, please don't interrupt me" Avenatti, with the smoothest forehead in television, calmly and cooly knocks Dershowitz off his Harvard Emeritus anal prod. It was fantastic TV, so if you missed it, here it is:

Not if their breath smells like shit on a shoe.

But I often enjoy what you have to say. So far so good. I'm not much of a blog person, but that doesn't mean anything. People read blogs to get specific information. If you're supplying information-in-need, you will always have readers. If you stop, or your info gets old and out-dated, then I suspect readership will go down.

The pics has the facts and speak for itself. As far as hate... I've seen more hate from the libs on this board then I have from any known racist.

Sounds like you've done proper analysis anyway. Sometimes, you can't always know every piece of data. If English is not your first language, and you're catering to an English-speaking audience, then IMO, it is amazing that you've experienced any growth. Personally, I have very little patience for broken English, written or spoken, unless I know you are just visiting.

In Cambridge MA where one was resident for 30 years, one got to know everyone's celeb neighbors just through being asked to one anothers' dinner parties, small or large. No one I observed ever asked Alan over.

Tom definitely needs a 3 bedroom apartment in Rio!

It might seem like a moral issue but is more likely a security issue, which makes sense in a city like Rio. What scares the hosts is not only the extra person per se, but who is behind them and women are even considered more dangerous than men because there is usually somebody else behind their operation. While you are asleep, your "guest" might run to the corner and have the keys copied in a kiosk on the corner (plenty of them in Rio), so they have access to the apartment and the building when you leave town and you won't even figure it out. Seems paranoid, but it does happen. Is a good idea to not leave the keys at the door when you are sleeping with somebody. Not only the owners might have an issue with guests, the other tenants are probably against it as well. The bigger the apartment more restrictions on the table. A one room apartment is more easy to get away with it, a two room, you gotta get lucky, a three room forget about it. (you probably don't need it anyway).

I do that. I have the whole freaking set of data. I do know that what brings most of the traffic are the reviews. This pike of traffic may be related to all the reviews I have been posting because of my trip. But now I am back to normal life, I cannot afford hiring at the same frequency I was in Buenos Aires. I am not sure yet wether this is just a temporary pike or I have added a significant number of followers from Argentina. The latter is the most plausible explanation (bah, wishful thinking).

The best way is to put a Google Analytics Code on your homepage and it will give you tons of stats.

Take note that the new Thermas Club 13 is pinned incorrectly in Google Maps, basically in a dodgier section. However, it was called Blue Space Club in the Spring, and is pinned correctly under that name. So no need to have a driver go unnecessarily east to swing north and take the club's street one-way west. You can just get out at the new Hotel Diamante or Villa Bahiana restaurant at the corner. You will not see 13 clearly on Streetview because the bldg has been renovated and the pink privacy walk erected since Google Maps' latest iteration. With luck, 11, Fox, and 13 will prove to be a productive trifecta.

I I will weigh in on this thread anyway, though it also now straddles another thread. Everything is quite spread out, and transit across the vast spaces will require taxis or Über ... the latter is quite cheap. But if you are organized, Clube 11 might best follow a day in Pelourinho. If you are OK not going directly back to the Barra hotel. There is not much to see in the central part of Pituba, but the large high-end shopping complex n/w of Fox was pleasant to stroll and grab a bite in the massive food court prior to hitting Fox. Also not too far from Praia Pituba and from Praia Amaralina that is apparently known for local fare food kiosks particularly weekends. The new club, 13, is quite a way out but situated at about the 12th of the string of beaches running the Atlantic coast east of Barra. It might make sense, activity-wise, to fold in a beach visit and possibly the Itapuã lighthouse nearby. This new venue with GPs might be well-suited to beach vacay lovers who have already seen the popular cultural sights and may also be predisposed to hosting eye-candy at the shore. Otherwise, it amounts to at least 25-30 km return travel from most other zones.

Yes, if you are looking for that, I am sure you are going to have a good time in Salvador, the culture is very different from São Paulo and Rio - there are many local exotic dishes (as acarajé) as well as dance (capoeira) and religious traditions and celebrations (a mix between tribal Afro religions and Catholicism). Also, if you are into brown and black guys that’s the place - It is not a place I would recommend for our friend ParisRio for example LOL Just be careful as always, as in Rio the security is an issue.

Uber is in constant war with the Taxi cartels. On my last trip to Medellin, in October 2016, Uber was working but unofficially so. When I used to app to hail a ride at the airport, I received a text telling me to meet the driver at departures, to sit in the front seat and to tell anyone who asked that we were friends and that he was simply picking me up at the airport. I did so, happily. As, taxis in Colombia seem sketchy to me and I am willing to endure the slight inconvenience for the security afforded by knowing who is picking me up and Uber keeping track of where we are going.

Looks like they have Uber in Bogota and Medellin. Any experience with Uber from recent visitors?

Most gays going to Bogota seem to like the Jones hotel in Chaperniro. Not a lot of high class hotels in Chaperniro since it's mostly a gay sex neighborhood. The Marriott and Hilton are very expensive for Bogota and I don't know how easy guests are. Those 2 and The Holiday Inn are up around 73rd, about 15 (short) blocks north of the center of Chapinero but not far from Babylon and St Moritz. I had a free suite at the Crown Plaza Tuequendama downtown which was a hike to Chapeniro but close to the Gold Museum and the Botero museums which are must-sees in Bogota. The Gold Museum has thousands of gold Inca pieces, thousands of years old. Amazing museum and 1 of a kind. Also see the Colpatria Tower there at night- 50-story building covered with millions of led's in a light show. Generally the massages are priced by length from 20 minutes to 1 hour but in practice they're over when you come. St Moritz is the only sauna without posted rates and it's strictly let's-make-a-deal. Most start with a pretense of a massage with you laying on your stomach and the masseure rubbing oil for the first 5 minutes which is annoying and after the first session with a masseure can be dispensed with.The massage table is really annoying for sex but that's all that's there usually. I'm older etc and didn't have any altitude problems and I walked fast for miles a day. The only time I got physically sick was in the little tin-can taxi racing up and down the mountains from the airport to Medellin.