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I got to São Paulo last friday! i couldn’t get the place i usually stay at but found another single family home in the same area which i really like for the many restaurants in the neighborhood as well as the upscale area it is. very close to CGH airport. as well. i got to Fragata at 4:30 , and the new facility is really nice if only people would go there! i stayed until 5:15 and during that time i appeared to be the only client(for sure the only one in the bar and pool area!) I left and went to lagoa less then about 12 minutes away by Uber. and it was Packed! as soon as i got there a blondish/brown haired guy who i met before came up to me. he has a very athletic muscular body and we wasted no time getting to a room. then when i came down a guy who doesn’t work at the sauna but knows me got there, he is another tall muscular guy, i told him that the 6’1”.black muscular stud who i have known for a couple years was coming to meet me and stay at my house that night and would he like to join us?(i knew he would! we left and got back to the house and he showed up about 5 minutes later! it was a instant love connection between the 2 of them! the next morning we got up at 9:00 and they left with the promise that we would all meet again this coming weekend(i go back to SP this coming Friday!). Saturday night i was back at lagoa which on Saturdays it is allowed to stay open 1 hour longer to 9:00 pm , i went for a massage first but it rapidly turned into sex a 1/3 of the way through! when i got back downstairs i saw a absolutely stunning guy, beautiful face, slightly worked out body (gym twice a week type but in good shape since he was only 24! we went up to a room and when he took off his towel i was surprised by his large hard straight as a arrow Dick! it was 9” and thick! the only down side is this guy did not have much of a personality...gee i wonder why? :-). i stayed until 9:00 and then left because on of the guys i had taken to mexico a few years ago was coming to spend the night. Sunday i caught a noon flight to Rio and i was going to go to Pointe when i remembered it is closed on sunday! So i went to 117, i wouldn’t recommend it for. someone as there were only about a dozen guys working although i did find a 25 year old from Bahia who i ended going up to a suite with. i got back to the apartment in Ipanema and there was a message for me that another guy i know that doesn’t work in the saunas but who i was with 1/2 dozen times on previous visits was going to be in ipanema that evening and wanted to know if i wanted to meet! this is one guy i could seriously fall in love with! he is 23 black belt and is at the police academy! and he probably is one of the nicest guys you could ever want to meet! he has a very toned body with a 6 pac, is 6’ tall, and i almost forgot a. 8-1/2” dick! amazing kisser, just a all around nice guy!(he is going to mexico with me on the fall! Today(Monday)i had this guy over that i met a year ago at pointe, it was his first night working and seemed shy! he was but not in bed! he has a incredible body but is very short, but very cute! he came to the apartment this afternoon and we really had a lot of fun! tonight is pointe’s night as 117 is closed

If you are paying, you should have no concerns.

got banned from Facebook ? I'd say , enjoy while it lasts

To be openly gay in the latter days of the Russian Empire was extremely risky. Its most celebrated composer Tchaikovsky, especially famous for his music to the ballets “Swan Lake”, “The Nutcracker” and “Sleeping Beauty”, had agonized whilst keeping his homosexuality private. His death in 1893 was officially due to cholera. Some researchers now believe he was forced to commit suicide after a threat of being ‘outed’ by a group of princeling students. He was just 53. One Russian had few concerns about keeping his gay life private. An avowed homosexual, he was destined to change forever the way the world looked at art and the performing arts. Born in 1872, Serge Diaghilev, son of a bankrupt vodka distiller, spent his early years near the Russian city of Perm. At the age of 18 he moved to the capital, St. Petersburg, where he soon managed to find himself part of an artistically-inclined gay clique. With these new friends, he would socialize, swap boyfriends and occasionally cruise for trade in the city’s parks. According to the composer Nicolas Nabokov, “he was perhaps the first grand homosexual who asserted himself and was accepted as such by society.” In the first decade of the 20th century, St. Petersburg was the place to be if you wanted to work in the classical arts. By 1906 Diaghilev was making a name for himself. He was asked to mount an exhibition of Russian art in Paris. Two years later he again visited Paris with a production of the opera “Boris Godunov” featuring the most famous bass voice of the age, Fyodor Chaliapin. The tombstone of Chaliapin in Moscow But it was ballet the French really wanted to see, for the Imperial Ballet of St. Petersburg was famed as the finest in the world. So in 1909 Diaghilev persuaded its best dancers to spend their summer holidays in Paris where he would mount a season performed under the title Les Ballets Russes. The season was a massive success. The exciting new choreography and bold new designs had a far more general appeal than to just the usual aristocratic ballet audience. As important was the astounding virtuosity of the lead dancers. Anna Pavlova (the Pavlova dessert of meringue, fruit and lashings of cream is named after her) was one of the prima ballerinas, but it was the astonishing lead male dancer who utterly electrified Paris. Everyone wanted to see the young, withdrawn and innocent star, Vaslav Nijinsky. Other than showing Paris his extraordinary leaps when he seemed suspended in the air and his supreme emotional involvement on stage, Diaghilev had another reason for wanting Nijinsky on this tour. The two had become lovers with Diaghilev holding an almost Svengali-like hold over his 20-year old protégé. Becoming a full member of the Imperial Ballet at the tender age of 17, Nijinsky quickly became a star. He also attracted the attention of the very rich playboy Prince Lvov. Lvov took the shy dancer under his wing – and into his bed – showering him and his family with gifts. Nijinsky was probably not at the time - and may never have been - homosexual. “I loved him because I knew he wished me well,” he is quoted as saying. “Well?” Perhaps, but Lvov was also a good friend of Diaghilev and had no hesitation in lending him Nijinsky for a night or two. Innocent though he might have been, the young dancer knew well that Diaghilev could further his career. So he left Lvov to live with Diaghilev. Diaghilev with composer Igor Stravinsky So successful was that season of Les Ballet Russes that the ensemble was to continue to appear in Paris before and after World War 1, soon becoming a full-time company. The scope of Diaghilev’s achievement was enormous. Composers like Stravinsky, Debussy and Prokofiev, artists like Picasso, Kandinsky and Matisse, and fashion designer Coco Chanel were engaged to create works that were becoming increasingly more avant-garde. And then there were the scandals! Nijinsky wanted more artistic freedom. Diaghilev let him choreograph a work to the music of Claude Debussy. In “L’après-midi d’un faune”, Nijinsky caused a sensation when he appeared to be slowly masturbating with a scarf prior to a brief orgasmic shudder. But the outcry that followed was nothing compared to the riot which took place during the first night of Nijinsky’s choreography for Stravinsky’s brutal, pagan-like “Rite of Spring” which ends with a human sacrifice. Paris was in uproar. No one was more pleased than Diaghilev. “Exactly what I wanted,” he exclaimed! Painting of Nijinsky with the famous scarf Diaghilev had a premonition he would die at sea. So when the company travelled to South America in 1913, he did not go. Unknown to him, one of the company’s aspiring students had her eye on Nijinsky. She made sure they became close on the long sea voyage and then arranged their marriage in Buenos Aires. On learning the news Diaghilev was incensed! He immediately fired his lover. What did he care? There were plenty more young men in the company and he was to be involved in affairs with several of them. For Nijinsky it was a total disaster. At his wife’s urging, on their return he attempted to run his own company – without success. Soon he started suffering from schizophrenia. Over the years the most famous dancer of all time was examined by many psychiatrists including Sigmund Freud. To no avail. After his last public performance aged just 27 he spent the rest of his life in an out of asylums. A typical impresario whose love of his work often exceeded his ability to finance it, Diaghilev continued to invite an ever-expanding group of young artists and composers to work with his company. By far his greatest legacy is that from the ranks of the Ballet Russes came the founders of London’s Royal Ballet and New York’s City Ballet. Another completely resurrected the near-moribund Paris Opera Ballet. All three are now amongst the world’s finest. Diaghilev himself died penniless in Venice aged 57. Although his career with the Ballet Russes had spanned less than 25 years, in that time he had revolutionised the worlds of music, dance, theatre and the visual arts as no one else in history.

From Channel News Asia TAIPEI: Taiwan will quarantine all pilots for its largest carrier China Airlines for 14 days as it tries to stop an outbreak of COVID-19 among its crew, effectively grounding the airline, the health minister said on Monday (May 10). While Taiwan has generally kept the pandemic well under control due to early prevention with only sporadic domestic cases, since last month it has been dealing with an outbreak linked to China Airlines pilots and an airport hotel where many of them stayed. There have been 35 confirmed infections so far in the outbreak. Health Minister Chen Shih-chung told reporters the only way to break what they believe is a chain of transmission at the carrier is to quarantine all China Airlines pilots currently in Taiwan, and send into quarantine those who return to Taiwan. "This will have a big impact on China Airlines, on its passenger and freighter flights, and for the crew too. But for the safety of the whole community we cannot but make this decision," he said. The move effectively amounted to a 14-day grounding for the airline, Chen added, and the pilots will only be allowed out of quarantine once they have tested negative. https://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/asia/taiwan-quarantine-all-pilots-china-airlines-grounded-covid-19-14780524

I'd rather pay. My experience is that free can get pretty expensive.

On October 21st it will be my 20th anniversary of going to brazil the first time! Usually i go 4 or 5 times a year! i think this is around my 92nd or 93rd trip here.

All i care is i saw malaysia in the list lol. Hope that ill be one of the first to enjoy the travel bubble.

Did you tell Facebook that? It is insane they would ban someone over shit like that.

Americans are the sanest people on earth. We have a well-oiled democrazy and we only elect the smartest people to high offices. OK. So, we like a bit of sex with our preachers. That is not weird. That is just the good book taking care of its own.

this is another good channel for those who miss Bangkok. This guy is a Dutch expat who does real estate in Bangkok. He makes a lot of videos on public transport (lots of new train lines coming online) and rides his bike around the city with his gopro rolling. Seems like a nice guy and good quality videos

Today the gay community in much of the world has gained a freedom unthought of even half a century ago. Along with this liberation has come an understanding that gay icons are important, especially for younger gay boys and girls. Chatting with friends over dinner recently, the conversation drifted into two rather interesting directions. Who were the first gay icons, and why are there none in Asia? As for the first gay icon, was it perhaps Alexander the Great? Deeply in love with his childhood friend Hephaestion, the Greek philosopher Aristotle described them as “one soul abiding in two bodies.” But the best known of the ancient figures to attract iconic status is surely St. Sebastian, the young, beautiful, near-naked youth, his body tied to a tree and pierced by arrows. Throughout history, hosts of artists have painted their ideals of his martyrdom. Gay film-maker Derek Jarman’s 1976 “Sebastiane” used him to examine the overlap between sexual and spiritual ecstasy. In the novel “Confessions of a Mask” by the gay right-wing Japanese Yukio Mishima who committed ritual seppuku in 1970, one character has his first ejaculation over a reproduction of St. Sebastian. As far as Asia is concerned, those in the west tend to forget there was a near thriving gay culture in many Asian countries long before the arrival of Arab traders and the missionaries who followed in the wake of western colonists desperate to convert souls for Christ. Going back in time, Chinese emperors not infrequently had concubines of both sexes. A tale often told concerns the tenth Han Dynasty Emperor Ai Ti (6 – 1 BC) who had numerous male lovers. Sharing his couch with his favourite Dong Xian, the young man fell asleep across the Emperor’s sleeve. Rather than wake him, the Emperor took his sword and simply cut off the royal sleeve. From then on, “cut sleeve” (黄九郎) became just one of many terms that appear throughout China’s literary history as a euphemism for homosexual love and devotion. Homosexuality was introduced to Japan by a bonze who had returned from China around 800 A.D. Thereafter many young boys entered into relationships with monks, a concept called nanshoku. The monks would look after the boys and teach them life skills, with sex as one of those skills. With samurai warriors being Buddhists, it became accepted that they, too, would take boys under their wing to teach them martial arts and other skills. Close by, homosexual activity was far from uncommmon at court during the the three main Korean Dynasties. During the Silla Dynasty, King Hyegong was known for his adventures with other men. One group of his elite warriors were the Hwarang or ‘Flower Boys’, so called because of their homoeroticism and femininity. During the later Koryŏ Dynasty, King Mokjong and King Gongmin are both on record as having several male lovers. When his wife died, Gongmin even went so far as to create a Ministry whose sole purpose was to seek out and recruit young men from all over the country to serve at his Court. His sexual partners were called “little brother attendants”! But as Asian countries have developed their own independent identities in the 20th century, a new gay culture has slowly re-emerged. As mentioned earlier, the novelist, playwright, essayist, actor and model Mishima has become a Japanese gay icon, albeit a controversial one due to his extreme right-wing views. Although married, he frequented gay bars and had several affairs with men. Another more recent is the adored Hong Kong singer and actor, Leslie Cheung. Handsome in the extreme and discovered in a singing competition, he was hugely successful as a silky-voiced singer, actor and songwriter. Unlike other movie stars, Leslie played several gay characters in Hong Kong movies, mirroring his secret life as a closet homosexual. He came to world attention in Chen Kaige’s 1993 movie “Farewell My Concubine” with a superb portrayal of a gay Chinese opera singer involved in a love triangle set against the violent political turmoils in 20th century China who ends up committing suicide. This gorgeous film won the Palme d’Or at Cannes and was nominated for an Oscar in the Best Foreign Film category. By this time, Leslie was known as one of the Canto-pop “kings”, four Hong Kong singers who dominated record sales around Asia for over a decade. In 1997 he starred in another major movie, “Happy Together”. This was a dark, grim tale of two 30ish gay Hong Kong lovers who decide to travel to Argentina’s Iguazu Falls on a tiny budget in an attempt to reignite their relationship. It does not work. Both end up seeking other sexual encounters. Throughout, the entire movie themes of loneliness and emotional pain are intertwined in a recurring cycle of mutual abuse and dependence. “Happy Together” gained worldwide acclaim, including another Palme d’Or for its director Wong Kar-wai and a third Best Actor nomination for Leslie. As a singer, in 1989 Leslie filled 10,000 seats in the Hong Kong Coliseum for an astonishing 33 consecutive nights. Eight years later at another series of concerts for which Jean-Paul Gaultier designed his costumes, he announced that he was gay and had had a banker lover for many years. It did nothing to upset his adoring female fans, although some of the guys were disappointed! Not known then was that despite his legendary fame in Asia and his growing fame around the world, Leslie suffered from severe clinical depression. On April 1st 2003 his manager was waiting for a meeting in the mezzanine lounge in Hong Kong’s Mandarin-Oriental Hotel. Unknown to her, Leslie was already in the hotel having a coffee on the 24th floor. Phoning to check why he was so late, she later claimed his last words to her were “I’ll be down in a moment!” He then jumped to his death. He was just 46 years old. Millions of hearts around Asia and in Chinese communities around the world were broken. Can you imagine three cuter young Hong Kong guys? Actors Danny Chan, Leslie Cheung and Paul Chung in the 1981 Hong Kong movie “On Trial”. Danny and Leslie were closet gays at the time. All died tragically young. Danny of a drug overdose aged 35. Paul like Leslie committed suicide aged 30. Leslie left a short note thanking his family, his lover and his psychiatrist. He added, “I can’t stand it anymore . . . In my life I have done nothing bad. Why does it have to be like this?” His funeral was the largest Hong Kong had seen since the death of another movie icon, Bruce Lee, with many thousands flying in from all over Asia as well as North America and Australia. In a 2010 CNN poll Leslie was voted the Third Most Iconic Musician of all Time after Michael Jackson and The Beatles. Had he lived, he would be 65 on September 12.

Thanks PeterRS Sebastian: Dong Xian

Hahaha I know exactly what you mean, I grew up with Cuban Spanish then was sent abroad to “perfect” my Spanish in Madrid. Yet the Dominican dialect is such a fucking turn on, I literally get wet when they start talking dirty to me hehehe

I don't know why this is so often framed as a "violation of rights", most loudly by Trump supporters of course. But the government is already violating everyone's rights by requiring people to wear a seat belt in a car (or wear a helmet on a motorcycle) and punishes those who don't even though these devices do ZERO to protect others from harm, only the wearer. And yet, everyone obliges and doesn't complain about the violation. As comparisons go it might be not be a perfect one with mandating a vaccination, but the point is clear. With so much at stake for society as a whole that rather small violation is easily justifiable. Mandatory smallpox vaccination succeeded in eradicating that awful disease. Back then probably nobody complained about a "rights violation" and contributed to this major achievement. Maybe a handful of people even died directly from the vaccine, which is the ultimate violation of their rights, but this prevented the suffering and death of millions. That's the decision society took back then, and might as well take now, though the case for it is of course not as clear cut as then given the milder nature of Covid versus smallpox.

I also worked in Istanbul for some time when Covid first started to die down here and the rules were relaxed, I visited Aquarius a few times. I found that they all said they were absolute 100% tops, and even though I am a top some were so hot I couldn't resist I would still agree to take them to the cabin, I would say at least half would bottom for me. I also fell for a silly scam on Grindr, some very handsome man said he would come to my Airbnb, he did, took his clothes off and put a knife down on the table, said that he didn't feel like sex so If I could give him the money and he would come back tommorow for the sex, of Course he didn't but how could I argue with a knife there. It was only 300lira anyway, about 35euro. He actually wasn't very smart as I was there for 2 months and it could of been a nice money earner for him.