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I take it, then, that some of the single-dosers fit into the overall minority that took the Janssen vaccine, while others are partially vaccinated. I believe that the younger age groups may be queuing up to obtain full vaccination status that is chugging along well, at the same time that booster doses are being rolled out for older folks (and then descending age-group order) whose prime series uptake is more dated and more represented by the less effective CoronaVac. Good to know there is receptivity to a direct inquiry and generally the kind of monolithic viewpoint about it that we appreciate. They must be accustomed to it by now. In municipal São Paulo the probability of at least one active infection within any random group of 50 not age-adjusted and not sorted according to vaccination status is 1.7%

IDK, but … Enjoy. A very opportune time. Case incidence is practically at an all-pandemic low there, perhaps a calm before the storm. I think better to ask in a more open-ended way how they protect themselves and their families from novel coronavirus infection rather than how protected you are from them based on a binary answer regarding inoculation. It’s easy to work into conversation because the theme is front-and-centre, perhaps a bit less intrusive than requesting their ‘vaccine passport’ status. The fact is that their realities can range from hybrid superimmunity from having had SARS-CoV-2 plus a prime vaccination series and a recent booster demonstrating assiduous attention to disease prophylaxis, to a wacko belief system about the risks of infection and it’s potential consequences, Bozo- grade misinformed notions about prevention, seriousness, etc. What they reveal can be very telling and steer you into a suite with them versus moving on to the next possibly saner guy for grill and spill.

I’m light on breakfast and dinner and prefer a substantial midday meal when travelling. 26 months ago Balsa at the Gold Museum, packed at peak lunchtime but accommodated walk-in basis around 13:30, was quite fine. Similarly, Marcha within the cluster of museums that includes Botero Museum. Both satisfying following hours of sightseeing and without being tied to a reservation timeline. I had figured on returning at least once a year but, like everybody else’s best-laid plans … Good to have these recent top-tier eatery tips for an eventual return, having accomplished the typical first-time sched-loaded 1-week sights sweep and able to slow it down next time.

COVID life: 18-second clip, first 6 seconds deliberately non-visual, you may need to enable sound for the clip … FullSizeRender.mov

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Now on tap in Canada and in Brazil where I have plans to winter. I hope border measures don’t get too restrictive again based on regional VOC prevalence differentials.

… just so we’re clear. LOL FullSizeRender.mov

Never tell your trick your phone is set up for roaming.

You are asking in the right place and there must be a simple succinct answer.

Whatever happens, it appears he will have had a good run. And he still survives in these troubled times when many retail settings everywhere have gone under. I have often not found what I like there. How many vendors can claim they make money from little more than window-shopping? eg 100+ BRL, and I take up very little space. I wonder if little do locals know the strip club admission up here in my neck of the woods is 0-25% his rate, yet where much of the activity is illegal, Canada following the Nordic Model of commercial sex work prohibition.

A repeat rundown doesn’t hurt. Unlike you, I’m in no position to evaluate whether the thematic repetition conveys you cannot get out of your own head about it. —— For the general readership here, I also always have a solid ample budget when I visit … it’s actually obscene how much funding has accumulated for my next trip, being in travel hiatus and all … and throw a lot of cash around but at a level likely not sustainable full-time several evenings per week for me, and particularly locals that would be considering a new expenditure, ie, lapdances. Additionally, I was there on this date exactly 5 years ago … in fact, when landed we had had a bit of delay on the USA election results … and my currency is now worth 88% more.

I am not at liberty to show photos of Montreal strippers that may be viewed as ‘a cut above’ but tend to not be among the ones open to their images integrated into club ads or social media. A matter of personal taste, obviously, but IMHO no comparison with the majority of Brazilian gogos.

Good to know these specific details about what you like and your prognostication about possibilities.

The hours of loop of videos at Pnt202 it is, then. A featured show and business as usual. Any suggestions to attenuate Junior’s lament?

I have the good, perhaps rare, fortune of being able to extract what I like about the erotic entertainment/outlet options of two cultural settings. Of course, the potential profitability of a new adjunct in either setting, be it according to this brief discussion or where poutine / feijão can fly, hinges on tradition and attachment to the familiar.

Sorry, @davet, that’s João Pessoa. What’s the one in São Luiz?

Is that Parahyba? What’s it like? —- The host protesteth muchly. It’s a special skill. The ones OK at it tend to keep it on the DL, though I’ve had a few gogo programas on site that I proposed as private dances and where they took the lead for interaction not distinguishable from a typical GdeP encounter, without any upsell. The ones shitty at it in relation to conventional local client expectations there would never [gasp!], as it’s beneath them. But the boundary variation is no different from the performative gradient among strippers in my neck of the woods. They just tend to be express being more flattered than insulted and don’t protest that you might stereotype them as prostitutes.

Good points. I was aware of all these considerations when I put forward the idea. I had actually also recalled that you yourself highlight a proportion of clientele that shows up as a social outlet more for watching than doing. The population age pyramid in Brazil is also quickly creeping up with a greater proportional share of 30’s, 40’s entering mid to later middle age, with presumably a concomitant desire for public venues beyond hire apps. A growing ‘silver economy’ pulling up aging gay men into it. I didn’t suggest that the gogo boy contingent adopt the private dance model or that the stripper/privatedance model would supplant the circumscribed period of time in which the drag/gogo performance occurs. I believe the venue pays a fee for the show. In contrast, integrating the stripper concept would not dip into the house profit margins. There would need to be some segregation between the two stage-gaze performance models and between the private model of programa and private/semi-private lapdance model. One of the reasons I highlighted Pnt202 is that the structure could accommodate this functional split in the same way I have witnessed such activity segregation in several establishments that have multiple floor levels serving clientele, eg Toronto, Montreal, CDMX, Bogotá. In Brazil, it would involve adding the middle ground I described that would live on the continuum between gogonotprostitutebutprostitutionthatmaybebyanothername, and conventional quarta trick. Obviously, the key is finding a new performative breed that the clientele willingly supports financially, and overriding the risk of a JetsSharks-grade feud between garotos and strippers (or streepers and gogos as some of the latter might resent losing private business on the down low). Of course, I could go on and add the house massage w/w-out benefits, &c, &c. If commercial sex work were to be decriminalized in Canada, it would likely be a challenge to integrate a sauna brothel - massage parlour model into a strip club without the functional segregation aspect. I’m not saying it’s easy, but it’s not a stretch to find patron support for a diversity of erotic interactional transactional entertainment. It’s a matter of worthwhile volume. It’s all somewhat moot because Junior’s establishment going under doesn’t affect me. And my proposal is not going to materialize. And then there were 3 …

A turista in Rio was itchy for willing male boîte no boate. Garotos in Bangu, though cute butts in full view, scoffed ‘no este boite we bang you.

… Perhaps two versions of a portmanteau for boa noite, slang-ish for nightclub.

I discovered a few years ago that one of the reasons Sauna Casa Grande (formerly Sauna Bangu), mainly a Sunday afternoon/evening venue, has an elusive social media presence is that it sometimes substitutes ‘i’ for ‘a’ in its nightclub name. https://instagram.com/boitecasagrandeoficial?utm_medium=copy_link

After having been to Toronto and Montreal clubs for years, my experiences at Manhattan NYC venues, CDMX, Puerto Vallarta, Acapulco (though that city’s visits more dated) and GEH Bogotá were a joke by comparison … Kafka-Burl-esque. Almost as if they were trying to reinvent the wheel without the benefit of a solid experiential grasp of how things are best run. That is why I suggested an entrepreneur such as Junior would be better off witnessing it in person. So your points about the feasibility of introducing the concept at Point202, etc are well taken. My suggestion rests partly on my wish for more selection in terms of the physical type that appeals to me as well as my adaptability to a full range of erotic play that does not necessarily culminate in the ‘main event’ that is characteristic of a programa.

I have no sympathy for him and the mindset rigidity that prevents having a stripper/lapdance arrangement integrated into the setting without upsetting the conventional brothel model. Somebody needs to grab him by the scruff of the neck, drag him to Montreal, etc, and show him that his venue structure could accommodate both agendas/playbooks. It’s a mystery to me, what with erotic performative labor including full sex legalized, the middle ground of, say, BRL10 private lap dances by strippers with full evening stage continuity, and said lap dances in a VIP open space (ie, top floor with slow music tracks) or more private booths such as could be the few adjacent small suites up there, has never caught on. It seems to be a major gap, oversight, in Brazil in terms of the continuum from watching/observing to full interactive transactional sex. If I were to rank my top 25 experiences past 25 years there would be both Brazil sauna brothel and northern strip club encounters in the mix. It could be lucrative for the house and local studs willing to meet halfway. I am not referring to the largely play-hard-to-get small contingent of dancers corralled by their drag MCs. I mean physique guys open to removing their clothes and engaging in private physical touch according to the optional boundaries of a stripper club, without the high-level performance demand for full sex that screens out many of them. Strip club owners up here can make a good living without the brothel aspect. The current problem in Montreal is too many at once trying to remain sustainable. He could consider the potential adjunct without much alteration to the space and capitalize on the best of both worlds. It would be a bigger challenge for some of the venues other than 202, but I could envision it there. He could consider experimenting with it without the need of extensive retrofitting. Multi-purpose innovation is the key to survival. Such an arrangement could also open to the door to structured ladies’ nights with a full roster of ‘part-time job’ strippers and lap dances for them. And, OMG, audition nights. For a small sum he could optionally get a one month membership for Stock Bar streaming to get a flavour of the arrangement. Each evening plays into a 24-hour loop so he can view outside of his club management hours. No need for a pole, necessarily. My favourite dancers have often not utilized it and may simply walk around rhythmically without fancy moves.

The tip about taking a picture and "sending to a friend in the DR" sounds like a very good precaution. One I will use. Use the dick for a facial but don’t confuse the dick pic picked from the mixed cache of dicks and facials when you go to send the facial to your theoretical wingman. A wanted dick on a poster is going to conflate the forensic with the desires for end [sic].

Didn’t notice though I live at only 25 metres sea level. But I did not do the fitness routines I ordinarily do at home and I don’t recall my area of Chapinero being hilly. I tend to be more bothered by outdoor heat; it was cool how I like it.