trencherman

The favelas facing the Bay of Guanabara command the best views of a city made up of the most spectacular scenery on earth. For a city so dependent on this for tourism, it’s just amazing how blind to this fact the bureaucrats in charge are. It’s worse than benign neglect that they allow the favelados to suffer. No credible sanitation, no proper policing, no social services. Favelas are breeding ground of varmints that in turn victimize tourists. When it rains, untreated sewage washes down the mountainside taking solid waste with it to plug the drains in the serviced areas of the city where they stagnate and pool around broken sewer pipes, exact same typhoid puddles that Oswaldo Cruz warned about at the turn of the previous century.

One of the first few Brazilian boys that caught my eyes was this fellow:

Fellow in the second pic was my reason for going to Brazil in the first place. Last time I saw him was 2007. Virtually no change for the five or six years I was seeing him. First they suddenly lose their sheen, then their shape. I would not recognize him if I run into him casually.

It's all settled then. No need to learn the local language to have fun. Just hire somebody who does.

My short answer to the original question is a spoken language is a requirement of sex unless you are talented as Marcel Marceau.

Ah, the age of Trump lives here.

Conditioned perhaps by the situation in Toronto and Montreal gay bars where the dancers are for hire that when in Rio or Sampa, I find the go-go dancers more appealing than the easily available mingling trade. So I ask and I have never been refused. They usually quote the current going rate.

Oh, I’m sorry. Maybe I should have coached my observation like this: “I’m amazed at your grasp of the blatantly obvious and glaringly explicit which you expressed rhetorically.” But I admire the camaraderie displayed by forum members who reflexively came to the rescue of a hapless fellow member. Buoying up each other’s self-esteem. I like that.

Did you read the text above the pic? It said very cute adorable face. I think that means handsome face in English.

The truth is if you are not literate, you simply do not read info. It’s a habit of mind. We literate people would read the label of a product we are buying whereas a non-literate would simply ignore the text and go by the picture on the label. In blogs and comments, few would care to go back to earlier posts and would ask the same question that has been asked (and answered) numerous times over.

Any other way to bypass having to deal with the trolls and ogres running the Toronto consulate would be welcome. You would think that the consulate being the official outpost of your country in another would be manned by staff that best represent the cultural and physical cross-section of your country. In the Brazilian consulate in Toronto you would be dead wrong.

The first step I took before going to the Brazilian Toronto consulate was to pick up a few phrases of Brazilian Portuguese. I used Pimsleur and Rosetta for this. Pick up the usual politesse you need when traveling in a foreign country but above all, learn the terms for what you want to do and how much you want to pay.

Not only in Rio but also in Sampa where the Bourbon São Paulo Express Hotel in Viera de Carvalho, another favourite of Brazilian travel forum frequenters, rates have gone down quite a bit too.

How about reading the threads that seem to touch on your interest then posting the first question that you may still have. I'm sorry but you make it sound as though you are completely helpless.

I met the best looking and most responsive boys from Santa Catarina, Rio Grande do Sul and Parana right in the saunas of Rio and Sampa. They obviously have heard of modern transportation and air travel. I visited Porto Alegre two times on my way to Pelotas which is the capital of traditional pastry and dessert manufacturing of Brazil and to the Mission sites farther South. I have been to Curitiba which is bandied about as predominantly white in fora such as this and found their saunas inhabited by boys of the same ethnic cross-section as can be found in the rest of Brazil. Same thing with Goiania and BH. Boys who work in the saunas are not divided along racial lines but by economic class. They are predominantly poor and therefore, mostly dark.

Wishing you and the rest of the cariocas all the best.