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Does your workplace require you to tell them where you're going on vacation? If it's simply social inquiries, I would just be vague and move on.

Love all the new reports. Can you clarify what day(s) of the week you were at the places and how they compare? Even the best locations (Lagoa & 117 in my view) can have drastically different crowds and atmosphere on different days.

Lagoa seems to be mostly a weekend place now, with maybe Thursday tagging along. We know that the insane frenzy that used to be their Wednesdays is no more and will never come back, but does anybody have reports on what it's like (i.e., how dead is it) on Monday-Wednesday? There was a mention of some promo on Tuesdays but I don't know if that has increased the selection of talent. I'm assuming the other place, 555, is as dead on any day of the week as on any other.

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Have YOU now been there and can you report?

The Haitians are not going to invade the DR or shoot rockets. I don't know about any refugee situation but the two countries do not get along and the border, as I understand it, is heavily controlled.

Obviously wrong. But what if it's a guy who tells a not entirely believable "sick grandmother" story or if the starvation is not for food but designer jeans and sunglasses? And what happens when you're no longer excited by him - would the friendship continue? I too have had my Pretty Woman type rom-com fantasy but it has not yet seemed feasible.

Bangu is not a rundown slum but a quiet working class exurb. There's a pretty shopping mall converted from some old factories. Food out here is notably cheaper but less fancy and quality than down south. My half-hour Uber from Sao Conrado was ~$10US a couple years ago. You can even do a train adventure from the Central station in downtown Rio. It wasn't hard to get to Bangu but a little hard to find Casa Boate. The facility is okay and has a breezy semi-outdoor section. I did not find anyone to my fancy, but my tastes have gotten too caviar and champagne. Let's say these are guys who can't be sure they'll get enough customers in Copacabana to make it worth the trip.

I'm not sure how any country could beat Brazil for beaches.

It's hilarious, don't you think? Half-naked muscle boys singing off-key in a whorehouse. Who would have believed it?

I think I walked from Teatron to my cheap hotel in Chapinero, but I'm like that. Chapinero seems pretty quiet and safe. Parts north of Chapinero get ever more affluent and chic, so you should be okay. There are some excellent Michelin-style froo-froo restaurants that would be $300 a person in the US but less than half the price in Colombia. Leo is very well-regarded. But other than these bargain high-end restaurants (whose chefs and staff trained and worked in Europe), my favorite Colombian eateries are the chicharron chains. You get a cup of deep-fried tasty, salty pig pieces with a twist of lime and a beer. Life can't get any better than that!. Aand the folks on this board can't possibly be worried about the dietary effects of what they put in their mouth.

I hope it's hit or miss, unless things have changed drastically since fall 2022 and the remodeling. There were definitely Bel Ami types, actually, both the svelte twinkish Bel Ami type and one memorable exemplar of the Bel Ami muscle-hunk type. Plus a couple traveling Brazilian bodybuilders.

Checkers at stores always ask me for a CPF but it doesn't seem to matter and I never knew why.

The exact culture clash between a verklempt northerner (though I don't know where you're from) and a gregarious southerner. This was why french homosexuals went to Morocco and British homosexuals went to Tuscany and American homosexuals are going to Latin America. No that's not why.

What was described happens (though not all the time) in so many places. Street vending is common and the incident didn't sound aggressive. The occurrence with the boy I would find to be even charming, and even the homeless guy was a harmless human encounter. You actually interacted with three real working-class Brazilians who weren't in the tourist or sex industries. I would embrace it.

I'm too tech-lazy, but whenever someone starts a thread, add that Alcantara, a short boat ride from central Sao Luiz, is a colonial time capsule that hasn't been touristified yet but will surely be turned into an Olinda or Ouro Preto. Try to be in Sao Luiz for their Bumba Meu Boi festival, while Alcantara has its own festas juninas around the same time - Brazil has so much more in addition to carnaval. The southern Brazilians, though, look down upon the Caribbean poverty of the north, and much of colonial Sao Luiz is in need of restoration, so don't expect a glitzy St. Barths. The lencois are beautiful. They basically mean climbing up and down a lot of little hills so be ready. From the picture on Google Maps, that must be the same sauna I went to in 2011. It was dead then, kind of surprising during festival time, though I did have fun with a scruffy surfer. Glad to hear it's lively now.

What is fercho's whatsapp site? Do they have an IG?

The Cine Lido and other porno theaters in Latin America used to be packed with 20-somethings, many of whom would let you take care of their urgent needs. Now the guys just whack off at home with the phone in their other hand and the cines have become just like cines everywhere else (the few that remain).

Very, VERY, wise. What do you think he was going to do?

what is the reason for getting a cpf?

I would say that they might not enjoy the sex, but they can still enjoy the job. Many of the guys take pride in the fact that they are working and not selling drugs or panhandling. They take pride in the work of being a stud, and people who take pride often produce better quality work, and get better compensated. They do what everybody does to make work more enjoyable: make friends, make money (good money, in their world), be chill with the customers, be chill with everybody. If you enjoy your job and you enjoy orgasms and you enjoy feeling like a stud, it's going to be hard to untangle all the threads.

hmmm

That be he. He was or would have been the best catch on a slowish night, but I myself won't obsess over him. More of him for you.

I had a different reaction about Colombia. I found the people there to be very warm and "gay" in the old meaning of the term: waitresses were literally singing as they brought my food out. People were making so much eye contact on the streets, on the buses, etc., that it was getting confusing. I had to remind myself that they are just friendly tropical people and no come-on was intended. The DR is a much smaller country than the other two so the men are more limited in availability (no saunas with 20-30 garotos) and variety (almost exclusively caramel, moreno, or black). But the few men in this small country have HUGE things between their legs. If you leave the DR without bagging at least a couple 8-inchers, ask for your money back.

I know the rule and I doubt that I'm an exception. But at least twice, a boy in a sauna has gotten me off without money changing hands. One time might have been a confusing negotiation (with lots of foreplay!). The other time, he was one of the scrawnier, gayer garotos, and I think he was just ready to get off himself. Twinning? They used to call them "clones" and it's been going on forever, with outfit changes per decade.