SolaceSoul

Prostitution (meaning one on one exchange of sex for money, directly from client to sex worker) is legal, as long as the deal or the act are not done on the public streets. Working as a prostitute in a brothel is also legal. However, the tricky part is that owning and operating a brothel, and third-party pimping (a third party making the arrangements for the sex work between the worker and a customer) are illegal in the UK. What this OP tried to do by asking him to describe in detail the sex the workers will agree to do with the customer for money amounts to engaging the manager third-party pimping. Those are questions for the service provider, not for the manager of the establishment. The manager was right to keep his mouth shut about specific sex acts and show the OP the door. Villa Gianni has remained open for years in on a quiet, unassuming, residential block, and it stays within the strict confines of the UK laws on prostitution. There’s a reason it stays open.

@NoGagSuckerSF: You’re actually still looking for black or Latino dick in San Francisco? While the white gay population mostly looked the other way, the black and Latino population has been almost completely gentrified out / priced out of San Francisco, and the entire Bay Area is increasingly predominantly white and Asian. This includes the formerly African-American stronghold of Oakland. https://qz.com/quartzy/1638972/the-data-behind-the-last-black-man-in-san-francisco/ Since the SF Rentmen prices are out of your budget, I am surmising that you’re not one of the well-paid techies that have invaded the Bay Area and pushed out the poor and undesirables. But even the low-rent gays can’t afford the Gay Capital of the USA anymore. SF is now just a city for the well-heeled predominantly white gays and well-heeled techies. Your $20 - $30 budget might continue to serve you well in the DR, especially with your obsession with black and Latin dicks. You’d be a lot better served, however, leaving your leather / S&M fetish culture talk and gadgets back with your heart in San Francisco, where they belong. Culturally, they are completely out of place. Insert the phrase “when in Rome” here.

Requests for Information, Requests for Quotes, Requests for Proposals. And let’s see some Statements of Work and Purchase Agreements! After all, this is a “procurement” business.

I agree with most everything you say. However, let’s be clear: many of the American and European travelers aren’t making $100,000 USD / EUR a year. But your point still stands.

As one of the “pro visitors” who has done this before, and is also much closer to hiring what you like, I could probably give you a few tips, but you’d have to send me a private message to discuss. Since I’m a pure capitalist at heart, my payment for my services would be that you can privately share with me a few of your stories.

Very good report, especially for a first-timer. I have nothing to critique. As a fellow connoisseur of muscle, I give you an A on your report. Also, there are some very sharp garotos at the saunas. Some are entrepreneurs and some are students working their way through university. One of my favorites at 117 was the top student in his STEM major last year, and he is quite knowledgeable about many subjects, including world history and world politics. Another I know fairly well ran for political office (yes, while working as a garoto!).

The good news (for me, at least) is that the Higienópolis-Mackenzie Metro is only one stop from Republica, a convenient but dicier area where I like to stay and sometimes hang out. Republica, named for its park which is a mix of eclecticism, seediness and cruise, is big city living and it isn’t for the squeamish! The oft-mentioned Bar Fama is in the Republica area, plus if interested (I’m not), the Chili Pepper hotel / sauna . Also in the Republica area are the Danger Dance Club, the Seven Cruising Bar, The Aurora Lan House, the often seedy cruise street / park Largo do Arouche, and other joints, bars and adult establishments (straight, gay, and mixed). Of course, the obligatory warning: all of this is completely AYOR and only a fool would venture out alone around these places after dark.

I agree, and similar time periods. Scratch antiquing and replace that with something more carnal for me. The college admissions process now is even more brutal. I’ve interviewed kids for my undergraduate institution whom I thought were brilliant, and only a handful have gotten accepted. It’s brutal nowadays.

Now might not be such a good time to tell you that two of my schools are top 30, and the other is top 100. There are a total 1,400 universities that were included in the survey. Although these lists can be quite silly, one would be surprised at how much weight is given to them.

The complete list ranked by university is here: https://www.timeshighereducation.com/world-university-rankings/2020/world-ranking#!/page/0/length/25/sort_by/rank/sort_order/asc/cols/stats

That explains the old number I have. Also, explains his disappearance from 117. I have known of a few garoto-on-garoto fist fights. Some get permanently banned and others are just temporary. Those seem to be taken less seriously than a garoto attacking a client or a sauna employee.

Renan is a good guy! I have never hired him for a programa, but I introduced him to a friend because when I saw him, I just knew he was his perfect type. I met him at 117 last year but he disappeared from the sauna. It’s good to see that he has reappeared in ads (a quite common occurrence) with a new number. I will forward the ad to my friend.

Well, 1 out 2 ain’t bad.

And, just like clockwork, former Ipanema Beach garoto turned elected political activist David Miranda and his professional agitator American sugar daddy husband Glenn Greenwald put out this photo of the two of them kissing to protest the Evangelical Rio mayor’s bigoted move.

“The mayor of Rio de Janeiro ordered law enforcement agents to raid the city's International Book Fair and seize copies of a comic book that featured 2 men kissing. The festival's organizers took him to court and won.” Two Men Kiss in a Comic Book, and a Mayor Orders a Raid https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/07/world/americas/rio-gay-kiss-comic.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share By Manuela Andreoni Sept. 7, 2019 RIO DE JANEIRO — The team of law-enforcement agents deployed by the mayor to “defend the family” descended on the international event and scoured the grounds for their target: copies of a comic book featuring two young men kissing. “Books like this need to be packaged in black plastic and sealed,” the mayor of Rio de Janeiro, Marcelo Crivella, said in a video posted on Twitter. The agents, he said, were ordered to seize all copies of the comic book from the city’s International Book Fair because it had “sexual content for minors.” As it turned out, the police came up empty on Thursday in their two-hour search for kissing comic characters, though they did find “lots of books,” Col. Wolney Dias, who headed the raid, told the newspaper Folha de São Paulo. The raid also kicked up lots of backlash for the mayor — from festival organizers, publishing houses, comedians and, finally, the Brazilian courts. On Friday, a judge barred Mr. Crivella from further seizure efforts or any attempt to withdraw the festival’s permit, a ruling that was partly overturned on Saturday. The comic book in question, published in 2010 under the title “Avengers: The Children’s Crusade,” shows the superheroes Hulkling and Wiccan, who are boyfriends, kissing. The book, which had sold out by the time the agents arrived, tells the story of Wiccan’s efforts to control his reality-altering powers. Festival organizers tried a bit of reality altering themselves on Friday when they took the mayor to court, winning an injunction against efforts to bar the book. The judge cited the organizers’ constitutional right to free expression, but his ruling was partly reversed on Saturday when a second judge said that gay and lesbian content for children should not be publicly displayed. The brushback was more colorful outside court. The comedian Felipe Neto, one of Brazil’s most popular YouTube stars, said he would distribute thousands of books with gay and lesbian characters at the festival. The books, he said, would come with a red label saying they were “inappropriate for backward, retrograde and prejudiced people.” Then, on Saturday, the publishing house Faro set up a stand at the festival under the banner “Books That Are Forbidden by Crivella” and featuring a host of volumes on issues involving gay and lesbian people. The stand became a selfie magnet, the newspaper O Globo said. Mr. Crivella’s order also served to remind local newspapers and TV stations of other things the mayor could be doing, like fighting poverty. The local unemployment rate hit 15.3 percent in the first trimester of this year. “Crivella, This Is What’s ‘Inappropriate,’” read the headline in the newspaper Extra, atop a photo of a homeless woman and her children sitting on cardboard on a sidewalk. The mayor, who is also an evangelical preacher, was unbowed. In a video posted on Friday, Mr. Crivella said he was trying to protect families. “This can’t be induced, be it in schools, in a book, or wherever,” the mayor said, apparently referring to gay and lesbian issues. “We will always continue to defend the family.” But the mayor “forgets there are quite old Supreme Court decisions that say same-sex families also deserve protection,” said Rodrigo Azambuja of Rio’s public defenders’ office, which had joined with festival organizers in their court appeal. “Under Brazilian law,” he said, “all families are equal.

I thought it was just me. I’m glad to read there’s another poster who has issues with the dim lighting at Sauna Thermas. I enjoyed my week at Thermas, and I’m making another one within the month. Howeve, those of us who have trouble with adjusting their vision to dark spaces will have a tougher time of it. I prefer well-lit areas, especially when it comes to selecting someone who I need to be visually and physically turned on by for a romp. I totally hate dark rooms for that very reason (and experience has taught me that the less physically appealing the prospect, the more they prefer dim lighting). It took me a few days to adjust to the lack of lighting in the cruise areas and the bar areas of the sauna. Even the stairwells were dark. However, after the rough vision adjustment, I enjoyed the sauna. Outside of Brazil, it’s the best of its kind. And yes, the UN variety is a plus.

@Tomcal, I think the name of the sauna you went to was Ponto De Encontro, which is in São Gonçalo, a town just north of Niteroi (and is slightly farther from Rio proper). That sauna has been around for years, and has more of a “home-style” feel to it. I believe you’re right about it only being gay on Sundays. On that night, it has working garotos and they, by all accounts, are the “guy next door” types. Thjs sauna is not to be confused with Encontru’s in Niteroi proper, which by the website, looks like it is aimed at a gay audience, and is not open on Sundays. It seems to be open Monday.- Friday, and only for special events on Saturdays. It looks relatively new (I’m thinking within the last year). It seems to openly advertise as a sauna with working garotos in it. What kind of garotos are there? We need a report! Who will be the pioneer poster?

A CPF is similar to a Brazilian Social Security number. Aa a foreigner who is staying as a guest, there should be no reason you would need.a CPF number, unless you are renting long-term (like, 3 months or more). I would contact the host or AirBnB customer service.

A CEP number is the Brazilian version of a zip code (postal code). You can read all about it on Wikipedia: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Código_de_Endereçamento_Postal If you’re trying to rent a place in Brazil on AirBnB as a guest, I have no idea why AirBnB would prompt you for a CEP number or a building number. Usually, all it requires for a traveling guest to do a search for a place to stay is to put a city or a neighborhood into the search engine. If you’re an AirBnB host and you wish to rent your place out to guests, in order to register it on the platform, it may require info like a CEP or a building number. Are you sure you’re not on the hosting side of the platform? I would call their customer service. Once they actually get on the phone, they can be quite helpful. https://www.airbnb.com/help/contact-us/logged-out

Hey, @Tomcal. Per usual, it looks like you had a great time in Brazil. Is that sauna in Niteroi called “Encontru”? I had never been, but I thought it was a gay sauna, or at least it was gay on regular nights. Also, am I reading this wrong or does this sauna have garotos de programa (Working guys) on it’s gay nights? Perhaps I did misread, and your friends just met you at the sauna. I just went to what looks like Encontru’s website, and in Portuguese it translates into a gay or almost all-gay sauna / establishment, and it makes it clear that it has “boys” (the Brazilian short term for the long-form garotos de programa — working guys). Read for yourself: https://encontrusrogger.wixsite.com/niteroi Was this (Encontru’s) the Niteroi sauna you attended? If this sauna is all or mostly gay AND has working guys, then you just broke news! Regarding Niteroi, it seems that a disproportionate number of the garotos at the Rio saunas live there — and the hottest ones, IMO. Their local beach (non-gay, Family-oriented) is great to go to — if you are invited by a local to hang out with other locals and “blend in” with the crowd. The eye candy is superb and there will be maybe a 0.000025% chance of an opportunity to hear or speak any English.

Expats Deem Life in Brazil Unsafe; Quality of Life Low Despite Locals´ Friendliness Expats are particularly worried about safety and security (64th out of 64), but also unhappy with family life abroad (35th out of 36). The majority (56 percent) agrees that making new friends in Brazil is easy — but this is only two percentage points above the global average (54 percent). By Arkady Petrov September 05, 2019 RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – Brazil comes 61st out of 64 destinations in the Expat Insider 2019 survey, ranking among the ten worst destinations in the world for the fifth year in a row. Expats are particularly worried about safety and security (64th out of 64), but also unhappy with family life abroad (35th out of 36). Brazil offers poor results across the board, ranking in the bottom 10 for three out of the five indices, and safety and security remains a huge problem for expats. Friendly locals are not enough to boost Brazil past the halfway mark: it ranks 37th out of 64 countries for ease of settling in. Brazil offers little in the way of good family life. Expensive healthcare and poor safety provisions leave the quality of life lacking. A substandard economy can leave expats struggling to afford the cost of living. 19 percent are unhappier after moving abroad (vs. 16 percent globally). Language Holds the Key to Finding Friends The majority (56 percent) agrees that making new friends in Brazil is easy — but this is only two percentage points above the global average (54 percent). Nevertheless, over three-quarters of expats (77 percent) agree that locals in Brazil have a friendly attitude towards foreign residents (vs. 65 percent globally), while just over eight in ten (83 percent) are happy with the general friendliness of the population (vs. 68 percent globally). Over two in five (41 percent) even give the best possible rating here. Without knowing the language, you cannot connect with people as much. Looking at the results surrounding language, knowing the local language seems to be the key to making friends in Brazil. Not counting native speakers, over nine in ten expats (94 percent) say they can speak the local language at least a little (vs. 75 percent globally), and 45 percent even say they speak it very well (vs. 28 percent). Additionally, 56 percent of respondents agree that making local friends is easy (vs. 42 percent globally), with 49 percent stating that their friends and acquaintances are mostly made up of local residents (vs. 19 percent globally). Families Shaken by Poor Safety Life in Brazil does not seem to offer up much for expat families. The country disappoints expat parents when it comes to the availability and cost of childcare and education, ranking 33rd out of 36 countries in both subcategories: just 26 percent of expats raising children agree that childcare in Brazil is easy to afford (vs. 43 percent globally), while merely 19 percent are satisfied with the affordability of education (vs. 46 percent globally). Expat parents also do not seem to be getting what they pay for, as just over two in five (43 percent) are happy with the quality of education in Brazil (vs. 69 percent globally). Despite ranking last for family well-being in general, expat parents in Brazil do appreciate the friendly attitude towards families with children: 85 percent of expats raising children are satisfied with this factor (vs. 81 percent globally). However, less than two-thirds of expat parents (64 percent) are happy with family life in general; noticeably below the global average of 79 percent. Brazil also lands in second-to-last place for children’s safety, with just 35 percent satisfied, a huge 46 percentage points less than the global average of 81 percent. Poor Prospects Just Not Enough Brazil fails to impress in the Working Abroad Index, ranking just 58th out of 64 countries. Despite a 15-place increase, Brazil still only comes 46th for job security (vs. 61st out of 68 in 2018): just 55 percent rate this factor positively, compared to nearly three in five globally (59 percent). Expats seem to be even less happy with the state of the economy: just 16 percent are satisfied, which is a huge contrast to the global average of 63 percent. Since the recession in 2015, Brazil’s economy has been recovering at a very slow pace of roughly 1.1 percent a year, and economists don’t see it improving any time soon. The unemployment rate in Brazil has nearly doubled since 2012, while the official unemployment survey shows that 28.3 million people are being underutilized — either not working or working less than they could be. Climbing Costs Disappoint Expats Expats seem to struggle with their personal finances in Brazil, with the country ranking 50th in the respective index. In part, this could be due to the high costs of living: 43 percent of respondents express being unhappy with costs (vs. 34 percent globally). Meanwhile, over one-quarter (26 percent) are dissatisfied with their financial situation in Brazil, compared to 18 percent worldwide, ranking the country a poor 58th place for this factor. While the same share of expats globally and in Brazil (49 percent) express that their disposable household income is more than enough to cover their daily costs, 17 percent of expats working in Brazil also say that their income is a lot lower than it would be in their home country (vs. 9 percent globally). Personal Safety Still an Issue Brazil also places poorly for quality of life, ranking 61st in this index. It finds itself once again at the bottom of the heap regarding safety and security (64th place), something that seems to be an issue for expats before even arriving in Brazil: 58 percent recall that this was a major concern before moving (vs. 12 percent globally). A shocking 61 percent even rate their personal safety badly, compared to just 9 percent globally. “Personal safety in public is an ongoing concern,” shares one US American expat in Brazil. Similarly, just 38 percent give Brazil’s peacefulness a positive rating, forty percentage points less than the global average (78 percent). Personal safety in public is an ongoing concern However, Brazil doesn’t just lose out because of safety and security: the country ranks just 54th in the Health & Well-Being subcategory. A below-average 56 percent rate the quality of Brazilian medical care positively (vs. 65 percent globally), and just 36 percent agree that healthcare is affordable (vs. 55 percent globally). For the sixth year, InterNations, the world’s largest expat community with 3.6 million members, publishes its Expat Insider survey. With more than 20,000 respondents, it is one of the most extensive surveys about living and working abroad, sharing insights into expat life in 64 destinations. The survey offers in-depth information about expats’ satisfaction with the quality of life, ease of settling in, working life, personal finance, cost of living, and family life in their respective country of residence. https://riotimesonline.com/brazil-news/uncategorized/expats-in-brazil-consider-life-unsafe-and-uninspiring-very-low-quality-of-life-ranking/

Aging, or growing old, definitely beats the only other alternative.

Yes, that’s much better than that horrid Paulista Trent Lott winner. He actually looks like a slightly darker version of my 94 year-old grandfather! (Black don’t crack, and brown sticks around.) And also, especially in that suit, a moreno Colonel Sanders..

I don’t care whether or not the winner is 63 or 96. I know that Brazil can find MANY more handsome older brasileiros than this guy who looks like Trent Lott!

Sao Paulo names most handsome elderly male https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-33815781 The winner was Aureo do Nascimento, a 63-year-old truck driver pictured here at the frontThe win