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Popular travel forums are basically social media extensions of travel guides. Both are generally geared to Coles Notes reductive summaries of the draw of a destination and key features that the average affluent visitor would appreciate. So what? Perhaps the majority of travellers that don’t live up to your expectations make visiting sustainable for everybody. Look at tourism contribution to GDP and perhaps you will notice that countries aiming to thrive are the ones orchestrating the content of go-to sources of travel information. The way that material is constructed and accessed, how travellers trying to get a break from busy lives are oriented and steered, may be what is deficient, as opposed to the assumed inferiority you have a hair-trigger tendency to wag a finger at. What else are you going to perceive if you position yourself as more skilled, adventurous, and appreciative regarding travel yet buy up the library of materials that you interpret as underscoring that you travel the most competently? If all you witness during a trip is evidence that you are the better visitor for a location, where are you hanging out? Why are you journaling the proliferation of trendy eateries and counting up the quantity of ride platforms uses taken up by visitors? If you’re not yourself at a Sandals after wheels down but you are the culture vulture transcending how others enjoy a trip how would you be seeing the manifestations of the very short-sighted approaches to travel you criticize. Where prepotency applies here is the pressing need to cast oneself as “better than” and viewing self in relation to “other”. Give it a rest. Goes for joiner cronies too. I have often stayed with local families in Brazil. I also crash at Renaissance at times. This simply makes me a traveler of a generation not the traveller of a generation. I would that the snobbery regarding travel playbook expertise here be toned down. This topic was initiated by a board member in the interests of sharing what you would never find in conventional travel guidance. And geared to an audience whose travel agenda is very specific and subject to stigmatization based on enduring a neo-conservative societal context. I frankly don’t understand how it got flipped into a tirade launched by self-congratulatory know-it-alls. However, I’m happy to jump in where pathological splitting was unnecessarily launched. In contrast to hijacking my mentor’s thread, who was to stop them from entering a new topic titled Make Aggrandizing Great as Always, or How I Look Down My Nose at My Fellow Overprivileged Peers. Cue the lazy silly downvote, way past its shelf life merit.

Speaking of deplorable I’ve been getting these grey background ignorable prompts almost each time I post. Wonder what that’s about? Oh well, out of sight the out of their mind annihilation fantasies, out of earshot the tantrum-y foot-stamping. Wonder who’s drinking that Kool-aid. Too bad about the waste of space, that narrow band taking up my screen &c.

If I have this right, somebody referenced you as deplorable, that somebody known for regularity narcissistically putting himself on a pedestal. I wouldn’t have considered that to be respectful. Sure, sometimes good decisions are made in the context of values-based disagreement, but that was not my read. The correct interpretation is an annihilation fantasy on the part of another member attempting to make himself feel better about being hemmed in regarding his own sexual interaction options. These useless troll types will skulk around attempting to hoover up your confidence and self-esteem. This person also wrote having claimed to be in the same room as another member, not having ever been introduced in person, appraising that member as being a pathetic nobody not worth one iota of attention or positive regard. This sad sack fellow who identifies as hailing from America, is a desperate yet smooth operating (to those that may require a bit of exposure to see through the crap) fabricator reaching for attention. See what I mean about castigating and maligning others essentially seeking the same thing? Backed into a corner, when gently questioned about the veracity of background, a narcissist may spontaneously claim status as a Harvard doctorate biological weaponry expert, as you decide about drinking the latte recently served before you. Alternatively, a miscreant narcissist may put forward the bald-faced lie of seeing (read that as stalking) in a common venue and appraising your moves, as mentioned above, in order to seek the upper limp-wristed hand in a spicy media exchange. There isn’t one single medical student seminar among countless I ran in which that person would not be conceptualized as grandiose and, more than likely, sociopathic. He isn’t the only one I’ve interacted with here that pursues social capital through outright mendacity regarding status, at the expense of others. As suggested above by real life examples, the similar bolt of cloth these idiots are cut from is clearly damaged. I also note that this person tends to open some passages by addressing selected other members with the qualifier that he does not typically see eye to eye with them, but exceptionality may apply in certain cases. This is nothing more than self-aggrandizing code for the assertion that his views are superior. It is a classic opener manifesting narcissism and if others don’t get it, I do. He will deign at times to give props, the context being that occasional regard for others is based solely on happenstance alignment with his perspective. He has described a close circle of similarly bitchy friends, and has sneered at the idea of forum members reaching out among their peers to socialize. The astute reader will also notice that a narcissist will tend to springboard off another’s opinion and inflate the negativity of the view contained therein, as has happened here and previously. He needs to hide behind the initiatory move of another poster, in this case, a member’s comment clearly aimed at critique of your LRD playbook and then riffing off of that far more judgementally with his inevitable superior posturing. This creates the illusion of substance in viewpoint and the apparent wannabe Santo Domingo cultural aficionado gets dragged down into the muck in relation to an alliance that Ms Southern Belle full-of-herself sucked him in to. Only a naïve person would buy that a narcissist is capable of true sympatico. You won’t see a narcissist step up and present his values as a separate written piece unless he has minimally one other to count on for alliance. Collateral damage is a bonus for him. So then, the default was calling out two of your countrymen, I perceived as hyperventilating about your approach to consensual fun, with one stone. As myself a recipient of criticism sourced from a jackass that thinks he’s better than me, my tendency is not to support the delusion of dominance, of ascendency, myopically held by another. It’s a dual disservice. I think it’s great to be thick/skinned, give the benefit of the doubt regarding motive, but there are lines crossed within social media that shouldn’t be. I won’t be labelled by a narcissist. He can fcuk off. It’s not hard, and can be edifying, to go toe-to-toe with a characterologically pathological jackass. It certainly doesn’t represent taking his content seriously and there would be no likelihood of a course correction. At 50-ish, it has been locked in and will simply bloat out to a caricature of itself. You are right, drill down for positive essence and don’t push for control that isn’t accessible. Again, I cannot sign off without emphasizing admiration for your perspective and your amazing forbearance and skill in terms of the curves life throws at you. You can also clearly take care of yourself. We all got to say our piece and we all have the prerogative to value others’ content as we see fit. Blessings.

I might be inclined to say, @BlkSuperman, that it’s sad that such a discussion was ever needed here, that any uppity narcissistic fuckwad here spewing shade on a genuinely sweet fellow like you put you in a position where you might feel you had to justify yourself. But, man, your posts are so uplifting and affirmative! Such a breath of fresh air, particularly needed as the tiresome handful of directionless trolls skulking about on the board rarely volitionally go out to pasture, far too occupied turning their life over to tracking you along with pathetic claims of proximity. Poor souls might try on some of your positivity and give their fingers a rest. LOL

This is very useful intel, @BlkSuperman. If seems that if snooty censors originally from somewhere up the eastern seaboard highway from you had their way we would be bereft interesting and entertaining content. I don’t know anybody that’s interested in a rendition of sex tourism that is intentionally submitted to suggest marked contrast to your particular style, is flaccidizing to boot, but where the meta message is one of superior posturing. I, for one, am glad to know you have a deft and playful fly-swatter approach to what amounts to targeted bullying. I thank my lucky stars I don’t have to rub shoulders with these self-appointed finger-wagging stale elitist sideshow goofs, I expect as laughable in person as on the page. They wouldn’t recognize the meaning of independencia on any day if it were a deuce pushed out onto their smug faces. As you may surmise I feel somewhat passionately about your guiding principles and resent bitchy attempts to rain on that parade. Is it just me or am I missing any erotically themed post content from these haters? Have I missed a brief few seconds where fingers weren’t lodged up those asses? LOL Cue the trolls all over this like a chika rash although it’s you I’m addressing.

I admire the persistence regarding those points. My plan is a fiasco and cannot seem to competently register earned points. After several appeal attempts, failure to grant points on one leg of a long return flight this year. And I keep getting review requests. It took several years to find a flight within its system that could be paid with a very substantial points accumulation. Frankly, at the end of the day I just find it easier to pay with money. I would happily accept discounts at a very small fraction of what points may be theoretically worth.

I never got to ‘Hotch’ House, as they say in PapoMix, during my April visit. They are good at posting the lineup but none moved me. At a certain point after visiting for years one sometimes just gravitates to a cadre of tried and true entertainers on one’s so-called roster rather than the laborious intensity of new negosh. If you are lucky and work at it you can land release repeat with guys that look better and gyrate well enough in small spaces, like your bed, to get your blood racing. One strapping guy I first met at one of the massage spas still makes my knees buckle when he steps out of the Über with his high wattage smile advancing to the gate, or Renaissance lobby when I’m slumming there. Maybe he can’t dance for shit; who knows? He needn’t care, inn’t? (He’s not the painfully cute one cross-affiliated with the sauna venues I mentioned elsewhere.)

Sunday night in Quebec and a Succession finale party trailing today’s succession of silly tantrum-y censorship and strange bedfellow board alliances. Who doesn’t agree art imitates life? American writers’ action has dried up content in more ways than one. Give them their just desserts.

Perhaps you could provide a link to your reading glasses brand. It might tone down some of the incessant whining about reading comprehension. Attention span? A different matter altogether. Making somebody grow out of infantile narcissism? Good luck. “I wanna know what the words said and I wanna know it now, wah wah wah, or you’ll see a bigly bigly ugly tantrum and be so so so sorry, wah wah wah. It’s all about me me me and don’t forget it.” Did I say ugly? Yes I did didn’t I? Whole lotta ugly. My prescription magnifiers are clear.

No experience requesting unprotected receptive anal intercourse, particularly from an escort making a living accommodating preferences, because the performative labour is dissociative. In other words, the dynamic is unique within commercial sex work and the imperative of earning may transcend his boundaries. If there were to be agreement … and there shouldn’t be agreement if actually based on common-sense mutual regard for integrity of medical health … I would want to know why. The agreement to ride you bare would also suggest a higher risk of active sexually transmitted infection based on historically loosened prophylaxis standards, for him, for you, and the next guy up in your hole. So, censorship does have its place, yessiree Bob Tom Dick Harry whoever the guide. Leave them and yourself in no worse shape than began. I might add that who is seen 4th of July is in full view 365&1/4. Unmissable anywhere, anytime.

Orwell might agree that pejorative words employed by acting out narcissists posing as amateurish diagnosticians aiming to impress, terms such as “neuro-divergent”, when read by somebody having completed a one-year clinical rotation in the Autism Spectrum domain, albeit with much eye-rolling at the temerity of such a feeble burn attempt, would prompt the educated reader to stand by the ideology that some are indeed more equal than others. I cannot recall the many other examples that put me to snoozing but there a few terms I fail to grasp, so my only complaint is the call to endure the annoying grandiosity of another sex tourist. One doesn’t need a glossary to comprehend the grandstanding centrality of an insufferable troll. There is hope for Aspergers et al. In contrast, Tourettes-grade incessant dogged entry of mindnumbingly boring quips as if This American Life for some exists exclusively here since 1984? Sad, but palliative. Narcissism? Not much potential for changing spots on that farm animal. Just another Orwellian paradox. Shit out; shit out. I realize this is all veering towards the Sandbox. This is what absurd censoring of the OP came to.

Love that, Blk Supe. You do you. Never followed JS’s broadcasts. Non-American, too busy working, earning, and additionally pro bono mentoring of developing world context medical science research projects to further grease the wheels of opportunity (I’m not beyond self-serving), hit the renewal mark for faculty status, and give a little back viz my own unmerited privilege, etc. Perhaps Springer might also have added something like: there are always judge-y prissies out there whose panties you don’t need to go near to get into a knot. If not, I’m happy to declare it. Never a lack of pissant-leaning bossy-pants attempting to pull your autonomy out from under you. Although I think it’s episodic, a few snooty 🍎 🍏, and so far doesn’t seem to have poisoned the wellspring of the Thai branch. Thus far, nobody there has declared the need for sex tourism because non-transactional partners can but fall hopelessly head over heels obsessively in love with them. Who needs that pill of a poster? No fellow punters I’ve laid eyes on in my travel environments would come remotely close to that claim. AFAIK 5 AM Club joiners just crap at different times and surround themselves with reciprocal ass-kissers, all good for diurnal equalization of sewage flow. How some clowns desperately reach for flimsy substantiation that buttresses their sad grandiosity is beyond the pale. Sheesh. LOL. Good thing you can see a one 10 kilometres away, expending a bit of energy for content in context, if you’ve read the forum for a while. Reminds one of the always essential chapter within the “difficult patient” syllabus.

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Right, “rotate through boyfriends”. Not a sex tourist. A weak link requiring attention. Your squeezes self-sufficient financially. So why are you writing in a thread thematically related to punting? Blathering on about your superiority relative to a fellow countryman that simply engages in consensual activity and embellishes accounts for effect. My points stand. Go tell your narrative on a mountain. Trap door for pomposity, here goes. Enjoy it down there with the other nauseatingly self-aggrandizing tool, the fake news sociopath off his trolley purporting to have once made an in-person impression about my physicality and bearing; you’ll find him in the bin marked “barista posing as a physician, lawyer, biological terrorism consultant all wrapped up in one neat package + other strange phonies on a gay message board angling for status”. You’ll notice all fraternity shit stinks the same down there. Let others live in peace. You are seen. Leave it at that.

I’m out, almost right after my irate and amused post. I don’t read drivel. The OP can take it from here.

Did you get all that @BlkSuperman? You too can take on a discardable steady every season and put on airs of communal superiority. But then my narcolepsy risks relapse and you’re too self-possessed to suffer fools. Perhaps a diversion would feed those egos dripping down a schnoz stuck here or there where it doesn’t belong, maybe something like a Special Achievement in Sex Tourism nod? Once in a while a stream of text comes along that has you rolling on the floor. Here’s where cultural awareness is useful: recognizing a steaming load of hooey squeezed out of the tight anuses of delusional consumers of paid sex that would cast themselves as philanthropic 😂 WTAF? Are they paying the locals in LRD, Brazil, what have you, through a personal secretary mediating offshore accounts? Why write shyte here then? Take the commentary to UNICEF. Kryst on a Kross. Illegitimi non carborundum. Maybe they’ll grow as weary of their holier-than-thou posturing as I am observing it. Thank the good lord there’s enough fun to be experienced to eclipse these time-wasting clowns.

I have it on fair authority, perhaps worth-a-gander authority, that Top Man in São Paulo is a location for trade, perhaps “semi-formally”. I was skeptical when another punter mentioned it to me last winter as a source of paid fun, but he did seem to be a seasoned visitor and not channeling the annoyingly ex-pat narcissistic claims of expertise we sometimes see. However, a few weeks ago a Vila Mariana spa massajista I have met both at the spa location, where Tantrica has a very broad meaning AND my intractable trap spasm was skilfully released, as well as my lodgings, mentioned it in passing. He spontaneously asked me if I ever attended Lagoa or Top Man (he mentioned them in the same breath; I was not inquiring), places he has attended to supplement his commercial sex work income. What was unclear was whether he resident-massaged ‘with benefits’ at Top Man, but I took from his mention of Lagoa that he works the floor at both. Hence, a possible nod to Top Man as being in the running for mutual affiliation with the handful of Brazilian venues referenced here. (He seemed not familiar with 555.) With any luck, absent the blaring of Brazilian Idol karaoke rejects. Good grief, 130 P Taques is hard on the ear canals. I had considered a visit to Top Man, not too far east at an Augusta cross street, but I got busy hosting ‘sure thing’ guys from my expanding Rolodex. My vision seems better at my accommodations than at Lagoa. Perhaps it was a dry patch in the wet area, poor random seasonal timing, or it’s not my optometrist requiring renewed qualification. I post about Top Man without staking any claim to its legitimacy, and without first-hand exposure, but a few others may be interested in trying it out at some point. Happy hunting, where there’s never enough ground but no dearth of tiresome peanut-gallery commentary about post details / style from frenetically attentive yet painfully boring media stalkers. I may circle back prior to my next trip to see if there is any useful intel that has been added. My sense is that anything worthwhile would be coming from readers that don’t post too regularly. Where are you guys?😉

The proposed commercial sex work abolitionist legislation has been in limbo for months, with many other unrelated laws requiring attention ahead in the queue. Local elections are underway. The next general election is no more than 6 months off and I think that the prostitution law will not progress prior to that timeline, if at all, going forward. Still a lot of squabbling among factions about penalizing, regulating as an alternative to punitive measures, educating sex consumers, a specific focus on trafficking including immigration for such, etc, etc. Premises used to facilitate sex trade, even ‘non-exploitatively’, remains in the draft legislation as illegal. As I opined earlier, a place such as Thermas would simply need to be less explicit about its agenda. In fact, I think that Grupo Pases has always been vague about it. The agenda seems more word-of-mouth or a few bitter queens discovering it and asking for an entrance refund. Additionally, perhaps the party events give it more of a front as a club venue, not exclusively a baths/brothel. Ad sites as potential candidates for censorship seems more ambiguous. Legal age and vulnerability of women seem to be the big ticket items that the abolitionists target.

Yes, a few, judging by the 1.57 reactions per post.

Good to know. Everybody cares about bingo halls. I understand that old ladies from Florida get very upset when Bingo! is openly expressed over the mic with a stack of cards barely stamped. Hope nobody got in your way. Now you get a break. Try Clue.

Have you ever considered taking a day off? Maybe revamping your material? Pulling the needle off the broken record? You make it seem like you’re in a sweatshop cranking out cheap laughs. Never mind. There’s a trap door for rude. Obrigado moderators.

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Yes, noted that option. And with a Bacio di Latte (full location with seating) also right there across from the Italia Bldg, makes for a decent tasty Republica outing. (Not that I would have ice cream following a CdoP dessert.)

I finally got to lunch at A Casa do Porco several weeks ago, on your list and some top 50 global lists as well. Already a line at 11:30 and I think I got the last available table after standing outside for 45 minutes. Inexpensive considering its status. Spot! has a good pork ribs dish but the aforementioned is a must. No way I could have put away the tasting menu; I saw a few others plowing through it. I had a signature roast pork with the small sides and a delicious light dessert. My Mastercard was refused; their machine the issue. Fortunately, my never used backup Visa worked. I always carry cash as well because vendors tend to look at you like it’s your problem not their temperamental card readers.

You’re better at this than Bingo. Maybe the Asian exit signage helped.