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>There are two separate stories... one is Cobra and the 15 yo >boy in Texas. Agreed... it is sordid. I don't think anyone on earth knows more about porn than you Marc. I can always depend on you for info.

I think the mess they have done to each other is crazy. I get the newsletters. Cobra now promotes Brent's website as much as its own. Why? V for Vendetta. That does not make King Cobra guilty of using an underage boy in his films. But, it goes a long way to show the lenghs he goes for revenge. IMHO

I get e-mails from Cobra Video every week or two. I find it interesting that in all the e-mails, they seem to promote a website about Brent Corrigan. I can't quiet understand this. Brent is the model that claims he was underage at the time of shooting of a few of their videos. Instead of trying to distance themselves from him completely, they seem to be actively promoting him more than any other model they have ever had. I wonder what the reason behind this is? Why are they over promoting this guys site? I know they own the site. I know the own the photos. But, what on earth are they doing pushing this to the forefront of every newsletter they send? What is the agenda for this unless it is just retaliation against him? I ask because for the life of me I cannot figure it out.

We ran an ad in Next Magazine in NYC this week. Did anyone perchance see the ad? How was it? Any suggestions for future ads? Thanks. Oz

As many of you know, I have been working on a project related to Brazil. Part of it has to do with the gay history of Brazil. Having enjoyed several great trips there, I am often amazed at the way gay guys, or sauna guys, view being gay or gay sex. To that end, I needed a bit of research on it and this is the result. It will bore most of you to tears, but I thought I would share here anyway. Happy sleep. Oz BRIEF HISTORY OF HOMOSEXUALISM IN BRAZIL In any given culture, tribe, country, nationality or population, it is a well known fact that about 10% of its people are homosexuals, a fact established by canonic, orthodox Science a long time ago. What is difficult to understand is why, to this day, academic circles still resist to accept and study this reality. Of course we can trace the origins of this discrimination policy to our Judeo-Christian heritage, who elected homosexualism as the most odious of crimes that can be committed by men, worse than sexual violence against children, matricide, cannibalism, genocide and even deicide, all crimes considered sins while homosexualism is considered “nefandum!...”. Apparently, one of the reasons for this attitude almost universal against homosexualism is the erroneous belief that homosexualism is a lifestyle people choose to live, the condition itself is a conscious choice made by these 10% of the population at some point in their lives. Sort of like going to the market and choosing beef or chicken for the day’s meal, this deviant creature is someone that woke up one day and decided to express an homosexual behavior when, until the day before, he was a perfectly happy and integrated heterosexual. How could the majority of humanity come to this conclusion is a fascinating mystery, to this very day. Anyone who is a homosexual knows there is no choice on the matter, for homosexualism is a characteristic 10% of the population are born with, same as our eyes color or the color of our skin. This brief diatribe, in no way intended to be conclusive, will take us back to Pre-Colombian America, where the history of homosexual practices can be observed through sculptures, drawings and ceramics representing homoerotic scenes, besides myths preserved in the oral memory of natives, registered in manuscripts. Chronicles written by the first Europeans to make contact with the Native Americans are another important source of information on this subject, so we’ll be visiting those sources. Gonzalo Oviedo (Historia General y Natural de las Indias, 1535) reveals that the appetite for the “nefarious vice” was common not only around the Caribbean region but also in Terra Firme, along the coast of what we know now as Venezuela and Colombia “where many Indians, male and female, were sodomites”. In certain parts of this vast territory Oviedo observed that “ the Indians carried with them a piece of gold jewelry representing a man on top of another one, on that diabolic and nefarious act of Sodoma. (…) I saw one of these jewelry pieces weighing twenty pesos of gold, very well carved, apprehended on the Port of Santa Marta, at the coast of Terra Firme, in the year of 1514. (…) Therefore, whom ever value such jewelry and with it compose its own person, will certainly use such evilness routinely with no second thoughts, something that should be considered ordinary and common”. In 1552, Francisco Gomara mentioned the presence of homosexual icons among Native Americans in Sant Anton, Mexico: “ … it was found, between some trees, a little idol carved in gold and many others made of clay, representing two men mounted on top of each other, à la mode of Sodoma”. At the time of the discovery of the Yucatan Peninsula, the Spaniards found several Mayan sculptures, apparently used in cults devoted to homosexual love: “ … there were many clay idols, some with demonic faces, others with female faces, many more with bad figures that looked like they were practicing sodomy with each other…”. In Peru, the Spaniards found – and melted – countless gold statues representing sexual intercourse between two men. Currently we can still find many ceramic pieces, water containers, bowls and dishes in which very detailed pre-Incas artists sculptured, in clay, explicit homoerotic scenes. Some three percent of the famous collection of erotic ceramic owned by Family Larco, predating 1000 A.D., are realistic representations of acts of sodomy taking place among men. More recently, in South America, in the Andean region, archeologists found sculptures and other objects confirming the practice of homosexualism in the New World, way before the arrival of the European colonizer. Besides the Mexican idols and the Peruvian ceramics, the collection of Mayan Codes, like El Chilan Balam, El Popol Buj and the Mayan Prophecies, are very important pre-Colombian sources for the research of homosexual practices in the three American continents. In the Aztec pantheon, for instance, the goddess Xochiquetzal, an hermaphrodite deity, was a protector of love and sexuality non-conductive to procreation. In her male representation, as the god Xochipilli, he offered protection against sexually transmitted diseases and was the guardian of male sexuality. Antonio Raquena, the first researcher of the “ sexual anomalies among Native American Indians” concludes: “ accepted or rejected, honored or severely chastised, according to the nation where it was practiced, homosexuality was present from the Bering Strait to the Magalhães (a.k.a. Magellan) Strait”. There are countless testimonies by writers, travelers and missionaries describing the presence of homosexual Indians and transvestites among tribes and nations of what we know now as North America, where their presence was even reproduced in drawings, in the 17th Century. Among the Native Americans of Brazil there is strong evidence that homosexual practices were part of the mainstream culture, socially accepted before the arrival of the Portuguese colonizers. Among the Tupinambá, a tribe scattered through most of the Brazilian coast line, homosexual Indians were called Tibira, while the lesbians were known as Çacoaimbeguira. According to the Descriptive Treaty of Brazil (1587), the lesbians Natives were “ … very fond of the nefarious sin (…) and the one playing the male role consider herself valiant and calls such bestiality a positive quality. (…) In the sertão settlements these men have public tents, offering their favors as public women”. Another chronicler of the time, Gandavo, describe the lesbian Indians, in 1576: “ some of them never knew men in any way and would not consent to any men, even when threatened to be killed. These (women) abandoned all female traits and routines to imitate men, performing male duties like they weren’t females. Their hair is cut male style and like any men they go to war and hunt, always in the company of other men. And each one of them has a woman to serve them with whom they claim to be married to.” It is very possible that these very masculine female Indians were mistaken by the Spaniards as the legendary Amazons, a myth successfully propagated through the centuries, though there was never any evidence that could be used to corroborate its veracity. Among the Guarani nation the Guaicuru and Xamico, tribes located along the Paraguay River, homosexual Indians were found up to the end of the 18th Century: besides acting as transvestites, these gay Indians were totally identified with the life style of the opposite sex. “ (…) These Indians serve others as women, dress like women, work as women, urinate in a sitting position, speak like females, take husbands for whom they care very much and, once a month, go through the ridiculous act of pretending to be menstruating, not eating certain foods, like women, no fish or meat but only fruits and hearts of palm, going every day to the river carrying a bowl to wash themselves”. The Brazilian Native ethnic groups for whom there are plenty of documentation attesting the practice of homosexuality are Bororó, Camaurá, Cubeo, Guayakil, Guaicuru, Guatos, Kainagaig, Mehinaku, Nhambiquara, Panaré, Tenetehara, Tubira, Tupinambá, Wai-Wai, Xamiko, Xavante and Yanomani. In spite of violent persecution headed by the Holy Inquisition, European homosexuals found, in the New World, the possibility to practice their sexuality with much less repression than back home. This was possible due to the vast extension of the new territories, the nudity and more liberal sexual life of slaves and Natives, added to the much more lose moral of social undesirables, condemned to exile in the Americas, or who simply crossed the ocean in search of better luck. Other factors also contributed to the facilitation of homosexualism in the recently discovered territories, like for instance, the Holy Inquisition Tribunal of Lisbon sending to Brazil 18% of sodomites condemned to exile. According to some historical sources, the first European sodomite to set foot in the Americas was Estêvão Redondo, a young lad who was a servant for the Governor of Lisbon, D. Manoel Telles. Redondo arrived in Olinda (Northeast of Brazil) in February of 1549, condemned to a lifetime in exile. Another notorious case was that of surgeon Felipe Correia (1558), “an homosexual with obvious cross dressing tendencies”. As for the involvement of the Catholic Church in homosexualism, this is nothing new, as far as the Americas are concerned: in 1548, among the seven cases of sodomy registered in Guatemala, we can find Deacon Juan Altamirano and his accomplice Friar Jose de Barrera. Back to Brazil, during two visitations made by the Holy Inquisition of Lisbon to different northeastern Capitanies, between 1591 and 1620, 44 cases of sodomy were registered. Among the denounced 61% were white, 24% were of mixed race, 9% and 6% were blacks and Indians, respectively. Their occupations varied from General Governor of Brazil (Diogo Botelho) to priests, sugar plantation owners, public workers, military men, students, servants and slaves. Close examination of more than four thousand denounces and four hundred sodomy processes archived in the Tombo Tower, in Lisbon, revealed that 283 referred to Brazilians or Portuguese residing in Brazil at the time, accused of practicing “Sodoma’s sin”: among those, 32 were charged and among these 11 were condemned to five years of jail time, others were sentenced to life in prison, and six were exiled to remote areas of the colony or to Africa. So far no evidence was found that sodomites in Brazil were condemned to death but in 1613 a Tupinambá Indian suffered a most cruel death, ordered by the French invaders. Instigated by capuchins missionaries, the French tied this poor Indian to a cannon, his body completely destroyed by the fatal mortar as a means to “purify the land of all its evilness”. Later on, in 1678, a young black slave was killed “for committing the sin of sodomy”. When it comes to lesbians, the Holy Inquisition of Portugal excluded, in 1646, ‘sodomia foemiarum’ (female sodomy) of the list of crimes included in its jurisdiction, so most cases of females processed by the tribunal took place up to the end of the 16th Century. The love that dare not say its name had adepts in all classes, races and ethnic groups of Colonial Brazil, practiced in rich mansions or miserable slave shacks, and also among poor whites; in churches and monasteries, in rural or urban areas, including sporadic contacts and one night stands with different partners or stable relations, some lasting for decades. In spite of civil and canonic draconian legislation against the crime of sodomy, there was room in Colonial America for the emergence of a gay sub-culture, sometimes timid and clandestine, sometimes aggressive and assertive, accommodating even the challenging exhibitionism of transvestites. The first transvestite in Brazil was a Congolese slave, Francisco Manicongo. A slave of a shoemaker in Salvador, Manicongo was denounced in 1591, during the Holy Inquisition of Lisbon’s visit: “ he refused to dress as a man, following the customs observed in Angola and Congo, where the ones that serve in this nefarious sin as patient women are called quimbanda…”. After the end of the Portuguese and Spanish inquisitions their respective offices in Hispanic Latin America and also in Brazil are closed, with the repression against homosexuals assuming different routines. Researches done in Brazil, considered one of the least homophobic countries in Latin America, reveals that among all social minorities gays and lesbians are the most hated, a hatred manifested on a continuum including from verbal insults and depreciative treatment in the mass media, to physical violence in the streets, arbitrary arrests and even murderers. In the last fifteen years more than 1200 homosexuals were violently assassinated, victims of homophobic crimes, an average of one murder every five days!... In order to defend themselves from this silent genocide, and also against the daily discrimination they are forced to live with, gays and lesbians are organizing themselves in movements, aiming to conquer the same human rights heterosexuals are naturally entitled to. In 1978 Brazil enters the scene of the struggle for citizenry for homosexuals with the the emergence of the first organized gay group, Somos, founded in Guarulhos, a working class city located east of São Paulo City. Somos Group quickly spreads to other states in the country. One year after its foundation a faction of this group organizes the LF Lesbico-Feminista, launching a bulletin called Chanacomchana. At the time the First Brazilian Homosexual Congress took place, in 1980, the country already had more than twenty organized gay and lesbian groups; today they are more than fifty, from the extreme north to the south border of Brazil. The internationally famous Gay Group of Bahia (Grupo Gay da Bahia) was founded in 1980 by anthropologist Luis Mott and other notables in the gay and academic scene of Bahia, today the most combative gay entity in the whole South American continent. In Brazil, only three states and 73 cities included, in its local constitutions, any discrimination based on sexual orientation. It doesn’t look like much, taking in to consideration the size of the country, but it is a great victory for Brazilians homosexuals as a whole who, until the mid 80’s had absolutely no legal protection against discrimination. This article thanks Brazilian anthropologist Luis Mott for his excellent research on the History of Homosexualism in Latin America. cc MaleEscortReview.com 2006

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We are getting close to 300 escorts. Thank you for all your help with this. Our goal is 3,000 by year's end. We have a long way to go. But, we are off to a good start. Thank you! Oz

>I suspect, to challenge, support and/or defend >>statements of safer sex practices on this website, while at >>the same time promoting unsafe, bareback fucking on the >other. There are many ways to practice safe sex. Sexuality.org has a list of them. It is more than just bareback fucking. Some I just can't deal with, such as monogamy. Unprotected oral sex is also another area that many have a conflict with. That is also unsafe and yet not many discuss it as being unsafe. How many clients hire for repeats if an escort uses a condom to suck? I can tell you the answer to that, but you may already know. Personally, I am not a dildo person. I have never had one up my ass. I have no desire to do so. I don't eat ass. I consider someone that has a dildo shoved up his ass and then down this own mouth as something I would not do. I guess I consider it the same as I do unprotected oral sex. But, in this review you seem to love, I keep reading it over and over and it seems to me that he shoved his own dildo up his ass and then into his mouth. Is that correct? I guess that is a form of unsafe sex. Is also self sucking a form of unsafe sex? I saw this done recently by a guy I met. I guess each person has to determine where to draw the line on what they call unsafe sex. I have always thought that most agree that it is unprotected anal intercourse. >So Oz, where do you stand on truthfulness, when it comes >to >escort profiles and the information contained within >them? I want us all to be truthful. Both in profiles and in agendas. >P.S. Did you really not have sex with Danilo? Inquiring minds want to know. haha. I really did not have sex with him. He slept in my bed many nights and not even one touch. He is a special guy and I respect him and his boundaries. PS.. This thread is now one of the most popular on the site. I see that BN got the press again. As for me, I think I have answered about as much on this topic as I possibly can. I'll move on to other issues. Anyone see the pictures of Jared from Toronto? Hot. Oz

>Yes, Da...I mean Oz, sir. Thank you, sir. May I have >another? Reminds me of my college days. I had an initiation of sorts. I love it when someone speaks so pleasant and brings back such fond memories. Thank you! BTW: the guy's name who was doing the initiation was Clay. He was hot and sexy. I think of Italian decent. From NJ if I remember correctly. And had a nice cock that rose to the occasion when he took public showers. Such memories. Thank you!

>I will throw in a full year of free web hosting, plus platinum >status on the airline of your choice. And I will settle for a >3% and 5% commission agreement. How's that? }( Wait a minute here. Platinum status? That is unfair. Totally. How does one do this? Is there a trick to the trade? Inquiring minds want to know.

>I know Oz, I'm just teasin. :+ OM. See, there goes my senses again. And here I was making up a story about you, the hamster, 2 midgets, a giraffe, a bearded lady and a ballerina at the Neverland ranch. Shit, the story was getting good. OK. I'll stop the presses on that one. But, I will save it if you want me to use it in the future.

>Wrong again (trifecta, anyone?) OK BoN. For those of us that are years out of college and with limited vocabulary, what does trifecta mean? >Sweetheart, This is such an overused word. I know. I use it daily. When I first came out, I went home to my family and I had picked up with word with all my gay friends in NYC. I tried my best not to use that word or the word Dear around them. However, we were at Walmart and the cashier asked how I was doing. I just, "fine dear, how are you?" The guy looked at me in disbelief. My family in horror. I just smiled. Those words are so often used with great comfort amoung my gay friends. I often forget the world isn't as gay as I am. Or, as friendly. Or, at least as openly friendly about it. >you don't make the rules here. I do. Be nice. >If you need a >litter box to piss in, I am sure you have several overflowing >at home. Again, be nice. I did laugh at this one till I almost pissed in my pants. But, again, be nice.

The total members is the total number of registered members who are not escorts. New members is the number of members who have registered this week. Members online is the number of members who are logged into the site and not idle for too long as to be logged out. Guests online are supposed to be total number of visitors on the site. I think it is currently the number of people in the forum boards and on the homepage. Hits today are the number of hits made to the homepage. There seem to be many of them right? It is because we advertise on the Internet and we are actually getting quiet a bit of traffic. We are not getting as much traffic as I would like. But, we have just started our ads in Next Magazine in NYC and on a few internet websites. Over the course of the next month or two, we want to see these numbers increase. Total number of escort Profiles are the total number of escort profiles that are approved and active on the website. When we get more reviews, we will place that number there as well. This is the way the numbers area is suppose to work. We have had other issues with the site that we have concentrated on. We will work on that area in the future. If you have any other suggestions, please let us know. Thanks. Oz

A few thoughts 1. Jesse, don’t worry about the press, you are smart, witty and active on the message board without causing too much controversy. You will do just fine. Plus, you are cute as hell. 2. I have to agree with ArVaGuy’s post #13 in its entirely. His sentiments expresses my feelings exactly. 3. I have never made one penny from Ben. I have never given him any money. I am not a client. I will never hire him. He is not my type. (Even though sometimes I go against the “my type” rule and I tried with Ben once when he came to NYC and wanted to hire him for 2 hours. He politely turned me down as he was only taking overnights on that trip.) That being said, I have met him on two occasions. Once with Hooboy in Las Vegas and I was attending the adult Webmaster’s convention there and Hooboy asked me to fly in and spend some time with him. I only met Ben for lunch one day and he was charming. And once in Rio when Ben was with a client. I had read many things about Ben on the Internet. Many of the good but most of the bad. I met Ben and his date for lunch and later at LeBoy. I have hired many escorts over the course of the years and I have a lot of experience with escort/client relations. I have said the same thing about Ben to my friends, many of whom do not like him. He is without a doubt one of the best professionals out there. I watched him interact with his client. He put the client first in everything, made him the center of his universe and made sure he knew the client was his only focus. I was not just a little impressed. I was very impressed. I can see why Ben keeps his clients. He was and is top notch in his field. 4. I don’t like all the things he says on his blog. I think some of the things he posts are often inappropriate. But, I will say this. He knows what he is doing. Every time one of his posts get the responses on the message boards that it does, he has to be laughing. He understands that many will hire him one time just to see what all the controversy is about. Once they do, he has them hooked. In my opinion, he is a brilliant businessman. No bad press is bad business for him. You can bitch and complain about him all you want. I think he may perhaps thrive on this. Why? In the end, every negative post that is made, brings him more cash. Isn’t that the point of his blog? Isn’t that what he is in business for? I personally know of 2 clients that hired him only because of the controversies they read about online. In both instances, they went back for repeats and will do so again in the future. 5. I find it interesting that he has not written to me to ask that I take down this post. Many accuse him of that with other boards. As I said above, I don’t think he gives a shit what any of us say. He has a good business. He is good at what he does. He knows how to advertise himself and he knows how to market himself. If he reads this post about him on this board, I think he just smiles and says here we go again. Not here we go again, how do I get this post off the Internet. But, here we go again. How do I keep up with all the new clients I will get? Good job Ben. You did it again.

This is issue with browser. We are using font style through CSS and IE not change font size of all text which styles comes from CSS. I am able to change them on my comnputer as I use an Apple and other things beyond IE. I hope this helps answer your question. Sory it took us so long to find the exact answer from the programmers. Oz

Haha. I am so glad you are headed back down there. I always say it is a true paradise. I really do enjoy my time I spend there. I am sure you will have a blast. While in LaGoa if you are into twink muscle boys, (yes, it is possible) let me know. I have a gem for you!

I think I am the fist half of May. I have not heard of gay pride there. Have you heard anything about it? It is a big event? I would love to know more. Thanks.

hehe. No, this is what we need to know. There is a log in on the top menu bar underneath the words MaleEscortReview.com I always log in there and then go to the forums. I have always been able to post using Safari, Firefox, Netscape and IE. When I have tried to post and was not logged in, it does the same thing as you mentioned. The reason is that you are not just logging into the forum, you are also logging into the site. Eventually, this will also log you into the Chat and IM. The goal was to have a single login for the entire site. Thanks for the feedback.

Chuck, When you post a review are you in IE or using AOL? Are there any messages you are given? What version of both do you use? What OS do you have? Thanks.

Hooboy did something that no one had done before. He cleared the way for open communication between clients and escorts. Everyone benefited. It was a win-win situation for all. His contribution to this segment of the gay population cannot be undervalued. He did something amazing. He was a pioneer. The community misses him, as he was the one that held the M4M site together. He is also missed among those of us that were personal friends. He was unique, witty, odd, and spontaneous and kept everyone around him guessing as to what he would do next. I sent a photo to his family last year that his lover Foxy took on a boat trip that the 3 of us were on in Thailand. Hoo insisted that he rent a speedboat and spend the day on an island outside of Pattaya. I agreed. As the waves were high and the boat was jumping over them, he got up on the very top of the boat with his arms over his head and his knees on bouncing from the boat and the waves and yelling, "I am king of the world." I was yelling for him to please get down as I was nervous for him and did not want him to fall into the ocean and get hurt. He finally got down, gave a sly smile that said, "You only live once." I was a little antsy on the island as he made me nervous. He sensed my tension. When it was time to leave, he started walking into the water to go to the boat and intentionally fell into the water to put on a show for me and make me laugh. I did. But, he had forgotten that his new cell phone was in his pocket. His mind was not on his phone. He wanted to keep the party going. He wanted to make me laugh. He did make me laugh. (BTW: he brought along his florist on the boat trip as he thought I would be attracted to him. He kept his room filled with flowers and smelling wonderful.) He lived his life the way he wanted. He let no one interfere with his pleasure. Even when pressured to make changes, he stood the course he desired. He did that in his life and with his business. He is missed.

>I just have to say that this is the sweetest and most >beautiful thread I have ever read on any escorting board. >Congrats on finding something real and genuine! Love can be >found in the most unexpected of places. Thank you Jesse, your post was very sweet and MUCH appreciated! I did find him real and genuine. I also found him to be married. Ooops. I am sure I will get more than just a few I TOLD YOU SO Oz. But, for what it is worth, I loved every minute I spent with him. I will spend more in the future. I won't plan my future around him. But, as always, I learned a great lesson. If you have never read my signature, here is it again. I live it each day! Oz ---Life is here, life is now. Life is soooo short... and sex is just too delicious! Life should NOT be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in an attractive and well-preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways, Champagne and Strawberries in one hand, Diet Coke and Godiva Chocolate in the other, a personal bottle of Eros, A BOX OF TROJAN MAGNUMS, and a good Cuban cigar in the your pockets (ALL partially used), a wallet ALMOST empty of currency but noticeably used from the rainbow colors of THE SEVERAL bills THAT REMAIN from a multitude of countries and cards charged to the max from the joys of life, body thoroughly used up, OLD AS TIME ITSELF, totally worn out and screaming "WOO HOO - what a ride!---

I had a fabulous time at Carnival. I loved every minute of it. I have some great tidbits to share and some good information on Rio and Sao Paulo. I got back from the Scala Gay event and got a call from a friend that my boyfriend had a motorcycle accident and was in the hospital. I had to make fast arrangements and get back to take care of him. No seats were left on flights out of Rio as Carnival just ended so I had to taxi to Sao Paulo and go on standby. It has been a long 48 hours. I hope to be back to Brazil very soon. However, I have to recoup from the trip I just made and then I will take some time and write down all the details of the trip as well as share some photos from Carnival. Thanks for your patience! Oz

Anxiously awaiting him today. He gets off work for 3 days for Carnival. We have tickets to the parade on Monday and to Scala Gay on Tuesday. I'll be taking my "puppy doggish" eyes guy and my favorite guy from 117. If I don't post much in the next few days, you will know the puppy dog eyes won me over. AGAIN! Oz Go Yankees! http://images.dpchallenge.com/images_portf...eview/45435.jpg http://www.ocfiles.com/dimages/oc_images/p...yes_398x271.jpg

I read about that experience before and have been very cautious ever since. I am sorry that happened to you. I know the breach of trust is hard to overcome. I'll add one more suggestion, always make sure that when you offer a sauna boy a drink, that you get the drink for him instead of giving him your number. Yesterday, I had a guy at 117 that I offered a drink and he got one. I didn't know that it was a triple with a red bull attached. Oh, well, live and learn.

I do agree with you on the Taxis. I use my hotel's car service most of the time. I always tip the driver. When I use a public taxi, it really depends on if he used the air conditioner, drove like a maniac or was the taxi driver from hell.