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Ha, ha... I always leave the room right away if a hotel employee wants to come in as it's usually a woman and imagine being a 100 percent gay guy accused of attacking a maid. If it's a hot guy, I wouldn't be so quick. I have fantasies about room service waiters, but have never had a hot one show up at the door.

Is it okay to date from the massage places or do their employers try to prevent it.

Years ago in Hoi An I was walking down the main tourist street and two young American backpackers in front of me were laughing about how the Vietnamese were nice to them despite the Americans killing so many of them. I thought you idiots, they're laughing at you because (at that time) they were the only country to win a war with the mighty United States.

This I think is part of the tolerance Canadians showed in accepting gay marriage early on in conjunction with a deep respect for personal privacy. I use the word tolerance because while homosexuality is tolerated, it's not particularly respected, at least in my opinion. There's a big backlash on right now from the "stop shoving your gay stuff down my throat" people. I don't think they even notice the humour in that remark. And for the most part I think people don't want to hear or think about gay sex. Except the real haters, they're obsessed with gay sex. On Christian attitudes to homosexuality, my impression is that the early Puritan settlers and later similar Christian sects have had a huge effect on American society. Joe Biden was only the second Catholic to be president (JFK the first), the others all being Protestants. Then there's the contradiction of Americans being as the Chinese say, "fat, lazy and addicted" or words similar to that.

Actually, after reading through the entiire list, I'd say most of social customs about what 'not to do' would apply in Canada as well and probably in many other countres too. Something that really stands out for me in western Europe and less so in Latin America is how much public affection there is. I was somewhat shocked and uncomfortable with things I saw in Germany. Public kissing, fondling, etc isn't against the law, but Canadians don't like to see it. A university professor from the UK who emigrated to Canada said on her first visit to Canada, his daughter asked how Canadians have babies since they never touch each other. A tour gude in Colombia told me while living in Canada he was walking with a girl he was dating and when he tried to hold her hand, she shied away like she had just been scalded. Touching anybody not a close friend/family has become even more risky as some people freak out even when touched on the arms or shoulders. Public confrontation is avoided, although becoming more common. Sadly there are many Trump supporters in Canada now and they want to make a point whereever they go. My favourite is declining food before accepting food. On a trip to Germany I was asked by a couple if it's true that Canadian young people staying at family billets on school trips will say they are not hungry two or even three times before accepting. It's true. Americans seem to think taking off shoes is odd, but in Canada it's a necessity given our climate. As I said I'm sure these or variations are normal in many countries.

I recently encountered the eating with a spoon and fork combo for the first time on a recent trip to Istanbul. I had never seen it on several previous trips to Turkey, but this time I was on a boat daytrip and almost all of the passengers were part of an Iranian tour group. I checked google, eating with a spoon and fork is an Iranian custom. Later on the same trip I saw it in Morocco a couple of times too. Using a spoon for rice and other dishes certainly makes more sense than a knife and fork.

A German guy told me one of the consequences of Churchill demanding the bombing and destruction of west German cities whether they had military value or not was that Germany received American dollars to rebuild it's industrial capacity using modern equipment while Britiain had to rely on outdated factories giving the Germans a competitive edge. Don't know if that's true, but I guess Churchill had no reason to think during the war the United States would have to rebuild West Germany to counter the Soviet and East German threat.

I got to experience a longtime fantasy in Marrakesh in February with three sub-Saharan African escorts. Technically not a gangbang, no buttsex, but three big dicks in my face was heaven. It was expensive, but worth it for me. They were all hot, the youngest must work out a lot. He wasn't a body builder, but his whole body was as hard as a rock. Is there a specific place where the African men hang out in Bangkok or just at random bars?

While looking at the Khymer Times to see more about the Australian who was in prison for nine months, I saw a story about a male masseur arrested for murdering a colleague. For the Khymer Times an arrest is apparently as good as a conviction, although that's common in the Canadian media as well. The guy is super hot IMO. The massage place is named Kines. I can't copy and paste in the address for the story url for some reason.

At the risk of sounding deviant are there places, bars/massage/online, in Bangkok where masculine older men in good physical shape and/or have facial hair might be available.

I went on a small sauna binge in mid January to mid Feb. I'm turning 66 this summer and not sure how long my health and available cash will last so decided to go for the sort of splurge I've always wanted to do at Thermas and Aquarius in Istanbul. Lots of hot men at Thermas, but somewhat unfortunately very few customers so I had to do a lot of fending guys off. But the solution was just to spend a lot of time in the massage rooms with different guys., They were all great, with not surprisingly one of the Venezuelan guys being my best time. I like guys that have, or can put on, a rough edge. I think it purely natural with him. Honourable mention to a gentle looking hot Colombian who turned into a beast when asked. One thing about Barcelona was the hotel rooms seemed very expensive and in the end I just got a room and a bathroom in an apartment a few blocks from Thermas. On the flight out of town, the woman sitting next to me said there was a really big tech convention in Barcelona that week. I was in Istanbul at the beginning and the end of my trip. Despite the shortcomings of the sauna, I love the Kurdish men there and they've become much more physically engaged in the activities I like. There's a guy I first met there about 10 years ago. At that time he was in the front lobby area in street clothes when I walked in and it was like love at first site. I wasn't sure if he was a masseur, but I stared at him and he nodded back. And he's been there every time since. I still get that rush the first time I see him. The icing on the cake was Marrakesh where an escort on Hunqz with his own apartment set me up with himself and two other guys. All sub Saharan (Nigeria, Ivory Coast and Senegal) and all so hot. That's been a fantasy for a long time and I was so happy that it came true. Of course the whole trip cost a lot of money, but the money in itself wasn't an issue and I did some of the things I've always wanted to do.

Thanks for the insight into the business side of things. It's more organized than I thought it would be.

Was staying in an airbnb last month in a quiet coastal town north of Sousse. Only a few young men. Only on my last day was spent in Tunis. Holy cow, there were so many hot young men there. No sex, but enjoyed the sights.

Did you see him. Met him on the first night of my last visit and became obsessed. He was so hot. Didn’t see him again during rest of trip.

I am just finishing my first trip to Tunisia. I am very timid and had no sex. I made a big mistake in renting an Airbnb on the coast north of Sousse about a 20 minute drive. I spent one afternoon in Sousse, where I realized I'm not confident enough to find a guy. In the small shopping area along where I stayed a guy hanging around said sex twice to me, but I kept walking. He was out there the next day and approached me and said sex again. I looked around and shrugged like where and nodded at a little grocery store. I just shook my head. There was just something dodgy about him and I didn't trust him.