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Awesome! I LOVE this kind of stuff! Sex for the mind! Thanks for pointing it out Lucky!

Good points Lookin! I agree that the neighborhoods of SF are one of its best features! 16th and Mission (and Valencia to some degree too) can be a bit crazy on weekend nights, it is true....(and it's important to realize as well Seattlebottom that neighborhoods change very fast in SF from block to block...Mission street for example is much er...more colorful, than Valencia) Lookin, if the bar you're referring to is the one I'm thinking of (near Clay street right?) that is one of the few places on Polk that I would have recommended, (and with Lookin there to play host I'd say it becomes a can't miss) so thanks for pointing it out! And Russian River can be great fun, I would second Lookin's recommendation. Have fun while you're here!

Hey there! I hope you have a great time in SF! The Castro is still quite gay, but just FYI many of the businesses are straight owned now. It's still a fun neighborhood, but it's just a tiny section of what the city offers. Polk Gulch is almost completely straight now (many of the old gay bars are straight, Marina crowd type bars now) and I cant exactly recommend it. And SOMA has the big dance clubs (The End Up is still open, but not always a totally gay crowd and Mezzanine has gay nights as do a few other clubs like Club Dragon)and other than that you can cover SOMA by hitting the Powerhouse, Eagle, and Hole in the Wall and the sex club Mack (all but the Eagle are within a couple blocks of each other.) You will however miss out majorly if you don't hit the Mission IMHO. Most people don't know how gay the Mission has become and you will miss the gay people that are mixed into the Mission's fabric (Almost half the units in my building are gay households for example.) Basically, the Mission is the "un-Fisherman's Wharf." It's where most of the locals, straight, and gay, go to play. Great restaurants, galleries, bars and shops. I would really suggest at least taking a stroll between 16th and 20th streets on Valencia. They just expanded the sidewalks and put in more trees and some of the best shops are along that section (Paxton Gate and 826 Valencia next door are both pretty amusing and unique window shopping experiences.) If you want an experience that is a little less whitewashed and where you could use your Spanish, the 24th street corridor from Mission to Potrero is like a slice of Central America. Hope that helps a bit. Feel free to email me directly too if you have any specific questions!