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You have at least one year.

Interesting article. I wonder whether the Copacabana mafia was the old Roger's sauna, my introduction to the Brazilian lifestyle almost exactly 20 years ago. Contrary to the owner's experience, I didn't think the sauna scene was that much more packed in the early 2000s. Rogers and Pointe (or whatever it was called then) were active but not packed. Lagoa and 117 were crazy packed on their specials and discount nights. Remember the studs lining up the staircase to wait for an available cabin at 117? I once gave up on a tanned, blond surf-type because I couldn't wait and he wouldn't agree to a quicky in the stalls. It seems the sauna scene was most packed around 2010-15, in terms of number of establishments and the labor force therein. I'm really curious whether the apps are taking this business away. We have had rentmen, etc. for ages in the US, and before that the back pages of local alterna-weeklies. I think the Brazilians had their websites and print ads too. They did not and do not offer the on-the-spot assessment that sauna clienteles look for.

Comparing costs for the expat life is difficult and subjective because what do you need to feel a comfortable middle class life? Middle class for Americans (living space, car, spotless restaurants, convenience, top-notch health care) or for elite coastal Americans (art, culture, global cuisines) would be almost the American budget. The well-to-do in Brazil make and spend as much money as any American, with vacations to the Amalfi Coast and all that. However, comfortable middle-class Brazilian (tiny apartments, neighborhood por quilo restaurant, long public transport commutes) would be much less if you can tolerate the somewhat decrease in expectations.

I"d love to hear more about women's experiences. One guy I met in Sto. Domingo said he and his buggarones buddies have had lots of female clients, including three-ways with their husbands. The women are getting exactly what we're getting. I suspect it takes them longer to feel assured of the safety and comfort. As we know, a good Brazilian sauna is one of the safest, most relaxing contexts for this kind of enjoyment, but I wonder how a woman would feel about walking around such a place with so many pointed penises.

Let me be the one to ask over the intercom: "Can we get a price check?"

Is it operating on a random schedule?

Do you mean at their re-opening? Indeed, it sounds like they've had a rough time since the relocation a year or two ago, so I was wondering if things have changed. Yup, interest-blindness gets us all. However, what I liked about the old Fragata at least was that there were usually 2-3 muscle beauties of top Lagoa quality (Lagoa might have 10-20 of those, but how many do you really need?!) plus usually 2-3 freaks of cock-nature. But everyone in between I wouldn't be able to identify in a police line-up.

You are my hero. This has never worked for me. And yes, I remember that every other young guy in full vigor is a part-time cop, from the muscly art student selling oil paintings on El Conde to the go-go boy on stage.

The problem is that in the US, our "attestation" is a 10-cent card that the lab tech handwrote in. No picture, no lamination, no official-looking stamp (very popular overseas). I'm worried these would get rejected. I certainly would if I were serious about keeping out the unvaccinated.

Do you mean that over longer time frames, the daily count inaccuracy evens out?

Before my last trip to Colombia, I made a concerted effort to chat up some cam guys, including a gorgeous Bel Ami-like muscle twink on Chaturbate. Absolutely no luck.

Were you at Lagoa? What were the garotos who were there like? (Keeping in mind I favor the type who never mess up their hair.) I'm hoping you'll have a chance to explore Clube 555 and report back. My dreams of a November trip are getting more faint due to work if not travel regulation anxieties.

What about the vaccination proof once you are there? Or the local "passport" I heard SP or RJ was instituting?

For a different experience, stay at Thermas overnight! You'll see which guys basically live there. It's a diverse mix of 5-6 guys. You can play around in the open, in the showers, in various places in the near-empty building. If you had any fantasies about being locked in a gym and discovering its erotic secrets, this is close. LOL. The premium rooms are 9-10 EUR per hour. Some clients and guys use that for their overnight dates, which would be convenient for coming out every now and then to grab a third wheel. But there's no "pernoite" rate that I know of.

You mean Junior/Caio/Edson/Emerson/Judson/Jefferson with the sculpted body, fashionably-ripped jeans, flashing smile, perfect hair, a cock that needs its own government-issued ID, and always a mirror in proximity would NOT make for marriage material?

MD Massagem has a full menu of services including tantric and "lingam" massage. The expository text is amusing but it isn't clear whether "extra," i.e., penetrative services are included or available and for how much.

I've been in Argentina during hyperinflation. Everyone seems shell-shocked. "Cobra y compra": You get your money and you go shopping immediately. If you can't trade for dollars, buy steaks, oil, flour, anything, because it will be more expensive tomorrow. When people cut back when prices go up, inflation gets tamed. When people accept higher prices, inflation becomes a part of life. But when people are racing against prices, that's when it turns into hyperinflation.

When I was there almost 3 years ago it was drug addicts laying out on the street. Nothing seemed open or alive when I got to 57a during the daytime and I didn't get the urge to return at night. I'm intrigued by Gus Van Sant-style street hoods, but this was way beyond that. I hope you report back something different.

Afghan men are gorgeous. But this is the wrong forum so I'll stop here.

I'm seriously eyeing a trip in early November. Depends on how the airline cancellation/change policies currently are.

Is that a recent phenomenon? My info is from about one year ago, that the lack of tourists was hurting them. $200 seemed to be what it was heading toward before covid, but I'm not sure what the situation is now. R200 was the most I ever paid, about 4 years ago. And that was a tall Arabic-looking guy at the end of the night, when he could and seemingly NEEDED TO cum. We had negotiated 150 with no mention of porra. He did it without mentioning any up-charge, but I thought it was worth a big tip.

My, the underground social history that needs to be written about the Brazilian sauna scene.

There's been more recent info about garoto rates, but they seem to have held steady over the past several years. Start at 100, don't go more than 150, and leave room to give them a little extra for good service. Have fun. Be safe, be alert, be kind!

Curitiba has been called the Minneapolis of Brazil: Clean, orderly, pleasant, a little boring. There are gorgeous young men and women with a stew of German, Polish, Ukrainian, Iberian, and Latin heritage (model scouts allegedly dig through the back-country here) but the best guys go to SP and Rio to work. Too uptight to ply their trade at home. I'm glad I went, but adjust your expectations. Florianopolis is nice if you can find some undeveloped stretch of beach. When I was there 20 years ago, they were building like crazy. PA I'm kind of meh on. Sao Luiz and Lencois - big thumbs up! A different history (French and Dutch) up there. I saw Brazilians from other parts gasping at foods that they'd never seen before ("farofa de caranguejo!"). The town across the waters from Sao Luiz is like an 18th century time capsule. My faves are two colonial cities of Minas Gerais: Ouro Preto and Diamantina. Even the names are beautiful.

Here he is at the new club, with his full name, the professional one at least: It does sound like a Japanese surname. More pics from internet: I'm still a little hung up on another buff, BIG-DICKED Brazilian nisei I tumbled with a few years ago so pardon my little obsession here.