SolaceSoul

I can verify that this is really a thing. In Braxil, it’s called an “arrastão”, when a robbery is quivkky done by a big group targeting many people or places in the same facility. This kind of arrastão is quite common at the tunnels on the NW end of Lagoa that go under the mountains and forest with Christ The Redeemer, and less common (although they do happen) at the Alvim Tunnel that runs under the Cantagalo favela, connecting Copacabana and Ipanema. I have been re-routed twice and Brazilian and expat friends of mine have gotten caught in an Uber in those robbery raids (they quickly hid their smartphones in a floor compartment, took out some several hundred Brazilian reais and handed it to the armed robbers when approached). they’re not trying to kill or harm anyone. They just want a quick grab. But they will kill or hurt if you resist. “Toto, I don’t think we’re in Kansas, anymore.”

Delta had already started canceling many of its ATL to São Paulo flights for the remsibder of this year. The Delta flight to Rio from ATL for the last few years went straight to GRU in SP then a change of planes to SDU in Rio.

Is Brazil dangerous? Yes and no. Eventually, everyone from tourists to locals “gets got” somehow in the major cities of Brazil — yes, even those of us who “look the part” of a brasileiro. I am referring to anything from petty theft to violent crime. The ones who say it’s never happened to them have just been fortunate thus far or are have not had enough visits to be broken in this way. Tourist areas in Rio especially are major targets for petty theft. The young guys are the best at it. Smart phones are the biggest, quickest and easiest targets. Never, ever, ever have one of those out or within reach. Necklaces are easy to cut from the back or just snatch and grab. If you like your ear lobes, I suggest not wearing your earrings. There is a saying in Brazilian Portuguese that translates in English as “the finger is more valuable to you than the ring.” In this respect, I’d compare the Brazilian cities to maybe 70s or 80s New York City — when almost everyone, from locals to visitors, experienced or witnessed some form of street crime. But is Rio or São Paulo as bad or as dangerous as, say, Lagos, Nigeria or Kingston, Jamaica? Of course not.

The current locker room attendant at Point 202 is a hard-working and very honorable guy. Tip him and he will watch after you and your things very well.

There are plenty of garotos in online ads who list their availability for women, men, couples and/or trans Just read the ads.

Maybe you should take that money and invest in your own strip club down in Rio, complete with private lap dance booths (or curtains). Maybe you’ll make a mint, Or maybe then, you’ll learn why Junior or Monik have yet to do it at their establishments.

Monday nights at Club 117 (previously closed on Mondays) are now exclusively for women clients. Maybe your horny straight female friend can start there.

If you are simply referring to the shows, I don’t know where you would have gotten this impression. Regarding drag shows, they’re not my thing. I take interest in the strip shows only to see if it’s someone I know or find attractive dancing — but I almost never sit at tables and watch the shows. I do enjoy the sauna culture though, and enjoy the socialization aspect of it as much as the sex.

As usual, you’re overthinking it. in Brazil, culturally there’s a wide chasm between how gogo boys / strippers view their availability to sex work and how sauna garotos do. It’s like how call girls look down on brothel girls or street walkers. The “I’m not like those other heauxs!” syndrome is culturally ingrained in the variants of sex work in Brazil — maybe because of the culture, maybe because it’s all legal. Maybe it’s a combination thereof. A number of the gogo boys are discreetly / not-so-discreetly available for private dances / programas outside the sauna setting. A client / customer just has to be willing and open to the dance. Whether it’s a worthy venture or not is only for each individual to decide for himself. I do not see how a sauna operator (Junior or otherwise) would add the feature you’re proposing unless there were a clamoring for it from a regular stream of clients. You are probably in a very small minority — maybe even a minority of one!

This concept works in Montreal, but most likely would fail in Brazilian sauna culture. Gogo boys in Brazil aren’t too keen in being lumped in with the sauna Garotos, and any sex work outside of the sauna or club beyond their stage performances would have to be individually and discretely negotiated on a per-client basis. The gogo boys I know in Brazil would not feel comfortable doing private lap dances in tiny booths inside a sauna or public nightclub. Plus, although some of us may cringe, the drag shows are the features performance and the dancers are just guests. There are loyal paying clients who love the dragons. Having private lap dance booths for the performing gogo boys may be viewed as distracting from the key drag performances.

You can expect to pay more for cumming, unless the garoto makes it clear to you in advance that his ejaculation is free of charge to you.

Feminists tend to either ignore male - male sexuality or want to speak for us, as if they know the first thing about us! They need to just stay in their lane.

The Portuguese spelling of nightclub is “boate”.

The OP is most likely referring to the gay sauna in the Bangu area of Rio. it’s called Boate Casa Grande. The address is: R. Cel. Tamarindo, 2520 - Bangu, Rio de Janeiro - RJ, 21840-447, Brazil

First read it when it was published a few years ago (2015 or 2016). “Caribbean Pleasure Industry” by Mark Padilla is another published thesis that’s a good thorough read as well.

The sound of a dragon is my cue to either get a room with my garoto of choice or go relax in the steam room / video room. The only time I want to watch the drag-helmed show is if there is a gogo boy I know will interest me.

For those of us who enjoy the Brazilian sauna culture, there’s actually more to do inside these places other than have sex. It’s usually just tourists and infrequent visitors who make their trips to the saunas a continuous pursuit for sex. I know some clients who go to the saunas regularly just to relax, mix, mingle, drink and enjoy the company of friends, and they rarely do programas.

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It’s still open and going strong.

Shit, most Americans, in spite of not fitting the above physical description, do not even make for good marriage material.

From November 2020, Rio news pulled from police bloggers. It reads to me like the clients were super shady — including the Swiss millionaire with the Leblon penthouse apartment! English translation: GAROTO DE PROGRAMA GOES TO ASSIST GAY COUPLE IN PENTHOUSE IN LEBLON, LITERALLY ENDS UP CARRYING A PIPE, AND WHEN HE GOES TO CLAIM AT THE 14 DP IN THE BAIRRO, HE GETS STUCK THERE A 26-year-old boy, who claims to have gone into prostitution to pay child support, was arrested yesterday after going to the Leblon police station complaining that he had not received payment for a program he did on the penthouse in an apartment in the neighborhood, lasting 48 hours with a gay couple. He had an active arrest warrant, since February this year, for not paying the pension to his six-year-old son, which already totals R$ 12 thousand. A Paulistano, he said he came to Rio for "a profitable season". "I'm married, my wife knows what I'm doing. Due to the financial crisis I started prostituting myself. I pay for my college, my apartment and I try to help my son. I paid part of the pension to his mother, but the court still hasn't [completed the] discharge on the warrant," he told O DIA at the police station. Also according to Felipe, who uses that name in the programs, he earns between R$ 10 thousand and R$ 15 thousand per month from this activity. According to the boy, he fell into a trap when he was hired by a Brazilian, who is married to a Swiss. "He proposed to me a sexual fantasy with his husband: he didn't tell the Swiss millionaire that I'm a male prostitute. In the sauna, then, we met and went to the penthouse. They used drugs and I did the job, having sex with the Swiss until 4 o'clock in the morning," he said. The first meeting took place in the early afternoon of the 29th. "At dawn, I was sucked, not eating [fucking ass] anything, he (the Brazilian) only gave me R$50 for the taxi and said he would settle the payment later. Then, three hours after I left the apartment, the Brazilian called me and said: I want to have sex only with you, in a motel," he said, yawning and eating a snack he had ordered at the police station. Felipe then went to the motel, where he says he stayed with the Brazilian and worked for a few hours. It was already nighttime when he wanted to receive payment, but the Brazilian said he could only pay the next day. "The initial program we had agreed was R$350. It was already R$5,000 and he said he wouldn't pay. He started writing on Whatsapp that I was threatening, that I had broken into his apartment, and that he was going to call the police. He said: let's go to the police," he said. Arriving at the 14th DP (Leblon), the two, fighting at the counter, told their versions. The police then sent for the Swiss spouse, who knew nothing. "He (the Swiss) proposed to Felipe to pay half of the program that his husband owed. Felipe accepted. So, we did not record the occurrence for embezzlement. However, Felipe had this arrest warrant open and was arrested ", said an agent. He was detained in a cell at the police station. Before being taken to the scene, he managed to make a call to his wife telling him what had happened. "Little girl, I'm going to have to stay here until everything is resolved," he said over the phone.

Wikipedia says he is 37, but Wikis are user- and viewer-controlled and that’s why you cannot trust them as a source. He was born in 1998. https://www.freepressjournal.in/amp/sports/meet-tiago-ramos-neymars-step-dad-whos-6-years-younger-to-the-brazilian-footballer

Tiago Ramos aka Ivan is also a former footballer — thus, like I said in a previous post, certain guys (muscle gods, competitive athletes, real-life fashion and print models) charge more than “regular guys”. It just is what it is. https://www.republicworld.com/amp/sports-news/football-news/tiago-ramos-neymars-mothers-boyfriend-stabbed-in-the-neck-in-mexico-almost-dies.html https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thiago_Ramos_Fernandes

And for those of you naysayers who are in deep about certain higher-end garotos commanding higher prices in Brazilian saunas, the younger live-in boyfriend / possible husband of the mother of soccer superstar Neymar was getting paid 500 reais at Sauna Boa Vista in Recife — according to the Braziiian client who paid him (“worth every penny!”). (article from June 2020). English translation: 'Worth every penny:' Neymar's mother's boyfriend attended gay sauna as a male prostitute A man told Léo Dias that he met Neymar's stepfather in a gay sauna; know more. per FERNANDO Bhá um ano Tiago Ramos was known for getting involved in several controversies and for currently being Neymar's stepfather. This week, columnist Leo Dias, from the news portal Metrópoles, said that Tiago Ramos would be advertising on a prostitution website in Spain. In the ad, the boy says he's up for going to bed with men, women and even bisexual couples. The boy, however, ended up having another revelation about him revealed this Tuesday, June 9, by columnist Léo Dias. An alleged client of the boy got in touch with the gossip reporter and said that he met Nadine Gonçalves' boyfriend in a famous gay sauna in the city of Recife, in the state of Pernambuco. “I hired Tiago's services at the Boa Vista spa, in Recife. I paid 500 reais and it was very well invested. It was worth every penny” , said the alleged former client of Tiago Ramos when talking about the topic, which had huge repercussions in the media. On the European prostitution website, Tiago Ramos would not use his name. He would have chosen the name Ivan so as not to draw so much attention. In space, the supposed photos of the boy would be in hotter poses, but none entirely without wearing anything. The boy still makes some demands in the ad, explaining how his services work. It is worth remembering that this week an audio leaked by Neymar with homophobic criticisms from the player to his stepfather. In the audio, which could become an inquiry at the Public Ministry of the State of São Paulo, the PSG player calls the boy a “faggot”. A “parça” of him talks about killing the boy who is dating the ace's mother.

@Alaskabear, starting 11/1, Argentina is opening its borders to foreigners with proof of COVID vaccine and a negative COVID test taken within 72 hours of arrival. The return into Brazil requires a negative COVID test taken within 72 hours of re-entry as well. So, what you need to do is: take the COVID antigen test at the Drogaria farmacia in Brazil, and make sure the test is taken within 72 hours of your crossing over into both the Argentine side of Iguaçu Falls AND your return to the Brazil side. Here’s a link with more info: https://iguazufalls.com/national-park/