SolaceSoul

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“Safety is assured when you are here. You have nothing to lose with the security measures that are put in place for you. You have so many things to benefit from while you are in this city of Brazil. And at the end of the day, your holiday is going to be something you ever dream of at an affordable rate. A tourist center without safety cannot be complete. This is the reason why people are now making their holiday here in Sao Paulo. There are lots of things you would be able to experience while you are like experiencing virgin vegetation and great tourist centers at a rate you would not worry over. All you need to do is research a little before coming to Sao Paulo.“ Research a little and you’ll learn quickly that safety in São Paulo is NOT “assured”!

As mentioned above, the email address for Freddy (alwaysreadyfreddy@hotmail.com) is already publicly listed at other DR blogs, so I think it’s appropriate to list that. Any phone numbers I have for him may or may not be private or may be outdated (I haven’t spoken to him in a very long time), and I have no permission to post them publicly, so out of respect for privacy and in an abundance of caution, I won’t post. When I have more time, I will re-read your full OP to see if there is anything more I can contribute.

Or they play that age on TV. Quite a few are well over that maximum age and are still “holding back the years”.

I have some friends (more like acquaintances) who also attended XLsior in Mykonos this year. They enjoyed Mykonos but they also really like gay circuit parties. I, on the other hand, no longer really get into them. There is a large group of muscular, body boys who save up all of their coins to hit many of the gay circuit parties all over the globe. They do not all have sugar daddies — that is a myth — although some or many of them wish they did have them. Many of these “circuit gays” save up all of their money to go to these parties, to meet other circuit gays like them. They work out in gyms, diet and take drugs to get their bodies looking their absolute best for these circuit parties. A lot of them are also recreational drug users. These are the same kinds of circuit gays that fly to São Paulo and Rio, and can’t wait to party all night and day at The Week on Saturday (they also have little interest in the working boy saunas in Brazil, for the most part). I agree that there are very few posters here who would feel they fit in at XLsior, or any of the other gay circuit parties for that matter. These tend to be very “body conscious” and “looks conscious” events. Assuming the average boytoy poster does not meet these strict physical standards, then the posters would probably not feel welcome —- and if they are economical travelers and buyers of sex, then their money would not go very far at all (often times, even the escorts who travel to these parties are unavailable for hire during these events). It is no different from the posters here, who love the payboy saunas, not feeling very comfortable at The Week in Rio or São Paulo — because of the loud, thriving, modern music, the late nights / early mornings, the recreational drug use, and all the shirtless hunks that are completely unavailable to or open to them. To each his own. But this is most likely the wrong crowd for OP’s post.

Slight correction: Francisco can’t really “take” you anywhere, as he doesn’t have a car. He will go with you in your own transportation (taxi, Uber, etc) or on public transportation (bus). Most definitely Manny, and probably even Freddy, can drive you to Narcisso’s house out in the “country” (about an hour outside the city).

That sauna in the Barra section of Salvador, Paradise, is a regular gay sauna without any rentmen. It’s convenient to those in Barra by the most touristy beach(es) but it’s usually not very well-attended. Sauna Rios, another gay sauna with no working guys, is more crowded. But this story should remind us that, especially as the Brazil economy continues to falter, saunas and their customers could very well be targets for armed robbery.

An estimated 20% of the world’s oxygen is produced by the Amazon rainforest! If destroyed or degraded, the Amazon, as a system, is simply beyond humanity’s ability to get back. Even if people were to replant half a continent’s worth of trees, the diversity of creatures across Amazonia, once lost, will not be replenished for roughly 10 million years. What happens to the Amazon is ALL of our business. Oxygen is far more valuable to humans and living creatures than oil. This is non-negotiable.

Hopefully, Eduardo Bolsonaro will only have about a year on the job. His qualification for US Ambassador is that he once flipped burgers in the USA? He will fit right in with Ivanka, the World Diplomat, whose sole qualification is putting her name on handbags made in China.

Finding a circumcised Dominican male in the DR would be about as rare an event as locating an uncircumcised adult Jewish male in Israel.

Post-menopausal dried-up old cunts like you no longer have periods, but that looming early onset dementia must be a real bitch. “One sign that a person's language is being affected by dementia is that they can't find the right words. They may use a related word (eg 'book' for 'newspaper'), use substitutes for words (eg 'thing to sit on' instead of chair) or may not find any word at all. Another sign is that they may continue to have fluent speech, but without any meaning - for example, they may use jumbled up words and grammar. Dementia can also affect the person's ability to make an appropriate response, either because they may not understand what you have said or meant. There may eventually come a time when the person can hardly communicate at all using language. This can be distressing for them and those supporting them, but there are ways to maintain communication and support the person to express themselves.” https://www.alzheimers.org.uk/about-dementia/symptoms-and-diagnosis/symptoms/dementia-and-language#content-start

It’s possible to enjoy both. It doesn’t necessarily have to be a binary choice.

“God helps three kinds of people: fools, children, and drunkards.” Berthelin, Pierre Charles (1762). Abrégé du Dictionnaire universel françois et latin: vulgairement appellé Dictionnaire de Trévoux. 2. p. 253.

The original quote was something like “God loves children, fools and drunkards”, and of course, some idiotic self-absorbed nationalistic Westerner had to change it to “drunks and the USA”.

“The Good Lord watches over children, fools and drunkards.” And he was two of these, behaving like the third! https://riotimesonline.com/brazil-news/miscellaneous/australian-tourist-spends-night-in-dangerous-favela-drinks-with-criminals-and-learns-to-use-guns/ Australian Tourist Spends Night Unharmed in Dangerous Favela, Drinking With Armed Criminals (Here is the original O GLOBO / Extra article, translated from its original Portuguese in Google Translate.) “Unaware of the risks, an Australian tourist said he spent the early hours of last Friday drinking beer alongside armed men from Complexo do Alemão, in Rio's North Zone, as GLOBO columnist Ancelmo Gois anticipated. Hugo Stanley-Cary, 34, decided to visit the slum complex after leaving Lapa, a bohemian neighborhood in the central part of the city, where he had already drunk. The foreigner, who was mistaken for a police officer upon arrival, managed to convince the criminals that he was not wearing a disguise. He spent the night drinking in the community. The set of slums has recorded 242 firearm shots this year, according to the Crossfire platform. "After the misunderstanding, they were nice to me." We drank some beers, showed me how to use weapons, shared songs, stories, and fighting techniques. At 9:00 they took me to the exit, but I didn't want to leave, ”Cary said. Stanley-Cary works at a homebuilder in Australia. He said he spent a month in Nicaragua and has been in Brazil for three weeks, between Sao Paulo, Foz do Iguaçu and Rio de Janeiro. At EXTRA, the tourist said he was in Lapa at dawn last Friday, around 3 am, when he asked an application driver to take him to the "most dangerous slum of all". He admitted that he had already drunk. So it ended up in the Complexo do Alemão. Without fear, the tourist remained in Alemão and walked the alleys. He was found drunk and was taken to the hostel where he was staying by residents of Complexo do Alemão. Hugo Stanley-Cary only left the slum at dusk. The journalist Rene Silva, from Voz das Communities, was called to help in communication between residents and foreign tourists. "He said he was in Brazil on vacation, and I said he had to go, because that area was dangerous." There were about 20 residents around him, protecting him from being stolen, ”he said. Rio's municipal secretary of tourism, Paulo Jobim, just said that the case proves that the reception of the carioca is one of the greatest assets of the city: - This record shows one of the greatest assets of this city: the carioca way of being! To recover the tourist potential of our city, we have to mobilize the cariocas to receive the tourists with love, in this way. Sought, the Rio Civil Police informed the report that does not have a tourist information booklet and would not comment on the case, because there was no record of occurrence on the episode.”

When I see that you have made a post where you have vigorously pushed back on the oft-repeated physical stereotypes of black and brown men in Latin America / South America having much bigger dicks, and being more sexually virile and passionate than others, then I will listen to a word you spew about needless physical characterizations and harmful stereotypes.

I wouldn’t necessarily describe @badboy‘s Rio-to-Thailand comparison as “unfavorable” — just that he meant that Thailand is known for twinks (and ladyboys) much more than masculine, muscular and / or tradey hustlers. Of course, that could just be a stereotype.

Sad, lonely old man lashing out and projecting. I’m very sorry that you have no real friends, online or off, but I’m not to blame. Check your internal wiring.

Yep. Intelligence is like having a big dick, or like being a lady. Or, like what Margaret Thatcher famously said about power: “Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren't.” Sure, you’re smart, Fredo! You’re really smart! And you want RESPECK!

Not a bad idea. Probably my next step.

Wow. I say this with all seriousness. Seek help.

I remember a few years ago when The Waldorf Astoria and other swanky five-star hotels in New York City had a bed bug infestation problem. https://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/bedbugs-reported-nyc-swankiest-hotels-article-1.2524895?outputType=amp

Like I said in a previous thread, I may understand the viewing audience a little better than you. Very few here are interested in analyzing, dissecting and digesting the results of a peer-reviewed research dissertation from the Journal of Probability and Statistics. Tone down the pseudo-intellectual rhetoric a bit. You’re blinding us with science, Ms. Sakomoto!

I have to use my decoder ring, but you’re basically saying here (in your own purposefully muddled and pretentious way) the very same thing that the travel blogger that @badboy posted said here, but in simple English: https://www.fluentin3months.com/theft/ Most, but not all, incidents of travelers’ crime and crimes of opportunity could be prevented by the targeted victims with some extra planning, precaution and awareness on the targeted victim’s part. Almost every one of these crimes can be traced back to victim error. They ain’t called “crimes of opportunity” for nothin’!

I just finished reading this article. He offers some excellent insight and advice on how to avoid being a victim of travelers’ crimes, or just crimes of opportunity in general. I agree with much of what he says — especially where he notes that almost every incident of travelers’ crime can be traced back to mistakes or errors that the victim or target made or could have prevented with some extra planning, precaution or awareness. Thanks for posting, @badboy! Here are some of the truisms he noted in the article that are absolutely correct — but are sure to piss off some of the posters here, because they hit too close to home: