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I don't think that this will be a big problem, considering that the ministry for human rights in Brazil has been useless for ages in Brazil. Gay rights here in Brazil apart from marriage are non existent...yeah there's marriage but there's no law which protects LGBT people...and there will never be any. The country is gay friendly because of the way the inhabitants think...to brazilians (most) there's nothing strange. Sex industry (saunas and rentmen) will not get touched... On the contrary, Bolsonaro has increased the minimum wage for 2019 by an amount lower than the one expected by the budget law.

What the hell did I just read? Guys stop feeding trolls....especially the ones who pretend to be some kind of Brazilian ethics experts or some kind of NGO owner in a forum about escorts. Just to inform people who have never been with a brazilian rentboy in Brazil, or to the ones who are bad observers. WAKE UP!!!! It's 2019 even in Brazil. The time of "desperate" guys selling their bodies to eat food in Brazil is well over for the vast majority of them (it's 30 years that the government is spending loads of money in social welfare) . The 2 sauna guys that i've been with on past tuesday, did have phones (iphone XS, 7000 BRL,; Iphone XS MAX 8790 BRL), clothes and bodies that would require monthly payments of at least 2 times the minimum salary (1000 BRL, the most common in Rio) for the next 12 months, while living both into a favela-looking bairro. Most of the rent guys are selling their own bodies because it's the best and quickest way to earn a TON of money for brazilian standards; and that's the amount of money required to buy those useless privileges (BRANDED THINGS) that we all like and which are at the opposite side of where an essential good would be. And there's nothing wrong about this, especially in an extremely openminded culture like the brazilian one. These guys are doing a job which involves meeting even rude customers or lowballers....don't worry....they're not stupid and they know how to act.They could not care less about getting referred as goods. What these guys really need is respect, treating them like professionals, selling a service... and trying to make them looking like poor and stupid hungry desperate people, unable to do anything but getting abused by rich tourists from around the world...it's far from being respectful.

I'd say is a mixed thing.

Guys it's not a thing about law. Just as you don't wanna see your picture while half naked inside a gay sauna filled with garotos posted in the internet, don't do it with garotos. Without involving law which in brazil is extremely complicated

I have been here during the first week of December. Wasted time and money for 2 days since i did not found anyone interesting. Quite unusual since the 4/5 times i have been there i did have a lot of fun. Maybe it's the month...

Well I've always found Grindr to be a quite safe and great source of hookups in there. Did not enjoy the sauna/cruising scene.

I'd be happy to be his puppy

Everyone has different reactions during this kind of events... There are people who get mad and get stabbed/shooted. There are people who trigger their survival instinct while keeping enough focus to don't do the most stupid thing (run away) and who manage to get safe. There are people who just don't react and that the only loss they get is entirely economical. Nothing can be said about tomcal's reaction.

So it is the same story i was told about, but i was told the guy was spanish. Sad story. For sure i know about a guy who got beaten down from a sauna guy so hard that his face was far from the one on his ID card. I am not one of those who tell the users to don't take sauna boys at home... But for sure, it's not something you wanna do if you don't speak Portuguese. If you're a grown man you can understand by talking to a guy if he is trustworthy or no. And there's another thing foreigners tend to forget... Brazilians are strong people. A 20 yrs old magrinho could be much more lethal than a 40 yrs old muscle man with a knife, in a country where there's a strong martial arts culture.

What happened to the French guy? Did not know about this story

I am not very sure about what to say about this story. All of the people I've been talking about this incident in Rio, told me different stories. I am beginning to think that this could be a fake story. At least in part. Only time will tell us the truth.

Numazu i wanted to thank you for all the great reports. They are a huge entertainment during lunch time at work. Like a multiepisode TV show.

The censorship on the Murilo's cock pics is disturbing hahaha I love your reports

Both. Have a look at the forum...is fill of information. If you're new to Rio, stay the southern bairros.

For fuck sake... You all... Stop coming to Brazil the only times of the year i am outside of it The only good thing is that i will miss the excess demand of GPs you guys will cause haha.

Lapa is not the place where you should hang out at night.

He's not good but not that bad neither. The medias are telling the same stories about him since 2014...they became so much repetitive that many people begun to question themselves if in the end he is really so bad as they wanna make you believe to. We will see but usually, what a person says during the years while the odds of election are near to zero, is usually different from what a person does when it happens to be elected president of the most important country of the S.A. Could be better..... Or worse.

Guys don't worry... I am not depressed about what happened. I just wanted to say that stupid errors can lead to huge losses. In my case the loss has been tiny luckily, maybe thanks to the fact that i can speak Portuguese and that i did not get mad, in a situation where the only thing i should have done to don't have problems was to just pay.

Well the transaction fee was something the guy wanted me to believe at. He just wrote wrote the difference in the terminal, adding 50 reais. He just wanted to get more money from me, and I wasn't in the condition to fight with him. I didn't wanna risk to get stabbed for 150 reais. Of course there will be no chargeback...i have authorized the transaction by PIN, so no way. I don't care....It will just remind me that shit can happen, and that if i had followed the rules above, nothing would have happened to me.... As I said I am not a newbie...but "errare humanum est".

I want to tell you about an unpleasant episode which happened to me a couple of weeks ago in Sao Paulo. I live in Brazil since the beginning of this year, I am not a newbie and I did never have a problem with garotos (from saunas, and from the web). The thing is that depending on who you are, and how horny you are, in some circumstances the "second brain" can replace the main one and let you do mistakes that can be quite expensive. So I was in SP, during a slow day to go for Lagoa, so I did my search on Grindr and I have found the sexy guy I was needing for. Since my apartment was so messy it looked like a bomb exploded in it, I decided to go to his place (100 mt from my apartment). Now, this is already something you must not do, it's not safe. But I was in SP, I have never had a problem even when going to GP's apartments, and I am a fluent portuguese speaker. Rate set, ready, go. To lower the risks, I always bring with me the GP's tariff + 20/50 reais just in case, plus a credit card (which is a card where I can set a spending limit whenever I want, using the smartphone app). The guy was good, as in the pictures, good sex. Not the best, but still good. So what happened? At the moment of paying (here's another mistake i will explain you later), after taking a shower I realized I was missing a 100 reais note. At the beginning I started to think that it must have fallen out somehow. The guy was helping me to look for it inside the apartment. Then I have realized how stupid was the thing I was doing and how good was the acting of the guy. There was no chance that a 100R note could fall out of the wallet and out of my trousers by itself, and I did check the amount 3 times before leaving my home. So I was unable to pay the boy by cash, who pretended to look surprised by my words. Even if I do not show any sign of fear and I can speak some good portuguese, i am still a young 70 Kg, tall and untrained european white guy; so there was no reason to get beaten down by a 90Kg tall muscular moreno latin guy inside his home, by letting him notice that I was missing 100 Reais because he actually took that note from my wallet when i wasn't looking. So in the end he took out his credit card terminal and I paid him the difference (plus 50 reais to cover the "transaction fees"). In the end the damage has been very small, but what would have happened if at my place there was a guy who easily gets scared and axious, and that doesn't speak portuguese? What would have happened if this guy wasn't alone and was looking to steal more than 100R? The truth is that this is my first bad experience (well in part, cause sex was good haha) out of hundreds...but shit can happen, especially if as you do the mistakes I did: Do not go to a GP's apartment unless you already know him well and you know what you're doing....you don't know what can happen in there. If going to a GP's apartment, pay in advance. Some people believe that paying later will convince the GP to perform better. The thing is that it's bullshit since the GP perfectly knows that you're in a hostile environment and that in any case you will pay him to don't have problems...willing or not. If I did pay before having sex, I wouldn't be writing this thread now, since the wallet would have been with nearly nothing to steal inside. Do not shower in a GP's apartment...this is the most stupid thing I did. The guy opened my pockets and took one of my 100R note while I was under the shower. Be wise, and don't let your cock or ass, take control over brain.

Same thing in Rio. Bad weather and holidays can cut the attendance by an half.

Yeah but for those who are concerned about the future, how a president acts is usually very different from what he was saying in 3 or 4 years old interviews where he didn't have even a 1% chance to get elected. Brazil has a constitution too, unless he decises to turn the governments into a militar dictatorship. Saunas will keep working, everything will be the same (from a gay point of view). The biggest change will be in the short-term, on what the police does. If they become much more violent against criminals there's nothing wrong about it, unless you don't get involved in a shooting inside a favela. (and the question here would be... what the hell were you doing in there?). Here (RIO) people are literally praying to see in the headlines of the newspapers, the highest number of dead narcos, during an assault inside a favela.

Here is kinda crazy... Many people don't know yet where to vote.

I usually go to the beach with a kind of a soft bag (which shows that there's not a lot inside and clearly not anything with a shape of something of valuable) when i am alone. If i am with friends or with some muscle garotos, i bring my backpack. Said that... Shit can happen everywhere and independently on how good you're following the rules. In NYC I've seen a guy getting robbed with a knife while leaving the subway station. The only difference is that in the US the guys usually get arrested by police or shot.

Really happy to see that you are fine. Anyway I agree with Latbear. I live here since the beginning of the year (even if most of the time i am outside Rio) and i did not notice an increase in violence, after the Carnaval when during that there has been the peak. Maybe you're overreacting (as i did when almost the same thing happened to me in posto 4, search my old thread in the forum for more information). I want to remember to all the folks that are reading this, that the only way to stay safe in Brazil, is to walk without visible goods, trying to don't look as a target. Backpacks will make you a good prey because they make you look like a tourist. It can contain a computer, a camera, a wallet. A good idea would also be to walk around without any kind of watch on the wrist. (but i cannot stay without a watch) And there's another golden rule to follow. Always keep a 20 reais note, because assaults can become much more dangerous when they realize that they took a risk for nothing.