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I am surprise no newspapers has headlined its report this morning with "TREASON".

LOL. No, "taxi boys" is the local slang for male prostitutes. Absolutely nothing to do with taxis cabs or taxi drivers, other than they also charge you by time.

Thank you @tassojunior for contributing to the thread with useful information. I am not into the sauna scene or into shopping, and am not planning to explore that, your posts are an useful addition. Last night my dinner finished at 1AM, so I did an attempt to go to Contramano, understanding Sundays was their Bears Night. It was a disappointment, the "boliche" (Argentine Spanish word for night club or disco) was closed. I just checked their website, and found out they have radically changed their schedule. They used to open Wednesday to Sunday, now they are open only Friday and Saturday. Anyway, based on the pictures they have in the site, I doubt I would have found anyone attractive to me. Perhaps next year I will be able to explore Buenos Aires' night. Just one week here is not enough, I have many friends and relatives to meet and no much time for exploring. It does look like street cruising is still alive. A few times I walked a few blocks in Avenida Santa Fe and saw guys clearly cruising, I wonder what would happen should I have a couple of hours to hang out over there. Last night and Friday night I walked a few blocks pretty late and even when I saw guys cruising, I would say the atmosphere is not as friendly as it used to be. The stores used to leave their windows open and lighten up showing their offerings. Many of them (I would say most of them between Callao and 9 de Julio) now close the windows with metallic blinds, making the sidewalks sadder and darker. Being here only for one week and one week end did not give me the chance to check the theater scene. I did have a few recommendations (Terrenal, by Mauricio Kartún, and Todo Piola, de Mariano Blatt). If you are in Buenos Aires and want to see good acting and directing, I strongly advise you to give a try to any of those. The people who recommended them are former colleagues from my acting times and I have the upmost respect for their opinion. I can also recommend "Tarascones", by Gonzalo de María, a comedy written in verse with rhyme. I attended a show 2 yeas ago and I am glad to see it is still playing, although in a different location. I cannot recommend this one: Cruising 2, by Juian Arenas, because I have no references, but I was curious about it. Julián Arenas also directed and acted in "Me Imagino Que Vendrás Acompañado", a gay theme comedy played for many years. I recently discovered the web series he created based on it, and loved it. I am not sure the play would be good, but I am confident that at least it would be an interesting window to the local gay culture. This afternoon I am meeting Fabricio, he does not have a pace, so it will be my first experience in a "telo". Tomorrow Carlos already confirmed we will have our second meeting, I do not know yet whether it will include a session of pictures or will be just playing. A side note, I love to be able to read the narratives in Rentmen reviews without using a VPN software. Here in Argentina the locals can post prices and they are called "escorts" without the "porn stars" American euphemism.

Today I went for my third escort and this time it was a disappointment. He did not do anything wrong, really, we were just not a match. I stopped it when he was giving me head and I decided that I was not going to continue just because I was there. I paid half of the fee ($AR 700) and left. I have a strict policy about poor experiences. I think I cannot judge a professional just because I did not enjoy the meeting, so I am not going to identify him. He had very good reviews in the escortsxp.com forums, even when his pictures did not convince me I gave him a try. Too twinkish and too feminine for me.

I can. But I am trying my phone now and notice navegation is easier

In my last report I mentioned Carlos Aleman. Here you have the full review: https://ilikepinga.com/2018/07/15/carlos-aleman/. I am still processing the intensity and beauty of our meeting. That was last Thursday, and I needed a full day to recover physically, that is how exhausted he left me. I devoted that day, Friday, to catch up on some writing. On Friday night we were supposed to mee with a group of members of the Argentinean forums. We chose a gay bar downtown Buenos Aires, the Flux Bar. The location is pretty good, just one block away from Avenida Santa Fe and half from Avenida 9 de Julio. It is a basement and, despite the smell (I am very smells sensitive and the place stunk like humidity), I found it very much enjoyable. Our appointment was at 10 PM (22 for the locals). The crowd was very diverse with predominance of males in their 20s and 30s. The atmosphere was quite similar to a typical lounge bar from Manhattan East Village, very friendly and casual. The bar is owned, I read, by two American expatriates, and up to my knowledge the only gay establishment opening at 7PM. For the local culture, that is extremely early. We stayed in the place up to midnight. When we arrived at 10 it was full, unusual for Buenos Aires. When we left at 12 it was getting crowded but not much. A bourbon and coke was $AR 140. The exchange today is U$S 1 = $AR 27.95. They did not accept my CCs, I had to pay with cash. "We" were only two people. About 11 people expressed interest in attending, 3 sent messages letting me know they would not be able to show up, the rest just did not come. It was nice getting to know the other gentleman. He is 65 years old and with some serious health issues that limit his mobility and life. He has not had sex in many years, and channels his libido through writing. I still have to explore his blog, but if you read Spanish and are interested in erotic texts, here you have it: https://dardoysushistorias.blogspot.com. I did listen to a recording he shared with me: AUDIO-2018-07-14-18-47-44.m4a I think is a beautiful and interesting poetic prose. His golden years seem to be when he was in the Military Service ("colimba" in the local slang), most of his stories are staged back then. When we left it was too early to get into a disco, so I just went home to sleep. Yesterday Saturday my mother arrived from Corrientes so I devoted the day to her. I was going to have a meeting with a new boy in the afternoon: http://www.soytuyo.com/indexmodelo.php?id=878#.W0tPJy2ZPOQ, but he called me to reschedule, perhaps I will see him today after a family lunch. My intention last night was going to Contramano, but I fall asleep. I have a diner with friends today, if it last up to late I may try Contramano. On Sundays they host a Bears Night, it would be a perfect match for me.... if I survive awake until 2 AM. I am upset at me for losing last night, I gad a couple of recommendations to go to the theater but forgot to make reservations, it is my last week end and probably will miss the chance to enjoy a play. Buenos Aires' theater scene is premium quality. After Galo rescheduled, I tried to get something from the room up apps, inspired by @msclelovr's success stories but I failed. I only got a very hot Black Venezuelan who was looking for clients in Scruff. He did not have a place and quoted me $AR 2,000. I did not want to pay a price so much above the local market average, even if it is cheap compared to the USA. Here you have two of his pictures: Today I am planning on meeting Galo (the boy I linked above), at his place, $AR 1,400. Tomorrow Monday I will probably meet Fabricio: https://rent.men/Randisan. He charges $AR 1,200 and has no place, he is recommending a "telo" (local slang for "albergue transitorio", the hotels regulated with the only purpose of sexual encounters), so meeting him would be my first experience in this kind of place. Carlos Aleman has some final exams tomorrow and we are discussing our second meting for Tuesday. He has still not made a decision about allowing me to take pictures and film, but I am still hopeful.

I do remember that place, although I forgot its name. They opened about 25 years ago and back them ere the most luxurious exclusively gay sauna in the city. The small park you describe is the Plaza Rodríguez Peña, in from of Palacio Pizzurno, home of the Secretary of Education. I do not know if the sauna still exists.

I have not used my phone to surf the forums in a long time. I will check that.

I do not know whether or not opening another thread about this. So I will continue here to address a glitch, in the spirit of improving the website. I use Safari. I noticed that even when I have checked all of the messages in a thread, the title/link continue to be in bold letters most times. It is annoying because it makes you think that there are messages for you to check even when there are none. Is it my browser or someone else is noticing the same?

I loved it.

I am not exploring the sex party scene, but in my final report I will include some resources for those interested on it.

You may be right my friend. Consider I am not a tourist, I spend most of my time hunging out with relatives and old friends. I am visiting the gay circuits very rarely. As I do not have time to cruise, all my cruising is online. I did have more time in Corrientes, but here in Buenos Aires my schedule is tight and I am going straight for the efficiency, straight to the taxi boys. I am just comparing my online experience with the same apps and the same profiles between Corrientes and Buenos Aires. Also, I do not have formal cloths and I know that can make a difference in the local fashionable culture. You have not visited Corrientes. Who knows, perhaps with your older wealthy European aura the boys over there follow you like if you were in Morocco.

I learned today that my mother spent her childhood in a completely different place than the one I always assumed she did.

It worked! Thank you, sir.

If you mean refresh in the main site after signing in, I just did it and did not work.

Sorry @TotallyOz, I should stop celebrating because every time I do it something goes wrong. After I posted above, I am now back to having problems. After signing in in the main website, I click on the Forums menu and the home page of the forums shows me logged out. I am not, if I click in any thread or folder I am logged in and I can post. But the Forums Home page is showing me logged out.

Here you have the review on Douglas, the Carioca boy. https://ilikepinga.com/2018/07/13/douglas/

I arrived to Buenos Aires last Wednesday, today is Friday, and I am already exhausted. As usual, if you are interested only about sex, just skip to the last parts of this post. I need to take a break, so I am going to devote the day to catch up with some writing. Right now I am siting at a Starbucks in the Centro Cultural Recoleta waiting to have lunch with a friend in the Buenos Aires Design terrace. This is the Centro Cultural Recoleta, one of my favorite places in the city. I performed there in my times as an actor: These are different views of the Buenos Aires Sires Design, a mall where the local upper middle class buy furniture and decorations. It has a beautiful terrace with bars and restaurants and a view of what is called Plaza Francia, even when it is not the right name. One of the first things that struck me of Buenos Aires: Starbucks ubiquity. Two years ago I noticed a few locations but I thought they were not going to be successful. Buenos Aires is a city with a very strong culture of cafés, like Paris, Rome or Madrid. Traditional cafés are spread all over the city and are the place where friends get together for long sessions of chatting without consuming more than one espresso. I thought Starbucks, with their expensive offerings and tailoring more to individuals than to groups, would fail. Damn I was wrong. They are everywhere, at least in the neighborhoods I move in (downtown, Recoleta, Barrio Norte, Palermo). They have taken over the best locations in those areas. Many of the locations are just like any regular one in the States, but many have a very fancy look and clientele. The ones around my place in Recoleta look like luxurious stores in NYC Upper West Side. McDonalds and Burger King have also increased their presence and also took over the best locations. Unlike the States, where these junk food chains target the lower end consumer, here they are a trendy place for the middle class. As soon as I have the chance I will take a picture of the prices, so you can compare. For the local market their prices are high, and the quality of their food is just as trashy as anywhere else. When I was still living in the city and McDonalds was a novelty, there was a huge scandal. The local equivalent of the FDA analyzed McD burgers and found they contained a significant percentage (I do not remember the number) of art worms to meet the protein content specifications. Everyone predicted it would be the end of the chain in Beefland, everyone was wrong. Here you have a picture of Starbucks prices. Today exchange is U$S 1= $AR 27.91 Unusually, the dollar went down. However, you never know in this country I am still holding my advise on keeping your dollars and go selling them as you need. If you lose, it is going to be very little, but you have the potential to make a difference if you gain. The dollar can go down a few cents but can go up a lot. Here you have more pictures of the area around the Centro Cultural Recoleta, just three blocks away from my place. Recoleta is the fanciest area relatively close to downtown. There are fancier ones but they all are further away. I already warned you about traffic in Corrientes City. Buenos Aires is not better. Streets with one lane fit two cars. No one respect lanes. Riding a taxi cab is very much like riding a roller coster in an amusing park (it is just not amusing but authentically scaring and dangerous). In this city we add an additional danger: you are not sure not even in the sidewalks. In one single block you usually have many garage entrances and cars going in and out. Be very alert to the warning light or they will ride over you when you were walking feeling perfectly safe. The urban design is pretty different to the American cities I know. It does have the regularity of Manhattan Streets, it is easy to get oriented and to navigate. But we do not have here rectangular blocks like in Manhattan, or blocks with alleys and driveways like in DC and most American urban areas. The blocks here are perfectly squared, about 100m (meters, remember we are in the Metric system in the rest of the world) each side. There are no alleys or driveways. All buildings have private backyards one against the other, in what is called a “Pulmón de manzana”. Here you have a picture of the one in my place: This is the Iglesia Nuestra Señora del Pilar. I used to attend a catholic elementary school associated to this church. During Holidays season (which is summer here), my mother would make me join a Catholic Charity choir. They would dress me on the traditional altar boy outfit (yes, I would melt with those red warm dresses in summer time) and we would go around the big department stores (they do not exist anymore, we used to have to huge ones, Harrod’s and Gath & Chavez) singing Christmas Carrols. Next to the church, you have the also famous Cementerio de la Recoleta. I am fond of cemeteries, out of all the ones I have visited around Europe and the States, this is one of my top favorite ones. Many aristocratic families have a tomb here, the place is a treasure of architecture and sculpting. Juan Domingo Perón mummified corpse used to rest here, this is the place from where his hands were cut off. He was now transferred to his own museum. Right in the corner of the cemetery there is a mall that in my times was a Movies theater complex. They kept many cineplex theaters but added a generous number of stores and eateries. That is two blocks from my place. Just half a block from there, you have the local residency of the Opus Dei: One of the many particular things of this city is the unbelievable number if bakeries and kioscos. Soon I will take a pic of a bakery so you can see the local offer. "Kioscos" are small stores that originally would sell only cigarets and candy. They expanded the last 20 years to offer also other products, increasing their side. This is a very typical one, they are everywhere: Let’s talk a little bit about sex. I apologize if I repeat myself, but keeping posts in more than one place makes me lost track of where I am sharing my observations. I know I already shared this, but I do not think it was here. My observations about Corrientes and the Argentinean NE being a place with a subculture where younger men chasing for older gentlemen were more prevalent compared to other places, seem to be correct. During my first two weeks in Corrientes I would get about 15 hits every day (it was even more at the beginning but I set up the filters) , during my third week the ratio went down to 5 daily. I have been in Buenos Aires now for about 3 days. I only got two hits from Grindr, and in Scruff a masseur/escort contacted me to visit him in one of the local saunas. I am using the same apps and did not change a word in my profiles and stats. I met two professionals. I already posted about the first one Douglas, a Carioca moved to Buenos Aires. I have a review almost finished and hopefully I will post it today in the blog. Yesterday I found gold. Carlos Aleman, a 21 y.o. Venezuelan that would be one of my favorite regulars if he was living closer to me. The experience was outstanding. The boy is a natural and indeed one of the top five lovers I have had in my life, for free or for a fee. I did not start writing a review yet. I am negotiating a second meeting with pics and video. Physically he kind of remind me of Ashton Summers, with a body not so sharp but equally beautiful and sexy. However what made the difference was not his looks but his performance. The boy freaks in bed, it was really special. His fee was higher than Douglas’, $AR 1,500. Tonight I am meeting a few members of the local forum. I am not sure how many will show up, but hopefully I will have some input from the locals beyond our online exchanges. I found a gay bar owned by two American expatriates that follows times more aligned with my habits: Fluxbar. I have never been there yet. Our gathering is tonight at 22 (another local particularity: we use military times here). I will share how it went in my next post.

By the way, it has been working flawlessly for me, thank you and high five to your techies.

I have not check the number of hits in he long term, but the day I published a review about my meeting with Griffin Donavan the number of hits in my blog double my previous record with a Black provider review. And that considering that follows me should know my preferences. That was back in November. My review of Victor Powers was not so shockingly more successful because it was more recent and my audience was more educated in my tastes. Perhaps the situation is better now, but take a look at the market prices. A sexy bimbo new comer with inconsistent record as a companion like Alam Wernick is charging 600. A sexy God with a consistent record of outstanding meetings like Sean Xavier, 400.

I continue eating from Chick-fil-A because I love the product.. I do not buy from Papa John's because I do not like their pizza, not because they are racist.