Riobard

Good points, but I am thinking the rabble might be inclined to eventually converge and consolidate their discontent by directing it to one defined figurehead. You have the sophistication and advanced cognitive processing to track his use of two full hands of finger-pointing and to organize and hold in mind this complex list of whipping-boy categories. The masses under stress, in contrast, would tend to be depleted in capacity for relaxed yet detailed mental effort and be inclined to streamline blame. Perhaps my own psychological laziness supports this fantasy of him getting his just dues in due time.

Be patient. A demographically aging population hemorrhaging out social security funds at one of the highest proportions of spending budget and GNP globally, desperately ambitious pension reform already widely criticized and expected to impose greater financial hardship for workers, legislation delaying retirement age in a nation with marked health multimorbidity onset at late middle age similar to more thriving and resourced countries, grim economic 2-year forecasts capping off a near decade of minimal growth, crumbling infrastructure. Who will be scapegoated when it is obvious the prospects of Brazil being pulled out of the fire do not rest on the election promises of a populist bag bolsa of hot air?

I am relieved that you chose the hotel option your first time. As you know by reading here, it is common practice to have your guest deposit his cedula (RD ID card) at reception and to accompany him to retrieve it as he leaves. This is important particularly if the guest was not vetted and brokered by third-party procurer. I take an apartment in Brazil but I was glad to have the safety net of a hotel in SD as a newcomer. The downside is that some escort guests are anxious if they think their reputation will be sullied. It will be inferred by hotel staff that trade is happening ... the staff are quite savvy about adding two and two with a gringo hosting a decades-younger local, and porters hanging around the lobby are in the same age and socioeconomic range and may know the guest ... the city is large but has a more smalltown vibe compared to, say, Rio. Similarly, most procurers are known locally and some potential escorts are even sensitive about being associated with these known sex brokers. Brokers are often juggling matching hunks, twinks, and chicas with male sex tourists. All the desk staff, hotel restaurant servers, and porters, possibly even the cleaning ladies, were on to me. I am a very private person, so it took some adjustment. Mind you, nobody copped any attitude whatsoever and I had a lot of similar-agenda company. In fact a large group of Americans seemed to know one another and be on a routine pilgrimage lining up dates with ladies of the night. My preferred type is different than some. Physique buffs with great looks and minimally average endowment. Goal-assist procurement was not the most effective for me because isolated photos and endorsements mean little, and I am spoiled in that I can get to spa brothels or strip clubs to assess first-hand any prospects according to my quirky needs. Furthermore, procurers have to delicately balance escort recruitment with maintaining a decent reputation for themselves among their peers and associates. They cannot simply put out feelers to all hot guys in the vicinity, inquiring if they are willing to 'get down' for decent quick profit. My sense is that they have a defined enough reputation that trade prospects may gravitate to the employment application level, but that they must avoid being too forward in flaunting their role and financial gain. I also doubt that brokers hold up clients as salt of the earth. Realistically, in a conservative machismo setting, we are fags with needs that can yield financial gain at the expense of provider integrity. Interestingly, gay expats I briefly met there seemed to be well integrated and getting what they want, but did not know some of the broker contacts reported here. Some implied that there were too many middlemen 'on the hustle' to keep up with who is who. They are viewed with mild disdain, or broker users are subtly pitied for naïvely falling for the hustle dynamic. Cine Lido and Apolo are poor contenders for me. My week in SD was partly to determine the prospect of future extended winter time. I have spent up to 90 days at a time in Brazil and can replicate my northern life routine without needing the high levels of stimulation and entertaining distraction that is usually desired when younger and with limited vacay time. Frankly, I am ambivalent but still curious about a month in SD next winter. I was not blown over whatsoever by the trade I could get thus far. You have to be careful and it is labour-intensive to scavenge for top-tier guys without drawing too much unwanted attention. I need more prep time and mileage there to determine whether some reliable repeat-worthy gems can be excavated, how direct to be in my agenda, and whether upticking procurer reward levels will make a difference. Gym time was cheap and accessible. The main grocery store on El Condé is certainly decent enough to support meal prep in self-catering accommodations It is reassuring that you seem to be getting somewhere with social media in advance. I am gathering data. Grindr there did light up to some degree, but I lacked the time to follow through. The historic area is very enjoyable to soak up. One Grindr lad asked what "generous" meant, though my profile was as clear as you can be without outright declaring being a john seeking muscular trade. I replied that I was very giving in terms of providing compliments.

I have seen and applaud some of your vids, including the one where I presume skilled editing inserts a Yankee dick standing in for Fabian R. If otherwise, me Jelly at the highest level. You "ruined" it for me by mentioning you will be entering virgin territory in DR, as I had bought into the clip but now assume you did not score him in the USofA or elsewhere. BTW, my limited experience on site in SD suggests that he is unattainable and does not 'get down' for one-offs. Shame I don't have a yacht. About that balaclava ... it might be seen as a foreign idea there and may startle the native sons. If not grasped conceptually as a viable kink or as a filming discretion prop, and you are unable to follow the airflight playbook of applying first, thereby reasurring the uninitiated of its harmlessness, you may experience the nearest coffeemaker or table lamp whacked across your skull by a confused, disoriented trick. Use with caution to avoid subzero encounters. To boot, at a place like Apolo Spa it will be like putting a tea cozy on an already steaming pot of brew.

I know, right? This is not the place, for bullying, that inevitably happens for reasons most of us comprehend and dislike, such as it usually involves needless crash and burn. And, believe me, I knew as I was writing about it that it was was going to better suited for a forum or context other than sex and travel. So I am happy to side with you and ground this discussion in favour of topics and themes that have a better chance of finding a viable runway. But think about this: in your mind's eye, do a loose assessment of who fits into which of two basic camps. One is those who are out to correct and monitor and inclined to finger-pointing and ridicule, the other more laid back and hospitably conflict-avoidant. Which of the two is essentially mum about details of their sexcapades and which is more playful and candid in chronicling their play? It is a sex play forum after all.

De nada ... much fun.

Kevie, my high school system in the northern boreal above the Great Lakes required we had to take, in our final year, 2 of 3: English, French, Latin. In Grade 13, I dropped English to raise my GPA for uni. To clarify, English was Literature and I sucked at it. I tend to free-associate quickly if there is no income at stake and in a setting where the concept of reputation is, frankly, overrated. I tend to struggle with the more modern idiom here and there that leaves me scratching my head. ------ A megalomanic bully uses binding paradox and is set on the win. For example, you may notice in the dynamics here that not responding makes me a loser because I will have let a douche get up my nose without rallying, when in fact this version and source of bullying is not lacking in prevalence ... if you are not blind, you can see many examples of blatant derision peppered among this guy's more neutral passages, a blend of contributions that has the effect of calling into question the actual grade of Trumpification that rests within the offender. Similarly, responding makes me a loser because I engaged with the bully and the bully asserts that means I have no life and I am a social pariah. True, reciprocal engaging tends to be generally obnoxious, meaning that I am not exempt from the responsibility of tossing similarly rude salvos. That I term deliberative isomorphism (another boring lecture) Sure, one can take a hanky and blow out the shit cloud one walked into, walking out. That may work best for many and is certainly not a tactic I absolutely discard. You know you are being catfished into the bind when nonsense is spewed forth. Like this guy makes up stuff that is simply disorienting and because there may be enough naïve people around to take fake news at face value. Not being American, I am newer to this dynamic. Perhaps you get the drift of the paradoxical bind? It is the causal agent of much interpersonal dysfunction. Essentially, a position of being damned if you do and damned if you don't. Moving on. If you decide to engage and see it through, you must seek and find counterparadox, and focus on the process rather than the win. Counterparadox is simply paradox, where unpredictable, ungovernable change occurs irrespective of what you do in the enterprise. Better yet, paradox put forward by the bully tends to split and multiply like the amoeba that sourced it. And I do not mean that totally disparagingly. That is simply universal generativity. It is just that bullying is primitive ... I think we agree on that. In this example, I recognize basic intelligence and respect some reasonably well-played serves. Sometimes, not always, I think: Touché. On recent occasions, the serves progressively degenerate into playground base name-calling and plagiarized cartoons, gifs? Whatever, you want to call them. Since patterns tend to be repetitive, I acquired a better sense of this eventuality. The outcome tends to be better when I up the ante in the opposite direction. I think that the opening bitchslap has been consistently, though perhaps subtly, presented by the other party. I do not, however, proclaim to be perfect. The point is it is not important how I express or whether you grasp it all or you need a thesaurus. Think of it as a public display of nonviolent disaffection. I am not so much writing for the collective at these times, but I do somewhat hope that some of my response represents empathy for the bullying endured by other members, sometimes dealt by the same unclassy hand. What is important to me is the realization that some bullying simply galvanizes my energy. The paradox (remember finding the one that might fit the bully's paradoxical bind?) that has worked so far is that dissecting what I perceive to be nonsensical material and turning it on its head, no matter how unhinged I myself appear in the enterprise, while it can be mildly time-consuming, recharges my batteries and gets it across the finish line. It also helps that less intelligent less manipulative less committed bullies here enable a bit of practice at anti-bullying calisthenics. Nobody need take a personal side other than anti-bullying, as you very eloquently expressed in your own way. Other than that, some forebearance is required in terms of how we individually handle the subject. Frankly, I would feel more comfortable if others got into the ring more rather than feebly 'tap out'. But I expect that there is a host of excellent reasons for that kind of pacifism and that is my problem to handle. Final paradox before we call it a day: Riobard can be bullied yet unbullied. So can you. Peace out.

More Pelhourinho selections ...

Capoeira ...

Reversion to mediocrity complete. And ... scene. Take # [yawn] The Emperor's New TapOut Gear. That's a wrap.

These are not my favourite shots, but the server here is glitchy about uploading ...

At the risk of being verbose, I can confirm that you can get laid doing the 11 - Fox shuffle in either direction. This level of detail should be spare enough to ensure a reasonable grade of troll-proofing for a dirty old 'mo sex tourist like me. To be clear, no particularly bad situation that cannot be easily dealt with has landed my way here in Salvador. There is, granted, cause and effect. The net effect for me is that my current best but limited advice is the stock Ask-an-Expert or see for yourself all landscape aspects at your beck and call by visiting. I have not logged into Grindr for some time because the volume of acompanhantes is far greater and unambiguous on the ad sites. My final day will be capitalizing on once more having the lodgings space to myself.

Shit, shave, shower, skip douche, deal with Douche. Dodge Douche. Lock and load. Repeat. A few minutes here and there. Sudoku on the fly. The laid back vibe here has zombified millions living so very meaningfully on their devices, they are the real deal, while a few stolen 'i' minutes has you relegate me to the ranks of social outcast. So much time wasted at Lagoa. On you. Vacay in ruins! You are like peeling back an onion. Now taking cheap shots at trade-seeking. And discounting the value of anonymous-level interaction within our forum mission agenda. Why assign any of it to an arbitrary hierarchy of value? That is correct, fellow readers, connection here is not real, trade is a sham, this guy decides who taking time out on one's keyboard is legit, and standing up to the bossy and disingenuous among us will yield you a second-rate personality assessment. If you dare to participate in a board for that component of life broadly stigmatized, and stand up to bullying, you are a big fugly Loser. And Gawd knows, nobody sees through this joker, do they? Is there no straw you will not grasp at, SS? The only thing I find depressogenic in life is people like you. Pill? You are one. Perhaps you are so grandiose that you believe you have an omniscient grasp of my itinerario and activities. "Shaking my head" is a spot on response. Exactly. Can you believe this guy? Shaking off troll dust is an inconvenience, to be sure. Like I suggested, fora contain all types. It is a trade off.

Yet here you reside, resident ditch troll, tweeting trumpumphantly, glued obsessively to every word written by those you view disdainfully, mockingly, a persisent shadowing annoyance nipping at the heels, unable to be swatted away, digging for errors and contradictions, taking valuable time out from the life you purport to have grabbed by the balls, the dude every forum has that delusionally fancies himself a mercurial Tybalt while channelling an agitated, prosecutorial Faerie Nurse Snitchly Quickly (apologies to The Bard for stretching analogy). My sense is that you have inverted the running direction in your snotty bitchy story to suit your worldview. Wot ... You came across somebody you didn't like? Quelle shock!! I can smell obnoxious a mile away though the poor chap in question perhaps had olfactory deficiency.

But more importantly, please give generously to help find a cure for broken records that laugh at their own jokes, exposing themselves to the elements in a futile attempt to keep their poll of who is weird on life support. Because apart from that being sadly peculiar, erm, the stupid, it burns, inn't?

After a bumpy start on arrival at GRU, whereupon following 20 hours door-to-door travel I foolishly left my passport/visa at final customs x-ray (a first for me), circled back in the Über, and the Goddess Yemanjá saw fit to have them back in my possession 45 minutes later, I eventually got into Pinheiros. Bless you, Alessandra, at Immigration/Customs T3. This made me realize in future to put phone number in there. BTW, Über can be a crapshoot in terms of whether the driver is comfortable with Door H Arrivals vs Departures. Be prepared to text within the app and be familiar with the elevator location. I had a few enjoyable days located N/W green line. Säo Paulo is touched on more extensively in a Lagoa thread, as well as my September trip. Moved on to Salvador, nice 2-hour LATAM flight. The sights are well documented in the public domain, travel guides, etc. I am a block from Praia Barra in an amazingly quiet little penthouse lodgings. Pleasant oceanside walks. I have been grazing from an order of delicious shrimp moqueca and sides that could feed a family. A steak dinner at Sauna Fox was also very decent and really economical. Great local amenities including a new SelfFit. So far, I find it eminently possible to get down with hires no less appealing than what I consider the cream of Rio. I am satisfied with the idea of not necessarily returning because this is my second visit I deem a success and I prefer to focus on other destinations. Though the visa lift and Canada now conveniently adding more departure cities may make it difficult to resist.

Sorry, guys, I could perhaps be adding better material about experiences in Bahia if not distracted. I think you might agree it is best to ghost this thread for good and sign off for the time being.

What I meant was that the collective does not appreciate ongoing disputes between posters. The SP example, if I recall correctly, was a very singular and isolated example of normative interplay among a few members that I thought was working together collaboratively to knit together directions. A little heated, perhaps, but resolved. Perhaps you are an only child from a small reserved family. Perhaps one lifetime error was disproportionately costly. I don't know what your point is about name handles. These things are between member and administration. You lack respect for both sides, since you will take pot shots at anybody, ie, some members are too "portly or corpulent" to be "thrown" as a measure "trust" (Dec 2018) ... when some respected contributors have been candid about body issues and intrusive measures taken to ameliorate related health problems. I think that was the juncture that put me most on to you. Nobody is immune from from your vitriol. That is why I respond but do not take you too seriously. Finally (almost), you are not the first American Friend of Dorothy here to misrepresent Baum's characterization of the Wizard. If the parallel holds water, then I apparently present considerable threatening bombast while hoping and praying for community rescuers to appear as I desperately attempt to keep evil at bay. In contrast, I think that most forum members are quite adequate at holding their own against wannabe trolls. Lastly, I would not wish you or anyone to have any less optimal visit time, wherever in the world, than is possible. To declare that somebody is not capable of having as good an experience, compared to you, is simply: Readers, feel free to help me out with word insertion following the colon above.

I never wrote that Clube 11 was in Nazaré. In actuality, I wrote that my late arrival lead me to head up to Nazaré/Tororo as opposed to Pituba. I stayed up there 3 years ago and again went to eat outside of Tororo following the club. You can google map restaurants and make inquiries about the sexually frustrated Canuck who waltzed in for an empanada, since you may have nothing better to do. You saw fit to correct what you perceived to be a geographic gaffe that I never committed. We all know your grasp of the city is good and your unparalleled social integration is at a level we brief visitors can never hope to reach. You like to pick a dust-up. Are you the arbiter of where we source info? What would have been douchey is if I had added that anyone who is not geo-dyslexic and understands the basic Russian doll concept would simply let it go, realizing that Tororo is in Nazaré is in Salvador is in Brazil is on Earth that revolves around ... someone ... I think you get the picture. I realize that you may now again have your hackles up and this is possibly not finished ... collective groans among the readership notwithstanding. I don't mind being corrected and I am often wrong, but nobody gets a free pass to squat and shit in my face in the interests of pointing out their superiority.

Example .... the shark fin is likely the thing that alters the most depending on Carnival dates. Numbers are in thousands (add 3 zeros).

OK, Eureka! We know probability incentivizes. Next time I am going to put up $R1000 and each of those higher-end gamblers I approve can line up and enter me (and vice versa for a greater chance at the prize) and the final name draw, with their winfall chance equal to 100% divided by number of entrants. Bingo! Perhaps even a more complex algorithm where I rate the impression they leave and factor that into the number of tickets allocated for each. For example: a 10 rating gets 10 chances .... 5 gets 5, etc. I think the competition aspect will actually raise the stakes. Can't beat them (off)? Conjoin them.

Not a thesis, but I understand that Tororo is one of three districts subsumed within the broader neighbourhood of Nazaré. In terms of recommendations, Salvador can only retrospectively have been worth it. My saggy balls are not crystalline. DIY is my recommended approach. My flight was inexpensive and there are worthwhile sights. This is my second visit in three years. First stay Pelhourinho, now Barra. Mind you, I have the resources and time to travel. Therefore, it is not like working days where vacay is limited and disappointment would be of greater magnitude. I think there may be more of a shift to ads and apps compared to 2016.

Thanks, good tips. I try not to get too put out because my tastes are specific and I know Rio is the more sure bet. Also, relying on locals' advice about "quality" is similar to forum advice, only it is more awkward to have a local with whom you get a little chummy steer you or introduce you to their version of Mr Right Right Now and I want to swipe Left because pineapple on pizza: eww!