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  1. As well, a central basis for sponsoring a foreign national same-sex spouse is evidence that oodles of conjugal cornholing occurs!!!! Stupidity is truly our undoing.
  2. Downright viaggravating.
  3. And little more than a decade previous to gay marriage legalization one-third (!) of the Supreme Court justices voted against rolling back sodomy law. (I neglected to mention earlier.) Many of us will not see commercial sex decriminalized in our lifetime.
  4. I think that consumers where commercial sex is illegal invest considerable psychological capital suppressing the stark reality that the terrain is peppered here and there with tripwires of prosecution and associated consequences. These defenses are difficult to shore up at a time when vice law is shoved into our faces. The anxiety is naturalistic and realistic, for now. When consumers became indictable in neighbouring Canada 3 years ago barely a blip was registered. And law enforcement certainly did not go full-SWAT on it. Any site containing the non-neutral non-inocuous moniker "boy toy" is now going to raise more eyebrows and perk up the wrong ears more than ever. It worked fine for a long time. It does not merit internal criticism but is worth being vigilant about in these turbulent times. Any language legitimately colloquial is twistable and spinnable in the wrong hands.
  5. If 117 garotos do not meet your standards, the day of the week at MR will not be too relevant. Depends on your tastes.
  6. Some of us prefer a more drawn out process working towards the creamy centre. Give me a surfer beach over a naturist beach
  7. Could be same guy ... what are the chances of a quantity as large as 2 visitors being jaded about 117 within the same time frame?
  8. Sodomy laws were struck down by the US Supreme Court merely 15 years ago. This was serendipitous because the right people at the right time took up the cause of Lawrence v Texas. He and friends were partying hard, police responded to a domestic-type dust-up, and a prosecutor elected to indict for fucking. The plaintiffs were not at all sophisticated but interest groups decided to carry appeal to the top because it was high time to bring law up to snuff with the depathologizing of homosexuality formalized by the APA decades earlier. The subsequent ruling precedent confers a glimmer hope ... the fact that a governing majority considers an act to be immoral is an insufficient reason to uphold a law prohibiting the practice. This would essentially be the backbone of decriminalizing consensual sex for consideration between a male distributor and a male consumer. Leveraging with politicians will likely be ineffective. Only high level arbiters of justice have the intelligence and will take the time to process through the division of popular theories regarding prostitution. Conflict theory is the model that is widely cherry-picked by conservatives and feminists alike ...the notion that women are sexually objectified in a patriarchal society. This perspective coheres beautifully with current news cycles and exerts prominence because it seems true because it sounds true. But of course falls flat in relation to M2M performative labour. So it would have to be formally declared as lacking relevance for cases of male homosexual consensual commercial sex. Once debunked by authorities with half a brain, potentially that opens up space for other theoretical frameworks to balance out the overweighting of conflict theory. Examples, functionalism and symbolic interactionism ... commercial sex as mutually beneficial alternative, justification for consensual sexual behaviour forms that do not emanate from inequity and exploitation. One party or a conjoint party of two or more males charged with the related offense would need to fight it to the bitter end with substantial infrastructure support. It will be a challenge to mobilize the same degree of support that occurred following the travesty of Texans charged with sodomy not so long ago. And for a substantial number of liberals even, an abhorrence of prostitution is bred in the bone. It is deemed to be psychologically immature and interactionally lazy. They might not strongly support criminalization but won't be eager to help push a boulder up the mountain in favour of M2M impunity. But I believe that an appeals-level action is the most viable concrete hope for a partial (subgroup) or full repeal of commercial vice law. Expert testimonials from male commercial sex workers would need to be provided by men who are viewed as stereotypically male, albeit a strategy pandering to misguided notions of conventional masculinity. One struggle at a time. Keep it tight. Optically manipulated to reduce the risk of diluting the central thesis with other social causes. Freedom of speech advertising is a separate though related question.
  9. I will try out Adan for the first time later next month. It so happens that my apartment will be a few minutes stroll away in Malasaña.
  10. Reading that other platform's thread's proposal was like going down the proverbial rabbit hole. And the main advocates are providers I would not go near even if I were the one paid half a G. They are entirely unrepresentative of what all other consumers I know go for. I would sooner fuck a subterranean Roger Rabbit before clawing my way back up and out. That's all folks.
  11. You are a toddler in Brasil sauna years.
  12. They are a hybrid of bathouse and bar. Stripped to towel optional. I am often dressed even starting out with a programa in a private suite, often undressing and a quick shower there as opposed to the communal bathing. The temperature can be chilly in some areas. The other difference is you don't walk the halls where the suites are located. You only see into a suite when you go into one with a garoto. The cruising is done in the common areas. A little different at Thermas in Barcelona where much of the cruising is in the suite corridors though you are not hooking up with someone who is stretched out on the mattress looking. And where towel or bathrobe is mandatory. Though frankly I cannot remember 100% what club dispenses robes if you prefer one ... I think it is Thermas.
  13. Or in a Lucas Kazan solo as Tiago ...
  14. If you want he will perform at your bridal shower ... Lohran +55 (21) 98134-0542
  15. But he is 28 and still doesn't know how to dress himself sometimes ...
  16. I think it might make straddling and bucking c&@k a little easier.
  17. It is about 4 km to MR, owing to required backtracking on some streets that have unidirectional portions. About 2 km back to Clube117. About 1.5 km by foot, a mile on the nose. Über drivers get the minimum fare, about 7-8 reais, decent given the short distance, and hella cheap for us. So no soak'n'poke likely in the cards. I do not belong to the Polar Bear Club ... and not a bear. Not surprised because the venue would need enormous hot-water tank capacity and may also have collective reservoir sharing with the remainder of the huge building complex. Whereas the other 3 clubs are stand-alone lowrise structures. Though there may technically be some capacity as somebody previously went to the the expense of installation of hydromassage installation. Can you switch the unit on, ie, is the current working? Any feedback on the love bench/chair feature in the suite? Those existed in the former bordello. And what about mirror features? What can you see reflected back? Flat, panorama?
  18. My heart skipped a beat when I saw the portable massage table symbol. Shows where my heads are at. Then I realized it is an 'occupation' icon. Then my heart skipped a beat when I fantasized it signifies a briefcase containing various essential oils, toys, rubbers, lube, vid equipment, various and sundry paraphernalia. On Grindr in Rio (sorry to deviate from Tinder topic) it is amusing to see some profiles specify "not a GP". I guess a lot of guys get hit on with offers. I must say my own approach there this past winter "me generous, you good-looking gym guy with training costs" resulted in minimal yield. I got some responses from young slender men I would not pay for or have sex with for free. I gave compliments to ones I liked so they might see my profile and agenda. Mostly ignored. My sense is those in that subgroup are hot gays looking for other young hot gays. Gay for pay fitness guys tend not to show up on Grindr. But there is a smattering of GP profiles in Grindr. They usually say "boy" in the handle ... short for rent boy, sauna boy, taxi boy, etc. Usually young adults with slim to average builds. You can also view profiles from afar with the Extra upgrade and the new "rocket" (geographical location to explore) link. Many of you probably already know this.
  19. For Rio google "brothels girlsheavens"
  20. I would add: not suitable for multiple longer-stay visits. An e-visa holder can make as many trips as desired within the 2 consecutive 90-day annual limits.
  21. Maybe if it were the Green Bay Fudge Packers
  22. A few more things, trying to cobble together bits of info: If you hear that it is possible for a visitor to have a 90-day allowable stay within a year but be able to go locally (in Rio it would be the airport) to apply for a fed police extension up to an additional 90, that is for non-visa visitors such as UK/EU passport holders. They can also apply for a traditional consular tourist visa in their country of origin. In contrast, e-visa holders cannot get the extension. It is designed to mimic the 90-day waiver during the 2016 Olympics. If you apply for a 5-year (Canada) or 10-year (US) traditional consular visa, your passport must expire no sooner than 6 months (I believe, cannot find the small print today) from the application date. When you have to get a new passport, you just keep your old passport with the visa together with the new one when you travel to Brazil. Obviously, they cannot expect passports to last the duration of these long periods. However, for the e-visa, I believe that the visa privilege will last 2 years or less, whichever comes first (passport expiry or 2 years). For example, your passport's expiry satisfies the initial application requirements but expires after 14 months: your e-visa period will be short-changed by 10 months. It is non-transferable. I believe they simply check your passport at time of application to determine the expiry.
  23. Forgive me if I assume incorrectly, but I believe the OP has the new e-visa, 90 days max within a 365-day period; eg, arrives April 1st, can come and go with stays additively maxed at 90 days, clock resets Apr 2019. No extension allowed. I think the answers provided here are predicated on the former (but still available) consular visa inserted in passport, 90 day max per visit, 180 days total within a year (commencing initial entry), fed police approval needed to extend past 90 days once the 90 day accumulation reached. For either visa type in terms of the 90 day rule (without extension), leaving the country for wherever stops the clock until re-entry. I THINK. Conceivably can arrive Brazil April 1st and leave 2nd week of July as long as a lengthy enough jaunt to, say, Argentina occurred, say, in May. Though I would not risk it personally, having had a confusing border experience that also differed from a friend in a different queue at the same instant, though personal circumstances the same. But perhaps mvan knows better than me ... he thinks the 90 days is reset, whereas I think it is just frozen. Again perhaps depends on e-type vs consular-issued type. The OP is inquiring about a border run as a way to satisfy the consular visa length of stay obligations, bypassing the extension procedure with BRZ fed police. Well, technically, it should be workable. I THINK. But would I personally risk it? Probably not. I think that at the border back to Brazil the customs officials would put you on the spot to provide the same documentation, proof of funds to cover "extension of stay", proof of future exit travel ticket, proof of accommodations, etc. They might think you strategically tried to bypass the procedure and might give you a hard time. I have tried to find a clear answer myself in the past by looking online, but gave up. If it were really important to me, for example if I wanted to stay down there for 6 months and break out to a neighbouring country briefly, I would probably seek clear direction from my consulate. But it's a moot point because I will likely go with the e-visa when my consular visa expires. In a similar vein, since e-visas expire after 2 years I wonder if the slate is wiped clean. If so, one could stay 90 days closer to the back end of the term and then apply for a new one and not have to wait 9 months to return. It seems strange, though, that the required elapse period between visits would hinge on your position in consecutive 2-year cycles. Perhaps other readers here have a clearer answer or have used the proposed 'work-around' consistently successfully.
  24. I notice that the site includes Pointe 202 in their list of to-do sauna establishments.
  25. Redxs, I think you left Rio over a week ago. Interested to learn how it went. As much detail as possible, por favor.
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