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[Snip] Good to know that not only are you on to my MO, but that all will be resolved, with one solid price range delineated, and not a range in range. According to you, you will corroborate or not what is apparently already clear as you assert, but may be now altered based on one single communication between a procurer and inquirer. Therefore, all that will be required to progress somewhat, going forward, is that somebody with an interest possibly ranging from a rural-type brothel to a curated brokered urban model will outline the cost of specific transactions that will surely be very representative of the reality any punter can come to expect, all this while seeking types according to phallic preferences, etc, already alluded to, as if stratification has no bearing on cost. If I would only just cooperate and add to the broadly expanding data set rather than dancing around it. Good thing you have that D’d level field research going for you. ;>] Really guys, if you operate exclusively on a binary of fairness vs gullible exploitation there should be enough monetary info already presented here to define that threshold. If you seek justification for a deviation in a theoretical standard rate, it seems to me the only party capable of legitimizing the change is the provider. Good luck driving yourself bonkers. I can appreciate that a desire to stand firm on a red line is uncomfortable unless it’s clear everybody shares the acceptable limit; they don’t.

Yes. This suggests that you are driven to BOTH determine an invariant predictable fee structure that has proven to be elusive … otherwise, why does this thread and others like it exist … AND dictate the terms of reference of contribution style such that the agenda is similarly constricted … on an anonymous social media platform! It’s not indicative of a character flaw but you may be sleeping, not dead, and endlessly dreaming.

I give up. I cannot make you grasp the point. Where the guy and I see eye to eye is that as dealer:consumer a Love-Bug and Eldorado have unequal worth objectively, while conceding that subjectivity rules. Doing what you ask would be a poor use of my time, would not illuminate what others should expect going forward, and would amount to my contradicting my own philosophy and agreeing to reside in a world of absurdity. It doesn’t mean my view is superior, just different strokes. LOL

There is no new fee structure. It has always been variable. I just found my ‘zap history with him. It alone was very entertaining and reminded me of my overall satisfaction. For example, he showed be DOP1,500-2,000 guys I wouldn’t be willing to pay anything for and I showed him images of locals, some of whom he knew, for whom I would agreeably pay 10,000; his cut would be at his discretion. We always found middle ground and even that amounted to a range that would be perplexing to many that don’t live inside my brain’s erotic template. By temporal investment he earned a small fraction of my income/time and I could never have endured the same degree of essentially ‘on-call’ task-hopping.

The Rio apartment I rent will be 2% more this summer (not defined school holiday period where demand may be higher) in my currency compared to February, not nearly matching the concomitant 15% relative hike in BRL currency value. So I presume the host receives more reais to help offset the burden of inflation. What limits the comparison, however, is that I believe the host adjust rates seasonally. Oddly, the price differential for 2 separate 5-day bookings in the same Rio hotel within the same month February, almost consecutive by time of month, was 21% so I think other seasonal or seemingly random price factors make it difficult to price compare according to currency value changes. That said, the upcoming summer rate is the same as the higher of the 2 February rates.

Nobody has defined or can easily define an overcharge in quantitative terms. The fallacious assumption is that there is an arbitrary fixed normative fee when in fact what is requested or what is paid is typically a range across a host of transactions, a histogram with a mean average and standard deviations. The majority client collective, understandably, is oriented to holding this theoretical absolute figure constant while the provider collective is similarly oriented to both maintaining that constant (at the very least), while simultaneously attempting an upwards deviation from it. That is the very premise of gratuities. The only way to agree on a threshold at which a theoretical normative charge slips into overage territory, holding the phenomenon of gratuities constant, is to settle, consensus-based, on a proportion of one standard deviation that represents a minimal, moderate, or inarguably substantial amount; in clinical research these are typically represented as 20, 50, and 80% of the standard deviation, respectively. You see, overage is also subject to a gradient. However, standard deviation is a moving target at any given time and payment ranges are far more tenuous than normative means (averages) that tend to maintain greater stability in spite of the breadth of ranges that are largely determined by fee differentials locally versus touristically. Technically, then, overage as a proportion of deviation from central tendency is governed predominantly by the differential between charges below a lower percentile (locals’ payments) and above a higher percentile (a sprinkling of larger payments made by punters with deeper pockets). The greater predominance of the former amounts to the overage threshold being considerably higher because standard deviation is proportional to range; in other words, it’s harder for a visitor to reach the overpay realm at, say 20% of the first standard deviation. Yet one gets the sense that many visitors freak out about an actually insubstantial amount trickling down into transaction expectations that set them too far apart from their perceived entitlement, to be viewed and treated as worthy of the nullification of providers’ bent towards maximal profit. The thrust of much position here on the board is that there is or should be a considerably fixed invariant standard rate, notwithstanding that our tastes dictate that we would balk at paying any amount for a provider whose worth we disagree about. If the ‘going rate’ (funnily, this term actually suggests a fixed amount is on the go, thus variable) were to be the achievable goal then standard deviation would be relatively small and, paradoxically, a very small deviation above the central tendency metric would represent overage of significance (ie, being “taken”, exploited, ripped off) while a similarly small deviation lower would not represent a kind of equivalency in savings. This leads to the tendency to cast aspersions on those that happen to pay more, any amount more without anxiety or any iota of self-loathing, as if worry were truly legitimate, weirdly transposed to needless worry on the part of a separate set of players. My gawd, I don’t know how some punters actually get to have fun unencumbered by bitterness. LOL Most of these ideas and trends governing my take are actually contributed by the readership, your raw (tee-hee) material so don’t blame me for the length of this post. LOL.

Just saw his stepmother’s retrospective exhibition at the Kuntshaus in Zürich on Sunday.

FWIW I don’t know if this venue IW posting but for some reason I follow it on Twitter. It did not come up on a board search. Let the Medellin visitors decide whether to add it to the resource list …

No SARS-CoV-2 negative test or Traveller’s Health Declaration required … https://www.gov.br/anvisa/pt-br/assuntos/noticias-anvisa/2022/orientacao-aos-viajantes-portaria-altera-regras-para-entrada-no-pais

At the risk of repeating previous posted info, if you wish to be thorough: Rentmen Hunqz Telechapero Morbototal The latter two are exclusive to Spain and may contain ads absent from the two global sites.

It’s postponed Carnival, Apr 20-30, should be high energy with perhaps selection decency upticked irrespective of day.

Oh I taped it, and a new more recent special too? Can’t wait until back from Europe. Too bad his sitcom was shortlived.

Without accounting for respective inflation metrics it has to drop to about BRL3.50 before a rate hike of, say, from 150 reais in early 2015 to a current amount of 200 reais confers a true escort home team advantage in terms of the dollar’s value. Up until that hypothetical point the 33% pay increase continues to nevertheless translate to a salary cut in relative terms. If the baseline is arbitrarily set at the historical time frame of one’s initiation into trade there then there is no real valid comparison because there is a broad range above or below a difference of zero.

Yeah our site is finicky, and I had screenshot from YouTube; that may be the reason, but you can access the music video on YouTube … it comes when I Google search “dj feeling satisfaction video”.

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I guess we are going to have to consider renaming it Punter Canta, or the wordier ‘Can’t get the tip of the cane let alone the cane’.

Glad it worked out. I purchased a day ahead, BRL100 semi-leito one occasion, 159 leito another occasion on ‘1001’. Did you get one of the more isolated singles right side (2 in all I think) that I think are also raised up higher from the floor, or from the larger bank of side-by-side seats on the left (I think that is a cluster of 6 spaces)? I was on the left side of the bus but assumed all leito seats were the same price within the timeline price tier that obviously itself varies.

There are several Theatron strippers on Instagram. Some describe having careers or studying something or other. A few seem to cross over into fitness training. The stripper gigs appear oriented to exclusive or supplementary income. They also appear to be kept in line by agents that dominate the provision of club entertainment assignments, in contrast to the North American dancer scene. The point being is that money may talk if sums large enough to attract attention, and contact may be possible, but my sense is that escorting on the down low is not the MO except those that are cross-pollinated with St M / GEH. You might entice with a trip to Mexico or St Andres / Providenciales etc. Instagram accounts don’t clue you in to the subset that performs at GEH. The chase all comes across as quite labour-intensive. I hooked up a few times with one guy, a gay club staff member, in Bogotá (paid). He importuned for cash donations after I returned home, so there is that dynamic to contend with as well. Another fellow I met, featured at Theatron at some point in the past but had graduated from that role, and with whom there was social interaction beyond intensely hot erotic when I was there did not request additional cash in our follow-up communication. (Off topic) he had offered to arrange a threesome with a hot dancer friend actively taking gigs at Theatron but scheduling did not work out. The compensation expectations were ridiculously low. Then the pandemic a few months later and intentions to return and strike while the iron was still warm fell by the wayside.

On a slightly different note, word to the wise, when texting known procurers outlined here in order to introduce yourself, take care to choose the direct bilateral English-Spanish translate function not the more elaborate English-Psychopathy-Spanish version, so as to avoid puzzling passages written in response to your reaching out. Similar to unpredictability in other aspects of commercial sex trade these things can be both amusing and offputting, just naturally coming with the territory and necessitating flexibility and forbearance.

Au contraire, I believe you are seeking input on what to make of an apparent contradiction in what payment is expected. It cannot be entirely stripped of philosophy. Otherwise, you would have simply outlined the facts. There is nothing particularly noteworthy about the figures that either you or others are quoted or paid. If I were more obsessive I would recall what I doled out myself in Santo Domingo prior to the pandemic. In general I was not blown away on the type of guys on offer but I thought the fees were commensurate with the encounters. And I have been around the block countless times, punting for some 4 decades, quite a bit according to the multitude of international settings embedded in posts on our board. If I were a proxy defender for a procurer’s justification I would not be alluding to the prospects of higher fees for some predicated on soft exploitation; it’s built in to the trade dynamics. That said, I don’t discount that the explicit sharing of amounts (albeit ranges) is useful to a subset of the readership here. However, the trend in this forum is to celebrate a lowest common denominator in price when in actuality if that metric were higher it could still be considered appealing in the context of all location comparators. I don’t understand any basic objection to absence of absolute uniformity in cost for the same item. I am going to Europe imminently and the same flight class booked on one date is 48% higher than on another date. I see no reason to feel losing out at the higher price or advantaged at the lower price, depending on the purchase that got locked in. Such fixations seem a waste of time and energy because I believe they are mentally unhealthy and that things generally balance out in life.

Like I indicated, the discussion opens a can of worms to the point where there is lacking consensus and accuracy about costs, now to the point not surprisingly where switching destinations is proposed as one possible solution. I have a suggestion, take it or leave it, but it worked for me. I had our illustrious procurer pick me up at the airport and deliver me to my accommodations, at which point we sat down to go over his catalogue and briefly review my past experiences in various locations, including fees to access structured escort venues typically, amounts paid to providers elsewhere particularly the best value for output, the breadth of utilization to expect from me, his role in introduction and package delivery, my preferred ‘type’, etc, without bringing up any “hearsay” about fairness/accuracy in price or what I knew about his delineation of rates to other punters. Up to that point, there had been no mention of fees, not in setting up his airport pickup weeks prior (except his transfer fee), not in his vehicle, not prior to or during a viewing of some of his provider photos. That specific component came up at the end of a relaxing patio conversation and it all generally seemed reasonable to me, bearing in mind his time ultimately spent on deliveries and parking his vehicle in congested areas in order to do so, as well as the added time it evidently took for escorts to meet up with him and attend my specific location. And drawing on the comparative reference point of a few Brazilian trips within the year prior. The content of such a face-to-face exchange could not possibly have been integrated into a WhatsApp discussion where the threshold of diminished return for the procurer is reached early. Similarly, a nuanced adjunct to the conversation that touches on potential fluidity of costs tends to go more smoothly and in a more personalized fashion than in texting someone not actually met yet. Once a procurer has conveyed prices in writing ahead of your visit because you solicited the info, without his knowing what you already know or think you know, an alteration in charges subsequent to that tends to connote that either you are special as it happens deserving of a discount or that there was an element of fleecing in the first place that the procurer must somehow take ownership of in engaging further with you. So this perhaps puts one in a paradoxical position … either insist on knowing costs ahead of your commitment to travel and risk getting what appears to an upsell that you must psychologically reconcile, versus taking at face value that the procurer will add meaningful and financially manageable erotic experiences to your time there and simply taking the leap because the range of descriptive reviews from others has not suggested it’s a bust. Better to fret a bit when all said and done if it did not go according to hopes than begin fretting from the get go wondering if experience will deviate from negative expectations.

Bleak but certainly riveting and an eye-opening history lesson as the criminalization and judicial cruelty was West Germany while East Germany did not have the same outdated legislation on the books. The type of ending is not unexpected but the specific way in which it is played out is startlingly clever.

Aye, aye … so the utensil, etc, is NOT intended to be subliminally phallic, cummy, & colourfully rainbow gay ballsacky.