ShivRoy

In Spain, Telechapero and Destacamos are widely used locally

I swung by Torremolinos again this past weekend - it's off season, porn stars are still there and good deals abound. Just this weekend, among the porn stars available through different platforms were Ricky Hard, Victor Ferraz, Viktor Rom, Jack Bandit, Tom Storm, Andy Toro, Aday Traun (who actually looks better now than in his past porn days), and some others slightly less known. I hooked up with tho of those for 150e each, and one of them mentioned that the business in off season is not so good, so I guess rates are lower than in Madrid or Barcelona. With the clubs in Torremolinos still putting out events, there is a healthy turnover of pornstars any given weekend, and it could be a nice opportunity. Away from pornstars, I had a wonderful fantastic fit 25yo Cuban in Malaga off the escort sites for 60e - so Malaga and suburbs are not too bad at all.

ah, that's a book club - you both read the same book, then discuss over a cup of tea

WIth regard to SP, I'm no fan of the city - echoing what @davet said, it's tough to love on the first visit, but to me it's been equally tough any subsequent visits as well. What I really love in SP is the Japanese community in Liberdade - generally, Brazil has the biggest Japanese community outside of Japan (larger than in the U.S.), and a lot of them are in SP in Liberdade which is sort of a Japantown. Excellent food, best sushi I tried anywhere outside of Japan, simply incredible. Other than that, some world-class cocktail bars in upscale neighborhoods. But unlike to many others on this forum, SP is not the city I'm rushing to return to in Brazil. Tastes differ of course, yada yada yada.

Brasilia can be done in one full day if you sked a layover in a way that you arrive early morning and depart on a late flight in the evening. I've done exactly that twice - first time as my solo trip, and second time when I showed Brazil (and Brasilia) to my friends. You can comfortably see all the stunning architecture in one full day, other than that there's little to do there and I recall the sauna there to be disappointing. In both visits, I didn't spend a night. Brasilia is a must-see, but more of a layover destination.

I'd agree on the weather - the Baltics could actually be super-nice in the summer that lasts for about 6-7 weeks from July till mid- to end-August. Early June is too early - you can't swim in the sea at that time, so air temperature will also be not exactly Mediterranean. Quite peculiar port of calls too - of these four, Gdansk is the highlight, but it's only daytime for this cruise and the big advantage of Gdansk is enjoying it in the evening/nighttime with all the cute bars, cafes and restaurants. Copenhagen is nice to visit in the daytime - but again, does one need a cruise for that?

I remember that process well underway 10, and 15, and 20 years ago - all young people were intent on leaving the island, usually through foreign partners. As one young guy told me more than 10 years ago, "doesn't matter if you are a boy or a girl, but if you are not totally ugly and by the age of 30 you still didn't leave Cuba, you must be really stupid." And yes, in many cases that partnership with a foreign partner lasted pretty much until a Cuban in question got a passport (or even a permanent residence, but usually they waited for a passport), and then there's a divorce. That was always a cautionary tale for me of a Westerner who found his "eternal love for life" in Cuba, as this "eternal" often meant "until I get a passport" .

I was at the Lab last week - as always, it's excellent and one of the world's most unique experiences, I'd say no other cruising club is like the Lab. The best day is indeed Thursday - it's a naked party. Doors are from 21 till 23 iirc, I came in 20-25 mins before nine and was in at about quarter past, maybe 20 past. You can arrive a bit earlier (recommended in summer) so you can get in straight away. Face control is very liberal, unlike Berghain, and you will be let in unless you are a woman or high/drunk. All sorts of ages, body shapes and behaviors. There were twinks, there were literally 80-year-olds, there were fats, there were muscular guys - everybody's fucking. Friday is a day without a dress code, normally with 2-for-1 drinks, unless it's the first Friday of the month which is a special party called Lab Dance where there are live techno DJs and the people are there equally for music and sex (unlike other days where it's just sex) - it's usually very crowded, about 1,500 people, and if you ask me I'm not a fan of that particular vibe. I've been to a couple of specific parties that are really good. The mask party requires everybody to wear a mask - normally people wear balaclavas which is hot, but I saw puppy masks and even surgical covid masks. I've been to the piss party which is simply excellent with a totally different crowd and vibe, I really liked that one. There's no guarantee that you will be able to fuck with all those hotties, but as the night progresses and some of them do an intake of drugs, more of those hotties become available - and I've seen pension-age guys plough model-looks types who were either in a slutty haze or on GHB.

Could be that - however in all the past years I saw multiple Thermas guys on Hunqz, and it's always been the case there is a 50e "quickie" Thermas rate and then (usually) the 100-120 "normal" Hunqz rate for an hour, and those guys still maintained that range between the two.

That actually could be normal with street trade in these parts of the Mediterranean. That's the average that a guy would ask you at a sex cine in Naples for full sex in a toilet/cabin (could be even 20, or alternatively of course could be as high as 50, but 30 is usual) - same in sex cines (and its surroundings) in Athens too where street trade usual average was just about 30.

I used to go to Rio in November - good weather usually, spring is in the air, and all that lol. That said, a couple of years back I found myself in Rio on the day of the Rio pride. It was interesting, but nothing on the SP scale. Still, it was good to see - but I think they didn't even block the traffic fully, and it was more of a chamber event than a stadium concert) The gay bloco party on Ipanema happening twice - once two weeks before the carnival, and one during it - "Simpatia é quase amor" - is much much better attended, and actually really awesome and totally recommended. It normally draws about 100,000 people partying all throughout Ipanema

Having been to a few Exxtreme parties, I'd disagree on the term "lighter" lol - it's quite intense. On Barcelona, I can't really help as I'm no fan of the city and don't visit often - I just saw notices of some Barcelona parties on Instas of some porn stars. But my impression is that it's more happening in Madrid and in the south, Torremolinos first of all. A good idea is to check Instas of those porn stars that do circuits of these cruising bars, and if smth happens in Barcelona they would flag it in advance

Drugs (specifically meth and GHB) are everywhere in gay venues in Europe, unfortunately. Condoms indeed are nowhere to be seen in cruising clubs as Prep (+Doxy PEP) is widely available and widely used in Europe. In that regard it was interesting that at one of the parties last week one of the porn stars did use condoms that he pulled from his sock when fucking ordinary clients, though he did a fellow porn star of the night bareback - it was notable because it was very unusual.

I was traveling across Spain - and I'd say it's interesting. It's becoming somewhat of an outlier in terms of European experiences - Spain is growing a network of gay sex cruising clubs where A/B-list pornstars and other Onlyfans subjects gravitate to. It's not a rentboy scene but still something different. Cruising sex clubs are not a novelty - I'm a fan of Lab.oratory in Berlin where 80-year-olds can be seen having fun with those under 30. It's not a pay scene, but rather a free-for-all orgy where the fewer inhibitions you have the more fun you can have in return (or if you come snobby and demanding, you get none). I'd even venture to say that Lab.oratory is a unique space anywhere in the world, nothing I've ever seen anywhere else. But I digress, back to Spain. More cruising clubs like Lab.oratory have started to pop up across Spain - and not only in Madrid or (curiously fewer) in Barcelona, but also in Sevilla, Granada, and elsewhere. Unlike the Lab in Berlin, they took one step further - every weekend they host A/B-list porn stars (i.e. names many know) to do a live sex show with full audience participation. The leader of all this is Exxtreme in Torremolinos - a suburb of Malaga that is slowly wrestling the crown of the Spanish gay capital from Sitges. Torremolinos is pretty much a huge gay nightclub disguised as a Spanish coastal village with numerous gay bars, saunas, clubs, cruising places, etc. Exxtreme is the cruising center of all this - 18 Eur entrance with two drinks included - that every night from Thurs through Sun hosts porn stars that actively encourage sex with audience members. At some parties I went to, some porn stars were even partaking in what I saw as a charity action - picking those of age, those of belly, to drag them to the couch in the center of the room and fuck in front of everyone. Names from just a few past weeks: Apolo Adrii, Gus Torres, Viktor Rom, Nik Fros, Justin Jett, Andy Star, Denis Vega, Ruslan Angelo, Jonathan Miranda, Roque Rems, and many others. Those taking part in these Exxtreme parties usually spend the whole long weekend in Torremolinos and widely available for hire through Hunqz for 250 Eur - others flocking there are at 100-150 Eur. Other Spanish cities are catching up. Sauna Beach in Madrid hosts similar events, albeit on a smaller scale, Thursday through Sunday. Bunker in Seville books porn stars for Fridays and Saturdays. Men's Granada does Saturdays. Some events happen in Barcelona. But I think what's happening in Torremolinos and elsewhere in Andalucia (plus Madrid) is something we haven't seen a few years back. Witnessing porn stars in action a meter from you, with a chance to take part, plus potentially being able to hire them if you're interested - that could be appealing to some (but understandably, not everyone). I just hope this snippet may help somebody who was not aware of all this happening at all.

It could be just a personal opinion, but I found Belem the least interesting city in the Nordeste - at least for me. A central market, a grand half-abandoned opera theater, and a great Amazonian beer brewery - and this is where the sights run out. I was in Belem 8-10 years ago, I remember one sauna with GPs at that time and it was empty and uninspiring - so I never felt compelled to return.