Stories to keep you inform from " outros amigos"

Last night, I went to a churrascaria (Gheller). It was pretty late when I was done (I had a work related thing to take care of that had just come up and took a while) I overate and was really not in much condition for shagging. I did not feel like paying a cover at Zipi, so I went to Tremembes (=Bourbon) and got pulled into Cafe del Mar. The hostess who literally pulled me in off the street said I did not have to pay a cover I I could get a caiprinha for free, which I did. I had two aguas and the whole damage for the night was R$15. I saw only one garota I really liked and she was making out on the pool table with a guy (which admittedly made her seem hotter). Probably had this been my first night it would have been different, but I am not so desparate now.

I didn't know you knew about Belissima. I thought I was the great researcher.

I went there this morning. It was my earliest experience with a GP: 1030 - 1100 am. There were very few guys, but essentially the same selection as when I had been there at 5 - 6 pm or so. The really cute one I shagged two days ago showed up while I was there. But she to have no interest in a round 2. It's like Lou says, the attitude is different. It is really not a place to hang out. You do your business, whatever time it might be, and go on your way.

I was a real cure one again. Looks wise I have no problem with the four I had at Belissima. All fairly short, but very cute with nice bodies, faces. two were more rushed (and that was partly my not being in the groove, so to speak), but the other two were a really good time.

Myles will probably be beside himself with how stupid I am, but I walked back this morning. I knew that was a fairly nice street with upscale store that went back to the beach, and I had no problems, except for sweating my ass off. I then walked back on the beach to the hotel, where I am making final use of their excellent wi-fi (like the US, the cheaper hotels are th eones with free/better internet than the swanky ones). There was one really hott chick in her thong on the beach, but the scenery is really nothing like Rio. It was still not very crowded, although they are putting up all sorts of pavilions etc for 'Reveillon 2010".

I too was surprised at the lack of Afro Brazilians here. This is officially the Nordeste, but I think it is really regiao Norte - more like the Amazon with Indian people. hence the short, dark (but "reddish" not "black") type, which is cute, but...

Call me a rascist, but what was most appealing, albeit off limits, was seeing at the hotels all of the wives/girlfriends of the rich white Brazilian tourists from SP etc. here on vacation. There was one at breakfast this morning (who was actually too pale, homely and skinny) who had a Polish eagle tatooed on her leg. Could have been back in Chicago. You can get that in Porto Alegre, but it costs

Not that I am not very attracted to the mulatas you see in Rio. And there are plenty of whites there too. Rio really is par excellence.

Lies, lies, and more lies. Newspaper Article/ keeping you posted

nd, from the outset, that word was a problem. On a strict definition, eventually expressed in international law by the 2000 Palermo protocol, sex trafficking involves the use of force, fraud or coercion to transport an unwilling victim into sexual exploitation. This image of sex slavery soon provoked real public anxiety.
But a much looser definition, subsequently adopted by the UK's 2003 Sexual Offences Act, uses the word to describe the movement of all sex workers, including willing professionals who are simply travelling in search of a better income. This wider meaning has injected public debate with confusion and disproportionate anxiety.
The end result of a massive law enforcement investigation that including every single law enforcement agency in the entire country, special agencies and the government is that not one single person who ever forced anyone into the sex trade was found. Not one.
Despite politicians and media claiming thousands of people are brought into the country each and every year to be forced into a prostitution (a claim echoed in the US, in Canada and in pretty much every Western nation), there’s actually little evidence it happens at all and it’s likely real numbers are extremely smaller than those tossed around in the media.
The so called information comes from misquoted, misunderstood or completely fabricated sources. It’s sensationalism and piss poor journalism at its best.
As it happens, UK law enforcement originally claimed it had achieved a massive success in its bid to end human trafficking by making over 500 arrests. Once the Guardian got a hold of the official documentation, that number changed. Over 100 were clerical errors.
They never really happened. That brought the number down to just over 400. About half of those arrested were women, few implicated in any kind of trafficking.
53 had been released even before the program was called a success, 106 with no charges filed and 47 for minor offences. 73 were charged for immigration breaches, and 76 got hit with drug charges.
In the end, 96 people were arrested for trafficking, 67 were charged and 47 never made it to court. In fact, only 22 were prosecuted, including two women rescued as victims.
15 men and women were ultimately convicted, according to the program’s definition of trafficking, which includes transporting a sex worker who is willingly going along with you. 10 of the people convicted fell under this definition, and had forced no one into the sex trade.
That leaves five people, two of whom were in prison months before the crackdown even began. The other three were convicted at the end of an investigation started in 2006, a year before the program began.
So in the end, no one was found to have been a human trafficker as the result of a massive, cross country sting operation that investigated over 800 brothels and other establishments, raiding sex workers and those who work with them.
Five people, over the span of a few years, were charged with real, legitimate trafficking. Is it a problem? Of course, in much the way supervillains are a problem. It’s real, but it’s not nearly as bad as the movies make it seem sometimes.

lies, lies, and more lies. Newspaper Article/ keeping you posted

You can’t read about the sex trade without reading about the scourge of human trafficking.
Above all other criticisms of prostitution, this is the big one. Nothing makes people panic more than the idea that their daughter or sister or wife could be whisked away by masked foreigners and forced to fuck strangers for money in another country.
The uptight can claim it leads to other crimes and disease and all that shit that maybe the stats don’t back up fully, but damn, human trafficking is rough. If it was real, anyway.
Turns out the Guardian paper in the UK just blew the lid off of the human trafficking bullshit powder keg they’d been sitting on for quite a while over there. Here's the opening:
here is something familiar about the tide of misinformation which has swept through the subject of sex trafficking in the UK: it flows through exactly the same channels as the now notorious torrent about Saddam Hussein's weapons.
In the story of UK sex trafficking, the conclusions of academics who study the sex trade have been subjected to the same treatment as the restrained reports of intelligence analysts who studied Iraqi weapons – stripped of caution, stretched to their most alarming possible meaning and tossed into the public domain.
There, they have been picked up by the media who have stretched them even further in stories which have then been treated as reliable sources by politicians, who in turn provided quotes for more misleading stories.
In both cases, the cycle has been driven by political opportunists and interest groups in pursuit of an agenda.
In the case of sex trafficking, the role of the neo-conservatives and Iraqi exiles has been played by an unlikely union of evangelical Christians with feminist campaigners, who pursued the trafficking tale to secure their greater goal, not of regime change, but of legal change to abolish all prostitution.
The sex trafficking story is a model of misinformation. It began to take shape in the mid 1990s, when the collapse of economies in the old Warsaw Pact countries saw the working flats of London flooded with young women from eastern Europe. Soon, there were rumours and media reports that attached a new word to these women. They had been "trafficked".