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as noted there's no way for any of us to speak for all of the models you see. There are several massage spas in Seoul that appear to employ those sorts of muscle-y guys.
 
It's a fascinating place. Lots of fundamentalist christians with too much power and sway over culture. It's a nice country to spend time in though.

This "teen" states in his add that he is 22. Or is he a 22-year-old who identifies as a teen? I get so confused nowadays when facts are optional.

I have basically given up on the Village and that is saying something since I bought a condo there in 1998  and kept living there part time for the next thirteen years. It was a great time but unfortunately all good things come to an end. 
Now when I visit I stay downtown and hire escorts. Sometimez go to the Village in the daytime but never at night. And I am finding more escorts now live outside the Village if I go to their places. And these neighbourhoods are becoming more nice as the Village declines.
Verdun is a case in point as is Hochelage Maisoneuve. Of course Le Plateau started getting nicer even when I lived in Montreal.  
I do attribute the prevalence of drugs being behind the Village's problems. 

Montreal 8/18/23 – 8/21/23
This post is way past due – Sorry.
 Hyatt Place (formerly The Gouverneur)
My husband and I have stayed here and its predecessor for many years.  The current incarnation is clean with modern somewhat cold décor. I don’t think we will be staying there again because the room design flaws got on our nerves this time. See https://www.companyofmen.org/topic/142770-hotels-montreal/?do=findComment&comment=2129974
 Breakfast room very crowded and lots of children.  Only one station to get coffee which creates a line.  Food just OK.
 Homeless situation
Homelessness is a problem in many cities in the U.S, and Canada so it is no shock to see it in Montreal.  Not only in the Village but in the old town as well.
 We didn’t see many homeless around the hotel.  The bank on the corner now has a guard which keeps them from sitting on the steps.  The city over the last few years has reconfigured the park across the street to make it more inviting to passersby. Fewer homeless are gathering there.  Don’t know why.  Perhaps increased police presence.
 We did encounter homeless on St. Catherine Street but no one bothered us.  Still, it is a real problem. The media reported in late July that several establishments closed their “terrasses” because patrons were harassed and afraid to eat outside. The mayor held a news conference and promised more police and social services so they reopened them. 
 https://montreal.citynews.ca/2023/06/22/village-issues-mayor-plan/
 Report of attack on shop owner September 2,2023
 https://montreal.ctvnews.ca/restaurant-owner-says-she-and-her-husband-were-attacked-on-their-terrace-in-montreal-s-village-1.6546254
 We did not see an increased police presence.  If anything, it seemed like fewer police then in past years.  We did not feel safe walking St. Catherine Street particularly the blocks just before Taboo and along the park next to it.
 There is no easy answer.
 The Village
The Village has not recovered from the disaster of Covid-19.  We found conditions have not improved in the year since our last visit.  Many restaurants and stores have not reopened.
 Here’s an article from the Dawson College Newsletter I found touching because we used to east in Mozza a lot:
 https://www.theplantnews.com/post/the-gay-village-no-longer-gay
 Something that I think would restore some of the joy would be the replacement of the overhead “18 Shades of Gay”.  Lots of tourists of all persuasions visited to take selfies.  There were plans for a replacement but I don’t know what happened.  Probably lack of funds.
 The Bars
We went to Taboo every night because we enjoy twink types.  There were 10-12 dancers Thursday-Saturday.  Sunday was absolutely dead only one dancer and maybe six patrons including us.
 Dancers were OK.  Some a little heavier than ideal. One blonde from Nova Scotia (I think) was spectacular.  He danced fully nude. The trend continues that the majority of dancers DID NOT dance fully nude. All that we chose for private lap dances were great.
 Stopped by Campus twice in the afternoon and there were no dancers each time and few patrons.  I wonder how it is worth their while to open in the afternoon.  Tried once at around 7 PM and there were still no dancers.  One we met outside was just arriving and said things got started around 8 PM.
 Will we be returning?
Probably, unless reports get worse.  We have been going every summer since 1989 and have so  many good memories of places, restaurants, and yes, dancers.  I hope that the Village will once again return to its vibrant self.
 
 

Taipei has a handful of nice spas. I really enjoyed Mudan. Lots of handsome young men working there.
Personally I don't plan to ever return to HK, sadly. But this website lists several spas https://new.gayhk.com/index/en?area=4  I have been to Aloha a few times several years ago and always had a good massage and happy endings.
Seoul also has a few male spas. 
Travelgay.com is a good resource for finding info on these kinds of places. Also utopia-asia.com has lots of listings. As always you never know how up to date these are.
And I'll throw out there that there seem to be about a million male massage places in Myanmar with handsome boys who have enormous cocks. But sadly, Myanmar isn't exactly visitable these days.
For Thailand the gayguides.com forums are a good place for recent info

Just back from a  four night trip to Montreal.  Weather was mostly good with the exception of some storms on Sunday and showers today Monday.   I noticed no smoke smell during my time there.  Things were active in The Village with lots of foot traffic.
I visited both Stock and Campus.  I was at Stock Thursday and Friday nights.  Stock is looking great with all the renovations.  Stock & Soda seems to be successful...at least now during the summer.  Plenty of folks sitting on the patio part on the street.  The inside VIP room (Stock Speakeasy?) was inaugurated on Friday.   Somehow, I managed not to check it out.  Oops!  I saw the new owner, Danny, who I remember from his bartender days.  He seemed really upbeat about everything.  DJ Anthony also made an appearance on Thursday for his hosting duties of the Studio Show.    Stock currently has more employees than I have ever seen previously.   The current level of business seems to support the increased number of staff.  Although, Thursday was relatively slow.  Things didn't really get going till after 11:00pm.  Note the weekly summer fireworks have been moved from Saturdays to Thursdays.  As a result, dancers and customers don't really start showing up to Stock till after 10:00.  They had 10-12 dancers there on Thursday and some didn't turn up till after 10:00pm.  So it was fairly slim pickings before 10:00pm.  Alex the bartender was on duty at the main bar by the shower stage.  He is always good fun.  I ended up hanging out with Jasper & Eric most of the evening.  It was good fun.  The crowd was mostly gay men.  Although there were a few ladies there, they did not make for an overpowering presence.
Friday was a very different night.  It  was, of course, much busier at Stock as a weekend night.  Also, the women were present in force.  It felt like a ladies night.  In fact, when I arrived around 8:30, I was advised that there was a special bachelorette-type party going on and that it would be over by 10:00pm.  It must have started at 6 or 7 cause at 8:30 it was already well underway.  Former Stock dancer Parker was the host and he had 2-3 non-Stock dancers plus Gatuso performing for the ladies.  Several of the bachelorettes were brought up on stage and given lap-dances.  It was kind of fun to watch from afar and I assumed they would clear out at 10:00pm.  Well this pre-show did end as scheduled  and the ladies were told that if they wanted to continue on at Stock, they would need to go out and pay the Stock cover-charge and re-enter.  It seems most of them did that and the female presence just grew larger as the night progressed.   All the chairs closest to the stage were occupied by females.  Men seemed to be in the minority in the bar.  The dancer line-up consisted of many attractive guys (Jo, Jasper, Vinny, Gatuso (from Tunisia), Barack (from Costa Rica), Bran, Denzel, Miguel, and Santiago).  There were a few others there as well which I would consider duds...at least for my taste.  Former Stock dancer Tyler also made an appearance as a customer.  We had a quick chance to catch-up since I had not seen him since before COVID.  He is not currently dancing anywhere.   I had fun both nights. at Stock.  
Thursday, I stopped in briefly at Campus between stays at Stock.  I seemed to be there during the transition from the day talent to the evening talent.  The daytime boys were largely forgettable in my view.  A few of the nighttime guys coming in looked interesting but I did not stay long enough to see any of them perform.  A couple of the daytime dancers were overly-aggressive which I did not appreciate.   Campus had roughly the same amount of clients on Thursday as Stock so , due to its smaller size, Campus appeared busier.  There was only a token presence of ladies at Campus on Thursday.
I returned to Campus on Saturday and what a difference.  It was packed with a whole lot more dancers.  Two very big body-builder types.  Also there were multiple muscular younger guys at Campus that seemed to be lacking at Stock.  I hung out with three dancers Saturday night and had great fun.   The bartender John was a hoot also.  He enjoyed gradually removing his clothes while working.    The former dancer red-headed Manager (I don't remember his name) was working Saturday and I had an opportunity to speak with him.  I told him I first saw him dancing way back when at West Side on Beaver Hall when they had strippers.  That's quite a few years ago now.  There were a few more women at Campus on Saturday than on Thursday but it did not feel overwhelming to me.
I did not go to the clubs on Sunday so nothing to report there.
My conclusions overall:
*  The Stock renovation looks wonderful and is bringing in increased business to Stock & Soda and also the main strip club.
*  Stock still has to work on getting the guys naked on stage.  There are multiple guys (mostly the newer ones) that do not get naked.  Some don't even flash their goods.
*  The dancer talent at Stock has improved over the last few months.  This is partially due to getting back some of the former Stock strippers that had stopped stripping or had moved to Campus.   That is all good, (and kudos to Stock management for achieving this) but Stock also needs to get some muscular younger talent .  We need to have some fresh younger faces to go along with the veterans.  
* Stock needs to get more dancers to come in earlier.  Many dancers not arriving till 10:00 or even 11:00pm  just doesn't work for me.  I like to start fairly early.  I really want to see most of the guys by 9:00pm so I can decide who to spend time with.  I would guess that most older customers 45+ (with bank in their pocket) would much prefer to have most dancers around  by 9:00pm rather than have to wait till 11:00pm to see the top guys.
*  The Women at Stock.  Something needs to be done about this.  I know it's a difficult issue as one cannot discriminate.   But the women on Friday (after the earlier bachelorette event)  were the dominant force for the entire night.  I wanted to tip one of the dancers on the stage and found it very difficult to even get close.  I was told Saturday night was similar at Stock.
I hope to return to Montreal this summer.  I really really don't want to be spending my gay dollars in Florida if I don't have to.  I am happy with the great progress at Stock in just three months but look for further improvements on the items highlighted above.  I really want to return more regularly if possible.
 
 

I called back and got the job done with a friendly and comparatively short phone call. This morning I received an email that my replacement fryer is on the way!

I’d buy a new one! Popping breakers isn’t good news. Too bad the manufacturer can’t verify your recall.

I'm headed there next Friday.   I'll report back.

given how long ago Remington's went away those guys would be pretty long in the tooth

Hornet too.
With respect to the bank manager asking questions, my best friend's BF is a manager at Macy's. Any time someone comes in to buy lots of gift cards they get asked questions about scammers as well. I think it's generally a good thing that these businesses ask about these sorts of things since so many people are getting scammed so badly.
My mom's phone used to ring off the hook all day long with various scams until my brother changed her number and made sure it was finally an unlisted number. Since then the calls have totally stopped. So many scams. There are several YT channels of vigilantes that go after these scammers but they can only make a small dent. Most of them seem to be based in India but there have also been many stories recently about people who are essentially trafficked into being scammers in Cambodia. I think they are able to prey on lonely or unsophisticated people mainly. But even people who are otherwise smart can be taken in. These people practice their crimes all day every day so they get pretty good at it.

The important thing is whether they look like their pictures or not. 
I don't care if someone who is 40 advertises as 35, maybe he also does it out of privacy. Even on dating sites some folks lie about their age....

Thursday 25th:
I arrived at Campus at 9 pm, and it wasn't too crowded, just about 3 or 4 dancers. On Thursdays and Sundays, the club charges $6 and offers a coat check. On the following day 4 pm at Daddy’s Corner, it looked mostly the same, except for an additional bar on the right side. I think it has always been there, but it opened at 3 pm. The area in front of the stage was now dark.
back to Thursday night:
Then, there was a stunning young goth-like dancer, who could pass for . He had dark black hair, beautiful pale skin, and a tall, slender figure. We had a great time together. As the night progressed, more dancers appeared, about 12 dancer la by 11 :30ish pm. One of my favorite boys was a short, muscular blonde hottie, around 21 years old. As expected, he was in high demand, and it was hard for him to make it past the entrance to the lap room. But we managed to spend some quality time together. Another new dancer, who was also quite popular, caught my attention. By 11 pm, the place filled up, but it wasn't overwhelmingly crowded. There was a contest for the best upcoming stripper, although I don't think it was for this weekend. Malik announced it, and he presented the amateur stripper with an olive wreath /olive leaves crown. As a winner I hope he is included in the dancing schedule. Gorgeous Mediterranean 19/20ish  what a masterpiece of a guy or  at lest from far  
Next, I visited Stock Bar, which had also undergone some changes. They now had a $6 entrance fee and moved door entrance to the side, where the coat check was located. The layout of Stock is now narrower, and the large left bar is much smaller. At that time 11ish Inside, there weren't many people, and I only saw one new dancer, along with two others I recognized from my previous visits.
you are going to see a lot of 11insh PM but it was between 9 and 1:00 am
I then headed to Taboo, but it was quite slow, with only a couple of patrons. I spotted one hot young blonde dancer, and there were two more that I hadn't seen before. They seemed to fit into the fem twink category, which isn't really my type. It was better to stay at Campus where there was a nice atmosphere and a variety of dancers to suit different tastes.
Later, I went to Expose, but it was nearly empty, maybe just one dancer outside talking. So, I decided to go back to Stock Bar. It was still empty, and the only dancer I recognized was my old friend Casper. We decided to have a dance, but he seemed distant, so I chose to leave. As I walked outside near the Unity club, I came across two hot young guys smoking. They offered me a smoke since I had a couple of drinks i  was bold enough to talk to them, well, it. was also in the Stock / Unity club sidewalk, with plenty of people and the bouncers for each club. The boys said they were from Afghanistan, and we planned to meet up later for some drinks.
Eventually, I found myself back at Campus. There were a few dancers, but none of them caught my attention. Instead, I decided to have another drink. Around 1:00 am, a new dancer caught my eye, and I patiently waited for his performance. He turned out to be fantastic, possibly Italian-Canadian. All in all, it was a great Thursday, and I'm eagerly looking forward to tonight. I'll post more about how it goes!

Taipei has a handful of nice spas. I really enjoyed Mudan. Lots of handsome young men working there.
Personally I don't plan to ever return to HK, sadly. But this website lists several spas https://new.gayhk.com/index/en?area=4  I have been to Aloha a few times several years ago and always had a good massage and happy endings.
Seoul also has a few male spas. 
Travelgay.com is a good resource for finding info on these kinds of places. Also utopia-asia.com has lots of listings. As always you never know how up to date these are.
And I'll throw out there that there seem to be about a million male massage places in Myanmar with handsome boys who have enormous cocks. But sadly, Myanmar isn't exactly visitable these days.
For Thailand the gayguides.com forums are a good place for recent info

https://www.boyfriendtv.com/videos/921704/massage/
Another installment in the Japanese massage parlor saga. I so want this place to exist so I can visit it...

I moved to DC in the 80s.  I was in stripper Heaven.  My first bar was the Lone Star next to the FBI building.  A stripper got on my table and was shaking his dick in front of my face.  I was taken aback so I left abruptly but returned the very next night.  What fun! 

and the old Chesapeake House on 9th street for people who liked chicken.
But yeah, all of the gentrification and development forced all of the nude male dance places out of business over the years.
I think you need to either get on a plane to South Florida or Montreal these days

Taipei has a handful of nice spas. I really enjoyed Mudan. Lots of handsome young men working there.
Personally I don't plan to ever return to HK, sadly. But this website lists several spas https://new.gayhk.com/index/en?area=4  I have been to Aloha a few times several years ago and always had a good massage and happy endings.
Seoul also has a few male spas. 
Travelgay.com is a good resource for finding info on these kinds of places. Also utopia-asia.com has lots of listings. As always you never know how up to date these are.
And I'll throw out there that there seem to be about a million male massage places in Myanmar with handsome boys who have enormous cocks. But sadly, Myanmar isn't exactly visitable these days.
For Thailand the gayguides.com forums are a good place for recent info

I have a table. Got it on ebay a million years ago for less than $150. It was a good investment. I used to get outcall massages fairly frequently. Now I prefer to go to the masseur instead.

We’re in a long term relationship, it’s fine. My table is very supportive of me. 

Capital One is offering an 11-month CD at 5.00% APY.  Special rate expires 3/14/2023.

I haven't been there in a couple of years given everything that's been going on. And sadly I don't expect to ever return. I always had great service at Aloha Spa though.
https://new.gayhk.com/

It's only certain models that have been recalled. So you need to make certain yours is in the recall list before you chop the power cord off

sure. Or just take a look at the gayguides.com/forums website which is full of info on the Thai scene (plus lots of other places)