GuyFromIpanema

Not sure where you draw the line here. There was (is?) a meningococcal disease outbreak affecting gay men (mostly in Florida) in 2022, which killed more people than monkeypox. Are you assuming that an escort who doesn't mention it hasn't been vaccinated ? More or a legit concern than monkeypox at this point.

I also responded to another comment which referred to "what he did". If you don't understand my response, by all means just ignore my little observations. 🧐🧐 It will make sense later.

I'm afraid you've got the wrong person, sir. I was about the fourth or fifth person to mention him, and it was indirectly in response to the suggestion he was the same another account made by someone else here.

It just occurred to me, apropos nothing in particular, that people who pay close attention when someone is telling them something unusual, rather than asking irrelevant smart-ass questions, sometimes learn something interesting.

GLWT. In a discussion that was already speculating that Doug69 had alts, I was merely refreshing the collective memory. It wasn't supposed to be controversial. 🙄

He was Guest HairyDomBraz27 before he was Doug69. and DomEscort31NYC prior to that. He's more "forgotten but not gone" than the other way around, I can assure you.

Nor for what he's still doing. 😉

The "go, just be careful" advice I gave for Rio applies to many places, but is not absolutely universal. A rather ambitious friend was planning a trip to Honduras around ten years ago and I sought the advice of another friend who had actually contributed to travel guides to much of Latin American (and is himself Colombian). His advice was not to go. "Do you mean that, or do you mean it's ok to go if you avoid certain places and are very careful?" I asked. His expert advice was "No. Really do NOT go. Even people who are from Honduras and have relatives there mostly don't go. Do not go, period". (this was around 2011) So places can get too dangerous to visit. But Rio is not such a place, nor was it at any point in recent memory.

Too late for your trip but as general advice: if it's your first time and your trip is longer that about a week (long enough to include two weekends, say), visit both. Flights between the cities are short, frequent, and extremely easy if you use the smaller central airports (CGH <-> SDU). You will enjoy the contrast between them.

One of those three things should be sufficient, frankly. Any one. I agree that breaking all three rules at once would be unwise when you're new to Rio,

Cities 11-18 seem to have been added to that list in spite of not meeting the murder rate criterion, and US cities which do meet it have been left off. The city of Rio de Janeiro has roughly the same murder rate as Chicago, well below that of some US cities like New Orleans and Detroit. (The state of RJ is significantly lower still). Sao Paulo's murder rate in turn is much lower, around that of LA and far lower than many US cities. The state of Sao Paulo has roughly the same murder rate as the United States as a whole. Frankly that chart smacks of ridiculous xenophobia. I wonder if those who created it even own passports. Yes, you need to take care. Others have given advice on that. Walking aimlessly around Copacabana at 3am wearing a Rolex is asking for trouble. Walking purposefully in little more than shorts and Havaianas is going to be fine. Use common sense. Watch how others behave. Err on the side of caution when you're someplace new. But this is not any reason to avoid going to either Rio or Sao Paulo.