José Soplanucas

I continue my post-retirement slow traveling journey. Today, I am starting my third week in Recife, my first time in the Brazilian NE. By the way, I just realized I did not open here a thread for Salvador. You can check that travel log in this thread in Gayguides. I am having a great time, and you can check more in detail my adventures and misadventures in this thread in Gayguides. So far, I love the city but I am longing for the saunas and the men from Rio and Salvador. My apologies to everyone and to the moderators for not duplicating the threads here, but hopefully we all are sisters and there is no issue on sharing traffic. If there is any, please let me know. I am impressed with Termas Boa Vista, the biggest local sauna and reportedly the best gay sauna in Brazil. I just published a full report in my new substack. The venues are amazing, and you can hardly find a better place to have non transactional sex. However, the GPs scene is not my favorite and in general I find men here far less attractive than men in Salvador, Rio, and São Paulo. Prices are ridiculously low. Drinks are cheaper than in a regular bar, and the best suites are only 40R and you have them for a full hour (in the other cities you have the suites for only 40 minutes). GPs' prices are similar than in Salvador, slightly cheaper than Rio. Locals pay between 50 and 100R. I could get a programa for 100, but I am paying 150 and the guys are extra happy and engaged. I will be here until November 6th, and then I have to leave Brazil or ask for an extension for my visa. I will be moving to Medellín, where I will stay until December 15th. My original plan was slow traveling for 2 or three years, but I do not think this is the life style for me. At the moment (I may change my mind), I am planning to travel until June 2026. In June I may return to DC to attend graduation at my last school if the World Cup allows me to. And then I would return to South America to find my new home. Right now, there are two contenders left: Rio de Janeiro and Medellin. I think I want Rio to win.

Always from LPSG, I thought this one was more appropriate for this thread.

I got a five.

You should ask in the proper subform at Gayguides.com. You'll have better chances to find someone who hired these guys.

I use cash to pay the boys, CC for everything else. I recommend a chain of ATMs called Banco 24 Horas. You can withdraw 1000R and pay a 24R fee. Just remember to reject their exchange rate when the ATM asks you.

Humanizing Luigi

Fuck yeah

Unfortunately, we cannot create surveys in this subform. So if you want to have a little bit of fun, reply stating which one is your fav picture. Mine is #4. I feel like he is looking at me with admiration.

Well, I only imported the image, but of course in the LPSG thread it came with a prompt asking you to choose your favorite one. You just gave me an idea, I will open a new thread.

The poster in LPSG rightfully observes he now looks buff.

Of course, from the infamous LPSG's thread.

For those interested, I am continuing my reports on this trip in this thread: Salvador, Bahia, September 2025 - Gay Brazil - Gay Guides Forum WWW.GAYGUIDES.COM Tomorrow I am leaving Rio and settling in Salvador for a month. I will be staying in Barra. This would be my second visit, my first one was before the pandemic. I...

LUIGI MANGIONE SOPLA.SUBSTACK.COM Sexual fantasy or political nightmare? About the new American heroes.

Don't liking it implies consent? There is no assault if there is consent. Rather than assault, it would be a forward seeing move.

I've read in social media that the charges on terrorism were dropped. I still have to verify that, but it would be fair. He is not a sexy terrorist, he is a sexy assassin. Checked. It is true. nytimes.com WWW.NYTIMES.COM

@mike carey, are you following the news? 😇

https://sopla.substack.com/p/clube-11-566 I am having a great time here. Check my report on the sauna above. It is just my first week, my only doubt is whether I will love Clube 11 after a month. Everything depends on the turn around of boys. It looks like the standard price here is 100R for a full service programa. I am offering 150 and the boys are treating me like a Queen. I am surprised all the boys I talked to (about 10) are openly versatile. Back in 2017, when I visited for the first time, that was not the case. And when you meet Bahianos in Rio, they are always only top (at the beginning). I am gladly impressed by this change. The sauna is celebrating its 20th anniversary week, a big party is planned for this Saturday. This coming Sunday is the local gay pride parade, from Praia do Porto da Barra down to Ondinas. I will probably be there if the crowd is not overwhelming (I do not like to be squeezed). I guess I could keep my distance from the most heavy crowded sections of the parade. If I feel safe pulling out my camera (I think I will), I will get nice pictures. There is an after parade party at Zoom, so I will probably go there for the first time. The city and the people are fantastic. Everyone is very welcoming and friendly. However, I do not think I would like to live here. I hate walking up and down all these hills. Today I took a day off to rest, my right knee is killing me (I had a surgery 10yeas ago). Besides that, poverty is too ubiquitous and too many buildings, often beautiful ones, are falling in pieces. I went to the Museu de Arte Moderna de Bahía and saw some very appealing artwork, but everything would look so much better with more investment. After my visit there, I attempted to walk south to get to the Museu de Arte, but my knee forced me to call an Uber to go back home to put some ice on it without reaching my intended destination. Before taking the Uber, I walk through a path between the highway and the favela you see bellow in the picture. There were homeless people living on the path, they could not even afford the favela. They smelled horrible and looked like corpses, malnutrition and heavy drugs. It made me very sad, so much misery in such a beautiful natural scenery.

Weather is important, but also be aware of the river height. The weather may be fantastic, but if it is a drought season you will see a poor shadow of the falls.

Besides Lagoa, you may want to check Python in SP. My sources tell me that the new sauna is taking many of the hot boys that used to work at Lagoa. As in Rio, the saunas are competing for the boys, offering discounts in their fees and feeding them. Apparently Python has been very successful lately at attracting the best and the many.

No prob. Perhaps you read the comments to the post in my new blog, someone there says that he prefers the shows at 202. I do not have a preference about the shows. I find the drag queens equally funny in all the venues I have watch them, and the strippers equally bad and boring in all the Brazilian saunas where I've seen them.

The shows? I have never weighted the shows in my evaluations, I am not sure why you bring in that topic. I still prefer 202 because of the boys and the atmosphere, but 117 has grown on my heart (ok, perhaps on some other organs too).