José Soplanucas

Not to mention being eternally more culturally relevant.  People will forever call moronic persons Bozos but I've never heard anyone called a Kathy or a Griffin.

So true.
The right hair and makeup makes a big difference.
 

And yet some give some people a pass on absolutely all the evil things they say and do to others. 

Not silly, we learn the same lesson but in reverse. I'm used to the sun being in the north. Anyone travelling in the hemisphere they aren't familiar with faces the same realisation (the sun being north somehow seems 'natural' because a compass tells you north, the sun tells you north, that sort of thing). The thing about this that first struck me forcefully is that the sun moves across the sky clockwise in the north, so shadows also move clockwise. I first realised that when I sat near the edge of the shadow of a tree (in Omaha, as it happens), and rather than extend away from me as the day progressed, it moved the other way and I was in the sun in less than 20 minutes. I hadn't even considered it, I had just intuitively anticipated how it would move. Wrongly! As you grow up, you just 'know' how the world works.

I love Palermo Soho!  I stayed in Montserrat for 3 months because it was close to my language school, but I spent most of my free time in Palermo Soho.  Super gay-friendly, chic yet unpretentious (my take), it’s a fantastic neighborhood.
If you’re a coffee-lover, ask a local to recommend a good café because most coffee in Buenos Aires  ranges from mediocre to downright awful.  On weekends I went to Vive Cafe, “next door” in Palermo Hollywood, a Colombian coffee shop where they do coffee right.
Most tourists do a tour of La Boca,  but I didn’t like it at all:  it has an interesting history but way too touristy for me.  I would recommend a tour of the Plaza de Mayo that covers the history of the widows and mothers of los desaparecidos, a profoundly sad period of Argentina’s history but critical to understanding the country.  If the weather’s nice, I would definitely visit the beautiful Japanese Garden.  I would also walk around Palermo Chico, the fanciest BA neighborhood where all the embassies are.
If you haven’t already picked your hotel, I would stay at the St. George in Puerto Iguazú, 20-25 minutes from the Falls:  modern rooms, great pool, terrific breakfast buffet included.  If you want to stay inside the national parks (plural because both the Brazilian and Argentine sides are national parks for their respective country), be prepared to pay megabucks.  The Melia on the Argentine side was sorely in need of a renovation yet was literally 10x the price of the St. George.  The Belmond on the Brazilian side is more like 12x the St. George, but at least it’s beautifully maintained.  I preferred the Brazilian side (a panoramic view of the entire Falls) over the Argentine side (walkways that are almost right on top of the Falls), but you gotta do both.  I highly recommend the boat ride along and under the Falls.  Just bring a change of dry clothes because you’ll get soaked.
I wish I could remember the place in Puerto Iguazú that serves 1-kilo ribeyes for just $50 (at the exchange rate then) because it lived up to all expectations for Argentine beef.  Since steakhouses were a lot more expensive in BA, I did an asado Airbnb experience.  Besides being less expensive, you learned about all the customs and traditions of an Argentine asado.
This might seem like a silly tip to Southern Hemisphereans like @mike carey and @José Soplanucas, but remember that the sun passes through the north sky, not the south.  My first day walking around, I checked Google Maps for the route to my destination, checked where the sun was, and started walking.  10 minutes later, I was baffled that I was walking in the wrong, opposite direction.  Duh! the sun does the opposite in the Southern Hemisphere.

She looks a whole lot better than I would at that age.  Actually, she looks better than I did 10 years ago.  

Frankly, he doesn't owe anyone an explanation, and in reality, whether he needs it or not is immaterial. If that's what he wants, he is entitled to ask for it, and decline any engagement if the client is not prepared to accept it as a condition of meeting him. He can then move on as if that client had never been a realistic prospect.

“Eliminate shame”? I haven’t watched the video yet but, darling, I eliminated shame from my life and my vocabulary years ago! 
Having said that, I will now watch the video. 

I do not remember who my first hire was. Back in the 80s, I used to cruise Avda Santa Fe and calle Lavalle in Buenos Aires, and sometimes hire street hustlers to take to my place. I cannot recall who the first one was.
I do remember my first hire from an agency. When I turned 30 (1992), I called one of the agencies that advertised in Clarín, the main local newspaper. In their Classifieds section they had a chapter for "personal services", the back then famous "Rubro 59". There, gay and straight agencies and individuals would advertise escorting services.
I called (remember, 1993 is before Internet and smart phones) one of the agencies, and provided them with a detailed description of what I was looking for.
First, they sent me a guy I did not find attractive. I paid him for his transportation, and called back the agency with adjustments to my description. This process repeated three times, until the fourth escort turned me on and provided me with an outstanding experience. 

I do not remember who my first hire was. Back in the 80s, I used to cruise Avda Santa Fe and calle Lavalle in Buenos Aires, and sometimes hire street hustlers to take to my place. I cannot recall who the first one was.
I do remember my first hire from an agency. When I turned 30 (1992), I called one of the agencies that advertised in Clarín, the main local newspaper. In their Classifieds section they had a chapter for "personal services", the back then famous "Rubro 59". There, gay and straight agencies and individuals would advertise escorting services.
I called (remember, 1993 is before Internet and smart phones) one of the agencies, and provided them with a detailed description of what I was looking for.
First, they sent me a guy I did not find attractive. I paid him for his transportation, and called back the agency with adjustments to my description. This process repeated three times, until the fourth escort turned me on and provided me with an outstanding experience. 

Actually had Ben over last Wednesday and he was worth every penny, he’s very friendly and sweet and that’s just the beginning! I did three hours with him and it was worth every minute 

I DON'T do bareback, and even if I did...I prefer to SEE a guy ejaculate ...so the performance has to be more convincing for ME as a client. Shooting across the room is a big turn-on. I just can't get into sex if the other guy is not also turned on. So it either has to be genuine, or he has to be a professional at a performative engagement. THIS is why I almost never meet an escort without having spent some time together PRIOR to a sexual encounter. I need to feel that there is SOME connection.  I can't be with someone who can't at least play the role of being interested in me. Huge turn-OFF otherwise.

I recommend you to join the local discussion forum. WARNING: it is only Spanish.
I would check the information for you, but I have been banned. I remember several threads addressing your inquire. 

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It’s Bad Bunny weekend so let’s take a timeout for some pizza. 

This sounds really predatory and coercive. If you said this about women in front of me, I would tell them to cover their drinks. You’re stating your intention to go into a space where people are drinking, identify people who are “needy” or “broke” and use their drunkenness or precarity to get them to have sex with them?
This might be considered premeditated SA in many jurisdictions. 
Minimally, you’re the embodiment of every horrible thing that the Right Wing says about gay men. 

This is one of the more interesting threads for me during my short time here. As some have already pointed out, “straight” is a matter of perception, self-description or impression of others. In this context, we’re talking about the client’s projection on someone who’s really not really completely “straight”. I find the range of tastes and reactions to this truly fascinating. As someone who’s been perceived as “straight” for almost all of my life but now having fun pushing boundaries, I think I can perhaps see both sides with more clarity than some. Strong preferences for uber macho men (fill in your own version) or very feminized versions (ditto) will always be appealing to some but most of us fall somewhere in between. I have had great fun letting my little head tell my big head what excites it and it’s been full of surprises. So far, I haven’t fully embraced either of these “extremes” but I I do have trouble understanding why some feel a need to judge someone whose preferences are different from their own. 

This sounds like many of the friends I had in college who were obsessed with straight men. Most of them are now middle-aged and alone. They never had a significant relationship. The rest of us (straight and gay) met partners, some had kids, and now we're enjoying our success. These guys sometimes find married guys who let them blow them. But that's it. Very sad. 
I do agree that it can be easy to find straight men who are willing to let you pleasure them. One needs only to have no self-esteem or standards. Or get them very drunk, which is borderline SA. Men don't respect the slutty cheerleader. 
And comparing oneself favorably to a Jewish collaborator of the Gestapo who may have sent up to 3,000 of her peers to the camps before converting to Christianity and becoming an avowed anti-Semite is wild. 
 

To be honest, I don't even know what it means when someone says they're straight.  People these days have become so casual about sex that being "straight" is more of a lifestyle indicator than a sexual preference.  To me, a straight guy is a guy who appears hetero in social interactions and who dates (or would like to date) women, but I know there's a good chance that he'd happily hook up with a hot guy or a gay buddy if he's horny or bored.  

Of the many chaperos I hooked up with at Sauna Thermas, two of the best kissers were straight.  Holy sh!t, did they make my toes curl!  I couldn’t care less if they were gay, straight, or Martian as long as their tongues turned me on.  When I hired one of them for a 5-hour evening, it was fantastic.  I knew his limits beforehand, was fine with them, and we both managed to have a great time.  Funny, I wouldn’t call it a boyfriend experience, more like a friends-with-benefits experience.  Conversation was so easy with him, like we were best friends from high school, with the fuckbuddy angle thrown in.
Like you, I’ve hired some real duds who were gay.  I didn’t hire the straight Thermas guy because he was straight but because we clicked so well on the premises that I wanted to see him offsite.  Whaddya know, he turned out to be one of my best hires ever.

Rather than trying to find one explanation for all the providers who self labeled as straight, do you not think that all of the narratives are possible? Some may be actually straight, some may not be straight at all but just marketing, some may be anything in between, above and below. Instead of arguing, and trying to debate the explanations we do not prefer, why we do not just have fun brainstorming imagining all the possible scenarios? 

Or as a well-known British entertainer once said, I'm bisexual, I buy sex.

Rather than trying to find one explanation for all the providers who self labeled as straight, do you not think that all of the narratives are possible? Some may be actually straight, some may not be straight at all but just marketing, some may be anything in between, above and below. Instead of arguing, and trying to debate the explanations we do not prefer, why we do not just have fun brainstorming imagining all the possible scenarios? 

I do not touch any guy that's either straight or isn't but puts 'straight' in their profile. I already made my peace at 17 to not touch or fawn over straight guys.

Rather than trying to find one explanation for all the providers who self labeled as straight, do you not think that all of the narratives are possible? Some may be actually straight, some may not be straight at all but just marketing, some may be anything in between, above and below. Instead of arguing, and trying to debate the explanations we do not prefer, why we do not just have fun brainstorming imagining all the possible scenarios?