*Medellin, nov/dec 2025

[+ José Soplanucas]

I am finishing packing and killing time before going to the airport in Recife and start my move to Medellin. It is going to be a long flight with two stops, first in SP and then in Bogotá. I will be landing in Medellin (if everything goes well) tomorrow at 10 am.

I opened a thread here where I will post frequent reports and updates. 

I will be staying in a complex in Ciudad del Rio, when I booked it I had not researched the hood, I just liked it because it was one block away from the MOM and it was an area I enjoyed in a previous visit. Recently, I learned that it is a just developed new fancy neighborhood with lots of new upscale residencies, bars, coffee shops and restaurants. The area was cute when I walked through it a few years ago, but it was yet not as developed as I learned it is now.

It is very close to El Poblado, some reports frame it as "the gate" to Provenza and El Poblado. In my previous visit I stayed in less gentrified areas in Laureles, so I am very curious although I am certain I will miss the more authentic local experience provided by Laureles up to a few years ago.

If you have any suggestions about events or places to visit these next 40 days, please feel free to share in this thread. Just remember that I am not in a frenzy short trip trying to fuck every Colombian hottie available, but instead I am slow traveling on a very low budget, as my condo in DC is still in the market.

As I am aware some friends here do not like going to Gayguides and are not interested in international traveling, I will respond in this thread when anyone shows interest. 

I will stay in Medayork up to December 15th, when I will be returning to Argentina, to my family and Ancient friends.

[Frankcal]

Enjoy. Had an incredible time in Cartagena. Visit there if you can. 

[+ José Soplanucas]

20 hours ago, Frankcal said:

Enjoy. Had an incredible time in Cartagena. Visit there if you can. 

I will sometime, but not in this trip. 

[+ José Soplanucas]

I arrived yesterday. Find all the details in the thread I linked above. Let me share here specific info about escorts. 

My apps are very active, a mix of escorts, ambiguous, hits, and clearly non transactional sex. I will give a chance to the latter my first week, and then start trying the pros. This is an example of a pro hitting my Grindr:

I would not pay those prices. Fercho's services are 190K Col, and that fee includes one hour in a room and a drink. My plan is to pay no more than 150K and exceptionally up to 200K. 

 

[Jomo]

Have u seen  

Haley - Male Escort, Gay massage - Medellin | Rent.Men

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I’m flying down next month for this stud

 

 

[+ José Soplanucas]

13 hours ago, Jomo said:

Have u seen  

Haley - Male Escort, Gay massage - Medellin | Rent.Men

RENT.MEN

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Haley Gay Escort in Medellin, Colombia, available for Modeling,Erotic Massage,Available for videos. | Find all the...

I’m flying down next month for this stud

 

 

Not my type at all. I do not like muscles.

[+ glutes]

I am following this thread.

Gracias Jose!

[+ José Soplanucas]

11 hours ago, glutes said:

I am following this thread.

Gracias Jose!

I advise you to follow also the one I linked in the OP. You will find much more information over there. Here the interest is mostly in US sex work.

Edited November 14, 2025 by José Soplanucas

[BoyGeorgeandMarilyn]

On 11/10/2025 at 3:22 PM, José Soplanucas said:

Not my type at all. I do not like muscles.

 

On 11/10/2025 at 3:22 PM, José Soplanucas said:

Not my type at all. I do not like muscles.

VERY NICE ESCORT

[Jomo]

On 11/15/2025 at 4:25 PM, BoyGeorgeandMarilyn said:

 

VERY NICE ESCORT

Have u seen him before?

[+ José Soplanucas]

Gay escort review in English:

SEBASTIÁN (recommendation in Medellin)

SOPLA.SUBSTACK.COM

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This is our first gay escort recommendation since we moved to Substack. I hope you find it useful if you happen to be visiting Medellin in Colombia.

In case you want to practice your Spanish:

SEBASTIÁN (recomendación en Medellín)

SOPLA.SUBSTACK.COM

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Esta es la primera recomendación de un escort gay desde que nos mudamos a Substack. Espero que les sea útil.

 

[riowanderer]

On 11/6/2025 at 6:36 PM, Frankcal said:

Enjoy. Had an incredible time in Cartagena. Visit there if you can. 

 

[+ José Soplanucas]

Summary of my experience at "Casa Fercho"

THE FAMOUS CASA FERCHO

SOPLA.SUBSTACK.COM

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If you’ve traveled to Medellín, chances are you’ve heard about Casa Fercho’s services. In this piece, I share my experience.

If you want to practice your Spanish:

LA FAMOSA CASA FERCHO

SOPLA.SUBSTACK.COM

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Si has viajado a Medellín, seguramente has oído hablar de los servicios de Casa Fercho. En esta nota comparto mi experiencia.

 

[+ José Soplanucas]

3 hours ago, SirBillybob said:

Prostitution is not legal

Prostitution is legal in Colombia for consenting adults.

Thank you for your concern.

[oclatin92xxx]

8 hours ago, SirBillybob said:

Word to the wise: I have a consulate contact but that person doesn’t know my affiliation here. We had an otherwise neutral discussion about MSM sexual tourism, in part due to my credentials and Colombian visit history last year and other times, and this person is liberal-minded. Prostitution is not legal but the resources don’t exist for enforcement or regulation. They seem to be on to this surstack blog. I feigned ignorance and did not pry regarding potential investigational activities. In fact, I had to connect some dots as I was not privy to specific data but they lead here … Hakim’s Razor, however limited in accuracy.

There is some surprise at the brazen nature of the content and their assumption that the creator has not obscured their own identity. They likely realize some of the content is imported from an ad with implicit consent. Nevertheless, the embassy is not amused based on protectionism for one of their own and the promotional trafficking-lite implications. Anybody incapable of grasping the reasons is living under a rock because we are not all subject to the desensitizing that pervades our specific rightful freedom of expressivity. It’s important to realize that the average person’s sensibility is offended by some of the text and image content. There are going to be limits to tolerance and filters judiciously applicable. 

One might not want to overly draw on a counterprevailing advocacy argument if held to task as a visitor to defend and justify the article. Just saying. Take it or leave it. I’m more interested in our forum’s integrity by association than vested in an individual member’s wellbeing, but sometimes poor judgement is amenable to course correction spurred much less dramatically than an authoritative entity might pursue. 

And now I have to see a stripper about winter wear.

Your contact at the consulate is woefully uniformed if he told you that prostitution in Colombia is not legal. 

Edited January 13 by oclatin92xxx

[floridarob]

3 hours ago, SirBillybob said:

but sometimes poor judgement is amenable to course correction spurred much less dramatically than an authoritative entity might pursue. 

And now I have to see a stripper about winter wear.

This reads like cosplay credentialism. Vague ‘consulate contacts’, unnamed credentials, feigned ignorance, imaginary investigations, and a mangled Occam’s Razor for flavour.

It’s all implication, no evidence, and a lot of self-important throat-clearing, and not from all the sucking in Tea rooms 😄

And for what it’s worth, I’m quite sure the consulate already clocks your preferences. You’re not nearly as butch or inscrutable as your delusions of macho grandeur seem to suggest.

If you actually had something concrete to say, you wouldn’t need three paragraphs of fog to say it.

Ending a sermon about propriety with a stripper punchline rather neatly gives the game away 🙄

[+ SirBillybob]

1 hour ago, oclatin92xxx said:

Your contact at the consulate is woefully uniformed if he told that prostitution in Colombia is not legal. 

In that case it should come to nothing and may have been rant-lite, but I think it more reflected others’ views. I don’t know the law there completely but there may be a boundary at some particular threshold. For example, the Nordic model, albeit a far cry from locations south, might view the promotion of a person by a third (non-anonymous?) party as being oddly unaware of certain prohibited aspects. I wouldn’t provide my name in tandem with overt or subtle regard for the talents of a stripper up here from the Colombian diaspora. I thought that there was alignment here regarding collective tact and discretion. I’m reasonably able to differentiate standards dictated by legislation, being myself a consumer.

If Substack and AI users are to import the suggestion that this board’s members must all come out, expect pushback. One also doesn’t need 12 years of uni education to realize that the ask directed to the app primed commentary on particular stereotypes.

I add that I’m not suggesting your position on this, but read all the posts as a group prior to responding. 

Edited January 13 by SirBillybob

[+ SirBillybob]

You are welcome and it’s a bonus that you act with impunity. The lad can show the photos to his grandchildren and brag about his past affiliation with a barrier-breaker advanced for his time. Imagery and theme-wise focus on the anus may be prominent, but who among us hasn’t misspent one’s youth in some fashion. Much of my work has been based on folks dealing with aftershocks.

Edited January 13 by SirBillybob

[+ SirBillybob]

I’m off ChatGPT and it’s incestuous kissing cousins since it inarguably made a simple math error recently that totally governed the direction of its content in a manner I assume to be unintentional. My elementary school nieces got it; names withheld mysteriously.

It appears that one can also specifically request that it undermine the intent of a passage. But enjoy the new toy, whoever, and be sure to wash the fecal matter off between uses. I’m sure that the mods here will view the admonishment to identify oneself and associated context for legitimacy as poorly judged and harmlessly intended proxy bullying. BTW, if the consulate is cognizant of my sexual history then somebody not me shared it. 

Edited January 13 by SirBillybob

[+ SirBillybob]

1 hour ago, floridarob said:

This reads like cosplay credentialism. Vague ‘consulate contacts’, unnamed credentials, feigned ignorance, imaginary investigations, and a mangled Occam’s Razor for flavour.

It’s all implication, no evidence, and a lot of self-important throat-clearing, and not from all the sucking in Tea rooms 😄

And for what it’s worth, I’m quite sure the consulate already clocks your preferences. You’re not nearly as butch or inscrutable as your delusions of macho grandeur seem to suggest.

If you actually had something concrete to say, you wouldn’t need three paragraphs of fog to say it.

Ending a sermon about propriety with a stripper punchline rather neatly gives the game away 🙄

Quoted for instruction, not any recognition of worth. It should reside here.

Edited January 13 by SirBillybob

[Cooper]

Administrator’s Reminder:

Gentlemen, Let’s return to the subject of this thread. All off topic messages will be removed. 

[+ SirBillybob]

I wasn’t there those months, few members here participated, muscularity is subjective, and a Colombian expressed the advice of caution for punters navigating local practice and values. Certainly reasonable to adhere to the subject. 

Edited January 13 by SirBillybob

[BSR]

On 12/29/2025 at 7:59 AM, José Soplanucas said:

Summary of my experience at "Casa Fercho"

Thanks for the information.  Bogotá didn’t work out for me,  it I’m interested in giving Medellín a try one of these days.  Maybe I missed it in your write-up, but how much do you tip the working guy?  190K COP is only $51.07 at today’s exchange rate.  For that price, I’d feel like I gotta give a hefty tip for good service.

[+ SirBillybob]

5 hours ago, BSR said:

Thanks for the information.  Bogotá didn’t work out for me,  it I’m interested in giving Medellín a try one of these days.  Maybe I missed it in your write-up, but how much do you tip the working guy?  190K COP is only $51.07 at today’s exchange rate.  For that price, I’d feel like I gotta give a hefty tip for good service.

We tend to get habituated to 5-10-fold that amount, predominantly because that is what punters will pay in one particular context. That is a habit much easier to break when the realization kicks in that there is no true single objective value, as evidenced by what pricepoint standards exist elsewhere. I have found that in Medellín and Bogotá 300,000 is deemed a good date pay day for a nice meal and a few hours of play. Less for short-time brothel transaction. He’ll be available for follow-ups. 

Our misgivings and worries about under compensation when shifting contexts South are commensurate in the polar opposite direction with the surprise and appreciation of the reality that no one transactional intimacy workforce should actually obtain the final bottom line say on value.

It’s easy and one’s prerogative to tip because it will have minimal collective impact on pay expectations and low wallet impact, while a little more effect on understandable compensation hopes. But just follow the lead of your hire’s emotional state and appearance of contentment. They tend not to be disingenuous and a visitor is more likely to be paying within an upper percentile of traditional local range anyway. 

In contrast, it’s virtually impossible to downregulate collectively what appears relatively exorbitant in expensive trade settings because sexual desire episodically distorts the objective worth dangling in front of it, often accompanied by anxiety about both deprivation and offending trade. That and a relatively small proportion of those consumers branching out to discover vastly different standards of fairness.

The thing about going south is that hire savings are offset by travel expenses relative to hosting at home base but travel costs are rarely experienced as set egregiously high. The differential in trade costs is the kicker and exacerbates the benefit-associated tension between “I don’t deserve this.” and “He doesn’t deserve this.” 

If you like a guy, a small token of extra appreciation need not be cash.  It simply conveys that you pay forward your life privilege to an up and comer no less deserving of the boosts that propelled us to the capacity to thrive erotically in our winter years.

Edited January 13 by SirBillybob

[BSR]

15 minutes ago, SirBillybob said:

The thing about going south is that hire savings are offset by travel expenses relative to hosting at home base but travel costs are rarely experienced as set egregiously high. The differential in trade costs is the kicker and exacerbates the benefit-associated tension between “I don’t deserve this.” and “He doesn’t deserve this.” 

I would never go to Medellín just to hire.  My one-way ticket from Madrid to Las Vegas was $3400 whereas a ticket to Bogotá then a second ticket to Las Vegas was a total of just $1900 (all flights in business).  I’m guessing/hoping that fares will be similar the next time I’m in Madrid.