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Sex Tourism With Rio Joe

Gram Ponante — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 15:57:21 EST

Until his first trip to decadent Rio de Janeiro in 2003, sex tourist and freelance writer Joe Diamond thought Copacabana was just a song by Barry Manilow. But after several return trips as well as stops in brothels and assorted subequatorial fleshpots, Diamond came to a realization he could have learned at home in New York: Hookers don't really love you. That said, his blog full of adventures as a sex tourist provide anecdotes, tips, and no small share of heartbreak.

· Adventures of an Average Joe (riojoe.com)

"Love Me Long Time": Sex Tourists In Thailand

Dashiell Bennett — Wed, 12 Sep 2007 17:06:36 EDT

Thailand has become synonymous with crazy vacations where English-speaking tourists can find anything and everything under the sexual sun, but a lot of men who make the journey find something even wilder than they could have imagined—like a girlfriend or even a wife. This interesting mini-documentary about the tropical paradise looks at gents who get more from the nation's famous "bar girls" than a one-night stand. These ladies offer a companion, a travel partner, and in some cases a mate for life, while the guys offer loving attention and financial support (i.e.. a potential way out of the seedy bars and nightclubs.) Oh, and there's the sex, too, but that's just a bonus. Some dudes even chuck their lives back home for a new one on the beach, but you'll only have to give up half an hour to see the video. Check it out before you find some one to love you a very long time (and maybe break your heart.)

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· Love Me Long Time - Sex Tourism in Thailand (Google Video)

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Previously: An Ode To Thailand's Sexual Past (And Present)

DVD Review: "Brazilian Bar Hopping"

Gram Ponante — Thu, 16 Aug 2007 21:36:10 EDT

The term "sex tourism" has recently taken on as ugly a hue as "sex positive", wherein sex tourism is associated only with traveling to places for the purpose of sex with minors and sex positive means no fun at all. But Amateur District's Brazilian Bar Hopping is simply about the legal thrill of caipirinha-soaked evenings where all one worries about is a few Portuguese phrases and whether or not the leggy brunette at the bar is a tranny.

Read our revoiew of "Brazilian Bar Hopping" after the gap.

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Brazilian Bar Hopping

Studio: Amateur District
Director:
Cast: Karine Muller, Raissa Prado, Fernanda Alencar, Patricia Kimberly, Dane

Review by Gram Ponante

Such movies as this are made on the cheap in Rio and constitute a lucrative addition to the U.S. porn market with low overhead. There are no uppity directors, just cheap hotel rooms and some Brazilian hookers.

So where do we get the culture? Well, in America porn performers say "Fuck!" and "Ungg!" when you fuck them. In Brazil they say "Ai!" and "Ooeey!"

Such is the case with Raissa Prado. She doesn't care that the sheets are off the bed; she says "Ai!" anyway. And her uncredited partner is a gentleman; he kisses her thighs afterward and wipes the come out of her eye.

As the performers are (probably) aware that this is porn for a foreign audience, conversation is kept to a minimum, as are any porn tropes beyond the universal standard facial pop shot. For this reason the interactions seem more sincere and, though this is a horrible reverse stereotype, the Brazilian girls just seem to enjoy themselves more.

Witness Patricia Kimberly, whom I am moved to take away from there. I can treat her better than that guy with highlights.

A woman named Dane headlines the next scene which, like the others, begins in the bar of a strip club. Unlike the others, though, Dane stays thhere. Perhaps it is for this reason, the lack of creature comforts as provided by the dingy hotel room, that this scene fizzles. Dane's partner seems more into it than she does (though she does say "Gostoso!")

A woman named Karine Muller is serviced by a mane-tossing tool. I didn't know they had mane tossers in Brazil. You learn something new every day in this business.

Finally, Fernanda Alencar mixes things up a little by leading her partner through a different door to the same hotel room.

There was a lot of kissing and smiling in the movie, which was nice, and a lot of anal, which I suppose needed to be done because it was there. The simplicity of setting made it easier to concentrate on these all-natural, toned beauties. But it wouldn't have killed the nameless producer to have had one shot of Ipanema or some dirty favela sex, either; why call the movie Brazilian Bar Hopping if there's no creampies atop Pao de Azucar?

This movie needed to get out more. To paraphrase Murray Head: "One town's very like a nother when your head's down over your pieces (of ass), Brother."

· Amateur District (amateurdistrict.com)
· Buy "Brazilian Bar Hopping" (gamelink.com)

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