You know it is funny that when I took my friend Joao to Brooklin for the first time (Joao is from Braganca but works in Sampa) he couldn't believe it. He thought the price stated on the wall was for the rental of the room only. He kept shaking his head as we drove home and saying "it takes a gringo"over and over. Well the funny thing is I found out about that place from reading WAY and Protagoras' reports in the Other Cities forums in MERB.
I had the chance to be trained by the best when I hobbied there for the first time in 2004 (while I was attending an International Conference at USP [Universidade de São Paulo]. Gringo Aposentado, a French ex-pat, was my mentor and he showed me everything. In 2005 he said to me ''never never never pay more than 150 Reais" (he was referring to independent escorts. Now the realistic price should be 250 Reais).
I was «adopted» by the Senior members of the GpGuia. Besides Gringo Aposentado and ABG, I had the chance to meet my dear friend Maestro Alex, an Argentino-Brazilian psychiatrist who passed away in 2010. He was a specialist of the underwolrd of BDSM and he was a GPGuia moderato.r
Between 2006 and 2009 there was a private section in the GPGuia for the Honorary Paulistano. I was the first gringo not living in Brazil of that group (Gringo Aposentado lived in Brazil for more than 20 years and he had a Brazilian wife and his children were borned in Brazil). With the departure of Gringo Aposentado (he went back to France during the economic crisis of 2008/2009), the death of Maestro Alex the private group was dissolved.
I also had the chance to participate to a trash tour that was organized by a notorious GpGuia member (Neurônio) - before he was banned - : we visited a whole Saturday the sleaziest joints - under his guidance - in São Paulo.
As far as I remember we were 10 GPGuia members (among them were my friends Shaman2005 (now retired because he felt in love with a garota while hobbying), Tanaka and Homemquefode. We met at 11ham at Bar Brahma and we visited the street hookers, the two 9 stories building (the so-called "69" located at the 69 dos Andradas Street (corner with Timbiras and the Itatiia at 134 al. Barão de Limeira ) hosting360 garotas, the Teatro Orion, the 20 Reais sleazy joints na Rua Conceiçao and we ended our trip late in the evening near Praça da República... a place occupied by travestites.
Here's a video of the so called 69. You must see it if you visit São Paulo. (By the way, I never had a session ... too sleazy and scary, no intimacy...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xDrvVLp7GWM