I used to fly to Amsterdam once a month from the UK. Great fun at the Whynot, Boys for Men and my favourite the 21.All full of cute Caucasian guys. Not any more.Originally Posted by Blacktouch
This thread made me look up the 21 ( the sole remaining Cub) and I am horrified to see that they now charge 175 Euros for an hour with a boy. Thats just under 7000 fucking Baht...
without the cost of drinks!
Thank god I discovered Thailand ....
arsenal (November 21st, 2018), DoubleDutch (November 23rd, 2018)
Gerefan2 wrote.
*Thank god I discovered Thailand ...."
My sentiments exactly. Especially when compared to any other 'gay' destination.
In other words a form of colonialism. Although most definitions simply assume a state actor as the colonial power it isn’t always true eg. the early European settlement of North America or the early days of trading entities like the British East India Company. There’s little difference morally between staying in one’s own country and having sex with prostitutes who have been trafficked there, and travelling to that country of origin in order to have sex with local prostitutes
If you say so frequent.
gerefan2 (November 21st, 2018)
I was going to say Pinocchio in Prague, great, great pick up bar in Prague, but I haven't made a stop in Prague in a while, instead driving straight through, and sadly turns out Pinocchio is history, Scottish-guy reporting. It was truly great pick up place, Czecks are naturally handsome, friendly. No wonder half of gay porn is shot in Czech. We used to drive to visit Pinocchio on weekends, even though city was becoming increasingly expensive. No more.
https://sawatdeenetwork.com/v4/showt...-End-of-an-Era
Any road trip to Italy, passing Prague is a natural stop, if you take the road southbound in Poland, towards Wroclaw. The other option is driving West, passing Poznan, and in about 4 hours you are in Berlin.
Blue Boy was open in August, visited on my way to south of Europe, and on way back North 3 weeks later. Passing Berlin on first stop was hopeless, it was 35C heatwave that very day, early August 2018, place was dead, but day time, and we never went back at night.
One a way back passed Berlin again, and parked strategically near Blue Boy (not easy on dead end road), and observed market for an hour or so, just 2 guys on a terrace, nothing interesting. But it was early afternoon, Tuesday.
I can tell you Baltics is dead, everyone even half good looking works in Stockholm, Koppenhagen now, and further in Western Europe, where the real money is. There are some mutts on apps, still, asking rediculous prices in hopes of scoring a drunk Finn, but the scene there is basically dead.
I'm off to Prague in 3 weeks time so I'll have to keep an eye open to see what's what there and check out grindr to see if it's busy or not etc. However as I'm going there to take my 80 somehting year old mother and my BF to see the Christmas markets etc I very much doubt I'll manage to escape for any proper deep and dirty investigations of the seedy services on offer - probably ?! :-)
As DD says, Pinocchio is closed - and has been for maybe 20 years! That might be an exaggeration but certainly more than 10. It turned into Club Temple, which is now also closed. What the space is now may be revealed when Marsilius files his report, as he's just come back. Worth saying that Escape Club (which I never really liked) is also closed.
Just for the sake of reminiscence, on my first visit to Prague there was no Pinocchio's and no Escape.
Villa David and Villa Mansland (also both closed) were the 2 Gay hotels. Mansland was as much of a brothel as a hotel mind you but you get the idea.
The only gay "club" in town was called the G L Club, which was a basement bar full of extremely young hustlers who all looked about 15. To be fair, that was the Czech Age of Consent at the time, so it was a bit shocking at first sight but nothing out of the ordinary in those days.
They had a DJ who was constantly being asked (by the boys) to play "I'm a Call Boy" by Wayne Samuels. I'd never heard of the song (neither has anybody else I bet) but it seemed so apposite to the situation that we spent the whole of the next day searching every record shop in Prague for a copy.
I was very fortunate to obtain a 12 incher - which I still have. I take it out and look at it occasionally - would anybody like to see a pic?
PS: DD mentions Blue Boy Bar in Berlin. Worth saying to anyone who hasn't visited Berlin in a while that it moved a couple of years ago so I'm guessing DD was observing the "new" one. The old location (Fuggerstasse, next to Blond Bar) is still in operation as a re-named rent bar (making 4 within staggering distance). Would have been 5 but one (Eldorado) has turned into a gay cafe selling breakfasts and cakes.
Blue Boy Bar's claim to fame is that (in the original location) it was a favourite and regular haunt of the Pet Shop Boys - and you'll still see that mentioned in some gay directories
There you go, a little something for you to reminisence over and a good reason to use the insert video button again it seems !
ps no need to remove the "s" just for your info - just copied and pasted directly from the youtube URL - BUT I always open the link first and take the link from the URL window and not just the link shown in google as sometimes there's parts missing off the end etc, copying the ACTUAL live URL always seems to work just fine though.
Yeah you'll realise I deleted the post about removing the "s" when I found out links now works without any alteration !
And yeah that the same cover I have except mine is 12 inches.
I have to say I brought it back with me and a number of pub and club DJs back home were tickled pink to play it!
"Of it's day" I think
Maybe the Pet Shop Boys could do an updated version for Blue Boy Bar - I can almost hear Neil Tennant lisping his way though the lyric right now - after all they're "Shameless"
I'm just glad you didn't bring it to Thailand on any of the trips that you never went on ( there I saved you the post Minimee) as I think we'd of been sick of hearing - mind you it does have a better beat to it that "My Way" if nothing else I guess !
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