A possible reason for what some people of stated has a drop off of talent and increase in price might be explained by the following.

In my recent trip to Rio, I found out that a lot of the Garotas I saw last time where not in Rio.

They were traveling in Italy, England and Spain. What they were doing was working for Escort services in another countries.

I talked to a garota that I was with and she stated that she works out of the country of Brazil for nine months out of the year!

So a possible explanation is that other countries are tapping the talent for tours outside of the country. (Note the agency will only take the top Garota)

This also causes the Ladies to charge higher prices because they receive higher rates for nine months out of the year when they are not in Brazil. So now they can afford to hold out for more money.

May is the is a certain truth to it.

My 'regular' girl whom I met at Solarium is spending lots of time in Spain these days.

When I was in Spain and Germany hitting the FKKs and "flower lounges", I also found many girls from Brazil and Colombia. The going rate there is about 50 euros per pop per half hour. Not much but probably still better than what they make in Rio.

BTW, I have to say that the Brazilian girls I met in the German FKK and the Madrid clubs are sub-par compared to Rio.

I'm not convinced there's really any drop off in talent. Was in 4x4 yesterday, and it's the best I've seen it over the last couple of years.

Nobody on the Portuguese language site (gpguia) is talking about things going downhill. Also the escort websites are as good as ever, and prices haven't changed.

As Eddie Murphy would say, we're dropping all the saltines and looking for Ritz's. However, the saltines we're dropping were Ritz's on earlier trips.

Our standards are rising. I was in Tijuana last night and as I viewed the fat, ugly putas roaming Adalitas and Chicago Club, I would have killed to have the worst looking girl from Luomo walk in.

There's a serious drop in quality IMO. Anyone who says otherwise has tastes drastically different from mine (I'm quite picky).

But, back to the recent topic posted - isn't it nearly impossible since 9-11 or so for garotas to obtain new visas to go to Europe, same as the USA?

I thought the USA convinced (coerced) the EU to follow our new process of closing borders , not true?

Brasilian citizens don't need a visa to go to Europe. They get the same tourist priveledges as we do. It's amazing how flexible your visa allowances can be when you actively deport illegal aliens as a rule of thumb, not like the US does. If we did the right thing in handling illegals in this country, we could let more people in on tourist/short term status because we wouldn't worry about them overstaying their time.