By amateurs, I mean girls who will spend the night with you for free. The term "non-pro" gets used in a variety of ways, but usually to signify someone who is not a hardcore pro but who still expects to be paid. Amateurs are just party girls who you might sweet talk into spending the night with you. Generally, if you don't speak Portuguese quite well, you can forget it.

Awhile back I took a friend's advice and went to Maxim's, a disco atop the Rio Sul Shopping Center. He said there were often women there looking for a one-nighter, and he was right. I had all kinds of fun and ended up back at my hotel with a 22-year-old bank teller who just wanted to have some fun and practice her English. It was an awesome evening. Don't know if I just got lucky or what, but there were plenty of girls there on their own, and several flirted with me.

Sadly, Maxim's has now closed, but there are clubs all over Rio. One of my favorite restaurants, Mostarda, has dancing on the 2nd floor after midnight, and there are lots of beauties. A newer club I have visited several times is called "The Bedroom" and is decorated in a bedroom motif, with mattresses scattered around the club. Lots of groping goes on but no actual sex. Another cool club is Bunker 94. Nuth, in Barra da Tijuca, is a great dance club. Getting in these places is much like getting into a trendy club in NY. You have to dress right and look right. I do neither, but I got in because I was with people who did. You will NOT find pros in these clubs, but it is possible to sweet talk your way into some beautiful young thing's pants…if you speak Portuguese and/or if you look like you have $$$. Again, if you can't speak Portuguese, you'll have a hard time picking up any amateurs. Don't assume that all Brasilian women are dying to fuck foreign men. Picking up amateurs is not as simple as some posters have made it sound.

Well, how simple IS it then?

What sweet-talking techniques can you share with us, that have worked for you?

The same tactics that work anywhere else: first, speak their language or at least make a good show of it; second express great interest in everything they say; find ways to indicate that you share those interests; keep them laughing; flatter them (but don't overdo it such that your motives become completely transparent)...etc. It'll also help lots if you don't come off as a tourist. Explain that you come to Brasil often on business.