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Admin
01-01-09, 02:00
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MiamiHeatLuver
02-10-09, 01:20
It was my first time in Colombia, and I do not speak any spanish whatsoever. Still I had an amazing experience-Thanks to Rob, with whom I was staying and who didn't mind me showing around at all (for no extra fees). He was much fun, had a lot of contact with the non-pro girls and had wild parties at his penthouse almost every night I was staying with him. If you guys need a cheap place to stay, hit me up and I can give you his contact.

I did everything that you are supposed to do in Medellin- the strip clubs, mayorista, the casas and the "normal girls". Everything is fun in its own way. Getting laid is not expensive in Medellin at all. For just 20K COP (8K for room extra) you can pick up a girl in Mayorista. And sometimes, if you are lucky, you'll find a cute one too. The casas, with their ordeal of all these women in lingerie walking up to you one by one to say hello!. Definitely not to be missed at all! Too bad, some of the casas charge you 2K-3K for the 'show'- but still I could just do "casa-hopping" all day!

But my best Medellin experience was with a girlfriend I booked from http://www.girlfriend4aweek.com Unlike other escort services, this one doesn't allow you to check out a girl for an hour or two. It has to be at least a whole night deal. Thats how they make sure that they offer you girlfriends and not *****s. They have a wide collection of hot sophisticated women. Most of the girls are dancers or models! And a few of them speak english as well. I found their rates quite acceptable- for the duration and the service they were offering. I thought I would try it out for my last night!

Scarlett came in dot at time. She was actually quite honest with everything. You know, I was more like expecting a girl, who'd be a hot date in high heels and a killer dress, talk to me a little bit about things that would kind of make me feel connected, but things that don't really matter much- and then who would just fuck my balls off. Scarlett ended up being a real gf experience rather than 'gf-like' experience. I liked it how we were just sitting out in the balcony listening to songs on the ipod and sipping rum, or how she would give me stolen kisses in the cab, or how every time she went to the restroom in Mangos, she would change her perfume and her lipstick and ask me how she smelled (and expected me to notice! ) At the end, she just smelled like a perfume shop! Once in the room, we started off playful. Then little too playful maybe. But then I like to play too much games sometimes for my own good But we did have some crazy wild sex. Soon we just ended up talking and she told me all (? ) about herself. I think we must have just sat and talked for like 3-4 hours or sth. It was deep. Its amazing how she is able to put her past behind and just enjoy life. She has no pretenses or apologies. She is young and she is crazy! I don't remember if she said "No" to anything that night! And then I gave her a little hikkie (- and that made her furious. I actually enjoyed getting her mad too. She was grumpy that she got no sleep. I felt bad, but there was no way I was letting her sleep on me at 9 and miss my bus. I knew she was annoyed, but I also knew that it would go away and that she liked it in some weird ways. I think I fell in love a little bit that night and honestly still miss her. The next time I am down there, I'd surely try and find someone like her (if shes not available, that is! ). Someone I can just hang out with, go to concerts, movies and be silly together.

Ah, well. Do check out girlfriendforaweek.com and if you do happen to use their service, let us know! Man, I wish I had taken some pictures!Your FIRST POST is to promote this guys business? I dont buy it! If you have some skill and game and want a prepago for a companion and a TLN you can negotiate one for much much less!

Paraco Joe
02-10-09, 03:33
You have got to be KIDDING!

This whole post is clearly SPAM by a first time poster trying to promote this PAY web site.

The hookers on girlfriend4aweek are low street girls that they found on the street. They dress them up in nice clothes and charge about 10 times the price the same girl would charge on the street.

This web site is charging $300-$400 USD a night for a girl that could be found anywhere else for $50. You could even get girls in Cartagena at LDV for far less than $300 a night. If you do not speak Spanish then no problem, head to Cartagena and any girl in LDV will spend all night with you for probably $150 USD or maybe $200, but no where near what this pimping web site charges.

I think everyone in Medellin is getting sick of all the foreigners down here who think it is okay to open up a business pimping girls and ripping off Americans.

THE TOTAL POST IS SPAM!!


It was my first time in Colombia, and I do not speak any spanish whatsoever. Still I had an amazing experience-Thanks to Rob, with whom I was staying and who didn't mind me showing around at all (for no extra fees). He was much fun, had a lot of contact with the non-pro girls and had wild parties at his penthouse almost every night I was staying with him. If you guys need a cheap place to stay, hit me up and I can give you his contact.

I did everything that you are supposed to do in Medellin- the strip clubs, mayorista, the casas and the "normal girls". Everything is fun in its own way. Getting laid is not expensive in Medellin at all. For just 20K COP (8K for room extra) you can pick up a girl in Mayorista. And sometimes, if you are lucky, you'll find a cute one too. The casas, with their ordeal of all these women in lingerie walking up to you one by one to say hello!. Definitely not to be missed at all! Too bad, some of the casas charge you 2K-3K for the 'show'- but still I could just do "casa-hopping" all day!

But my best Medellin experience was with a girlfriend I booked from http://www.girlfriend4aweek.com Unlike other escort services, this one doesn't allow you to check out a girl for an hour or two. It has to be at least a whole night deal. Thats how they make sure that they offer you girlfriends and not *****s. They have a wide collection of hot sophisticated women. Most of the girls are dancers or models! And a few of them speak english as well. I found their rates quite acceptable- for the duration and the service they were offering. I thought I would try it out for my last night!

Scarlett came in dot at time. She was actually quite honest with everything. You know, I was more like expecting a girl, who'd be a hot date in high heels and a killer dress, talk to me a little bit about things that would kind of make me feel connected, but things that don't really matter much- and then who would just fuck my balls off. Scarlett ended up being a real gf experience rather than 'gf-like' experience. I liked it how we were just sitting out in the balcony listening to songs on the ipod and sipping rum, or how she would give me stolen kisses in the cab, or how every time she went to the restroom in Mangos, she would change her perfume and her lipstick and ask me how she smelled (and expected me to notice! ) At the end, she just smelled like a perfume shop! Once in the room, we started off playful. Then little too playful maybe. But then I like to play too much games sometimes for my own good But we did have some crazy wild sex. Soon we just ended up talking and she told me all (? ) about herself. I think we must have just sat and talked for like 3-4 hours or sth. It was deep. Its amazing how she is able to put her past behind and just enjoy life. She has no pretenses or apologies. She is young and she is crazy! I don't remember if she said "No" to anything that night! And then I gave her a little hikkie (- and that made her furious. I actually enjoyed getting her mad too. She was grumpy that she got no sleep. I felt bad, but there was no way I was letting her sleep on me at 9 and miss my bus. I knew she was annoyed, but I also knew that it would go away and that she liked it in some weird ways. I think I fell in love a little bit that night and honestly still miss her. The next time I am down there, I'd surely try and find someone like her (if shes not available, that is! ). Someone I can just hang out with, go to concerts, movies and be silly together.

Ah, well. Do check out girlfriendforaweek.com and if you do happen to use their service, let us know! Man, I wish I had taken some pictures!

Manizales911
02-10-09, 14:20
You have got to be KIDDING!

This whole post is clearly SPAM by a first time poster trying to promote this PAY web site.

The hookers on girlfriend4aweek are low street girls that they found on the street. They dress them up in nice clothes and charge about 10 times the price the same girl would charge on the street.

This web site is charging $300-$400 USD a night for a girl that could be found anywhere else for $50. You could even get girls in Cartagena at LDV for far less than $300 a night. If you do not speak Spanish then no problem, head to Cartagena and any girl in LDV will spend all night with you for probably $150 USD or maybe $200, but no where near what this pimping web site charges.


I think everyone in Medellin is getting sick of all the foreigners down here who think it is okay to open up a business pimping girls and ripping off Americans.

THE TOTAL POST IS SPAM!!Uh, dude you're a first time poster too. I do agree with what you said though,this girlfriendforaweek place is a scam.

Aussie Greg
02-10-09, 14:59
i've even been told that gringo's with low end girls have and will be refused entre into resturants at parque ileras, it all comes back to my view that paisas will not let medellin become a mongers destination, even police have started to raid low end ***** houses in el centrol looking for guy's with **** girls, das have raided a pay for view web cam apartment run by "wolfman".

even my new girlfriend won't be seen out at night with a ***** so my entertainment has been rejused, thats good in a way as i'm of the rum and making a idiot of myself.

just my two cents worth guy's, you all have a great day.

saussie greg


you have got to be kidding!

this whole post is clearly spam by a first time poster trying to promote this pay web site.

the hookers on girlfriend4aweek are low street girls that they found on the street. they dress them up in nice clothes and charge about 10 times the price the same girl would charge on the street.

this web site is charging $300-$400 usd a night for a girl that could be found anywhere else for $50. you could even get girls in cartagena at ldv for far less than $300 a night. if you do not speak spanish then no problem, head to cartagena and any girl in ldv will spend all night with you for probably $150 usd or maybe $200, but no where near what this pimping web site charges.

i think everyone in medellin is getting sick of all the foreigners down here who think it is okay to open up a business pimping girls and ripping off americans.

the total post is spam!!

El Minetero
02-16-09, 04:56
Mayorista or girlfriend4aweek, I don't care if she has sparks flying out her ass, it's still only sex.

KT

Smokers Rule
02-21-09, 00:18
This is a classified ad and should not be allowed in this thread.


Currymasalanyc,

Why don't you give our girlfriends at http://girlfriend4aweek.com a try? These girls are no hookers or prepagos, but regular girls who want to make some money by being with foreigners who treat them nicely.

Long term stays are our specialty, as our girls are not available on an hourly basis. We even quote weekly rates at our website.

Not all of our girls are going to be able to de-facto move in with a client for a month, but some are and would be happy to stay with you.

Check out our ladies at http://girlfriend4aweek.com/gallery. Phtml and let me know who you like and I can start talking to her. I'm sure we can give you an attractive monthly rate.

Note that you have the option of signing up to our members area for $25. There you will see 50 high resolution pictures per girl and the faces are not hidden.

Let me know if you have any questions.

Regards, Girlfriend4AWeek http://girlfriend4aweek.com

Cubanut
02-21-09, 07:54
I'm going to be in Medellin for a month in an apartment that is 3 bedroom. Do you think I can find a paisa to stay with me the whole month in the 3 bedroom and share it with me. Is there any girls who give a monthly rate.CurrymasalaNYC,

Anything can happen right? Well.

Here is a shortened quote from the girlfriend for a week website on the "who we are" page:

We offer companionship of natural, gorgeous girls in Medellin. After being with one of our models for a couple of days, you might end up falling in love with her, in which case we will take your girl off the website immediately.

So there you have it. Take a girl of your choice from girlfriend4aweek for a couple of days (Silver =$550 Gold=$650 usd or Diamond=$710) and fall in love with her and she with you and whola! she will stay with you for a month or more or forever! Then she won't expect to be paid by you for her love and companionship and she will be taken off the website and no longer employed with the company (Obligatory "sex for money" is illegal in Colombia).

Cheers,

Cubanut

Member #3435
02-21-09, 17:23
Currymasalanyc,

Why don't you give our girlfriends at http://girlfriend4aweek.com a try? These girls are no hookers or prepagos, but regular girls who want to make some money by being with foreigners who treat them nicely.No offense intended Medfan but, that's pretty damn funny!

All the best,

Scwmm

Albetros
02-21-09, 19:50
Currymasalanyc,

Why don't you give our girlfriends at http://girlfriend4aweek.com a try? These girls are no hookers or prepagos, but regular girls who want to make some money by being with foreigners who treat them nicely.

No offense intended Medfan but, that's pretty damn funny!

All the best, ScwmmThese girls are not hookers at all. They just get paid to spend time and have sex with you. Hummmm

Looking For Eden
03-02-09, 20:15
No offense intended Medfan but, that's pretty damn funny!

All the best,

ScwmmHaha, I burst out laughing when I read that too. Good luck Medellinfan.

Bobsthrobbinknob
03-03-09, 02:46
If I were, say, in Medellin on business without a lot of spare time I think I'd give Natasha a try. You call http://girlfriend4aweek.com, she comes to your hotel, bangs you for 12 hours and goes home with $250. You don't have to go prowling around town to find a date. If she's really as good as what I read, it would be worth it to me.

Admittedly, I don't know Medellin very well and so don't have a good handle on price and quality there. And if I'm on the other side of an issue from esteemed mongers like Beavis and Ricker I'm probably wrong. But compared to Panama that's not a bad price, and it's maybe 50% to 100% higher than what you'd pay for TLN in Cartagena or Bogota for an "8" or a "9" from an upper end club. If I've read a good review of the woman, if I have a pretty good idea she's not going to flake out on me, and if there's a money back guarantee, then I'd go for it.This is my first time here in Medellin, having gone to the D.R. innumerable times. Sure, if you call doing a little homework, and hailing a cab, giving directions to a casa like Loutron or Abydos (the two highest priced I found at about $40 for a full hour of serious beauty) or being delivered to Fase II or San Diego Grill where some serious talent is for less than $60 for an hour.

That gives you at the least $190 to negotiate with for her phone number and she comes to your place. Frankly, offer ANY of these girls 200,000 pesos (about $80 US) and you're paying top dollar for an overnight.

Now that I've seen first hand the talent here, you'd be hard pressed to show me ANY paisa THAT GOOD LOOKING that anyone should pay $250, but then again, that's just me. I've thoroughly covered this city in 4 days, intimately "interviewing" 3 girls a day, and walking in over 40 casas and strip clubs and checking out the talent.

A final suggestion would be to get in touch with John at The Penthouse, he's got a LONG LIST of talent. After he brought over the first two for me here, I just yell downstairs for him to call another one, sight unseen. The max I paid was 150,000 pesos ($60) and there were some "add on services" well worth it, and the average is 100,000 pesos.

Cubanut
03-03-09, 04:30
Medellinfan,

I wish you and your company the best of luck. You will need it if you continue to employ chicas like Scarlett once they have become hardened and disinterested in the client. You state that you have had "a couple" of serious talks with her. Why? Isn't she at the point where she should no longer be with your company? You said before that you don't even hire girls that have worked the business before for fear of being hardened yet you still keep a "known" less than pleasing girl in the stable.

Also, how is this not pimping? I mean for example, the girls at the casas/night club like San Diego or Fase II get their pay and a client is paying a room fee (the fees are combined). Even a club's bar fine is to make up for the loss of an employee. The Mansion/Castillo get no part of the girls fee.

So what part/percentage of the fees/rates are actually going to the girls and how much is going to the company and how is this is not pimping? Are the girls being real expensive or the service?

Cheers,

Cubanut

Rolledup
03-19-09, 19:02
Naomi was working in one of the casas in prado before christmas.

I had a session there with her for $18 and now I am expected to pay several hundered for the same girl?

I dont think so.

Ricker
03-20-09, 16:56
Naomi was working in one of the casas in prado before christmas.

I had a session there with her for $18 and now I am expected to pay several hundered for the same girl?

I dont think so.Now that's inflation :)

Just think, you could have her for a week for only $2000 or so bucks.

On the other hand, you could stay at Franko's My Place for almost half a year for that price.

Choices choices. Imaginate!

Marzon
03-20-09, 18:28
I guess MDE Fan gives them lessons on how to appear naive. The first lesson is how to appear like you have never given a blow job before. Then the guy is thinking, wow, this girl is really innocent and it must be her first time.

PapaMac
03-20-09, 20:03
I guess MDE Fan gives them lessons on how to appear naive. The first lesson is how to appear like you have never given a blow job before. Then the guy is thinking, wow, this girl is really innocent and it must be her first time.Exactly. The prices don't make any sense. If you want to pay those prices, go to Vegas.

I want experience and a cheap price.

Would you go to a buffet that only had one item, all you could eat for a week? I. E. GF4AWeek

Or would you rather go to a buffet with many, many choices, for a lesser price for a week? I. E. Casas y san diego etc. Etc.

HUMM?

Tom 33
03-21-09, 10:52
We know how to tell Casa girls from the regular girls we're looking for. We had Casa girls apply before and they're very easy to spot. They won't be able to enter Girlfriend 4 A Week.What great entertainment! This thread is a laugh a minute. We have hookers who aren't. And what is up is not.

And from another thread we have more entertainment in MDE than BOG. That isn't just rope he's smoking boys.

Bango Cheito
03-23-09, 02:54
Well I just had a total GFE on Thursday.

Total cost 30k pesos.

I think I'll stick with that. :P

MiamiHeatLuver
03-23-09, 22:48
Well I just had a total GFE on Thursday.

Total cost 30k pesos.

I think I'll stick with that. :PJi Ji Excellent! Me too!

Rolledup
03-25-09, 19:57
Rolled Up, you know as well as I do that that's bullshit.

We know how to tell Casa girls from the regular girls we're looking for. We had Casa girls apply before and they're very easy to spot. They won't be able to enter Girlfriend 4 A Week.I know that it is true.

You reply is quite funny though. Please explain to exactly how you spot a girl that used to work in a casa?

I have every kind of experience from casa girls. Everything from warm GF experience including kissing and oral without from girls in the 18-21 age range (and girls in their thirties too) to cold / distant girls with bad attitude.

Totaly mixed bag and impossible to tell from how they look that they are casa girls.

Bearing in mind you are selling your girl's sexual services here and, at the same time, telling us that these girls are not prostitutes or prepagos I don't really think your word has much credibility.

Either that or you think we are all too stupid to know that when you pay for sex, she is a prostitute.

Bango Cheito
03-26-09, 05:14
Let's weigh the $25 for 3 months being able to look at photos of girls on the net, or getting laid twice in the whiskerias.

I think the whiskerias won again!

Furysys
03-30-09, 21:24
I too have been following this thread for a while and find it more than slightly humourous. My best guess was that MFan was, in a prior life, a political spindoctor, the words are so beautifully written to describe something that just ain't so.

MiamiHeatLuver
04-04-09, 16:33
Somebody please POST all of the UNHIDDEN FACES of ANY OF THESE GIRLS you can find! Whether you paid for them, shared or they are candids. Obviously the girls would NOT CARE one iota because they posed for all the pics on the site in the first place on the notion that somebody might be paying for them to have in the future.

Paisalover
04-05-09, 00:28
I SINCERELY hope that you guys know better than that!

Keep in mind that these girls, even though some sarcastic individuals on this board might have doubts, are REGULAR girls. They have family they live with, they have jobs or they go to university, they might have boyfriends.

Posting their UNBLURRED photos like the poster suggested is the fastest way to all but DESTROY their lives.

Keep in mind that we are THE ONLY escort service in Latin America who shows the faces of the girls. We do so NOT go gain some money with the $25 membership fee, but because we feel that this is the only credible way to prevent bait and switch, which is the norm in Colombia. If you want us to continue offering this service, PLEASE DON'T post the unblurred pictures.

I will of course report any posts with unblurred pictures to the moderators immediately.

Have a nice weekend,

MedellinFan aka PaisaLover
Girlfriend4AWeek
http://girlfriend4aweek.com


Somebody please POST all of the UNHIDDEN FACES of ANY OF THESE GIRLS you can find! Whether you paid for them or they are candids. Obviously the girls would NOT CARE one iota because they posed for all the pics on the site in the first place on the notion that somebody might be paying for them to have in the future.

MiamiHeatLuver
04-05-09, 15:54
Posting their UNBLURRED photos like the poster suggested is the fastest way to all but DESTROY their lives.

I will of course report any posts with unblurred pictures to the moderators immediately.

Have a nice weekend,Destroy their lives? or put a dent in yours?

Rattle those cages people!

Admin
04-05-09, 19:14
IPLEASE DON'T post the unblurred pictures.

I will of course report any posts with unblurred pictures to the moderators immediately.=================================================

Greetings Paisalover,

You can report all the posts you want, but I can tell you now that I won't be deleteing any photos simply because the subject's face isn't blurred out.

Thanks,

Jackson

Bango Cheito
04-07-09, 21:09
Stronzo Robi, why not just post them on here?

Jackson already said he wouldn't delete them?

Ricker
04-08-09, 15:13
... If these girls were Casa girls, I wouldn't give a damned, but they're just regular girls. And believe it or not, I DO care about them ...

Regards,
PaisaLover aka MedellinFan
Girlfriend 4 A Week
http://girlfriend4aweek.comListen, I'm not for posting full fotos of chicas without their consent, any chica really.

You mention casa chicas like they're from some lower form of life, when in reality they are mostly single mothers or from poor families just trying to get by.
Your girls are no different amigo.

They're all just regular girls, trying to make money, working in the same profession, just different venues.

I have no problem with your agency. If guys are silly and want to pay a premium for your girls, that's fine, not my deal though.

Please, however, don't act as though your chicas are so much more special than just a "casa girl", and that casa girls don't deserve respect and your girls do.

Gimmee a break.

Peter Fonda
04-08-09, 17:20
No. No. No. They bet their life to make extra money. You may say that you know them very well. But no. You are just using them. If you are not using them to make money for yourself. You wouldn't hire them. You are already destroying their life.

IamLookin
04-10-09, 02:50
I opened the link and I am shocked if anyone is that stupid to spend that kind of money for women in Colombia. I have met girls in casas that were high quality girls (in Cali) and have gotten their personal numbers. When I go to Cali, I call before I arrive and I have no trouble getting them to stay with me for a couple of days. The girls are first rate, I have 1 that is 21 years of age and another that is 28. They enjoy being with me. I take them out to eat, dance and listen to music. The sex is as much as I want. I took one of them to the zoo with her young daughter on a Sunday because I was pretty tired from all the sex and wanted to get out instead. I have had them invite me to their homes to have dinner and stay with them.

All you have to do is treat the women right and they will treat you very well. For anyone that has never been to Colombia, do yourself a favor and treat the women as you would like them to treat you. I usually give the girls the equivalent of $80. 00 for a full day and night of sex. Much less than what you will pay for one of these gringo rippoff sites.

Markinno
04-10-09, 18:22
Mark Olaughlin,

You might want to check out this website: www.captainsaveahoe.com

Markinno
04-11-09, 14:44
Pardon me but I don't get it. It apears to be a website for sale on go daddy.

Would you care to explain your comment.It was a joke. Since you said that you don't condone prostitution and you are on a site that promotes prostitution I thought you might want to join a sav-a-***** group and I made up the website www.captainsaveahoe.com

You are as slow witted as you are obnoxious. Got it now?

Carolinaman
04-12-09, 05:53
The website with the expensive chicas provides a great service and we need to stop bitching about it.

1. For some first time visitors they want all the guess work taken out of the formula. These sites are invaluable. My first trip to Costa Rica was with a company that provided these types of services. Within 20 seconds of arriving I realized I had just burned my money. The first chica would not take her pants off the first night and the next morning I asked for a different chica. They said what is the problem. I said she will not fuck. They tell her she is done and all of a sudden she is the horniest chica you would want to meet. Still dumped her and they got me a replacment chica who would fuck but you had to little pin her down to get any. My realization was that I was overpaying for nothing but she was great looking.

2. Other guys on the same trip loved it and could not wait to come back.

3. This type of guy needs to be in their own group. Otherwise they will be at the same locations as you are and will be throwing three to four times the going rate at the chicas and will be happy with crappy service. Thereby ruining it for the rest of us. So I say guys. If this is your thing go for it and stay there!

Tweeners
04-13-09, 01:26
EDITOR'S NOTE: This report was deleted pursuant to the restrictions in the Colombia Forum prohibiting negative posts, said restriction being necessary to thwart the Serial Antagonists who would seek to destroy this forum as part of their strategy to dissuade anyone from visiting what they consider their private playground in Colombia.

In other words, if you don't have something positive to say, then please don't post. Thanks!

Relapse1952
04-13-09, 15:29
Mark Olaughlin,

You might want to check out this website: www.captainsaveahoe.comHey Guys,

I don't have a dog in this discussion, and frankly careless, but word on the street is the city goverment is on a mission to clean up the city.

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Goga Fung
04-15-09, 16:38
I opened the link and I am shocked if anyone is that stupid to spend that kind of money for women in Colombia. I have met girls in casas that were high quality girls (in Cali) and have gotten their personal numbers. ...
...
I usually give the girls the equivalent of $80. 00 for a full day and night of sex. Much less than what you will pay for one of these gringo rippoff sites.I think everything is relative. It depends with what kinda woman you're hanging out with. From what I've seen recently $80 can be also considered expensive.

A friend introduced to a fine-looking chica, not a prepago or whatever. She's actually a professional chica, currently without a job, speaks english. She just wanted to hangout, have good time, wanted to have some doze of coca, crack and alcohol. She already had a doze, was really horny, and you could do anything with her, gang bang, anything.

I did not wanna do anything with her drugs, also had stuff to do next morning, so I refused. But basically if you're into it, you can look for this kinda chicas, and you could spend probably only $20-$30 for a nite of entertainment. Just making her happy and horny with drugs. You can spread the amount among several guys for extra savings.

Should I say now that the people who go to casas are crazy and overpaying too?