Disagree with some of the analysis
[QUOTE=Brazil Specialist]the more interesting question is why some beautiful girls work at R$ 20 dives.
Some of them could work at Centaurus, lots of them could work at so why on earth do they work for half their share of R$ 20? (or half of R$ 70 at nicer executive massage parlors)
Two answers to that questions:
* the girls don't know better. karlamodels.net and cheap brothels advertise in newspapers, looking for sex workers. Termas don't
* Cheap termas tend to open at daytime. 9 am to 7pm or so. Fairly easy to tell mom you work in a store or in an office. Try to explain why you work from 10 pm to 6 am. There are not too many night shift jobs around you can deceive your family with.
Now termas vs. Help.
Some girls prefer security and controlled environment of a terma. They don't have to fight for customers in competition with dangerous jealous favela rats who often violently defend their turf in Help.
Girls can make pretty good money at a terma. 1000 to 2500 R$ a week. Let us say 150 per program for their share. 3 programs a night = R$ 350, 5 nights a week = R$ 1650.
At Help you need to pay admission, a taxi to take you home, have to follow guys who could abduct you to dangerous places. And few girls manage to do 2-3 guys in a night at Help.
I once met a girl in a strip club in the Princesa Isabel/Barbarella area (I don't know why these are not more popular with you guys, not Barbarella but the other bars nearby on Princesa isabel). She had a great D cup rack. She would charge R$ 300 for an hour, would not budge, always do 2 guys a night, thus R$ 600 a night. Seeing her D cup body in a strip got her customers very easily.
So all is preferences. Termas give security and regularity. Help gives freedom.
Now the fact that help is getting taken over by ghetto girls is an additional minus. Decent girls feel afraid to venture into that ghetto with its dangerous visitors.
In the more remote past there were many girls that went to Help, looking for a romantic relationship and potential marriage with a gringo. This seems to be much less the case now.
I knew such a girl: I brought her over from Porto Velho in Rondonia. When I kind of got tired of her, she asked to be allowed to go to Help. She did no programs, or only with marriage candidates. 3 years later she stopped by with a cute litte swedish Baby and a blue eyed husband twice or triple her age.[/QUOTE]
I disagree with some of the analysis of why a good looking girl would rather work in a low end terma.
I have heard and agreed with someone that a girl who works in a low end terma can makes just as much or more than a girl in a high end terma or a girl that works in Help. A girl who makes R20 for 20 minutes can stack her paper many times in one day for R20 minutes a session verses a high end terma o an all nighter at help. Its just a preference of where the girl wants to work.
Brazilian Contributions Welcome
[QUOTE=Heyholetsgo]You guys are over-thinking this gringo tax BS in termas. I'm a carioca and get charged the same R$400 as you are in Centaurus and people try to rip me off as much as any of you.[/QUOTE]
Your knowledge, experiences and insights are very welcome. Please let us hear more from you and your Brazilian friends.