A request for background informantion on Brazil

[DeaconBlues (imported)]

Has anyone here any REAL experience in Brazil?

I would like to write a story to post here. Maybe I am just being too anal and worried, but I just hate to think I would write anything that was completely impossible or unrealistic. So.... I want to be the next grait writer, like Klavel, Mitshnre, with a dash of Stephen King.... yeah, right!

Anyway, my story like goes something like this... An American college student is down in Brazil on spring break, or maybe summer vacation. Like many people, he is abducted (even I know that kidnapping is common in Brazil) but he is NOT held for ransom. Instead, he was abducted by the owner of a whorehouse and is forced to work as a gay, then TS prostitute.

I hope this idea has not already been done. Now that I think about it, I hope nobody else steals my idea... Oh well, I will have to risk it because I NEED a little bit of help here. I have NEVER been to Brazil, and would have chosen a different setting for my story but the places I have lived are not dangerous and wild (with lots of kidnappings) like Brazil.

So I need anyone who has been there to give me a little bit of information. I do not even yet know if the events will take place around Rio, Sao Pauolo, or anywhere. Where do most college students go for spring break if they go to Brazil? Where are the whorehouses? How good or bad are the conditions there?

I have already watched the movie "City of God" and loved it. Also, a bit older flick "Black Orpheus" was good for some information, but not the real sort of stuff I would like to know about.