The Brazilian Issue

  • Famous for Having an Ass

    The only person who loves Andressa Soares's butt more than Brazil's sun-soaked masses and us is Andressa Soares. She's really into it. And for good reason: Her ass has catapulted the charming Rio-born girl from bit parts in music videos into the pop...

  • Oscar Niemeyer

    Oscar Niemeyer is on the infinitesimally short list of people who have designed and built an entire city. A world capital.

  • Torsos Of The Amazon

    Hey, guess what? Not all Brazilian women are supermodels with perfectly taut bubble asses from which you can bounce a quarter two feet into the air! I know, right? Shocking.

  • Bible Babies

    Managed by their parents, on tour 365 days a year, and charging $900 for a two-hour sermon, child preachers are big business in Brazil. Each event is a finely tuned marketing maneuver promoted with posters, magazine coverage, and radio ads.

  • A Brazilian In... Mexico City & Vienna

    I’m from a very small town called Gravataí. It’s near Porto Alegre, which is a very beautiful place near the border of Uruguay and Argentina.

  • Hand Jobs

    We called our pal in São Paulo and had her round up her cute friends to pantomime some of the most useful undercover Brazilian hand gestures—and explain the finer points of interpersonal Brazilian communication.

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  • The Horny Humanitarian

    While it’s true that Maroni publishes the Brazilian editions of Hustler and Penthouse, he also owns cattle ranches, a mixed-martial-arts fighting league, hotels, and some of the most notorious nightclubs in South America.

  • A Brazilian In... Montreal & Stockholm

    It’s a very nice city. Not many buildings. Everything is far apart. There’s a lot of nature, but not much to do at night.

  • Coffin Joe’s Subterranean Secrets

    Though he’s responsible for gems like 24 Hours of Explicit Sex and its sequel, 48 Hours of Hallucinatory Sex, the true lunacy started with a nightmare featuring a faceless undertaker that he transformed into his alter ego, Coffin Joe.

  • Sugarcoated Servitude

    Brazil and the US are the world’s largest producers of biofuel, cranking out 72 percent of the global ethanol supply every year.

  • Hand Jobs

    We called our pal in São Paulo and had her round up her cute friends to pantomime some of the most useful undercover Brazilian hand gestures—and explain the finer points of interpersonal Brazilian communication.

  • A Brazilian In... Mexico City & Vienna

    I’m from a very small town called Gravataí. It’s near Porto Alegre, which is a very beautiful place near the border of Uruguay and Argentina.