نویسنده دلیل این مسئله را در ساختار جمعیتی برزیل می بیند. برزیل با جمعیت 170 میلیون نفر شدیدا با کمبود مرد مواجه است. طبق آمار، برزیل 2,500,000 زن بیش از مرد دارد .  برتری تعداد زنان: در ریو 360,000 زن و در سائوپائولو 500,000 زن اضافه بر مردان زندگی می کنند. ادامه در صفحه 3

Now we are trying to escape Belo Horizonte, and our baser instincts. But the women, all wearing backless shirts and tight jeans, are not making it easy. "Come with us to a bar," their leader implores in Portuguese. "hy not stay an extra day?" she says, with a pleading look. The three of us are unshaven, we stink of last night's whiskey, and we've slept a total of seven hours in two nights. We need to return to our apartment in Rio and our healthy regimen of beach-gym-beach. But, of course, we decide to stay another night.

I moved to Rio from New York with an American friend, Rodrigo Prieto, because we both wanted to take a break from the grind of our sixty-hour weeks,  mine as a magazine editor and Rodrigo's as a banker. We wanted an adventure. We wanted to learn a new language. And yes, we wanted to live among the most beautiful women in the world.

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