RentMen:
Tell us about the best experience you have had in life.
Nacio:
Amazing experiences: I spent time with the Guna (Kuna) Indians of the San Blas Islands on the east coast of Panama. They are the last indigenous tribe in Central America. I meditated with a group of young Buddhist monks at Angkor Wat in Cambodia. I have seen the sunrise and sunset at the pyramids of Giza. I walked the bomb-scarred streets of Beirut and met truly kind and brave Lebanese. I have visited the oldest Mosque in The Maghreb at Kairouan and bonded with a very old fella who asked to adopt me as his son. I have had MANY intense experiences on my journeys. Some of them truly breathtaking and some of them truly heartbreaking. The world is amazing beyond words and sometimes when I am traveling and encounter something unbelievable it takes my breath away and sometimes brings a tear to my eyes. There is SO MUCH TO SEE and experience. The list of places I want to visit is endless. This world is AMAZING and I am in love with it. Over the next couple of years I plan on visiting Jordan, Egypt (again, a lot TO SEE), Iraq, and some of my family heritage places I have yet to visit: Albania, Kosovo, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Bulgaria, and Montenegro.
RentMen:
Tell us a little about yourself, if you were to pick something what would you like others to absolutely know about you?
Nacio:
There is a lot more than one thing. I work hard. I am a genuinely good person. I think intimacy is healthy and healing AND empowering and should be respected. I default to kindness and I truly feel honoured that I can share intimacy with others to the point it makes them happy, content, empowered, and with some moments of genuine appreciation, connection, and acceptance.<br />
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I am lucky I can do this type of work. It is a great reward for me to know I can make someone feel renewed about who they are, their sexual empowerment, masculine energy, and reigniting vitality. Sexual energy is very important for us men. It helps us age in a healthier way. It helps us understand our place in the cosmos, sometimes ignites questions around the meaning of our lives and pushes us to revisit the things we think make us happy.
RentMen:
What are your hobbies, what do you like to do in your spare time?
Nacio:
Read, paint, sleep, garden, travel, my studies, photography, go to vintage shops and antique stores, train hard in the gym. I follow design and the arts. And again, I love to travel. I am not interested in popular culture and the kardashianization of the world around us. It's making us dumber, more passive, and placated when we should be challenging the crap force-fed to us via hyper-commercialization. Take for example, popular music: it all sucks. It's corporate, formulaic, drivel. I have zero interest in gay culture. I find it too limiting and confining. There are some really amazing things outside of the gay bubble, and I prefer to exist outside of those confines. For me, connecting is the single most important and powerful part of intimacy.
I sometimes think I am a man from a different time. I am a Stoic in the Grecco Roman tradition and enjoy deep thinking and philosophical discussion. I look at myself as a temporal gladiator. I keep my mind and body strong, agile, diverse, and in a constant state of challenge and growth. I appreciate classic beauty in all of its forms. I hope one day humans rediscover true classical beauty.
RentMen:
How do you go the 'Extra Mile' in your life?
Nacio:
I flick a switch in my brain and I make it happen. It's just like when I commit to competing, I go for it and make it happen. You want life to happen? MAKE IT. I also have a strange way of looking at the bad things in life: I respect them and I am thankful for them. Struggle brings enlightenment and without enlightenment there is mundane darkness and you become just some random shitmaker who simply exists as opposed to living life ALIVE. Life is about rising up, being more, becoming more, enduring more; all of those things for the ultimate goal of LOVE of others and oneself. It is NEVER easy. Believe me, I have had some very difficult times, times I didn't think I would survive, but I did. <br />
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I take reasonable chances and seek out life affirming experiences. I try to challenge myself to look beyond my mindset. I was a stripper in Hollywood for 3 years, have been in adult magazines, I sang in punk bands, did some TV, and was in a documentary.
I feel time passing and I FEEL that there is always more I can do with my life. In the Michel Foucault sense, I am 100% the curator of my life and I look at my life as one giant art installation and experiment.
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