Gay bathroom crusing
How did toilet cruising work?
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Any info or stories about etiquette and risk mitigation would be of interest.
Bonus points if you can explain how toilet cruising worked in an international context. After a sturdy warning about how treacherous cruising is in the Middle East, for example, the guide lists toilets in Syria and Kuwait. There are similar listings throughout the world. While cruising in the U.S.
Cruising
This blog was written by our Sexual Health Outreach Worker, Chris Dunbar.
Sometimes, having sex in the safe confines of your bedroom just doesn’t cut it. You may be looking for somewhere new, seeking thrill or adventure, or just not be able to acquire the sex you want within your four walls. You may have heard someone talk about cruising, or acquire been asked if you want to go, but what does it actually mean?
Let’s have a look together at what it means, the laws, and general safety if you do choose to give it a go.
Definition
Cruising is walking or driving about certain areas, called cruising grounds, looking for a sexual partner. These meetings are usually one-off, anonymous encounters.
Cottaging is a phrase used to portray anonymous sex meetings in public toilets.
Where do the terms come from?
Cruising: The word originated as a gay slang term, sometime in the early s, as a way for people who knew its sense to arrange sexual meetings. It was a way to plan sexual encounters without attracting the attention of people who may want to report t
Cruising a Hotel Basement Bathroom in Search of My Queer Lineage
Let’s say you have a half-hour to kill in midtown Manhattan around 7 p.m. Surely somebody needs their dick played with.
I don’t know why my horned-up Neanderthal brain always thinks it’s worthwhile to seek out somebody decently attractive to hook up with on a moment’s perceive. Maybe it’s a smartphone millennial thing. Maybe it’s the pseudo-nostalgia I have for the fast-paced cruising encounters depicted in homosexual films, literature and anecdotes from friends. Men in the right mood find each other at the right time and the right place, and sparks fly.
Or at least so I’m told. Because this perfect synergy has happened to me maybe only once or twice in my decade of a gay sex life, and I wouldn’t outline them as especially good sexual experiences either.
But for some reason, this magical possibility seems enjoy enough of a basis to still pursue it all the time. And so, I discover myself wandering between Seventh and Eighth Avenues peering into a sterile chain cafe too overwhelmed by tourists for me to sit in peace. It’s col
Let&#;s Examine the Phenomenon of Cruising Bathrooms Through 4 Famous Queer Men
Throughout history and for a variety of reasons, queer men have looked to public bathrooms as places to get laid. Some men enjoy cruising public restrooms because they’re turned on by the exhibitionism and the possibility of getting caught, while others see it as a place to anonymously and discretely have a same-sex encounter in times when being outed as queer carries severe social, political and legal consequences.
Cruising public restrooms has change into an ingrained part of queer history, with mixed feelings surrounding it. On one hand, it’s considered so seedy, sexy and transgressive that “toilet tramp” hookup scenes have change into a common scenario in gay porn (and even inspired drawings of lgbtq+ erotic illustrator Tom of Finland).
On the other hand, it’s also considered by some to be a dark side of gender non-conforming sexuality and history that has been used to shame queer men for their otherwise harmless sexual proclivities (often in the name of protecting children or public decency).
Noting both sides, gay vide