Restroom gay cruising
How did toilet cruising work?
February 17, 2015 3:19 PM Subscribe
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 strong warning about how dangerous cruising is in the Middle East, for example, the guide lists toilets in Syria and Kuwait. There are similar listings throughout the planet. While cruising in the U.S. sounds risky, it seems like only those with a death desire would cruise toilets as a tou
Cruising a Hotel Basement Bathroom in Hunt of My Gay 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 notice. Maybe it’s a smartphone millennial thing. Maybe it’s the pseudo-nostalgia I have for the fast-paced cruising encounters depicted in same-sex attracted films, literature and anecdotes from friends. Men in the right mood spot each other at the right second and the right place, and sparks fly.
Or at least so I’m told. Because this matchless synergy has happened to me maybe only once or twice in my decade of a gay sex being, and I wouldn’t describe them as especially good sexual experiences either.
But for some reason, this magical possibility seems like enough of a basis to still pursue it all the day. And so, I find myself wandering between Seventh and Eighth Avenues peering into a sterile chain cafe too overwhelmed by tourists for me to sit in harmony. It’s cold, too, so my hands are going numb from idly refreshing a gay cruising app that I’ll identify by nam
Secret Signals: How Some Men Cruise for Sex
Aug. 28, 2007 — -- While many Americans may only be vaguely familiar with the idea of "cruising," there is a confidential world of sex between men that exists in public places across the country.
The police officer who arrested Sen. Larry Craig, R-Idaho, in a men's restroom at the Minneapolis airport for allegedly looking to engage in homosexual sex wrote in his June report that he "recognized a signal used by persons wishing to engage in lewd conduct."
Craig tapped his foot up and down and swiped his hand underneath the bathroom stall in which the undercover cop was sitting, according to the police report.
Those actions led to Craig's arrest by Detective Dave Karsnia and the senator's guilty plea to a disorderly actions charge. Craig told reporters today that he did nothing inappropriate and said his guilty plea was a mistake.
Public places love men's restrooms, in airports and train stations, truck stops, university libraries and parks, have long been places where gay and bisexual men, particularly those in the closet, congregate in order to connect for anonymous sex.
Over moment, people familia
Public bathroom gay cruising: Exploring the dynamics and culture of public bathroom cruising
When you visit Coohom Platform, the site asks your browser to store a small piece of data (text file) called a cookie on your device in order to evaluate the show of the site. We also operate third-party cookies, which are cookies from a domain distinct than the domain of Coohom Platform you are visiting, for marketing efforts.
We use the following categories of cookies:
Strictly necessary cookies are necessary for Coohom Platform to function and cannot be switched off in our systems. They are usually only set in response to conduct made by you which amount to a request for services, such as setting your privacy preferences, logging in or filling in forms. You can set your browser to block or alert you about these cookies, but that will result in some parts of Coohom Platform to not work.
Performance cookies let us to tally visits and traffic sources so we can measure and improve the show of our site.They help us to know which pages are the mos
Of the places queer people have transformed into sites to cruise for sex—from parks like the Pivotal Park Ramble and Berlin’s Tiergarten, to sanctums prefer Provincetown’s Dick Dock and Fire Island’sMeat Rack—few hold impacted the queer psyche like the public restroom.
“Mischief in public toilets left more traces in vice squad logbooks than in high literature,” photographer Marc Martin writes in the introduction to his recent exhibition at Berlin’s Schwules* Museum, Fenster Zum Klo [Window to the Toilet]: Public Toilets, Intimate Affairs. (Full disclosure: I’m a Schwules* employee in the curation and exhibition department.) And while many modern queers would rather forget this chapter of their people’s sordid past, public restrooms are undeniably places where community and connection were kindled among us against unlikely odds. “These public toilets, whose history is intertwined with the lives and adventures of many gays, gender non-conforming people, escorts, libertines, are also unlikely bastions of freedom,” Martin writes.
Martin has spent years collecting tens of thousands of historic objects and photos and conducting dozens of interviews about restrooms to try to capture the essence