Gay bathroom crusing
How did toilet cruising work?
February 17, 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 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 reliable confines of your bedroom just doesn’t cut it. You may be looking for somewhere new, inquiring thrill or adventure, or just not be fit to have the sex you want within your four walls. You may have heard someone chat about cruising, or possess been asked if you want to go, but what does it actually mean?
Let’s have a gaze together at what it means, the laws, and general safety if you do decide to provide 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 word used to describe anonymous sex meetings in widespread toilets.
Where do the terms come from?
Cruising: The pos originated as a queer slang term, sometime in the early s, as a way for people who knew its definition to arrange sexual meetings. It was a way to plan sexual encounters without attracting the attention of people who may wish to report t
Cruising a Hotel Basement Bathroom in Look for of My Homosexual 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 queer films, literature and anecdotes from friends. Men in the right mood detect each other at the right hour and the right place, and sparks fly.
Or at least so I’m told. Because this flawless synergy has happened to me maybe only once or twice in my decade of a gay sex experience, 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 occasion. 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 calm. 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 develop 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 turn into a common scenario in gay porn (and even inspired drawings of homosexual erotic illustrator Tom of Finland).
On the other hand, it’s also considered by some to be a dark side of lgbtq+ 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