Public bathroom gay cruising
Of the places queer people have transformed into sites to cruise for sex—from parks like the Central Park Ramble and Berlin’s Tiergarten, to sanctums appreciate Provincetown’s Dick Dock and Fire Island’sMeat Rack—few have impacted the queer psyche like the universal restroom.
“Mischief in universal toilets left more traces in vice squad logbooks than in high literature,” photographer Marc Martin writes in the introduction to his new exhibition at Berlin’s Schwules* Museum, Fenster Zum Klo [Window to the Toilet]: General Toilets, Private 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 widespread toilets, whose history is intertwined with the lives and adventures of many gays, trans people, escorts, libertines, are also unlikely bastions of freedom,” Martin writes.
Martin has spent years collecting tens of thousands of historic objec
Public bathroom gay cruising: Exploring the dynamics and culture of public bathroom cruising
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| qhdi | Recognises websit Cruising a Hotel Basement Bathroom in Verb of My Queer LineageLet’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 gay films, literature and anecdotes from friends. Men in the right mood locate each other at the right day 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 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 second. 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 peace. It’s col Let&#;s Examine the Phenomenon of Cruising Bathrooms Through 4 Famous Queer MenThroughout 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 witness it as a place to anonymously and discretely possess a same-sex encounter in times when being outed as queer carries severe social, political and legal consequences. Cruising adj restrooms has become 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 contain become a shared scenario in gay porn (and even inspired drawings of gay erotic illustrator Tom of Finland). On the other hand, it’s also considered by some to be a shadowy side of queer sexuality and history that has been used to shame queer men for their otherwise harmless sexual proclivities (often in the specify of protecting children or public decency). Noting both sides, gay vide |