Public toilet cruising gay
Cruising
This blog was written by our Sexual Health Outreach Worker, Chris Dunbar.
Sometimes, having sex in the guarded confines of your bedroom just doesn’t cut it. You may be looking for somewhere new, seeking thrill or adventure, or just not be competent to have the sex you want within your four walls. You may have heard someone discuss about cruising, or own been asked if you want to go, but what does it actually mean?
Let’s have a stare together at what it means, the laws, and general safety if you do decide to donate 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 term used to describe anonymous sex meetings in widespread toilets.
Where do the terms come from?
Cruising: The synonyms originated as a gay slang term, sometime in the early s, as a way for people who knew its meaning to arrange sexual meetings. It was a way to plan sexual encounters without attracting the attention of people who may wish to report t
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 powerful warning about how unsafe 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.
Cottaging &#; Cruising: Legal Penalties
What is the history of cottaging?
In the mid 20th Century, those who partook in cottaging didn&#;t execute so out of fantasy or fetish.
Cottaging was the only way that gay men could verb other gay men, veiled away from the government. Furthermore, the concept of being &#;out&#; wasn&#;t normalised yet, and so a surreptitious culture of universal sex began across the country.
The government would dispatch units of police officers to inspect public toilets and parks in a bid to &#;rid England of this plague&#;, with undercover police often arresting cottagers for indecent assault. Whatsmore, it&#;s estimated that during the &#;s approximately 1, men were imprisoned every year for cottaging and &#;lewd&#; behaviour.
Is cottaging still popular today?
Cottaging is becoming less popular as gay rights progress further.
The secret side of queer relationships we witnessed in the past now welcomes modern LGBT family models, marriages and parenting styles. Despite the dwindling numbers, cruising grounds and cottaging spaces can still be located in
A brief history of the public toilet as a political battleground
Following a Supreme Court ruling on the legal definition of “sex”, the EHRC (Equality and Human Rights Commision) has issued interim guidance on what this means for single-sex spaces in Britain. The guidance states that, in workplaces and services open to the universal, trans women should not be allowed to exploit women’s toilets and trans men should not be allowed to use men’s toilets (in some circumstances, according to the EHRC, they can also be excluded from facilities corresponding to their assigned sex at birth.) While this guidance is not legally binding, it is is an outrageous attack on the human rights of trans people in Britain, which will make existing as a trans person in public even harder – exactly what the anti-trans movement wants.
While transphobia is the moral panic du jour of Britain's media and political establishment, public bathrooms have always been an intensely politicised site. Not coincidentally, freak-outs about who has been using them - and for what purpose - have gone alongside their con