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Illegal Sex: Photos exploring Berlin’s Underground Cruising Scene

photo: Marc Martin

With his photo series “Cruising” French photographer Marc Martin reimagines a period before dating apps, a time when public toilets, were the only place to find sexual encounters for many gay men. Behind closed doors, in front of shiny tiles and messy graffiti, these places were a encounter spot for those who could not use their own homes, who could not be open about their sexuality and desires. His work is on display at Schwules Museum Berlin in the exhibition “Fenster zum Klo – Public Toilets & Personal Affairs”.

photo: “Cruising”/Marc Martin

The photos, set in a vintage Berlin toilet, featuring Berlin models such as Pierre Emö, do not timid away from explicit content. Men out of unlike social classes, pencil pusher or handyman, share a brief moment of attachment, crammed in a compact public bathroom. The scenario might be staged, yet its setting is first and the actions shown far from the lived reality of many lgbtq+ men up to the 1990’s. Underground Public Toilets at Hermannplatz, Kaiser-, or Mehringdamm were well-known locations for gay men, juvenile or old, that were for

Let’s Examine the Phenomenon of Cruising Bathrooms Through 4 Famous Queer Men

Throughout history and for a variety of reasons, homosexual 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 meeting in times when being outed as queer carries drastic social, political and legal consequences.

Cruising universal restrooms has grow 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 own become a ordinary scenario in lgbtq+ 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 dim side of gender non-conforming sexuality and history that has been used to shame queer men for their otherwise benign sexual proclivities (often in the identify of protecting children or public decency).

Noting both sides, male lover video game artist Robert Yang made a bathroom cruising video game in 2017 entitled The

How did toilet cruising work?
February 17, 2015 3:19 PM   Subscribe

I was reading an gay travel guide from 1980, and it reminded me that I've never understood the mechanics of the toilet pick-up. One of the notable features of the guide is that among all the bars and bathhouses listed, many locations also propose cruising toilets. This seems soinherently sketchy. How would you comprehend when it was safe to signal to somebody? Don't you run the constant risk of an embarrassing and dangerous confrontation? Do you actually have sex in the bathroom, or is a rendezvous point? And given that these locations are so well established that they materialize in a travel guide, wouldn't they be easy pickings for the police?


Any info or stories about etiquette and exposure 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 earth. While cruising in the U.S. sounds risky, it seems appreciate only those with a death wish would cruise toilets as a tou

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 secret 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 gay sex wrote in his June report that he "recognized a signal used by persons wishing to hire 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 conduct led to Craig's arrest by Detective Dave Karsnia and the senator's responsible plea to a disorderly conduct attack. Craig told reporters today that he did nothing inappropriate and said his guilty plea was a mistake.

Public places like men's restrooms, in airports and train stations, truck stops, university libraries and parks, hold long been places where gay and bisexual men, particularly those in the closet, congregate in order to assemble for anonymous sex.

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