For those of you unfamiliar with the term, “cruising” is an activity in which men lurk about public restrooms, parks or other isolated places in the hopes of pairing up to either engage in some sex act or most often, as anyone who’s walked into a men’s room at the wrong time can attest to, stand around masturbating in groups. It is an unseemly phenomenon that most men soon learn to deal with with a raised eyebrow or disgusted sneer designed to make the erstwhile cruiser, genitalia in hand, move on to more receptive pastures.
My tendency is to shrug off cruising as the price we pay for living in a society where we are tolerant of different lifestyles and prosperous enough that many people seem to have too much time on hand to get up to no good. If I had children however I might feel differently if a hike through nature included coming across a hustler fellating some “straight” guy who thinks he’s not gay if he pays for it once a week from a man in a dress. If in a spiteful mood I might find a cop and have the people arrested.
Unless of course I was in the JoCo Wildlife Preserve. Then for some reason having sex in public is perfectly legal:
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The blog referred to has the law for you to read. Basically because the assumption of people in a forest is that no one is around (something only people in raised in cities believe. There’s always someone in the woods with you) they technically aren’t breaking indecent exposure law because in Ohio you need intent to be seen by someone for the act to be illegal.
I’m not one to take the LaBarbera line but on this I break with my gay friends. This is childish and disgusting behavior that should be reviled by any adult with morals.
h/t Hot Air
OK, that is just messed up on so many levels.
Not only do I most definitely not want my children to witness anything like that, I don’t care to see it myself.
As a gay male … I agree with you … Children or other innocents should not witness this behavior at all…. this is just one of the many things that leaves me disturbed with “my” community …
What’s more disturbing is the acceptance by non-gays (especially on the left) of this behavior as mainstream. The majority of gays are broad brushed by this sort of thing when it’s no more common than straights hooking up on Craigslist, that is a little too common, but not mainstream.