Are you tolerant of people (gay or straight) who have anonymous sex in public bathroom stalls?

I'm not sure exactly how I feel about it, but it seems that a great portion of the Larry Craig discussion here boils down to this question.

a public bathroom. :shrug:

Neither has my husband, nor any of my brothers, nor all the multitudes of others I know that fly weekly.

already?

Just askin'.:shrug:

"Asked and answered", as they say in the legal world.

If I am looking to use a stall, and two people are in the only stall around, then yes, it bothers me.

If I am looking to use a stall, and two people are in one of five stalls, and another is available for me, then no, I am not bothered.

If I am NOT using the bathroom at all, then no, I am not bothered.

And -- just so you know -- Larry Craig and the officer did NOT have sex, so your comment that it all boils down to this question is somewhat off the mark.

I have never seen it there or anywhere else. Although the idea of it is not cute.

So I guess: "no".

That, IF the person in question ISN'T a flaming RW bible-wielding puritan hypocrite.

In which case I'd go nuclear on the person, i.e., I'd help getting him busted.

Get a room for cripe's sake.

And I might not even mind if they did it in my lap if they're hot enough.

If you want to get your freak on, there are more suitable venues for that than a public bathroom - or a public park, for that matter. We've got a park near downtown that's notorious for being a magnet for anonymous sex in the bushes.

I don't condemn people for much of anything they do. But there are things that society as a whole doesn't have to tolerate, and bathroom sex is one of those things. Too bad, so sad, deal with it.

This question has been asked, debated, processed, rinsed and spun dry.

Please, let's move on.

:crazy:

...a mind which is thoroughly boggled by the obsession some people seem to have with sex in public toilets.

Or is it a fetish? :shrug:

My tolerance level really has nothing to do with Craig conviction.

Inappropriate and disrespectful of other people who use it for its intended purpose.

and I wipe the seat with an antiseptic wipe cloth before I use the toilet.

I'm sort of OCD.

I'm just glad I'm a female and don't have to worry as much about semen being around now in addition to the other stuff.

yucko

If there were no germs invloved I probably wouldn't care as much.

while denouncing anyone else that engages in the same activity or lifestyle.

Especially those who work to pass laws that allows society to discriminate.

I don't care that he is or is not gay.

I don't even care that much that he has casual sex or solicits for it in public bathrooms.

Brad Pitt, not so much,
Larry Craig, ewwwww!:thumbsdown:

in a private stall regardless of what I might be doing there.

It isn't at all about sex--Craig is a pervert who committed an assault, dammit.

End of discussion for me.

for that reason, as a grandmother of grandson's I will not allow them to use a public bathroom alone...will anyone complain if my grandson's come in with me in the Women's room.

I had no idea this was a problem, and it frightens me to think of my grandsons in a men's room being confronted with this behavior.

alone. My daughter is almost 13 and i never let her go in alone and the very last reason is because someone maybe having sex in there.

the women's bathroom.

with us and well he had to go courtesy of a keg sized icee and i went in with him, made my apologies to all present and waited for him to finish his business.

them is going to come into the men's room with me, and I'm not going into the women's room with them.

bathroom. He is too old for that. He knows he isn't supposed to go in, especially after years of going elementary school.

When we are traveling without my husband (which we frequently do to go visit my parents) and we stop at a rest area, he goes into the mens room. I've even tried to get him to come in with me sometimes and he just won't. I don't blame him.

I don't want him walking in and seeing anything.

Now I'm more worried about those rest areas.

Consensual sex? I don't give a damn but I sure as hell don't want my kids walking in on it no matter who is doing it.

Just announce you're coming in as you open the door -- "mother with child" or something. In general men don't freak out when a woman is in a men's restroom, either by mistake, or more often, particularly in airports, as a female cleaning attendant. And then after you've briefly checked that things look OK, leave him to use the facilities, or stay if you prefer. Very few guys would make a fuss about it.

for a concerned mother.

These things sometimes happen in places that are fairly off the beaten path, or where most people at risk know what to expect. Some clubs, some park restrooms after hours and so on.

In those situations I don't think it's a GOOD idea, but I feel about it sort of the way I do about speeding: it happens and I don't fret about it too much.

in other circumstances I'm not okay with it at all. And by that, I mean more public and trafficked places like library, mall or airport restrooms. I don't think it's acceptable to make others party to your sex acts by doing it in a stall next to them. I don't think it's acceptable to make people feel the bathroom is a potentially menacing place.

And with regard to the Craig situation, I am COMPLETELY intolerant of people peering into occupied stalls or invading them in any way.

If someone was caught having sex in an adult bookstore restroom I am going to look at him or her more benignly than I would look at someone caught in flagrante delicto in a public restroom at a major airport...

Unless they're occupying the last stall and I have to go, then I'm going to say something embarrassing.

The purpose they were designed for . I have never run across a problem but then I avoid public filth rooms at all costs .

Gee how does that work? But I'm glad you put that disclaimer in there!

must be talking about the mile high clubbers :)

I had no idea.

There's no secret to it--they just both go into the same bathroom and take care of business. Note I don't say they -arrange- anonymous sex in a public bathroom--usually it's arranged in a public place beforehand. There's also a club called "The Mile High Club" whose entire raison d'etre is sex in a public toilet. And it's not at all limited to homosexuals.

I never in all those years used a restroom there. Has it gotten better? You could smell them from miles away. People having sex in them? I am sure they did, along with making deals, shooting up, etc.

No, I don't like the idea of people (gay or straight) using a public restroom for anything other than their intended purpose.

The thought of two or more people having sex in one grosses me out.

Beyond that, I think that a person's right to conduct their sex life as they see fit should begin and end at their own front door (or private yard, or car with tinted windows, or whatever as long as it isn't a public place where other people not in the relationship are trying to conduct their business).

People blame homeless people for pissing/shitting on the ground, but the few public bathrooms available to them get monopolized by hookers and junkies. I wish there was a place for sex workers to do their work legally, ditto a legal, regulated place for addicts to get abd take their drugs.

they should go for it.

You want them out in public laying around on towels on the lawn doing it? What fun would that be anyway? It's the secrecy that's half the fun.

... their bodily fluids. Gay, straight, or solo, don't do it in public.