Hey Ladies, Contrary to What You May Hear, the Men's Room Ain't Really Where It's All Happening

Here's a funny little piece on how men are s'posed to act in a rest room (unless they wanna get their ass kicked by gay-bashing closet case Tucker Carlson), and here is more than you ever wanted to know about Tea Rooms and the heretofore undisclosed subculture of public men's rooms.

Regarding Larry Craig's bathroom actions and American public sex in general: there are two comments I'd like to add to the discussion. First, male-male sex in public bathrooms has been going on in America for at least 100 years...probably since the invention of the public bathroom. Our culture's lack of understanding of sexuality, and our gender-segregated bathrooms, created an environment where males naturally happen upon each other in stages of undress (much like the locker room). Such scandalous behavior has been uncovered at YMCAs (originally built as boarding houses for World War I soldiers), park restrooms, and transit station restrooms since the early 20th century. Typically, men who had sex with each other in these restrooms were caught by plainclothes investigators who pretended to accept their suitors' advances (and, in some cases, were quite passionate about their ... investigations) before booking them.

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"Tearooms," as these bathrooms are called, established an entire non-verbal dialectic to facilitate sexual union between American men. They are as enshrined in gay culture as Sunday afternoon "tea dances," or Bette Midler singing at the baths, or Stonewall, or, currently, Internet dating... ...The codes that Craig and his arresting officer used (looking through the stall door; tapping one's foot; touching your stall neighbor's foot) are historical preliminaries to sexual contact.

Not that there's anything wrong with any of that, but yuck. Get a room, for God's sake. Those floors are dirty in there.