Pet Forum / Aquaria / Marine Reef / August 2007

Yep, It's Normal... Public "Gay" Sex Forces Aussie Store to Close
Bathrooms

Lest you laugh this off as ridiculous, this is not a phenomenon unique
to far away lands. Twenty-plus years ago, a department store in
Indiana resorted to removing the doors from the stalls in the men's
bathroom because of this behavior. And a homosexual "cruising" website
lists similar locations across the world where men can meet for
anonymous public sex.

Parents, please think twice about letting your young boys go to the
men's room alone.

Excerpted from Gay Sex Forces Closure of Store Toilets, by Jamie
Padaram, published Oct 30, 2006, by The Sydney Morning Herald:

The closure of customer toilets in a Myer store due to rampant
homosexual activity has exposed a massive list of venues being used by
members of a gay website as hook-up points.

Among the places listed as meeting spots for men "cruising for sex",
on squirt.org, is the Royal Australian Air Force's Richmond base and
Sydney Opera House's toilets.

Management at Myer's Sydney city store in Pitt Street were forced to
close its level one toilet to the public because homosexuals were
using the facility as a meeting point, often having sex in full view
of other horrified users.

...The website claims to list more than 15,000 locations around
Australia "where gay and bisexual guys meet for sex"... A search of the
site yielded hundreds of well-known Sydney buildings, parks and
beaches.

...A Myer staff member who spoke to smh.com.au said she had seen men
running out of the toilet alerting employees about homosexual
activity, while others had complained about being propositioned."I
wouldn't let my friend's young son go in there, no way. I was really
worried about his safety," she said. "There were men going in and out
all the time. You'd see them come out, and say 'Woops, I forgot my
mobile or wallet', and then go back in. I'd see men sitting on the
chair near the toilet just waiting.