As even the most saccharine queer representation comes under attack, and porn bans proliferate across the U.S., some queer people have rightfully sanitized their presence online and IRL; but others—sex party promoters, kink community leaders and educators alike—have refused to shy away from the more explicit aspects of the queer experience.
Despite what pearl-clutching critics of play parties, bathhouses and other sex-inclusive spaces would have you believe, the bacchanalian festivities actually serve important cultural and historical purposes for queer people, dating back more than a century. More complex than simply a space for people to have sex, bathhouses, play parties and sex clubs are places where queer culture is born, connections are made and community is found.
And though the advent of hookup apps have made these physical spaces less necessary, per se, spaces where people can meet in public for sex, or meet to suss out a potential hookup, still serve a necessary purpose.
The “straight” community would also benefit from “places for public sex”…
Just saying, less pearl-clutching would do everyone some good.
I agree. All of us need more public sex and less war.
God, if you do actually exist, come clarify things for Everyone. Is doing evil a good thing now? If not We’ll be here for whenever you feel like enough people have died. I’ll be jacking off at the usual places if you need to see me. Its no disrespect, I just like doing that a lot. Sure you could have given us some sort of self pleasuring thought center thing that we could activate whenever… But for now, just rubbing another one for good old times.