In countries where they clamp down on park sex, including places where police or death squads arrest and sometimes kill men for having sex in a park, men still go. I doubt if that will ever change-it’s been happening for centuries. Parks all around the world, in liberal countries and oppressive countries, are meeting places for gay men. Q: Now that we have our rights recognized, won’t we see people giving up this stuff? I thought it was a sign of internalized homophobia.Ī: No, it’s a sign that some people find it fun. Many people go to parks because they’re free: other ways of meeting friends or sex partners cost money-for example, restaurants, cafés, bars, bathhouses, phone-sex lines. Probably because park sex can be fun and can enrich your life. Clearly, park cruising is not on the decline. In the last couple of years, the number of younger users has increased. My recent informal survey found that the parks this summer have a profound cross-section of ages-from 20 to 80. Sure, many straight-identified married men begin to deal with their same-sex desire at the parks and tubs and in washrooms-and what’s wrong with that? But many out, proud and happy gay men like parks and tubs, too. What’s up with that? Q: Isn’t park sex, like bathhouse sex, mainly about self-loathing closeted men and older out gay guys?Ī: Not by a long shot. When gays do it, society calls it ‘public sex’ and sometimes treats it as abnormal. Straights even write songs about it, like “I Found My Thrill on Blueberry Hill.” They also invented the ‘Mile High Club’ for coupling in airplane washrooms. Straights do park sex, too-there are loads of heteros making out in cars at Prospect Point and Ferguson Point and, in summer months, on the beach along English Bay and False Creek. All consensual sex is good sex, and we all have our kink.
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Gays often make and meet friends in parks there’s a major social component to park cruising. Some people like sex in a bed others prefer it in more adventurous locations. Q: Can’t we stay out of the parks?Ī: Why should we? Sex is fun. The questions reflect a few of the comments I’ve heard from people who don’t get why it is that some prefer bushes to mattresses. With Surrey police now harassing gay cruisers at Bear Creek Park, the question hangs unspoken in many media reports.īelow is a wee peek at the culture of park sex, in a question-and-answer format. While some straights and gays like to make out in the perfumed rainforests or under the open sky, some others wonder why. Why some like sex among the ferns or the beach
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