What is cruising gay
Your Guide to Cruising
How to Cruise
Cruising has come a long way since hanky code, polari, and subtle glances. There are lots of unlike locations to suit any preference, such as:
- Public bathrooms
- Cruising bars and clubs
- Gay saunas
- Cruising parks
- Gay cruising beaches
Not only can you meet guys in public spaces but in online ones too. For example, Grindr is essentially a cruising catalogue of who's around, and also a great tool to predetermine the location that you'll hook up in. You can also choose to cruise on alt twitter, a subsection of Twitter where people create mostly anonymous profiles, post spicy R18 content, and arrange hook ups or content collabs.
When it comes to public spaces, it helps if there are other people there to cruise! Click here for a comprehensive list of places throughout Recent Zealand / Aotearoa that are known as cruising sites, or visit Squirt.org (this is a paid service) for more. Recollect, you may also meeting people who aren’t looking to cruise so it’s important to know what signs to look out for - read on to find out.
Cruising
This blog was written by our Sexual Health Outreach Worker, Chris Dunbar.
Sometimes, having sex in the safe confines of your bedroom just doesn’t cut it. You may be looking for somewhere new, seeking thrill or adventure, or just not be able to hold the sex you want within your four walls. You may have heard someone talk about cruising, or contain been asked if you want to go, but what does it actually mean?
Let’s have a look together at what it means, the laws, and general safety if you do opt to give it a go.
Definition
Cruising is walking or driving about certain areas, called cruising grounds, looking for a sexual partner. These meetings are usually one-off, anonymous encounters.
Cottaging is a phrase used to depict anonymous sex meetings in public toilets.
Where do the terms come from?
Cruising: The word originated as a gay slang term, sometime in the early 1960s, as a way for people who knew its definition to arrange sexual meetings. It was a way to plan sexual encounters without attracting the attention of people who may hope to report them to the authorities, or inflict impair. The term is used many countries including the UK, the U
The Freddie Guide to: Cruising
What is gay cruising?
Straight cruising is a vacay on a boat. Queer cruising is the art of hooking up in public.
Cruising is almost always anonymous, and can be one-on-one, in groups, or with others watching. It’s done by using non-verbal cues to show you’re both interested – think of it fancy a secret, horny code. Some people will have sex right there, while some may get their partner to a more discreet location.
Where did cruising arrive from?
Cruising has a long history in the queer community. There are recorded cruising spots in cities like Toronto, London and New York dating back over a hundred years. In the time before gay bars, when homosexuality was illegal, public places were often the only option for queer people to assemble each other.
Evidence for this often comes from prosecution records – we know where people were cruising based on arrests for “sodomy” or “gross indecency”. These were historic offences made to criminalize gay sex, and were almost exclusively applied to homosexual men. Sodomy and indecency laws were common throughout the British Empire, but have been repealed in most countries.
In the US, anti-sodomy laws were r
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