Gay Cruising And Public Toilets 5

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6.   Spycams, Voyeurism, Exhibitionism And Narcissism

7.   True Love Via Cruising Or In The Saunas..?
8.   The Older Gay Man And Cruising 
9.   Has Grindr Ruined Everything..?
10. Cruising A Cultural Art..? Mainstream Media Says "Yes"

6.  Spycams, Voyeurism, Exhibitionism And Narcissism


 

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1.  However furtive the cruising and regardless of its legality, it always involves Voyeurism, Exhibitionism and Narcissism.  That's because as we pointed out in Part 4, cruising can be carried out anywhere, even from one's living room window.

2. It generally follows that in cruising:

• muscle boys will wanna show off the hours spent in the gym;
• guys with the big cocks will flaunt them;
• skinny twinks will look for skinny twinks or seek to worship a muscle boy;
• older guys will play with older guys or look for a younger guy;
• older guys will stand around smiling wistfully;
• the Fuglies will stand around and gawk, silently cursing that they've been rejected; 
• newbies, whether str8, bi or gay will watch in stunned amazement;
• married guys will pretend they are there by accident and just looking ;  OR
• married guys will be extremely aggressive cruisers; 
• wherever the venue, there will always be those "who get the party started".  Whether they're gym built, twink, average, fugly, fat, into fetish, kink or raunch, submissive, dominant or elderly, Exhibitionism is a strong and common streak across the board.  And inherent in that Exhibitionism, is both Voyeurism and Narcissism.  At some point during cruising, there will always be an audience, even if most of them are rejected;
• some guys will strictly limit themselves to a specific activity for example, just looking, just touching, just kissing, just handjob, just blowjob, just exposing themselves. 
• Others will have no such inhibitions, regardless of the venue.  Some are extreme risk takers for whom the possibility of being spotted by the wrong people, is the sexual thrill in itself.  See the post, Exhibitionist (Yellow Prick Road);
• the combination of Voyeurism, Exhibitionism and Narcissism, the anonymity of the audience (notwithstanding that faces may be familiar), the guaranteed audience, the choice of venues, the admiration and the general Code of Silence, is not only a heady combination, but downright addictive and mesmerizing.....it is THE fundamental attraction of cruising.

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3.  If we are correct in our assertions above and that cruising venues exist everywhere (and are only limited by imagination),  it's easy to see that the ubiquitous nature of the Web and the spycam (usually a mobile phone or a hidden device), are a logical extension of the Voyeurism, Exhibitionism and Narcissism inherent in cruising.  There are no shortage of sites advertising gay cruising caught on spycam.

4.  But the Web has taken it further.......not only does the entire act of cruising play to a larger and global audience (with the option of real time), but what was historically an anonymous and furtive act, born out of desperation and necessity, has become a recreational addiction for its viewers and created either deliberate or unwitting celebrity for the performers.  It is the ultimate reality show where nothing is hidden.

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Shop.On-Us.Net 3

M/F 47 Gough Street
Central
Hong Kong
MTR Station:  Central; or
MTR Station: Sheung Wan, Exit A2

Tel: (852) 9218 9005 (mobile)
Web: http://shop.on-us.net
Email: leo@on-us.net

CLOSING DOWN

1.  A favourite of gay guys, especially twinks and gym jocks (because as we pointed out in an earlier review, they don't cater for fatties), apparently, this shop will close down on 20 December 2017.  They were in business for about 4 years selling brands like Andrew Christian from Los Angeles, Cocksox from Australia, Addicted from Barcelona.

2.  We liked their stuff and bought some, but commented in Part 2 that their prices seemed waaay too jacked. We don't know why they're closing down, but as over-priced as they were, we'll be sorry to see them go.

3.  (We'll also miss the **cough**, **cough**, "highly personalized" **cough**, **cough**, "assistance" **cough**, **cough** in trying on the underwear and jocks).

4.  They're currently having a discount closing down sale.

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Gay Cruising And Public Toilets 4

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4.  Colon - ization: Where The Boys Are (Were & Will Be..)

5.  Entrapment + Surveillance = Paranoia
6.  Spycams, Voyeurism, Exhibitionism And Narcissism
7.  True Love Via Cruising Or In The Saunas..?
8.  The Older Gay Man And Cruising 
9.  Has Grindr Ruined Everything..?
10. Cruising A Cultural Art..? Mainstream Media Says "Yes"


4.  Colon - ization: Where The Boys Are (Were & Will Be..)

The iconic gay anthem "Searching" sung by Hazell Dean.  On every gay boy's Walkman in the 1980s and in the 1990s.  It still sounds amazing.....

 
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1.  In an article dated 25 July 2016 entitled, "24 Public Places Where Gay Men Cruised", The Advocate listed the following - complete with little explanatory notes: 

1. Gay Saunas | 2. Parks & Nature Trails | 3. Beaches | 4. Piers | 

5. Gay Bars | 6. Discos | 7. Department Store | 8. Mall Toilet |

9. Adult Video Store | 10. Gay Neighbourhood Streets | 11. Gyms |
12. Coffee Shops | 13. Bookstores | 
14. Museums, Art Galleries, Concerts, Theatre |
15. Cafes & Gay-Owned Businesses | 16. Barbershops |
17. Waiting Rooms | 18. [missing] | 19. Craigslist | 20. Grindr | 
21. Scruff | 22. Leather Events | 23. Circuit Parties | 24. Backrooms 

 - to which FuelMix would add:

Airports | Aircraft in flight | Gay Cruise Ships (duh...) | Supermarkets | Public Transport | 

Networking Events | Professional Seminars | College Campuses |

Walking Along The Street | 
Hospitals (FM blinks in disbelief recalling that) | Farmers Markets | 
Business Meetings | Hotel Lobbies |

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2.  We're not sure why the Advocate could only come up with 24. Cruising venues can be summed up in one word:  "Everywhere".


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3.  That's right fags.  Everytime you step out of the house, you're either Eye Candy, Predator or Bait - or all three.


5.  Entrapment + Surveillance = Paranoia

1.  With so many str8s and fags in the "Fruit Loop" (and also drug dealing going on), predictably the Police were involved.  During the Dark Days,  the favoured technique used in cruising areas, parks , saunas and public toilets was Entrapment.  Often a hot-looking str8 young cop would be used as bait. Other cops would hover nearby as witnesses. The sting would go down either when the victim flashed his cock to the hottie, or touched him, or propositioned him. 

  
2.  British cops used to set up a surveillance room in the toilets themselves. And here in Hong Kong, we were told by those who lived through the Dark Days of the 60s, 70s and 80s that the Police used to peek over the cubicle wall partitions or use poles with mirrors or bang on the doors and demand they be opened.

3.  At the time, the Hong Kong Police had a division known as Special Branch which aggressively pursued gays, suspected gays and kept suspected gay bars under surveillance namely:

• the notorious Disco Disco - Lan Kwai Fong. The first openly gay-friendly venue in town several years before decriminalization and frequented by local and overseas glitterati;
• Dateline in Lan Kwai Fong / Wellington Street on the corner of Wyndham Street reputedly visited by older white guys looking for GAMs under 21;
• the original Waltzing Matilda in Cornwall Street, Tsim Sha Tsui, now the site of K11;

4.  The Hong Kong Police were rumoured to have the dreaded "Pink List" containing the names of known or suspected gay men.  Many were GWM professionals.  Some were in the Police.  One of the great unsolved mysteries in Hong Kong gay history was how in the early 1980s, a gay white policeman was found with 5 gunshot wounds - and whose death was ruled a suicide.  It sparked a major scandal and huge paranoia.  It wasn't until 10 years later in 1991 that gay sex was decriminalized.

5.  We have a theory as to why the "Pink List" existed.  Many closeted GWMs living in Hong Kong were British spies.  Blackmail was necessary to keep them in line.  See our suspicions in the post, Not The Pink Panther.

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Gay Cruising And Public Toilets 3

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3.  You Think Str8 Guys Don't Know..??!!
4.  Entrapment And Surveillance

3.  You Think Str8 Guys Don't Know..??!!

1.  In Part 1 of this series, the article from Attitude referred to the number of straight men who were also haunting the gay cruising areas, back room of the bars and public toilets.

2.  This is a dirty secrets of heteros - they will not admit their alternative proclivities, or they're looking for something the wife or GF won't do, or they're in denial, or they might justify their M2M encounters as merely recreational, or merely experimental, or a minority of them might admit they're cheerfully bisexual. 

3.  Such ambivalence and obfuscation is perplexing.  Yet, str8s are societal victims too, seeking a sexual outlet for stress, downtime, recreation or a secret fetish. They have been co-opted (sometimes miserably and for years) into presenting themselves as family values, gin-swilling pillars of the Anglican church or here in Asia, as providers of the iron rice bowl and grandchildren.  See our posts:

• The Vow;
• Yeah, I'm Straight;
• Bi-furcation;
• And The Band Stayed On; 
• Hit Me

4.  Back in the day,  it is arguable that str8s had as much to lose as gays in the context of cruising and public sex.  When we talk to older gay men who cruised at great risk in the Dark Days of suppression and illegality, we are struck by the hostility in their tone when they recall the legions of str8 men with obvious wedding rings, knowingly showing up at cruising areas and unofficially known gay bars (some under Police surveillance). Frequently, they outnumbered the gay guys.  Those "str8" men, could simply flash their wedding rings to suspicious Police and no intrusive questions would be asked.  After all, it isn't a crime for 2 married guys to huddle close together at a bar having drinks, or stand next to each other at the urinals.  They would only be pulled to one side if they were caught blatantly engaging in action.

5.  It's never been clear to us how, during the Dark Days, str8 men were able to find the venues. Did they have some hetero-flavoured "gaydar"....?  Were gay guys that trusting of obviously married men to divulge cruising details..?  We suspect that the English gay slang of Polari, which was the secret underground language of British gay men up to the 1970s spread to sailors, dock workers and stewards working on ships and aircraft.  From there, it's easy to see how knowledge of cruising areas spread internationally.  For a time, Britain ruled the seas and had the largest empire.

6.  Now, it's common  to see str8s aggressively cruising - on the street, in parks, in toilets, in saunas, in back rooms and online. Declarations that they're:

• "str8", or 
• "mainly str8", or 
• "bi-curious" or 
• "play only when wife or GF is away" or 
• "have a GF so must be discreet" or
• "don't do this often" or 
• "married and masculine, looking for same" or
• "masculine, athletic gym jock"

 (See Tell Me I Don't Look Gay)

sound thin,worn, comedic, fake and predictably met with incredulity from gay guys.  We've often wondered why it is that gay men (fucked-up flakes as so many of them are) seem more secure in their sexuality, str8 guys not so much.  And from what we gather, str8 guys out cruising, put on the same attitude, the racism, the body-shaming, the bitterness and the ageism as their gay buddies.

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Gay Cruising And Public Toilets 2

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1.  What We Said

2.  The Social Trajectory
3.  You Think Str8 Guys Don't Know..??!! 
4.  Entrapment And Surveillance

1.  What We Said 

 

1.  In Principles of Faggotry 28, we said :

It's fashionable to say that fags aren't loyal to anyone, or anything, or any gay venue.

Not so.

Fags are remarkably loyal to their public toilets.  All over the world, fags will haunt the same toilets for years, sometimes decades.

2.  The Social Trajectory

1.  Although the article quoted in Part 1, gave a brief history of cruising and public sex in the UK, it's probably correct to say that the venues and social trajectory were the same worldwide, namely:

(a) Dark Days And Defiance

• suppressive social, political and legal environment which actively criminalized "deviancy" as they defined it.  The mob rule of the moral majority;
• being gay and stumbling onto, or into, gay cruising areas - and realizing that they were hiding in plain sight and that there were (lots of) guys just like you;
• sense of delight, relief, exhilaration, fright and daring; 
• repeat visits;
• underground network of discreet contacts; some, for life;

(b) The Moral Backlash

• prosecutions for public sex, loitering with intent, gross indecency, buggery;
• threats of blackmail and exposure;
• publicity with personal and professional wreckage;
• vacationing or moving away to gay-friendly locations - greater anonymity, freedom;
• cruising venues here and abroad notorious by word of mouth;
• code of silence i.e. what happens in the toilet / park / locker room / gym steam room / bar back room / sauna / stays there;

(c)  A Rational Alternative

• calls for decriminalization of gay sex met with strident opposition in favour of status quo;
• growing support for decriminalization supported by professional organizations and / or foreign governments;
• decriminalization -  with, or without conditions, initially with additional policing and a short spike in prosecutions;

(d) Emergence And Establishment:  The Hedonist Lifestyle

• gay publications - hard copy and digital;
• cruising areas and toilets more well known;
• gay bars, gay saunas; gay gyms;
• gay drug scene  more overt and rampant;
• reduction in policing and harassment;
• gay porn easily available;
• gay retail;
• gay ghetto; 
• gay "Pride";
• gay cultural and sports events;
• gay circuit parties;
• gay vacations;
• alleged power of "Pink Dollar"; 
• disease rates;

 (e) Oh...For Fuck's Sake..!!

• gay rights advocacy;
• gay-friendly media portrayal;
• gays online;
• Out gay personalities;
• "Outrage" and the Engine of Faggotry;
• minority-protective or equality legislation;
• gay bashing and introduction of "hate crimes";
• introducing "gay" into school curriculum;
• gay marriage, adoption, same-sex benefits;
• enforced political correctness triggering resentment;
• previously the mob rule of the str8 Moral Majority, now the mob rule of the gay Moral Minority;
• emergence of the independently thinking gay man vs the screaming fag;
• Faggotry revealed for what it is: a social control tool;

2.  Interesting huh...? Never underestimate the power of a urinal to effect societal change (initially for the better, but then for the worse - as the socio-political agenda sets in).

COMING UP IN PART 3:
3.  You Think Str8 Guys Don't Know..??
4.  Entrapment And Surveillance

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Gay Cruising And Public Toilets 1

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HISTORY: 

Necessity, Secretive, Expedient, Curiosity, Depressing

NOW:

Secretive..?  Expedient..? Curiosity..?  Addictive..? Fun..?

HYPOCRISY:

Why are YOU sneering at cruising in public toilets, when YOU are publicly cruising on Grindr, checking out guys and hanging your cock out..?

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Fifty years ago cruising and cottaging [action in public toilets] weren’t the fetishes or fantasies that they arguably are now; they were a necessity — the only way for most men to meet other men, albeit it a risky one. 

From the early 1950s, there was a witchhunt afoot, with Conservative home secretary David Maxwell Fyfe vowing to “rid England of this plague” as he dispatched undercover policemen to prowl in parks, cruising grounds and public toilets. Their enticements led to the imprisonment of an estimated 1,000 gay men each year but that didn’t put a stop to the covert goings-on. 

That’s because, a leading gay rights campaigner believes, cruising and cottaging represented the only way for gay men to explore their sexuality. Bernard Greaves, who, as a policy adviser to the Liberals in the Seventies, became the first openly gay man to hold national office in a UK political party, points out: “The idea of being ‘out’ wasn’t a concept at all and it was easier to find sex cottaging than it was in bars. 

“There were no gay bars as such, anyway. People lived in a straight world and lived straight lives.” ........ “You grew up in isolation and you didn’t know anyone else who was gay. In fact, the word ‘gay’ wasn’t in use, the word most people used at that time was ‘queer’, and there was no readily available information or knowledge about homosexuality.” 

Bernard went to Cambridge University and, aged 19, first encountered cottaging [action in public toilets] when he wandered into public toilets 50 yards from his lodgings. The “furtive, anonymous and depressing scenario” was better than nothing, ......

“You’d spend hours trying to find somebody, visiting one set of toilets then another, enduring the cold and damp, spending a lot of time waiting for a fleeting sexual experience that wasn’t particularly satisfying,” .....

.....Bernard was eventually introduced to a barman whose place of work served as a meeting place for a small group of gay men. “You couldn’t say it was a gay bar because the concept didn’t exist. It was full of straight people but towards one end of the room a group of gay men would meet up.” They were cautious and used Polari, [gay slang] “which I didn’t understand at all .....

They’d discuss chat-up etiquette, which included approaching someone and, if they weren’t interested, making it seem like a joke. “That’s an art that has largely gone now and very often it was the older gay men who mentored the younger ones. Having older gay men teach younger gay men how to survive in a hostile society was very important.”

.....Bernard moved to Huddersfield and discovered the concept of cruising in cinemas, where there was a lot of furtive sexual behaviour in what were then dark and dingy auditoria. “It was another form of anonymous sex and again not all that satisfactory,”.....

Flash-forward to the present, and gay sex has never been easier to arrange — as simple as ordering a pizza, delivered to your door via an app or served up in gay saunas around the country. 

Sodomites Walk

But cottaging and cruising have links dating back to at least the 17th century, with the first recorded instance of entrapment being the 1698 case of Captain Edward Rigby, who was lured to a private room in a London tavern by a man on the payroll of the Society for the Reformation of Manners, a group which aimed to suppress what it saw as profanity and immorality by bringing private prosecutions. 

The turn of the 18th century saw the rise of molly houses: taverns, coffee houses and private rooms where gay men could meet. These were frequently raided by the police, but the publicity this caused only served to draw more gay men to the capital, with the London Journal reporting that men cruised for sex in Covent Garden, Lincoln’s Inn, St James’s Park and a path in Moorfields that was dubbed Sodomites’ Walk. 

Public toilets, .......were also haunts for gay men. A 1706 court report vividly details Edward Barker being prosecuted for poking his member through a hole in a cubicle wall, and in 1728 John Bennet was found guilty of attempted sodomy. 

In 1890, a case was brought against the Earl of Euston, who had allegedly been cruised by a male prostitute in Piccadilly and accompanied him to a notorious Cleveland Street brothel, in London’s West End. 

The jury acquitted the earl but the trial and that of Oscar Wilde for gross indecency five years later prompted many gay men to be less brazen. They began to rendezvous in Turkish baths and swimming pool cubicles......

After the partial decriminalisation of homosexuality in 1967, there were still very few gay bars in the UK so men who wanted fast sex often found it in toilets. 

Dermot........ is in his seventies....... he discovered the cottaging scene, only to be arrested in 1973 at a urinal in Deptford. He stood next to a good looking guy who turned out to be a policeman (“very pretty, nice cock as well”) and a witness — required to make any charge stick — appeared out of nowhere. The resulting £1.50 fine did little to discourage Dermot. 

Bernard Greaves remembers high-profile court cases .......but it was only after decriminalisation that police action visibly increased. 

“They felt they had to uphold morals, and while homosexual behaviour between consenting adults over the age of 21, in private, had been legalised, sex in public toilets was an ‘outrage’ and they were going to stop it,” .....

Entrapment is something Bernard went on to publicly challenge in the early 1970s, branding it an absolute outrage. He spent three months researching it and presented his evidence to the Cambridge Evening News, which gave the subject extensive coverage. “It was not just pursuing gay men, it was spying anybody who used public toilets for legitimate reasons,” ........

“There were police officers concealed in the roof and they had pretty policemen trying to entice gay men. In one toilet they actually installed a secret room through which they could observe men using the urinals. It was disgraceful.”

Dark Alleys 

Unlike Bernard, I was a teenager in the 1970s ..... as a teenager in Nottingham, I was under the age of consent — 21 at the time — and didn’t dare to try to bluff my way into the gay clubs that I’d heard existed down dark alleys and behind discreet doorways. In addition, I had little confidence in being able to attract other men with my looks but the usual rules of attraction didn’t apply when it came to cruising; no-one was looking for love or Mr Right. 

..... “There was nothing lovelier than some hot action on a hot summer night,”.....“It felt decadent and very non-judgmental because it didn’t seem to be about body images or what you looked like, just what you had to offer when you whipped it out".

....... “I just wanted sex, not pleasantries and all that game playing.” 

Chris, who is now 47, discovered cottaging when he was out shopping with his parents in Poole, Dorset. Soon he was travelling to London where the cottages were heaving, especially at lunch time. Public loos outside the capital could be hit-and-miss but were essential for married men. 

“I never saw so many wedding rings,” Chris laughs. 

But cottaging wasn’t only a means for married men to find quick, easy and anonymous sex. Pete, now 74, found his life partner Mike while cruising a sauna in the 1970s...... 


.......Pete and Mike got chatting, consummated their relationship back at Mike’s flat and remained a couple until Mike died in 2010. Pete doubts whether a relationship could develop from cruising nowadays, “because sex is too easy and people are more likely to move on”.


Causing Offence

Bernard Greaves thinks cottaging, ..... is on the way out because sex in public toilets is illegal, whereas sex in the open isn’t — unless it is deemed as causing offence to other people. And for some people, he sighs, cruising remains a necessity. 

“There are lots of people who are still in the closet. ..... the idea of being openly gay in ethnic minority communities, or for that matter in Eastern European communities, is still appallingly difficult and lots of them are using cruising areas and saunas.” 

Present-day cottager Carlo, 35, enjoys the speed and convenience. “It offers one thing all men want,” he explains, “namely a quick wank in the middle of the day.” He doesn’t advertise the fact that he does it, however, adding: “People are ashamed of it. You can’t tell people: ‘we met in a toilet’.” 

Zia X, a 28-year-old Londoner ...... has no such qualms. “I’m very outspoken and I’ve always been open about cottaging and cruising. People could be quite judgemental but when Grindr came along they were getting up to much the same thing only in a digital way and that felt like hypocrisy to me.” ...... But times have changed. “The spaces I used to use, are nowhere near as busy now and I don’t cruise outside so much any more because it’s cold,” says Zia, who now tends to stick to saunas. “Going on dates can be complicated and you’re always trying to read people’s emotions, but when you’re in a cruising environment such as a sauna or toilets you know what you're there for." 

But outdoor cruising, Zia feels, hasn’t stopped. ......

Zia adds: “Many people say most of the activity has shifted online and that’s partly true, but a lot of people still use the parks. I’m not so sure about toilets, though. A lot of them are closed down or have heightened security. There’s an infamous one a mate of mine used to frequent in the British Library and they had a whole system going on, with look-outs and day-long sex parties, but then security found out and cracked down on it.” 

The city used to be cruisier, Zia says. “Quite often I’d make eye contact with someone on public transport and that would lead to something somewhere, but that hasn’t happened in years. Maybe I’m getting older and I’m not catching those eyes.” 

Or maybe all those eyes are glued to Grindr. The popularity of saunas is a reminder that gay sex is still furtive for many people, even if they’ve taken it indoors. “Living in quite a queer world, I assume everyone is out but going to saunas it’s like: ‘Oh wow, there’s a swathe of people who are in straight marriages, with kids, who aren’t out’,” Zia says. 

“There are still lots of people who haven’t found that place to express their desires openly so they use these more secretive places to do so. 

“It’s a part of queer life that is still very much with us.”

-----"Why do so many gay men go cruising and cottaging?", by Simon Button, Attitude, Issue 285, July 2017
 

When Your Butt Plug Gets Hacked

COMPLETED 19 NOVEMBER 2017

An orifice-opening article on the joy and risk of Teledildonics 
Legal issues in sex toy hacking

+ a new term in the gay/sexual lexicon: "Screwdriving"

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On a recent trip to Berlin, Alex Lomas’ acquaintance posed him a challenge: Can you find a Bluetooth-enabled butt plug in the wild, and can you turn it on without its owner’s help? Lomas, a penetration tester with the British cybersecurity firm Pen Test Partners,  pulled out his phone, consulted the detection app LightBlue, and quickly identified a Lovense Hush, purportedly “the most powerful vibrating buttplug on the market,” that Lomas says was nestled in the rear end of a stranger. 

What’s more, that Hush was vulnerable, open to hacking by anyone who knew how. 

As the world hurtles toward total app-connectivity, the gap between what our devices could do and what the law can address widens, particularly with teledildonics—or, sex tech that you can control remotely, over the internet. A sex toy hacking situation like the one Lomas identified isn’t likely to occur outside a lab, but linking a vibrator to the internet opens up the possibility that it might, and we should be ready to discuss it.

Lomas published the results of his experiment on the Pen Test Partners blog, and coined the term “screwdriving,” a sexualized play on wardriving (or the drive-by stealing of other people’s wi-fi). In a Skype interview with Gizmodo, he summarized the procedure in layman’s terms: Hush uses Bluetooth Low Energy, basically the more modern version of Bluetooth, to connect with smart devices. If you are wearing the butt plug out in public, and a designated partner is standing within about 30 feet of your tuchus, then that partner can control its vibration speed and pattern discreetly from their phone. Which is all well and good, Lomas said, unless that person wanders out of (admittedly limited) connectivity range. In that case, Hush “will sort of fail open into a discovery mode, ready for other people to discover and then take control,” to pair with the plug—there’s no password protection, or the PIN is an easily guessed 0000 or 1234—and pilot your anal experience, uninvited. (In an email, a Lovense rep explained that this is indeed the case, although the toy does have a function that automatically turns it off if the connected device falls out of range. Lomas pointed out that the customer would have to know that any of this is even possible, which many won’t.) 

Lomas did not sync with the Hush and dial up the vibration, but he could have, and therein lies the problem. A consumer could venture out into the world, intending to have a secret erotic experience with one person, but end up having telesex with someone else entirely. But what kind of crime even is that—cyber, sex, or some kind of newfangled hybrid? And is anyone out there equipped to handle it?

The answer seems to lie somewhere in the neighborhood of not really slightly surprising as news of sex toy vulnerability becomes more and more frequent. White hat hackers have already exposed a number of adult companies—Lovense, WeVibe—as unstable repositories for the surprisingly detailed stores of intimate user data they’ve been collecting, mostly unbeknownst to their customers.

WeVibe’s data insecurity led to invasion of privacy lawsuits and modest settlements, yet the possibility that random third parties could insert themselves into a mutual masturbation session on Skype or a camming platform like Chaturbate has been less widely discussed. Hush isn’t the only assailable toy: Pretty much any BLE-enabled toy (or indeed device, whether that’s a hearing aid or a smoke detector) could be opened to outside probing. Products connected to apps like Body Chat seem pretty open to outside intervention, while the camera-equipped Siime Eye vibrator is easily hijacked by anyone with the know-how, potentially affording strangers vividly detailed views of your genitalia. That victim would certainly be able to claim invasion of privacy, but a breach of that scale seems more significant.

To be fair, the possibility that an unwanted third party could hack a sex toy is sliver slim: As Lovense explained in its response to Lomas’ experiment and in an email exchange with Gizmodo (of the Internet of Things sex toy makers contacted, Lovense was the only one to respond), Hush can only connect to one device at a time, and screwdriving would require sophisticated knowledge of BLE and “Lovense protocol,” along with “BLE sniffing hardware” most people don’t have. Even if someone did manage to pounce on your butt plug’s lapsed BLE connection, they’d need to be extremely close: within 30 feet and “a clear line of sight,” so, probably following you around. But it’s possible to buy long-range Bluetooth transmitters and receivers, and Lomas reported that a number of readers tweeted at him post-publication to say they’d successfully located their neighbors’ toys through a shared wall. 

Lomas acknowledged that some Hush buyers may be into a stranger’s surreptitious involvement, and that’s perfectly fine; the problem, as he sees it, is that the average consumer probably won’t realize they’ve consented to a semi-private experience—that they are, “essentially, walking around with a giant butt plug transmitter” broadcasting out their anuses, or inadvertently offering a telescopic tour inside their vaginas.

Indeed, in considering teledildonic hacks from a legal perspective, consent should be a big part of the equation: instinctually, a stranger surprising you with genital vibrations reads as a violation. Legally, sexual assault doesn’t require penetration, merely “sexual contact or behavior that occurs without the explicit consent of the recipient.” According to Shanlon Wu, a defense lawyer in Washington D.C. and a former federal sex crimes prosecutor, the absence of consent like what would result from a remotely controlled, hacked sex toy signals sex assault.

“The typical definition of a felony-type sexual abuse is an unconsented-to penetration,” whether it’s with a body part or an object, Wu said. As regards the latter, he doesn’t see the legal equation changing if it’s a hand or a device controlling the object’s movement. Wu acknowledged that some lawyers might get bogged down in the virtual aspect of the offense, and view wearing a teledildonic device as blanket consent to its use. But consent is not transferrable, he said.

Wu offered an analogy: “If I’m entering a boxing match ... I’m consenting, obviously, to the contest with my opponent. If he hits me, I can’t be yelling, ‘Oh, he assaulted me, he punched me!’ because we’re consenting to punching each other. But if his corner man, his manager, comes out and clocks me in the head during the match, they can’t argue, ‘You consented to a boxing match, so anybody gets to beat up on you.’” Similarly, if you consent to someone using a sex toy on you, that’s not an invitation for any passerby to join in.

“Consent is consent whether it’s in person or whether it’s remote, and I think that’s the thing to focus on,” Wu said. He sees this form of cyberstealthing as a straightforward sexual assault prosecution, but Stewart Baker—a partner at the law firm Steptoe & Johnson where his practice covers cyberlaw and technology-related issues—disagreed.

“I’m having trouble fitting this neatly into a sex crime framework,” Baker told Gizmodo. “If somebody breaks into your dildo, they’re criminally responsible,” he said, but the question is how.
While Baker agreed that vibrator hijacking skewed the concept of consent, he also speculated that trying it as a sex crime could raise complicating questions about agreed-upon partner participation. If the sex toy in question comes with a built-in camera, that could implicate its owner in ways that won’t sit well with many people: Baker noted that consensual sexting between teens has already translated to several child pornography prosecutions, and if two minors are using a camera-equipped vibrator with one another on Skype or any other internet-connected video platform, they could inadvertently land themselves in a similar world of legal hurt. The clearest path forward Baker sees is prosecuting screwdriving as a cyber crime, under the 1986 Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, which encompasses all wittingly unauthorized access of a computer as well as the filching of its contents. While it does not specifically address teledildonics, the CFAA arguably offers a means of placing consent in a cyber context.

“The difference between being authorized and having consent is vanishingly small,” Baker said, “and so if you don’t have authority to do something with somebody else’s dildo, then if you’re doing it remotely over the internet, you’ve committed a crime that could turn out to be a felony [under the CFAA].”

Who’s likely not liable, though? The manufacturers, unless they’ve somehow misrepresented the product, Baker said. (The Lovense rep with whom Gizmodo spoke said they would broach the idea of adding a clarifying label to product packaging with the CEO.) While civil suits have resulted from toymakers’ insecure data collection methods, when it comes to a telesex hack, the only person responsible is the hacker. Which means it’s reasonable to request that both the manufacturers and the law figure out how to address sex toy vulnerabilities.

For both Wu and Baker, screwdriving cases remain relegated to the realm of the hypothetical and some disagreement on prosecuting such a crime likely stems from a lack of precedent. A CFAA violation and a sexual assault are both felony crimes, though, and their possible sentences vary widely. Arguably more important are the implications of treating a sex toy hijacking as a computer-related crime, rather than a crime against a person. Doing so risks minimizing an offense that ultimately hinges on unasked-for intimate contact, and a lawyer who argues that wearing a device like Hush in public is opening themselves to its unauthorized use is victim blaming.

The legal approach to screwdriving, though, would likely depend on whatever real life victims materialize, and as sex tech veers increasingly toward IoT connectivity—syncing with an app, virtual reality masturbation sessions, setting off a cross-country partner’s vibrator—without manufacturers pausing to patch security holes, it seems reasonable to expect they will. And while it’s probably not time to agonize over whether or not a hacker is waiting in the wings of your Skype sex session, ready to hijack your vibrator at any moment, it might be time to start thinking about what the future of sex crimes looks like. Better now than after we’ve arrived.

-----"If Your Vibrator Is Hacked, Is It A Sex Crime?", Claire Lampen, 31 October 2017, Gizmodo

Shopping Mall Toilet Attendant 1

In the post, Late Nite In The Gym Shower, we said:

Sometimes....weird things - no,wait..... make that really bizarre things - happen when one least expects them, even if they take place in a venue that reeks of sexuality, fantasy, testosterone and nakedness......like the gym shower in an ultra-discreet (probably fag-designed) Locker Room.

.....or, having finished in the gym, 10pm in a shopping mall toilet.

FuelMix wore gym shorts, a compression UnderArmour T-shirt and was slinging the obligatory backpack.

He pushed open the door. The place was well lit, dry and absolutely spotless.  It was deserted except for an elderly, slim, Chinese male in his 70s standing near the mirrors and sinks.  He was wearing a pristine starched uniform with the name of the cleaning company discreetly printed on the left shoulder.  He was the Toilet Attendant and flashed a broad smile as FuelMix walked past him.  He looked intently at FuelMix, scanning his body.  At the time, it didn't seem relevant.

FuelMix docked at a urinal 6 feet away from the Attendant, spread his legs, reached under his gym shorts, let his cock out and started pissing.  Having guzzled 3 bottles of watermelon juice from Starbucks,  a protein drink and trips to the gym water cooler, it was gonna be a long piss.

The Attendant looked at FuelMix, smiled and nodded.  Being polite and well brought-up, FuelMix smiled back as he pissed, his cock easily visible.  The Attendant licked his lips, pointed to FuelMix's cock and body and gave a thumbs up sign.  FuelMix felt his cock stirring as he pissed.  It  wasn't the first time a Toilet Attendant had complimented him.

The Attendant walked away.

There was a sharp **click**.  FuelMix turned his head as he pissed.  The Attendant had locked the entrance door. He was walking back towards FuelMix, smiling and licking his lips.....

"Why has he locked the door when I haven't left..?" wondered FuelMix stupidly, "...ohh....I get it...the old dude doesn't want others to come in as he shuts down for the night.."

Not quite.

The Attendant approached FuelMix from behind. Without hesitation or seeking permission, he began to caress his ass as FuelMix was pissing.  FuelMix started to get hard, not entirely sure what was going to happen next - mildly amused at the Attendant's audacity - but still pissing.

Again the Attendant smiled and gave a thumbs up sign.  One hand stroked FuelMix's muscled ass through his gym shorts, the other hand stroked FuelMix's chest, nipples and torso through his T-shirt.

"Waaahh..!!" murmured the Attendant, "vewwyy goood bawwdee..!!  vewwyyy sesseee..!!"

The elderly hand that was stroking his chest, nipples and torso, now moved to caress FuelMix's pissing cock, now visibly horny with the attention.  It was awkward to piss with a developing boner, but it was gonna be a long piss and the stirring boner was slowing it down.

On the pristine, dry floor near the urinal, the Attendant knelt down next to FuelMix and began to lick his cock shaft as he pissed.  One hand stroked FuelMix's hairy thighs, the other hand stroked his ass.

"So...let's see..." thought FuelMix as his cock hardened, "am I being cruised, admired, abused, molested or serviced by Kevin Spacey's gay Chinese uncle...?.....Ffuuckk..!! This feels good..!"

The Attendant's open mouth hovered near FuelMix's pissing cockhead as he repeatedly licked upwards from the shaft.  FuelMix gently moved the Attendant's mouth towards his crystal clear piss stream.....the Attendant continued kneeling, opened his mouth wider and stuck out his tongue......to receive FuelMix's piss.

"Ohhh yeah...!!" thought FuelMix, "think I'm gonna take this old faggot's mouth for a test drive....let's see how he does as my private urinal..." The piss stream continued to flow into the Attendant's mouth, some of which he swallowed, some of which flowed off his tongue.  There was no struggle as FuelMix held the Attendant's head still while he pissed - just the sounds of him gulping piss and gently moaning.

After a while, FuelMix's boner-infused piss stream subsided.  The Attendant knelt quietly, looking at FuelMix while slowly licking his lips.  He seemed to want more, but what...?

FuelMix shrugged off his backpack, placed it on the floor, unzipped it and took out a condom. He took off his gym shorts and unrolled the condom onto his stiff cock.  The Attendant watched quietly, kneeling between the urinals, his head against the wall, his mouth open...

FuelMix approached the Attendant, held his head and started to fuck his mouth, thrusting gently so that Uncle could get used to his cock.  The Attendant started to moan as he sucked.  He couldn't take the full length of FuelMix's cock but didn't mind the thrusts getting harder and harder.

FuelMix gripped the Attendant's head and chin and tilted them back as he kept thrusting.  This forced the Attendant to suck cock a little deeper and he started to moan louder.  FuelMix pressed the Attendant's head against the wall as he kept thrusting, but the Attendant couldn't take the full length of his cock.  In between thrusts, FuelMix pushed the Attendant's head into the urinal and let him lick the remains of FuelMix's piss.  The Attendant loved it and got into the rhythm of sucking cock and licking the very clean urinal (which he'd probably cleaned).

FuelMix's load started to build.  He pulled off his condom and thrust deep into the Attendant's mouth, gagging him, but refusing to let go.  The Attendant started to struggle, but his head was trapped between the wall and FuelMix's hips.  FuelMix pumped his load into the Attendant's throat, locking his head and chin at just the right angle so the Attendant realized he had no choice but to stop struggling and swallow.

Having unloaded his cum, FuelMix walked to the sink and soaped his crotch.  The Attendant crawled behind him and kissed his bare ass cheeks as FuelMix dried his cock with the paper towel and disposed of the condom.

FuelMix put on his shorts, slung his backpack, gave the Attendant a smile and motioned for him to unlock the toilet entrance door.  The Attendant smiled back, escorted FuelMix to the door and gave another thumbs up sign.  Opening the door, the Attendant whispered, "thank you, thank you....see you again...!"

"Not bad for a 70 year old toilet mouth faggot", thought FuelMix, "In the words of Arnold Schwarzenegger..... 'I'll be back...' "

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Fucked Up Fags In Canada 3

3.  Be Careful What You Sniff In Canada

A new crisis is developing in Canada and it’s not the housing bubble.

A far more sinister one, that is taking the country by storm, as a new wave of fentanyl has washed up on the shores of Canada from an unknown origin most likely China, and has made it onto city streets.

To our friends in the business district of Toronto, be careful what you sniff - it might contain fentanyl. 

The number of positive tests for fentanyl in samples of heroin seized by law enforcement agencies across Canada have exploded........

Seems as China has turned on the fentanyl spigot in 2016 and 2017…

Over the past five-years of tests, marijuana samples seized by law enforcement agencies contained no fentanyl. But on a more interesting note, cocaine and methamphetamine seized by law enforcement agencies reported an increase. A potential health hazard for the modern day bankers in Toronto…..

The most common drugs the service tests for include marijuana, cocaine, methamphetamine, fentanyl, heroin, hydromorphone, oxycodone, MDMA, alprazolam and GHB.

Fentanyl was not identified in any of the marijuana samples tested over the five-year period, while cocaine and methamphetamine saw increases from 0.01 per cent to 1.8 per cent and zero per cent to 1.7 per cent, respectively. Overall, the figures are stark. In 2012, only 217 of the street drug samples tested positive for fentanyl. Just as the number of lives claimed by the deadly opioid has skyrocketed since then, so too has the number of times fentanyl has showed up in samples of illegal street drugs. As of Sept. 30, DAS found fentanyl in 4,568 samples this year – an increase of 2,005 per cent.

According to Dr. David Juurlink, head of clinical pharmacology and toxicology at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre in Toronto:

“...the exponential increase of street drugs testing positive for fentanyl over the last five years doesn’t surprise. The illicit drug supply has never been more dangerous because of the profusion of fentanyl-related compounds. This is why so many people are dying. They’re dying because the drugs they’re using contain, you know, much more opioid than they thought."

Dr. Michael Krausz, a professor of psychiatry specializing in addiction at the University of British Columbia, explains drug dealers “want to save money or make higher profits”, so fentanyl is mixed into drugs like heroin or cocaine to stretch their supplies.

Krausz also said drug dealers are not skilled enough to keep fentanyl doses in a survivable range while mixing it with heroin or cocaine, which is why many experts believe overdoses are occurring. Simply, the end user is not realizing what he/she is getting and ends up dead.

Juurlink said several factors sparked fentanyl’s rise:

• increase in demand for opioids as overprescription of painkillers led to addiction
• flood of prescription medication
• fentanyl patches
• blackmarket

In British Columbia, 80% of the street drugs are laced with fentanyl........

China is a key source of illicit fentanyl coming to Canada in response to demand from prescription-painkiller addicts as well as users of street drugs, traffickers are turning to a pharmaceutical-manufacturing giant to produce deadly, black-market versions of fentanyl...

Once the drug is in, it is processed – often in Western Canada - Because illicit fentanyl and fentanyl analogues are so potent, the white powder is cut or mixed with other drugs and fillers, before it can be sold on the street. Most of the 21 clandestine labs dismantled by police since 2013 operated in British Columbia and Alberta......

 Bottom line: China is flooding North America with fentanyl through shipping routes into Canada. The opioid crisis is far from over and its about to kick into hyperdrive. The one question we ask: how will bankers in Toronto and or on Wall Street deal with the very real possibility their blackmarket stimulants could contain fentanyl?

-----"Be Careful What You Sniff in Canada", Zero Hedge, November 10, 2017