Restroom’s gay review stirs the pot in Malden

Boston Herald ^ | 02/23/2006 | Matthew Keough

[Panerai]

A gay Web site’s praise of bawdy bathroom behavior in Malden City Hall has sparked a tempest over the toilet.

The mayor is ordering the first-floor men’s room to remain open while city councilors want it locked up or a security plan put in place.

“The public needs these kinds of facilities and I don’t see the need of closing it,” said Malden Mayor Richard Howard, adding others are “overreacting” to the gay site.

An anonymous letter sent to the City Council alerted them to a five-star ranking on the Gay Universe site for male-on-male sexual encounters in the stalls.

The men’s room in Malden City Hall is the only municipal building listed, according to the site. It’s a desirable destination some politicians are determined to blot out.

“God forbid someone’s kids are in there when this is going on,” said Councilor John Furlong.

City Council President Michael T. Sheehan, in a letter faxed to the Herald, called on the mayor to present a “security plan” to protect those who need to use the bathroom if he intends to keep it open.

Frank Conway of the Government Center Commission, which oversees the bathrooms, said there have been arrests for trespassing and damage.

“I just hope we don’t have to hire a detail officer to stay down there,” he added.

[SIDENET]

This goes a long way towards proving that public restroom phobias are well-founded.

[King of Florida]

[Andy'smom]

"This is a Massachusetts City Hall, isn't it? So, why don't they just convert the restroom into a wedding chapel?"

Exactly. They can get married and have their honeymoon all in the same building.

[sgtbono2002]

Its already a Honeymoon bedchamber.

[rbg81]

During college, I worked the night shift (8PM - 2AM) in a Perkins restaurant near the Univ of Cincinnati. You wouldn't believe what went on the the restrooms there. One technique was the grocery bag track. Two homos would go into the rest room stall. To camouflage their activities, one would keep their shoes on--the other would put their feet into a brown grocery bag. This would give the appearance that one person was in the stall. If you heard moaning or heavy breathing, they would claim that they were have a difficult "bowel movement" (which wasn't too far from the truth). Basically, these guys didn't want to actually go home and do their business--that would take too much time. They wanted to do the deed then go back for more (with a different partner) as much as humanly possible every night. We had to do fag sweeps about every half hour--because of its location, Perkins was quite the hangout. My eight months there taught me more about human nature than I learned anywhere else.

[rbg81]

During college, I worked the night shift (8PM - 2AM) in a Perkins restaurant near the Univ of Cincinnati. You wouldn't believe what went on in the restrooms there. One technique was the grocery bag trick. Two homos would go into the rest room stall. To camouflage their activities, one would keep their shoes on--the other would put their feet into a brown paper bag. This would give the appearance that one person was in the stall. If you heard moaning or heavy breathing, they would claim that they were have a difficult "bowel movement" (which wasn't too far from the truth). Basically, these guys didn't want to actually go home and do their business--that would take too much time. They would just do the deed then go back for more (with a different partner) as much as humanly possible every night. We had to do fag sweeps about every half hour. Because of its location, Perkins was quite the hangout. My eight months there taught me more about human nature than I learned anywhere else.

[Mr. Brightside]

Equal rights at play here?

We have to let them have sex in the City Hall restroom to make them feel equal?

Ugh!

[JRios1968]

Brokeback Stall...

[Hemingway's Ghost]

What is it about a certain bunch of homos who find men's rest rooms so erotic? For the life of me, Elle MacPherson could haul me into a man's sh*tter in order to do bump uglies and there's no way I could get into it, not with some gross guy dropping a deuce a few feet away.

[Max in Utah]

Love anonymous sex in a public toilet. How special.

[Tijeras_Slim]

More than I needed to know.

[new cruelty]

Sounds like a plot line for the next Ang Lee movie.

If you build it, they will come.

[new cruelty]

[texson66]

When we do nothing to stop the mental illness of homosexuality, then we are reaping the results of such behavior. Why should anyone in the NE be surprised?

[FormerLib]

These things only happen because society won't let them marry. (Yeah, right.)

[jjmcgo]

I could do Elle MacPherson on the center-lane divider on I-95 at rush hour.
It's just a matter of focus, Ghostie.

[ApplegateRanch]

Gee, I wonder what makes or breaks a stall's chances of jumping from 4-star to 5-star.

Heated floor tiles?

[AppyPappy]

There used to be a website dedicated to "good sites" for sexual behavior. I checked it to rule out any accidental encounters. It turned out the bathroom at the gym where I worked out had a favorable rating. Yikes.

[Old Professer]

I can't reconcile the mechanics of it.

[Old Professer]

Pretty small, eh?