Posted on 09/01/2007 4:39:50 PM PDT by Coleus
Sen. Larry Craig's case has opened a window on a small but thriving subculture. The founder of a popular cruising Web site discusses what makes a hotspot, the etiquette and trends in the online quest for gay sex—and his concern that mere foot-tapping could trigger an arrest.
The Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport is enjoying a rather awkward moment in the sun, as reporters descend on the men’s room where Idaho Republican Sen. Larry Craig was arrested for disorderly conduct owing to the foot taps heard round the world. But the Twin Cities flight hub was flashing red in a smaller precinct of opinion two months ago—when a well-trafficked Web site alerted readers that police had made a number of arrests at the very spot where Craig was collared. “I just got busted here,” warned one poster on cruisingforsex.com, a site that lists tips, popular trysting outlets and gay personals. [Editor's note: This site and others mentioned in this article contain explicit images and language.]
Information about what spots are hot—and which are not—were once traded by word of mouth by the subset of the local gay community interested in that sort of thing. But thanks to cruisingforsex.com (which boasts some 30,000 visitors daily, its operators say) and its competitors, such information is easily accessible around the country—and the world. And the information is precise; some listings direct readers to visit a location between, say 10:30 a.m. and 2 p.m. NEWSWEEK’s Brian Braiker spoke to the site’s founder, Keith Griffiths, about what happened to Craig and the way the online cruising world works.
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Amen...
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
Craig is so far in the closet, he can't even admit to himself that he is gay. Delusional and pathetic!
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