Middleton Library restrooms serve as sex 'hot spots'
University facilities listed on Web site
Elizabeth Miller
Issue date: 10/1/07 Section: News
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Some of the restrooms are also "hot spots" for men engaging in anonymous sexual encounters on campus.
Two restrooms in Middleton, as well as a first-floor men's restroom in Coates Hall, are listed on the Web site cruisingforsex.com for men hoping to tryst with other men.
The Web site, which lists tips and popular meeting spots for men, grew in popularity when individuals found a listing of the Minnesota airport bathroom where the now infamous foot-tapping of one U.S. senator took place.
The issue of sex in public restrooms has gained national attention with the recent guilty plea of U.S. Sen. Larry Craig, R-Idaho, and the sex sting operation in a Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport bathroom that caught him.
Craig was arrested after he allegedly initiated sex signals with an undercover police officer.
Maj. Lawrence Rabalais, LSUPD spokesman, said the activity is illegal.
"It's illegal for two people to meet up if they're consenting because it's a crime against nature," he said.
Rabalais said the signals used by the undercover police officers in Craig's case are similar to those used by LSUPD when the officers perform sting operations on campus.
"There are different signals these people give," Rabalais said. "They tap their feet or make a certain noise letting them know that's what they are there for."
Rabalais said some of the men drill holes in the stall to conduct fellatio with another man in a neighboring stall.
The Web site referred to the holes as "glory holes."
"They cut a hole in the partician in the stall, put their penis in the hole and that's when the offense of obscenity would occur," Rabalais said.
He said LSUPD receives about six calls a year "for that particular activity," only from victims who say they were unwillingly approached.
Julie Fandal, sociology sophomore who works on the third floor of Middleton Library, said she received a complaint from a library patron this past year about suspicious bathroom activity.
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Harvardbeans
posted 10/01/07 @ 9:35 AM CST
Silly gays...
Michael Dee
posted 10/01/07 @ 10:11 AM CST
Turn that little hole in the wall into a Guillotine.
Shawn Wilkinson
posted 10/01/07 @ 12:50 PM CST
My recommendation if someone sticks their penis through the hole is to kick it. Seriously, just kick it. Maybe that individual will think twice inserting their penis into random holes. (Continued…)
Jennifer Rodrigue
posted 10/01/07 @ 2:37 PM CST
Does anyone know for a fact that this goes happens on LSU campus?...b/c if not..I want to know why this myth of this "glory hole" is making it as a story in the reveille! Seriously, where do you get your "ideas"
Samantha A
posted 10/01/07 @ 4:30 PM CST
All I can say is eeewwwww....
Amy
posted 10/01/07 @ 4:39 PM CST
Maj. Lawrence Rabalais of the LSUPD cracks me up. Really, the so-called "victims" were "unwillingly" approached? The "crimes against nature" comment is also hilarious, as well as wrong for many reasons. (Continued…)
Hera
posted 10/01/07 @ 6:10 PM CST
ha ha ha ha ha. wow, this will really help LSU lose its party school image.
Mr. Homo S. Sapien
posted 10/01/07 @ 9:26 PM CST
This is precisely the type of homosexual activity that brings many people to look with disdain on their lifestyle (and how about adding the Decadence Festival in New Orleans). (Continued…)
Brian
posted 10/02/07 @ 11:06 AM CST
Dear Mr. Homo S. Sapien (previous post),
Homosexual males not allowed in public restrooms? How were you admitted to this University with such ignorance? True this type of activity is controllable, but the university is to blame for not updating restroom facilities. (Continued…)
Dylan
posted 10/02/07 @ 2:27 PM CST
Also of note, it is not homosexuals who typically engage in this type of behavior. The article mentions only 14% of the people caught doing this were gay, so people who do this are more similar Larry Craig and Ted Haggard. (Continued…)
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