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CRUISING, COTTAGING, AND VOYEURISM

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CRUISINGThis section is divided into four parts.

  • Cottaging  refers to having sex in public toilets, and locations include bus stations, railway stations, motorway service stations and airports. Cottaging is usually a one-off, anonymous encounter.
  • Cruising refers to searching for a sexual partner for an anonymous, often on-off encounter. Cruising is typically private or discreet, in areas or sites such as side-streets, parks, road lay-bys, (nudist) beaches, dunes and other public places.
  • Cruising the streets. Meeting guys on the street happens all the time, but while the theory is simple, the practice requires a little more balls and timing. 
  • Voyeurism is gaining sexual pleasure from watching or recording other people engaged in sex and/ or intimate behaviour or other activities of a private nature. 

Fun fact: Under the Sexual Offences Act 2003, looking for and having sex in public toilets (gay or straight) is illegal in the UK, including sex behind closed/ locked doors and solo masturbation. Unlike cottaging, cruising is not illegal. Sex in public places is not illegal unless it’s witnessed and/ or there’s a reasonable chance of being witnessed by others, eg: passers-by, dog walkers. 

If you fall foul of the law: Get professional legal advice at the earliest opportunity. Know your rights when questioned and/ or arrested. Anything you say may be used as evidence against you.

 

 

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