Slog - Comments on The Potty's Over http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/the_pottys_over Big news out of Minneapolis... New dividers aimed at stopping Minneapolis airport liaisons The crowded airport bathroom where Sen. Larry Craig was arrested is about to become an even less-inviting place for a rendezvous. Airport officials plan to put in new stall dividers just 2 to 3 inches above the floor, instead of as much as a foot now. The new dividers will go in two bathrooms where the airport has had complaints about sex, including the one where Craig was arrested. So the potty's over--or is it? I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but it seems... Copyright 2008 Fri, 28 Sep 2007 11:31:41 -0800 Sun, 30 Sep 2007 00:07:06 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.34 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Comment by nelbot Ugh oh Dan, that just wasn't punny!

]]> nelbot http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/the_pottys_over#c814013 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/the_pottys_over#c814013 News Fri, 28 Sep 2007 11:43:48 -0800 Comment by divided They should install those tiny half doors like in the bathrooms downstairs at Westlake Center. Or just get rid of them altogether. That'll keep those pervs out!

]]> divided http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/the_pottys_over#c814019 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/the_pottys_over#c814019 News Fri, 28 Sep 2007 11:52:01 -0800 Comment by Explorer Grrr. Those dividers are going to make it so much harder to take my Christmas card photo.

]]> Explorer http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/the_pottys_over#c814026 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/the_pottys_over#c814026 News Fri, 28 Sep 2007 12:02:34 -0800 Comment by Gitai The lower stall dividers will indeed make it better for cruising. It'll be that much harder to notice four legs in a stall. It's like that in Britain, and it's way easier to have sex in gay bar bathrooms there.

]]> Gitai http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/the_pottys_over#c814032 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/the_pottys_over#c814032 News Fri, 28 Sep 2007 12:07:02 -0800 Comment by Bont This says that the dividers will be lowered, not the door in the front. If the door is left at its normal height, people in the washroom should still be able to notice if there are one or more pairs of feet in a stall. Which is generally how I check to see if a stall is occupied anyways. Nothing disturbs the tranqility of a good shit like somebody jostling the locked door.

]]> Bont http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/the_pottys_over#c814067 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/the_pottys_over#c814067 News Fri, 28 Sep 2007 12:31:51 -0800 Comment by Eric F Correct me if I'm wrong, but wasn't the gist of the cop and the senator's hand signals that the cop was supposed to put his junk under the stall for the senator to futz with? Anonymity, rather than toiletness, being the site's draw...

]]> Eric F http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/the_pottys_over#c814069 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/the_pottys_over#c814069 News Fri, 28 Sep 2007 12:34:42 -0800 Comment by victor from MSP I have cruised those johns for years. And, for all you oafs, the game is to go somewhere else.

Have fished dozens of guys into my van over the years, never doing anything on site.

I think you under rate us MSP ers.

Or, you are just filth in Seattle.

No manner of stall up or stall down or even security on site stops gestures and eye contact, etc. Has not the straight world spent a lot of effort to stop gay men from cruising? Has it worked?

The tourists are easy prey, lots of just coming out types, all so very horny.

MSP is awash with new red hot cruising energy.

]]> victor from MSP http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/the_pottys_over#c814093 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/the_pottys_over#c814093 News Fri, 28 Sep 2007 13:00:49 -0800 Comment by victor's the exception From the article dan linked to:

One of the people arrested over the summer told police he had four sexual encounters in three hours, and it was only on his fifth approach that someone objected, Hogan said.

To score with four guys in three hours, stopping only when a fifth objected, I don't think toilet boy was running to and from his van. I think he stayed in his stall.

]]> victor's the exception http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/the_pottys_over#c814127 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/the_pottys_over#c814127 News Fri, 28 Sep 2007 13:29:44 -0800 Comment by Erin He might have. A little anonymous bathroom sex, a little cardio, multitasking, you know?

But really, thinking that making bathrooms MORE private is not going to make things better. I'd like to meet someone with that kind of logic. Silliness.

]]> Erin http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/the_pottys_over#c814162 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/the_pottys_over#c814162 News Fri, 28 Sep 2007 14:04:54 -0800 Comment by Erin Wow, syntax failage there. subtract the "thinking that".

]]> Erin http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/the_pottys_over#c814163 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/the_pottys_over#c814163 News Fri, 28 Sep 2007 14:06:28 -0800 Comment by victor's the exception Maybe the MSP should establish "encounter cubicles" or something. The marquee of the motel near my house growing up offered a special 4-hour "nap rate," so any guy who got lucky could take advantage of his good fortune.

]]> victor's the exception http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/the_pottys_over#c814170 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/the_pottys_over#c814170 News Fri, 28 Sep 2007 14:12:26 -0800 Comment by Fred Why don't they just re-design all public bathrooms. Have the partitions and door go all the way to the floor. Add small windows that raise and lower on each side of the person sitting in the stall. If you play you raise your window. If you do not want to play keep it closed. This way you keep it behind closed doors. And by all means provide note paper and a pen.

]]> Fred http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/the_pottys_over#c814458 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/the_pottys_over#c814458 News Fri, 28 Sep 2007 19:08:10 -0800 Comment by dominus vobiscum Add small windows that raise and lower on each side of the person sitting in the stall. If you play you raise your window
Too reminiscent of the confessional -- or maybe that was the point?

]]> dominus vobiscum http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/the_pottys_over#c814648 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/the_pottys_over#c814648 News Sat, 29 Sep 2007 12:59:31 -0800 Comment by nolocontendere Ah, but our task is to generate a snappy headline.
Potty's over is pretty good.

]]> nolocontendere http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/the_pottys_over#c814790 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/the_pottys_over#c814790 News Sun, 30 Sep 2007 00:07:06 -0800