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And I don't mean in the bathroom (straights do that) and I don't mean bathhouses.
My buddy told me that he sees perfectly normal gay guys having oral, anal, you-name-it in gay bars on the reg. That shocked me and I wasn't sure if it was just the bars he frequents or if that's actually a normal occurrence.
Is it true? Is it that standard?
This depends on many things. But first, let's be clear. Straight people fuck everywhere including clubs and including gay clubs. I have seen it. So what's shocking to you is sex in bars, not gay sex in bars, you probably just aren't the type to screw in a bar regardless. Gay bars are havens from a world that still kills us with impunity for having sex period most places in the world including the U.S. and Canada.
The traditional cruising bar was a safer space for us to meet, hook up, stay there or go home but that forced no one into dangerous choices. The sex we were having there and still do in some cases is illegal. Always has been. Toronto struck down bawdy house laws 10 years ago making it legal for the first time.
So why the big deal? Well, cruising is part of our culture just like drinking at prom and making poor life decisions or any of the liquored up social rituals of sex and dating hetero culture enjoys. Online has not replaced it well or even partiality well. It's not just sex. It's a whole social ritual that established and kept norms.
Most cruising bars in NA are closed, the gay villages that surrounded them collapsing under rising rents and out of control development. Europe is a different kettle of fish all around. They have little of the Puritanism that infects the soul of America still. It is part of human celebration of life that sex is a ritual in for all humans pre Christian. I believe it keeps us alive.