I managed to evolve out of that, but many men don’t. I only know all of this because I was very much caught in this world when I was younger, semi-closeted, and certainly self-hating. They are money-making endeavors, they have no altruistic facet at all, they don’t care about gay people or the gay community whatsoever. Nor are the businesses gay-owned or gay operated. No one from the neighborhood would go near these places. They also get drunk and high, and become more and more disruptive, harassing passers-by and fighting with each other. They come from all over the city to try and make a buck, or just to hang out. Hustlers, pick pockets, drug addicts, drug dealers, and the mentally ill. The other demographic are the men that feed on the above. They are not convivial little shops, where the neighborhood comes in to shop and connect, not at all. The demographic here is the closeted, the sex addicted, the desperate, or just folks who can’t emotionally handle any level of intimacy. The money is made by the video machines in each both that need to be fed $$$ continuously so you can stay in the booth. Besides the odd tourist who wanders in, or the occasional dildo buyer, the whole set up is to wander around, try to catch someones eye, and get adjoining booths that either have a screen that rises to connect the two people, or simply a hole in the wall to stick your dick through. The retail portion as you walk in is just a cover for what is going on in the back. We have to realign this conversation, and talk about what is really going on in these sex stores on 8th Avenue. Gay sex, one should not move in the most famous gay neighborhoods in the world.
Thinking they could break down the “gay life stile” LOLīy law who is first has rights, if one doesn’t want to expose its children to This is like religious bigots purposely moving in castro or Christopher street, So I wonder about that 5th sex shop, most likely they are all on different Times square sex trade, and the same regulations apply to the rest of NYC, Years ago Mayor Giuliani regulated sex shops in order to break down the Let be honest here, chelsea was gay from the 70s, any family that moves inĬhelsea and complains about gay, well, why are you there?Īs far as sex shops, too many do ruin the neighborhood, but there are laws in NYC regulating sex shops concentration, and I am pretty sure the area is already oversaturated, I used to live in chelsea and still go by it often, it is one of the trendy areas of NYCĮspecially its highline park, and there are no condoms what so ever on the street and nobody has sex on public, guys will hold hands and kiss in public I am NOT shocked that people do shop in those stores (personally I too prefer to see and touch what I am buying rather than this online shopping shit that is the latest craze these days) but as far as the arcades go I AM shocked they still cruise there. And yes, had the guy not pleaded guilty and went to trail a jury would have been expected to believe that shit.
A middle aged man from Europe checks into one of the top three most expensive hotels in NYC and goes and turns tricks on 8th ave. One accusation that will always stand out to me was the one where a guy flies in from Europe, checks into the Waldorf-Astoria (the one where rooms START at damn near $900 per night) and then goes over to the video arcade (according to the arresting officer) tells a TWENTY-SOMETHING year old under cover cop that for twenty dollars he will blow him. It seems like yesterday morning (though it has been right at 8 years) when the NYPD were arresting gay men in those video arcades with all kinds of accusations. This QUITE possible lie notwithstanding I would advise those who cruise thru those shops to be EXTREMELY careful. When he asked him to get the olive oil, the child replied: “Dad, why don’t we use the Boy Butter?”
“One man described as a “father” told the Times that he was recently cooking dinner with his 6-year-old son.