Gay video booths
Clive texted me for a second period, but I ignored it. It was just past noon on a Monday and he was craving a lunchtime quickie. I needed to stick with my decision to not have sex with him, even though it probably would have helped take my soul off DH. Instead I decided to go to the Folsom Gulch in Soma, a same-sex attracted video arcade. I’d never been to one before, but San Francisco had a few and I thought I’d give it a try. I’d interpret somewhere that arcades are sometimes attached to sex shops so customers could “view” the pornography prior to purchasing it. Who purchases pornography these days? Honestly, I was just hoping to catch some direct guys on their lunch break.
The Gulch looked appreciate any other smutty sex shop: lube bottles lining the walls, neon signs hanging from above and racks of clearance DVDs. The man behind the counter was texting on his device as I approached him to seek how the arcade worked.
You compensate $10 for in and out privileges until 6pm. For an extra $5, you can obtain in and out privileges all evening. I couldn’t dream making a darkness of it, so I just paid the minimum. “Is it just over here?” I asked, pointing to chain divid
Several men were arrested in Maryland after police raided an mature person bookstore and charged the men using an unconstitutional anti-sodomy law.
According to the Washington Blade, the Harford County Sheriff’s Office raided the Bush River Books & Video store in Abington on May 20. Nine men were arrested and many of them were accused of engaging in sexual acts with each other. One was also accused of soliciting prostitution from an undercover female deputy.
Four of the men are facing a charge of perverted sexual practices, which is the state’s anti-sodomy law. One man received the same impose and an additional charge of indecent exposure. The other four men are facing charges of indecent exposure or solicitation of prostitution.
“I went inside and was hooking up with someone and the next thing I perceive eight of us were against the wall with handcuffs with plastic zip ties on them,” one man, from here on referred to as John Doe, arrested in the raid told the Washington Blade. “And we all spent the night in jail. I was released at like six o’clock in the morning.”
A companion of one of the men shared that the friend and another man were in a locked booth when the police “in
Gay Cruise Cinemas in Berlin
Connection Shop & Kino
Monday-Saturday 12:00 – 22:00/23:00;Sunday 14:00 – 22:00/23:00
Sex shop: toys and fetish gear.
Cruising cinema: spread over 3 levels with video booths, cinema room, sling etc.
Lockboxes and vending machine.
connection-berlin.de/shop
@ Fuggerstraße 33
Berlin 10777
U: Wittenbergplatz, Nollendorfplatz
+49 30 218 1432
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Duplexx (Schöneberg)
Daily 12:00 – 24:00;Friday, Saturday till 02:00
Videos, cruising and small shop.
Admission: 10-16 €
@ Martin-Luther-Straße 14
Berlin 10777
U: Wittenbergplatz, Nollendorfplatz
+49 30 2363 1884
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The Jaxx
Daily 12:00 – 03:00
Videos, cruising area and shop.
Restrictive and discriminating door policy.
Admission: ~ 10 €
thejaxx.de
@ Motzstraße 19
Berlin 10777
U: Nollendorfplatz
+49 30 213 8103
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XXL
Daily 12:00 – 02:00
Video booths cruising at Prenzlauer Berg.
Busiest days are Wednesday (admission 2 € less) and Sunday evening (from approx. 18:00).
Admission: ~ 9-12 €
xxl-berlin.de
@ Bor
Video Booths, 1995
Tom Burr belongs to a generation of artists for whom the term “context art” emerged in the 1990s, although it never really caught on. The contexts activated by Burr include diverse disciplines like the public architectures, social dynamics and political restrictions in urban space. Burr primarily references marginalized settings (parks, public toilets, porn cinemas, queer bars) in which (homo)sexual identity can be fashioned. The relaxation of legal restrictions from the mid-1960s onwards suddenly created the desire to design a new architectural element which would approve (semi-)private enjoyment of pornographic films or peepshows in a public area. This architecture is the starting point of Burr’s work Video Booths. Made of simple plywood and measuring 304 × 120 × 214 cm, it corresponds to the dimensions of a true video booth. Given the subject matter, this is a surprisingly reduced aesthetics which does not present provocative images, but in truth strictly bans any erotic material. Burr brings the site of a subculture, a sexualized zone, into the context of a general art exhibition, thereby implicitly raising the issue of demarcation between the common and p