I’m a little behind the current news cycle, and just learned the following story:
On June 11th 2007, Idaho Senator Larry Craig was arrested for lewd conduct in an airport bathroom in Minneapolis. Apparently, a bathroom in this particular airport is a known meeting place for gay men to meet complete strangers and engage in sexual activities in a public place. To initiate the sexual contact, one simply sits in the stall next to the stall in question, and engages in a “series of intricate foot gestures”.
On this particular date, a police officer familiar with these details sat in the “hook-up stall” and waited for someone to solicit him. According to the officer, Senator Craig first spent about 13 minutes attempting to peak in a crack in the stall door from the outside. He then proceeded to occupy the stall next to the “hook-up stall”, and performed the known “series of intricate foot gestures.” Finally, the Senator simply reached his hand under the divider to the adjoining stall, and the police officer promptly arrested him.
Ironically, Senator Craig is a conservative Republican well known to be harshly “anti-gay” in his politics. That’s pretty much the pot, in a glass house, calling the kettle black, while throwing stones!
This story not only amuses me for pure content; apparently the Senator had the balls to deny the story when it first came to a head (I assure you, the puns were accidental). At first, the Senator attempted to claim that he simply had a “wide-stall stance”. This is, in and of itself, a hysterical idea... as any straight guy can tell you. Unfortunately, most of us are so homophobic that we can’t even occupy the stall next to another man if there is another option. Later, the Senator changed his story, claiming that the police officer was a large man, and intimidated him into the whole thing.
Now let me get this straight - Senator Craig claims he was ‘intimidated’ into soliciting sex in a public restroom.
I don’t know about you, but when I’m scared, I generally run like hell. Sucking on another man's penis is typically not my initial response.
I remember the “Fight or Flight” response from school. I must have been napping when my teachers mentioned this third option. But then again, “Fight, Flight, or Suck a Dick!” doesn’t have the same ring to it.
I can only imagine going to a horror movie with Senator Larry Craig:
ME: “Wow, Larry, did you see that? Jason just jumped out of nowhere with that bloody ax and… LARRY WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU DOING!!!”
Sadly, being a gay man is now going to be associated with soliciting sex from strangers in a public place thanks to this hypocritical jackass.
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