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5 arrested at gay sex site
Phila. Daily News ^ | Thu, Feb. 13, 2003 | CATHERINE LUCEY

Posted on 02/14/2003 6:21:55 AM PST by NativeSon

Wild, anonymous, male sex romps took place frequently in the sixth-floor men's room at the Center City Strawbridge's store, police said.

Police arrested five men yesterday, and another half dozen last month, in the bathroom, which is listed as a primo sex spot on a graphic Web site catering to gay men.

The men's room also was featured in Philadelphia magazine last month as "one of the classiest spots in town to find love with a perfect stranger."

All face charges of prostitution or lewd behavior, said Lt. Charles Green. None was a Strawbridge's employees.

Strawbridge officials were not available to comment last night.

Green said Strawbridge's, on Market near 9th, reported the problem to police in early January after a father and son walked into the bathroom around Christmas and saw two men having sex.

According to posts on the gay Web site, the bathroom has been popular for months. As many as 11 men could be crowded into the room, they said.

"I've been here when the stalls were half full and three guys were standing outside the occupied stalls with their pants down (or off completely!)," one writer said.

Another said: "I've been there when four or five guys are all going at it at the same time."

The bathroom is located in the restaurant, at the far end of the long pink dining room, with white linen tablecloths, crystal chandeliers and oil paintings.

The restroom appeared pretty slow last night.

The Web site also suggests other public bathrooms for the sexually voracious, including one in the Mellon Building on Market near 8th; the bathroom near the food court at the Gallery, on Market between 7th and 11th; and the basement restroom in the Mellon Bank Building at Market Street near 18th.

Green said they were investigating other locations, but would not reveal where they were.


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1 posted on 02/14/2003 6:21:56 AM PST by NativeSon
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To: NativeSon
what is it with gay men and public bathrooms????
2 posted on 02/14/2003 6:24:34 AM PST by FeliciaCat
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To: NativeSon
Arrest'em.
3 posted on 02/14/2003 6:24:58 AM PST by yendu bwam
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To: FeliciaCat
C'mon. They are just like us.
4 posted on 02/14/2003 6:25:00 AM PST by AppyPappy (Caesar si viveret, ad remum dareris.)
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To: yendu bwam
Arrest'em and throw'em in jail. They'll thank us for it, and we can go to the bathroom again without puking, and without worrying about our children.
5 posted on 02/14/2003 6:27:55 AM PST by yendu bwam
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To: Neets
you might want to find a new store to shop at.
6 posted on 02/14/2003 6:28:18 AM PST by CONSERVE
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To: NativeSon
Philly isn't known as the city of brotherly love for nothing.
7 posted on 02/14/2003 6:29:43 AM PST by HamiltonJay
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To: NativeSon
The city of Brotherly-Love.
8 posted on 02/14/2003 6:30:20 AM PST by Darth Hillary
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To: NativeSon
Doesn't that old adage "the smeller's the feller" applyt here?

I can see the cops at the stationhouse now:

I was searching gay cruising websites, and there is a place we have to bust.

LOL

9 posted on 02/14/2003 6:32:01 AM PST by Chancellor Palpatine (those who unilaterally beat their swords into plowshares wind up plowing for those who don't)
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To: Chancellor Palpatine
I can see the cops at the stationhouse now:

Bahaha, yeah, I can imagine, I'm from Philly and I know a lot of the cops there and this must be the "sh*t detail" you're put on for some scr*w up.

10 posted on 02/14/2003 6:37:57 AM PST by NativeSon (Nothing says "Love" like a new gun!)
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To: AppyPappy
yeah..right ;)
11 posted on 02/14/2003 6:38:35 AM PST by FeliciaCat
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To: FeliciaCat
what is it with gay men and public bathrooms????

Reminds me of that old song (Jimmy Buffet?)..."Looking for love in all the wrong places"

12 posted on 02/14/2003 6:42:32 AM PST by ErnBatavia ((Bumperootus!))
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To: AppyPappy
C'mon. They are just like us.

Ya' know, the funny thing is that I use to try to believe this but after observation and experience, I know that it isn't true.

I mean, who would do this? We're not talking about a nightclub here but what use to be a great department store. I've been there many times since I was a child and it was a classy place that reminded me of the way Philly once was like back in the day.

These people want America to accept them as good, honest flok but they do things that good honest folk don't do.

13 posted on 02/14/2003 6:43:50 AM PST by NativeSon (Nothing says "Love" like a new gun!)
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To: NativeSon
They were born that way!(sarcasm)
14 posted on 02/14/2003 6:44:47 AM PST by mtbrandon49 (BOHICA)
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To: ErnBatavia
Never been Buffett. It was on the soundtrack of "Urban Cowboy". Johnny Lee maybe.
15 posted on 02/14/2003 6:47:58 AM PST by AppyPappy (Caesar si viveret, ad remum dareris.)
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To: NativeSon
Libertarians must be so upset that these men aren't allowed to inject or injest anything they want into their own bodies.
16 posted on 02/14/2003 6:48:08 AM PST by biblewonk
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To: NativeSon
Amazing how one of the agenda items for the Homofascists is to make this practice legal.
17 posted on 02/14/2003 6:49:18 AM PST by Guillermo (Sic 'Em)
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To: FeliciaCat
Are you inferring that Native Son would know about gay sex in public bathrooms? ;^)
19 posted on 02/14/2003 7:06:09 AM PST by Blood of Tyrants (Even if the government took all your earnings, you wouldn’t be, in its eyes, a slave)
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To: NativeSon
"...`Cause I live and breathe this Philadelphia freedom
From the day that I was born I've waved the flag
Philadelphia freedom took me knee-high to a man
Yeah gave me peace of mind my daddy never had..."
20 posted on 02/14/2003 7:08:15 AM PST by new cruelty
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