Reply #34: Interesting question! [View All]

Funny thing is here in Australia we have laws which do prevent police harassment of this kind to a point. Basically if you are in a public bathroom and engaging in an sexual act BEHIND a closed cubical door to the point where the police will need to peer over the top or bottom of the door/walls, that they are in fact breaking the privacy laws. However if you are engaging in a sexual act in the open area of the bathroom then you can be arrested for it.

I don't consider it a form of gay bashing so long as the police are responsible for checking both male and female bathrooms (women do have sex in public bathrooms, I have come across it many times over my years) and also arrest heterosexual couples who are engaging in sex in public bathrooms (it isn't just gay couples who engage in sex in public bathrooms.) But if police are just targeting known gay pick up hot spots then yes, it is a form of gay bashing.

You also need to remember that quite a few of the men caught having sex with another man in a bathroom are usually men who live a double life. Meaning they are usually men with families (wives and children.)