![]() There’s certainly less toilet sex out there. And even I was surprised by some of the things my gay forefathers got up to in there (I’ll leave what the French “ Soupeurs” did with baguettes to your imagination).īut now that public sex has made it to museums, does that mean it’s over? The answer is a resounding jein. For example, here in Berlin, public toilets used to be nicknamed “ Café Achteck” for their original octagonal shape. There are plenty of facts to take home, the kind you won’t be sharing with Oma. “Within these atypical places of transience and sociability, social differences were blurred and otherwise separated cultures briefly mixed,” he writes in his introduction.īut this is not only a sociological study. In a mix of photos and artefacts, French photographer Marc Martin describes the history of public toilets as cruising hotspots, as well as their significance. ![]() ![]() It’s currently the topic of a brilliant exhibition at the Schwules Museum called Fenster zum Klo(a nod to Frank Ripploh’s West Berlin gay film Taxi zum Klo). Yes, before the days of darkrooms and Grindr, Berlin gays got their anonymous jollies in public johns.
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