Great Western Dragon writes “Just when you thought it was safe to use the restroom, the University of Rhode Island Libraries report that they’re having quite the problem with students not only vandalising the library bathrooms, but using them for sexual activities.
Interim Dean of the University Library Chris Wessells says that holes are being drilled into the walls between the stalls, he said, to be used for sex. These holes are commonly referred to as “gloryholes.” Intrigued? Check out the article here.“
say that again?
“…an excessive amount of blood and semen…”
I’m just wondering what is considered a normal amount of blood and semen? It’s nice to know that normal at my library is zero.
How to keep perverts out of the bathrooms:
1) Remove doors from the stalls, replace with shower curtains.
2) Put 1/4 steel plate over remaining stall walls.
3) Have the police make regular trips to the bathrooms to look for persons breaking the law.
4) Arrest and prosecute those persons caught breaking the law.
That will take about a week. No, please there is no need for a consulting fee, consider it gratis common sense.
You’ll notice that putting up a flyer is not on the list. What the hell would the flyer say? Please don’t fellate other users of the mens’ room?
There is a time and place for everything and a library toilet is not the place for illicit assignations. These disgusting public sex seeking perverts are a danger to the community. A child should be able to use the toilet without seeing some pervert engaged in a sex act. The fact that it is apparently homosexual behavior is not relevent, no sex acts of any nature should take place in any library area. These are public buildings not cat houses.
Personally if someone thrusts their penis into the stall I am using I will kick it so hard they could use their urethra as a necktie.
Ya can’t even take a whiz anymore…maybe the radical Islamic fellas and all their cutting things off have the right idea.
Back in college…
Back in undergraduate at George Mason, there were 2 of the half-dozen floors of the library that I avoided at all costs.
The 3rd floor, with it’s smoking-permitted study room was awful. The fact that this study room had a double-set of doors and a supposedly separate climate control system did not prevent the entire rest of the floor from smelling like cigarettes. I even avoided reserving books from the LOC sections housed on that floor.
The other floor changed from semester to semester, but was usually one of the top three. It was the one where the “tea room” was currently located. One year there was elevated campus police visibility in the library in an attempt reduce the activity. It worked, but apparently many of them just moved to a remote bathroom in the Foreign Language building, right next to a computer lab that I was in charge of. That only lasted a couple of weeks. I tried, but couldn’t get much help from the campus cops, who wouldn’t spare any of the people they had patrolling the stacks. No, the language professors started booking classes into the lab and the sudden busy-ness of the area shooed the tea room traders away to who-knows where.
Puzzled by logistics
Call me dense but how do the holes get there in the first place?
I know that my own college security tended toward donut-fueled apathy, but wouldn’t library security be suspicious of a person wandering through the library with a Bosch 1005VSRK drill with tooth hole saw attachment and 6 feet of extension cord?
Oh my
Granted, although I know Wikipedia is not always considered authoritative I still went to it to get some initial bearings and ideas as to what on earth “gloryholes” were. I learned about where the word originated and how it got its connotation. Such always proves “interesting”, I suppose.
That’s all that I can really say in this instance directly on my own.
Re:How to keep perverts out of the bathrooms:
There is a time and place for everything and a library toilet is not the place for illicit assignations…These are public buildings not cat houses.
Amen. I remember while in library school how many undergraduates were busted at night for hiding out in the stacks having sex (bathrooms were never thought of due to their odd location along high-traffic routes within the library building, I bet). Regrettably the only stacks that were sufficiently secluded…were the library science stacks. It was equal opportunity for being thrown out of the library in such an instance. Even “making out” was enough reason to get thrown out. There was no discrimination as to whether heterosexual or homosexual. Such was just inappropriate behavior in the stacks of the library.
And yes, I went to a public state-owned university, to boot!
Unbelievable!
I kind of thought this sort of behavior was ancient history. There were a few bathrooms in the library at my alma mater that I didn’t like visiting (and there were rumors that people did have gay sex in there), but I never ever came close to catching someone doing such stuff.
As for the blood, that’s what they should get for sticking their thang through a jagged metal hole. You don’t think those cutouts are all neat and smooth with nice beveled edges, do you?
Isn’t this what …
sex closets are for? I’m so confused! Why would you put a sex closet in a library and not let people use it….
Re:Unbelievable!
Maybe that’s what the Bosch drill is for…
Seriously, jagged metal and naughty bits are a *bad* combo. This seems a Darwin Award waiting to happen. And yet somehow the library will be at fault for an injury of this nature.
Re:Oh my
Hey AG, you every get the feeling after learning some new bit of knowledge that you would have been completely better off, going through life without ever learning or knowing about the aformentioned thing.
Oh if only one could unlearn as well as learn.