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Date: Wed, 30 Nov 1994 17:07:36 UTC
Subject: Tearoom 101
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Since there has been some talk on T-rooms and glory holes, I thought I
should repost my essay on Tearooms again.  I wrote it some time back.
Many people have written back to say how accurate it was and one even
suggested that I send it to Steam magazine to have it published.
Yeah, I think it's a pretty good piece of work myself considering that
I just started typing and typing without any preplanning.  :)

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			     TEAROOM 101
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I am not sure about the origin of the word 'tearoom' but I think it
comes from 'T-room' which is short for 'toilet room'.  Yes, tearooms
are men's rooms where sexual activity goes on.  They are not
advertised anywhere except in the graffiti on the walls of other men's
rooms.  You might have seen scrawls like "Hot action upstairs" or
"Sears restroom for BJ", or "Meet here 5/23/93 3:30 p.m."

There are tearooms everywhere.  I believe there is at least one tea
room in every university or college.  Most malls have one too.  Rest
stops are also likely candidates.  tearooms are usually characterized
by much graffiti on the walls.  I don't mean political bullshit, but
rather scribblings soliciting for sex, drawings of penises,
butt-fucking, and blow jobs.  Look carefully.  You might even see cum
stains on the stall walls.  These are usually pale white streaks.  Wet
your finger with your saliva and rub into those streaks and see if it
dissolves and form a sticky goo.  If so, it's most likely cum.  Bring
it up to your nose and you might even recognize the characteristic
smell of hot man cum.

If the restroom is a major tearoom, you might be lucky to find holes
bored through the partitions.  If it's a small hole, then it's a peep
hole and it's usually found in the stall wall immediately next to a
row of urinals.  The peep hole is always at cock level, that is, it is
usually one which allows the guy in the stall to observe other guys
taking out their cock meat to take a piss at the urinal.  If it's a
big hole, big enough to fit an erect cock through, it's called a glory
hole.  Why it's called a glory hole I don't know.  (I wonder if glory
holes were ever found in confessional booths where priests would
involve themselves in blackmail: "Suck my cock or else...."  Perhaps
the glorious experience of their orgasms spawned the term 'glory
hole'.  Not sure.)

There are other tell-tale signs of an active tearoom.  If the main
door of the restroom opens up immediately to a plain view of the
urinals and/or the toilet stalls, then it generally does not qualify
to be a tearoom.  Remember, tearoom activity is a furtive activity.
A suitable tearoom is one which gives guys having sex enough time to
scurry back to their toilet seats or their positions in front of the
urinals when they hear the first creak of the restroom door.  Yes, all
tearoom doors must make some noise.  If it doesn't, you can be
assured that someone will make it so by doing something to the hinges.
So if you are looking for a tearoom in your office, school, or local
mall, look for one where the restroom door creaks open without
presenting a view of the urinals and stalls, whether directly or
indirectly via the reflection of the mirrors on the wall.

Look for used toilet paper strewn all over the floor in the stalls.
These are usually used to line the toilet seat when guys use the
restroom for sex.  Since they know that many guys come and go (pun
intended) in that restroom, they believe that lining the toilet seat
with toilet paper before sitting on it might offer some protection,
superficial as it may be.  You will most likely see toilet paper that
looks like someone has just blown their nose into it and left it on
the floor crumpled and stuck together.  Well, it's really dick snort.
Personally I think guys should try to clean up after themselves when
they are done getting their rocks off to minimize any suspicion that
the restroom is being used as a cruise area.  But in practice, it
seems that after indulging in hot steamy sex with a stranger in the
restroom, they just want to get the fuck outta there so they leave the
place in a mess.  Then again, there are people who find the
dishevelled condition of the restroom a turn-on.  I met one fella who
told me that he would pick up cum-loaded toilet paper from the floor
and play with it, smearing the still-wet cum on his dick to make it
hard.

The location of a men's room is crucial in determining if it has any
potential in becoming a tearoom.  tearooms are generally never found
in the vicinity of heavy foot traffic.  A rest room that has a
constant stream of guys coming in and out to piss or take a crap means
constant interruption.  You cannot hope to get any sex there.  Tea
rooms are also not generally found in places with very little or no
foot traffic, especially if it is in a building where some level of
security exists.  Guys communing in the men's room in a quiet area of
the premises arouses too much suspicion.  Thus, a successful tearoom
is one that is close but not too close to some but not a lot of human
activity.  It is usually "around the corner at the end of the
hallway," "upstairs next to the janitor's store room," or "in the
basement by the Coke machines."  For starters, try checking out the
men's room in the public or college library, the men's room nearest
the university's computer lab, the men's room at the movie theater,
the rest stop on the Interstate, and the men's rooms at the airport.

There is a standard protocol that is observed among tearoom cruisers.
If there are three stalls next to each other, you want the middle
stall.  That way the next guy who needs a stall has to choose one on
either side of you.  Straight guys will almost always not choose the
middle of three juxtaposing stalls.  If there is a long row of stalls,
say, ten, then either choose the fifth ot sixth stall or the one at
the very end furthest away from the restroom entrance.  The idea is
that a straight guy who is there simply to take a shit will go to the
nearest and cleanest one he can find.  He is not likely to choose the
one at the far end of the restroom.  Your taking the stall at the very
end signals to other cruisers that you are doing or hoping to do
something naughty.

Now that you have located your tearoom and have gone into a stall,
what do you do?  If there isn't anyone else in the restroom, you'd
have to wait and hope you get lucky shortly.  If someone walks into
the restroom, listen to how he walks.  If he just fucking lumbers to
the urinal and lets out a long spray of piss, burps, lets out a big
fart, and leaves, then he's not it.  If he walks in a somewhat
calculated manner such that you could hardly hear his feet shuffle,
chooses the stall next to yours, and turns the latch in a clandestine
manner, then he is a very likely candidate.  Of course, it is possible
the guy is trying to feign innocence by walking with the normal amount
of feet shuffle (yes, this is a science as well as an art) and
latching the door in a careless, don't-care attitude like most
straight guys do (or any guy who is not there to cruise), but if he
chooses the stall next to yours when he could have taken one a few
stalls away, then he is very likely there to cruise you.

Next comes the seduction ritual, the "let-me-see-if-you-are-horny-and-
looking-for-action" test.  Tap/shift/adjust your foot in the most
inconspicuous way, as if you were shifting your weight and trying to
find yourself a more comfortable sitting position.  A histrionic sniff
or a faked cough while doing the foot maneuver might help assert the
inconspicuousness you want.  You want to be inconspicuous because your
neighbor might turn out to be straight and that he is not there to
cruise.  So you want to avoid being too obvious about your intentions.
Wait a minute or two, and tap/shift/adjust your foot again, all the
time watching your neighbor's foot to see if he, too, is doing the
foot routine in response to yours.  Watch the shadow that his body
casts on the floor.  By watching his shadow, you can tell if he is
bending forward and trying to peek under the stall partition to check
you out.  Consequently, you can do the same.  You can bend forward and
downwards pretending to tie your shoe laces while checking out to see
what kind of underwear he wears and see if he has smooth, hairy,
scrawny, or muscular legs.  You can guess by looking at the color of
his skin what ethnic background he belongs to.  By the way he plants
his feet on the floor, you can (at least I can) tell if he is
aggressive, shy, horny, experienced, whatever.  Are his feet placed
side by side with his toes pointing in?  Are his feet spread out real
wide in a I-fuckin'-don't-care attitude (that's what I like,
actually)?  Are his pants dropped all the way down and touching the
floor?  Are his pants not dropped all the way down so he could conceal
his legs?  What brand of underwear does he wear?  What kind?  Does his
pair of jeans look like it was ironed this morning, or does it look
well-worn and unwashed for days?  Is he color coordinated?  What kind
of shoes is he wearing?  Work boots?  High-tops?  Sandals?  Nike?
Reeboks?  K-mart stuff?  Leather?  Suede?  Canvas?  Plastic?  If he is
wearing sandals, check out his toes.  Are his nails well trimmed?  Is
the skin wrinkled?  What kind of socks does he wear?  How does he wear
them?  Does he pull them up his legs as far as they can go?  Are they
thick and carelessly worn around his feet?  Does he wear a belt?
Watch the belt.  Is it shaking or is it perfectly still?  If it's
shaking, it could be that its owner is jacking off his meat.  All
these can tell a lot about the person without actually seeing his
face.

The foot tapping routine will tell if your neighbor is interested in
some hot man-to-man action.  If he responds with a tap for every tap
you make, then you have found a play mate.  Well, if you are picky
like I am, you might want to then shamelessly peek your head right
under the stall partition to check out his face.  If he looks like
grandpa, you may or may not want to stick around.  Incidentally, many
trolls hang out at tearooms because they think they can get a trick
without their partner ever seeing their face.  But as I mentioned
earlier, you can assess a person's troll factor by noticing the kind
of clothes and footwear they don and the kind of skin they have.  When
both of you feel like you want to indulge in some sex play, then you
can both kneel in front of the stall partition and shove your crotch
under it and play with each other's cock, balls, and ass.  It is still
not too late at this point to stop.  If you see that your partner's
hands are gnarled and riddled with warts, then you might want to go
back to your seat.  If you find him hot and he is not complaining
about you either, then you could jack each other off and shoot your
cum on each other.  If you feel the restroom is safe enough, then you
two might even engage in some oral copulation.  Just be always aware
that the restroom door can and will open any moment.  I might add that
some people find the possibility of being caught in the act a real
turn-on.  Sorta like having sex in an elevator or jerking off in an
airplane when it is about to land.

There are tearooms that are conducive for group jerk offs.  I have
been to a few where guys would come out of the stall closets and
huddle in a circle to jack and suck each other off.  These can be
extremely hot.  Cum flying and splattering everywhere.  There was one
group orgy like this where one guy asked me to cum on his cock.  He
used my cum and rubbed it all over his cock shaft before he, too, shot
his thick fuck load on another guy's face.  Occasionally, two guys
might go into the same stall to have some fun.  One would stand or
crouch on the toilet seat so only one pair of legs can be seen.  If
the stall partitions have glory holes bored through, then you might
stick your cock through one and let the other guy feed on it or he
might present his ass to you to be fucked long and hard.

tearooms can be dangerous health-wise and security-wise.  Since you
are engaging in anonymous sex, you do not know the health history of
your partners in the tearooms.  But I suppose this is no different
from having sex on the first date at your place with someone you just
met.  Many tearooms are patrolled, possibly in plain clothes, by the
police or security guards.  But if you are into hot anonymous
man-to-man action, if you are a 'straight' married man who likes to
have a fling with other guys without the complications of a
relationship, then you might find the activities of a tearoom to just
be your cup of tea!
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