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A glory hole (also spelled gloryhole and glory-hole)[1] is a hole in a wall, or other partition, often between public lavatory stalls or video booths for men to engage in sexual activity or observe the person in the next cubicle while one or both parties masturbate.[2] The partition maintains anonymity.[3][4][5][6] Body parts including fingers and one's tongue can touch the other person if the hole is large enough and intercourse with anonymity intact is possible. Erotic literature and pornographic films have been devoted to the sexual uses of gloryholes.[7][8] Glory hole may refer to: A colloquial term for any small room or cupboard, usually containing odds and ends. ... Flush toilet A toilet is a plumbing fixture devised for the disposal of bodily wastes, including urine, feces, methane, semen and vomit. ... Woman masturbating, 1913 drawing by Gustav Klimt. ... Anonymous redirects here. ... Eroticism is an aesthetic focused on sexual desire, especially the feelings of anticipation of sexual activity. ... Porn redirects here. ...

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Origin

“ My cherry lips have often kiss'd thy stones... I kiss the wall's hole, not your lips at all.(Exeunt omnes.)
-- Thisbe, "played by a boy in a wig", in William Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream (Vi 192-205)[9]		 ”
A person (sleeve visible on the right) heating a glass item during creation will "blow" into the blowpipe (center) and the "Glory hole" is on the left.

The origin of the term is unknown. It may have come from the mining industry, where the opening to a mineshaft containing the "mother lode" would be considered to be the "glory hole".[10] It may be in reference to the always open mouth or "glory hole" of a kiln used in glass blowing.[11] It could be a reference to glory holes in civil engineering, where water from a reservoir is quickly "sucked" through a glory hole and out of a dam. It could also have its roots in one of several meanings from seamen and ship-building.[12] For other uses, see A Midsummer Nights Dream (disambiguation). ... Wikipedia does not yet have an article with this exact name. ... For other uses, see A Midsummer Nights Dream (disambiguation). ... Image File history File links Download high resolution version (1024x768, 121 KB) Summary A glass blower heating an item during creation. ... Image File history File links Download high resolution version (1024x768, 121 KB) Summary A glass blower heating an item during creation. ... Mother Lode is a term associated with the mining of gold. ... Charcoal Kilns, California Gold Kiln, Victoria, Australia Hop kiln. ... A glass pipe made by lampworking Hand-blown glass beads and pendants Glassblowing is the process of forming glass into useful shapes while the glass is in a molten, semi-liquid state. ...


There are many theories regarding the origins of the earliest glory hole. One common idea is that it originated in ancient days as a spy or peep hole, and grew larger as men sought more contact, but only enough contact as to perform sex acts upon the genitals of another man. The theory of use was that, although heterosexual men would seek the relief to be found on the other side of a glory hole, they did not wish to lose their anonymity, or to engage in any other physical contact with another man.[4] A sex organ, or primary sexual characteristic, narrowly defined, is any of those parts of the body (which are not always bodily organs according to the strict definition) which are involved in sexual reproduction and constitute the reproductive system in an complex organism; namely: Male: penis (notably the glans penis... Heterosexuality is a sexual orientation characterized by esthetic attraction, romantic love or sexual desire exclusively for members of the opposite sex or gender, contrasted with homosexuality and distinguished from bisexuality and asexuality. ...


From the mid-to-late 20th century glory holes could be found in many public men's room in the United States including adult bookstores,[13] gay bars,[14] department stores,[15] jailhouses,[9] bus and train stations,[16] office buildings, military bases,[16] and other public buildings like departments stores[16], park rest stops and gay beats.[17] Glory holes were once extremely common in public men's toilets.[9] Whereas women's bathrooms would be targeted for "peep" holes for spying, glory holes were much larger and therefore more obvious.[18] When an institution (school, governmental or business) would replace bathroom stalls they often would upgrade to stainless steel to discourage creating holes as well as other forms of vandalism as wood walls were an easy target for such activities.[18] Sometimes men who enjoy the erotic aspects of the activity will even create one for private use in their homes.[19] In Australia, the term beat is used to refer to an area frequented by gay men cruising for casual sex, and where sexual acts occur. ...


Method of use

To use a glory hole a man puts his penis through the hole to in most cases receive Oral Sex, and to a lesser extent anal intercourse, or a handjob.[20] Glory holes are today most commonly found in established adult video/bookstore arcades, sex clubs, gay bathhouses, and adult theaters.[21] The penis (plural penises, penes) is an external male sexual organ. ... Oral sex consists of all sexual activities that involve the use of the mouth, which may include use of the tongue, teeth, and throat, to stimulate genitalia. ... Anal sex or anal intercourse is human sexual behavior involving the anus and rectum, especially, but not limited to, the insertion of the erect penis into the anus. ... Johann Nepomuk Geiger, watercolor, 1840. ... This article needs additional references or sources for verification. ... Gay bathhouses, also known as (gay) saunas or steam baths (and sometimes called, in gay slang in some regions, the baths or the tubs), are places where men can go to have sex with other men. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ...


If a glory hole is to be found between two booths in a video booth at an adult bookstore, [5] the person who wishes to perform oral sex will normally be seated in his booth. Although not a hard and fast rule, that seated (and sometimes kneeling) position commonly signals to others that he is there in order to perform oral sex - which allows those who wish to receive oral sex to take the adjoining booth. That second person, who wishes to have oral sex performed on him will take the adjoining booth and normally remain standing.[22] Oral sex consists of all sexual activities that involve the use of the mouth, which may include use of the tongue, teeth, and throat, to stimulate genitalia. ...


Motivations

Numerous motivations can be ascribed to the use and eroticism of glory holes. For some it can be seen as a way to have intimacy without a prolonged relationship or to ensure sexual compatibility before further advancing a relationship.[20] Utilizing a gloryhole is also an easy way to mitigate any perceived physical shortcomings like being overweight or somehow less physically attractive,[22] or even being considered too old.[15] Motivation is a word used to refer to the reason or reasons for engaging in a particular behavior, especially human behavior. ... Eroticism is an aesthetic focused on sexual desire, especially the feelings of anticipation of sexual activity. ... Definition Intimacy is complex in that its meaning varies from relationship to relationship, and within a given relationship over time. ... Human sexuality is the expression of sexual feelings. ...


With the ongoing AIDS pandemic many gay men have re-evaluated their sexual and erotic desires.[23] Glory holes allow for a physical barrier which may be an extension of psychological ones where internalized homophobia as a result of society's negative reaction to LGBT people and gay sexual practices can be resolved, even if only temporarily.[23] For some gay men a glory hole can be used to depersonalize their partner altogether as simply an object sticking through the hole.[23] These motivations could be ascribed as male motivations and not just as gay and bisexual men's motives.[24] For other uses, see AIDS (disambiguation). ... Psychology (ancient Greek: psyche = soul and logos = word) is the study of mind, thought, and behaviour. ... A protest by The Westboro Baptist Church, a group identified by the Anti-Defamation League as virulently homophobic. ... LGBT (also GLBT) is an acronym referring collectively to lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender/transsexual people. ... This article is about the Male sex. ... GAY can mean: Gay, a term referring to homosexual men or women The IATA code for Gaya Airport Category: ... In human sexuality, bisexuality describes a man or woman having a sexual orientation to persons of either or both sexes (a man or woman who sexually likes both sexes; people who are sexually and/or romantically attracted to both males and females). ...


Legal and health concerns

Public sex is illegal in many parts of the world and entrapment cases occur.[25][26] and several other public buildings like department stores[16][27][28] Potential surveillance and public humiliation (if a participant's name appears in a local newspaper or in legal documents) as well as gay bashing, mugging or bodily injury are further risks.[28] Due to the fear of arrest or assault, or for reasons of etiquette, it is rare for a male to insert his penis in a glory hole without invitation from the person on the other side of the partition[citation needed]. A common signal by a willing participant is to insert one or more fingers in the hole, often accompanied by a beckoning motion and an audible invitation such as a purr or whistle. For the film, see Entrapment (film). ... The persecution of gays, lesbians, bisexuals, and transgendered individuals is the practice of attacking a person, usually physically, because they are or are perceived to be lesbian, gay or transgender. ... Look up Mugging in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... -1... Look up participation in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... // In sociology, seduction is the process of deliberately enticing a person into an act. ...


In addition to safety risks from being attacked, there is also the risk of sexually transmitted diseases. This can be reduced through the use of condoms when needed. For other uses, see Safety (disambiguation). ... This article is about the concept of risk. ... Sexually-transmitted infections (STIs), also known as sexually-transmitted diseases (STDs), are diseases that are commonly transmitted between partners through some form of sexual activity, most commonly vaginal intercourse, oral sex, or anal sex. ... A standard latex condom still rolled up This article is about the contraceptive device. ...


Usages in popular culture

Popular culture references within both the gay and LGBT communities as well as the mainstream culture have become more common. The 1982 teen comedy film Porky's, about the escapades of teenagers at the fictional Angel Beach high school in Florida in 1954 trying to lose their virginity, featured a glory hole scene in a shower room where the boys were able to view other teen girls in the shower. In John Waters's fictional 1994 dark comedy film Serial Mom, starring Kathleen Turner as the title character, a glory hole is used as a plot device when an eyewitness sees her through the hole hiding in the neighboring stall prior to a murder at the nearby urinals. An earlier film by Waters, Desperate Living (1977), contained a scene in a women's lavatory depicting a chest-high double glory hole—for breasts. The opening stunt in Jackass 2 features a man inserting his penis into a glory hole that opens up into the cage of a hungry snake, which proceeded to violently bite his penis. In the 2002 chickflick The Sweetest Thing, Cameron Diaz gets injured in the eye when she unknowingly peers through a gloryhole in men's restroom. LGBT (also GLBT) is an acronym referring collectively to lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender/transsexual people. ... A separate article is about the punk band called The Adolescents. ... Comedy film is genre of film in which the main emphasis is on humor. ... Porkys is a comedy film about the escapades of teenagers at the fictional Angel Beach high school in Florida in 1954. ... This article is about the U.S. State of Florida. ... Year 1954 (MCMLIV) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display full 1954 Gregorian calendar). ... Virgin redirects here. ... John Waters (born April 22, 1946) is an American filmmaker, writer, personality, visual artist and art collector, who rose to fame in the early 1970s for his transgressive cult films. ... For other uses, see Fiction (disambiguation). ... The term problem plays is applied to the three plays William Shakespeare wrote between the last of his pure comedies (Twelfth Night) and the first of his pure tragedies (Othello) They are Alls Well That Ends Well, Measure for Measure, Troilus and Cressida. ... Serial Mom is a 1994 film directed by John Waters, starring Kathleen Turner as the title character and Sam Waterston as her husband. ... Mary Kathleen Turner (born June 19, 1954) is an Academy Award-nominated American actress. ... The title role is the role (or position) of the character after whom a literary work (e. ... A plot device is an element introduced into a story to solely to advance or resolve the plot of the story. ... Eyewitness may refer to the following: For the court system type of eye witness, witness For the TV show, Eyewitness (TV) For the movie, Eyewitness (film) For the nonfiction book series, Eyewitness (books) For Royal Hunts album, Eyewitness (album) For the WW1 writer pseudonym, see Ernest Dunlop Swinton For... Urinals redirects here. ... Desperate Living is a 1977 film by Baltimore, Maryland, USA filmmaker John Waters starring Liz Renay, Edith Massey, Mink Stole, Jean Hill, Mary Vivian Pearce, and Susan Lowe. ... Jackass Number Two is the sequel to the 2002 comedy film, Jackass: The Movie. ... For the U2 song, see Sweetest Thing. ...


See also

This article is about the sexual behavior. ... Dogging is a British euphemism for engaging in sexual acts in a semi-public place (typically a secluded car park or a cinema) or watching others doing so. ... Gay bathhouses, also known as (gay) saunas or steam baths (and sometimes called, in gay slang in some regions, the baths or the tubs), are places where men can go to have sex with other men. ... In Australia, the term beat is used to refer to an area frequented by gay men cruising for casual sex, and where sexual acts occur. ... Gay cruising describes the act of searching about a public place in pursuit of a partner for sex. ... Troll and trolling are slang terms used almost exclusively amongst gay men to characterize gay, bisexual and questioning or bi-curious men who cruise or “wander about looking”[1] for sex or potential sex partners or experiences “in a notably wanton manner and with lessened standards of what one will... Polari (or alternatively Parlare, Parlary, Palarie, Palari, Parlyaree[1], from Italian parlare, to talk) was a form of cant slang used in the gay subculture in Britain. ...

References

  1. ^ O'Hara, Scott (1999, page 24;). Rarely Pure and Never Simple: Selected Essays of Scott O'Hara. Haworth Press; ISBN 0789005735. Retrieved on 2007-12-31.
  2. ^ Murphy, Timothy F. (1994). Gay Ethics: Controversies in Outing, Civil Rights, and Sexual Science 237. Haworth Press. Retrieved on 2007-12-31.
  3. ^ Sexual Dictionary "Glory Hole"
  4. ^ a b Aaron's Dictionary of Gay Terms
  5. ^ a b The Gloryhole FAQ by Lilfuzzyg (1999) *Caution, explicit images
  6. ^ Glossary of Gay Slang Terms "Glory Hole"
  7. ^ Burger, John Robert (1995). One-Handed Histories: The Eroto-Politics of Gay Male Video. Haworth Press. Retrieved on 2007-12-31.
  8. ^ "Glory hole" site:nifty.org. Nifty.org Erotic Online Archives (2007). Retrieved on 2007-12-31.
  9. ^ a b c Randolph, Vance (1992). Unprintable Ozark Folksongs and Folklore 537. University of Arkansas Press. Retrieved on 2007-12-31.
  10. ^ Jenkins, Olaf Pitt (1948). Geologic Guidebook Along Highway 49, Sierran Gold Belt: The Mother Lode Country 7, 13, 19. Division of Mines. Retrieved on 2007-12-31.
  11. ^ Cummings, Keith (2002). A History of Glassforming. University of Pennsylvania Press. Retrieved on 2007-12-31.
  12. ^ Eddington, Walter J. (1943). Glossary of Shipbuilding and Outfitting Terms 127. Cornell Maritime Press. Retrieved on 2007-12-31.
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Further reading

  • "The Little Black Book: This one can keep you out of trouble," Lambda Legal Defense and Education Fund. (PDF version)
  • An article that gives legal advice on cruising for sex.
  • Green, Jonathon (2006). Cassell's Dictionary of Slang, 2nd Edition, London: Sterling Publishing. ISBN 0304366366. Retrieved on 2007-09-21. 
  • Gage, Simon; et all (2002). Queer. Thunder's Mouth Press. ISBN 1560253770. 
  • Zeeland, Steven (1995). Sailors and Sexual Identity: Crossing the Line Between "Straight" and "Gay". Haworth Press. ISBN 1560248505. Retrieved on 2007-09-22.  (Includes several glory hole encounters by Navy members)
  • Humphreys, Laud (1970). Tearoom Trade: Impersonal Sex in Public Places, Enlarged Edition (1975), Aldine Transaction. ISBN 978-0202302836. Retrieved on 2007-09-22. 
  • Bapst, Don (2001). "Glory Holes and the Men Who Use Them". Journal of Homosexuality 41 (1): 89–102. doi:10.1300/J082v41n01_02. Retrieved on 2007-09-22. “This paper gives a brief description of the "glory hole" and its popularity in certain areas of public homosexual activity...”  (quote from the abstract)

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Whore redirects here. ... For other uses, see Religion and sexuality (disambiguation). ... Romance is a general term that refers to an intimate and often sexual relationship between two people. ... Sexual abstinence is the practice of voluntarily refraining from some or all aspects of sexual activity. ... In a species that reproduces sexually, sexual attraction is an attraction to other members of the same species for sexual or erotic activity. ... Sexual ethics is a sub-category of ethics that pertain to acts falling within the broad spectrum of human sexual behavior, sexual intercourse in particular. ... Sexual objectification is objectification of a person. ... A sex surrogate is a member of a sex therapy team who will engage in intimate physical and often sexual relations with a client. ... Sex tourism is travel to engage in sexual intercourse or sexual activity with prostitutes, and is typically undertaken internationally by tourists from wealthier countries. ... This article is about sexual practices (i. ... This article is about human sexual perceptions. ... Sexology is the systematic study of human sexuality. ... Sexual slang is any slang term which makes reference to sex, the sexual organs, or matters closely related to them. ...


 
 

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