Finally Jack shoves as far as possible under the partition and Bill sucks him off, or vice versa.”Ĩ. Bill reaches under the partition, and Jack squats so Bill can grab his cock. Jack inches his shoe toward Bill’s then Bill’s shoe moves in Jack’s direction. If there are no holes in the partition, the men may instead begin to ‘tap-dance.’ Jack taps with his shoe. Such ‘glory holes’ are used for masturbation, giving and receiving blow jobs, even rimming and fucking. In some cases, small holes have been pierced through the partitions. 271: “Cruising from one toilet stall to another has its own rituals. From the chapter of The Joy of Gay Sex “Glory Holes and Tea Rooms,” p. There was a section on ‘Glory Holes and Tea Rooms,’ which gave explicit instructions for how these worked.”ħ. Charles Silverstein and Edmund White ( revised by Silverstein and Felice Picano.) “I would read it at the bookstore every chance I got. says he learned about glory-hole etiquette from a book called The Joy of Gay Sex, written by Dr. After that, I would go check out the bathroom whenever my mom or dad took me shopping.”Ħ. It was infinitely fascinating - and arousing - to see and feel a hard dick. It was impossible not to know what it was for when he stuck his dick through.
I had no idea what it was, but a guy stuck his finger through it and that made me look. “My parents used to take me to an old-fashioned department store restaurant, and when I went to the bathroom one day, I saw the hole. recalls of his maiden voyage to a glory hole. “I stumbled on it by accident when I was a teenager,” my Facebook friend J.J. But when I got to the one address I scoped in my area, there it was…”ĥ. I thought they were an urban myth - surely no one would blindly stick one of their most prized possessions through a hole where the person on the other side might be a sadistic razor-wielder or have steel teeth like that Bond villain.
“Before the days of the internet,” explains notoneofyourfans in the Sex subreddit, “there used to be a guide that was sold on a monthly basis at adult bookstores that enumerated and gave the addresses of every known glory hole in America.
This prompts the question: What’s the width of the typical glory hole? According to the experts at, “The standard size is cut to 3.5 inches by 10 inches, then we edge trim it.”Ĥ. The glory hole is hard wood, collapsible like an accordion and has cushion all the way around for padding.ģ. Beastly Bottom waits on one side and uses the remote to open the opposite garage door to let his “feeder” in. The glory hole lives in the wall separating two carports. “My husband, who is fully supportive of my life as a slut, built it for me in the garage,” he explains in an email.
One guy I went to college with - who now goes by “Beastly Bottom,” a self-described “Nom de Slut” - tells me he has a private glory hole in his home. Within hours I had three male friends, all gay Gen-Xers, eager to evangelize. So I spent the last 48 hours looking into the history and legitimacy of glory holes, beginning with a simple query directed to my 1,536 Facebook friends. You’re saying I just stuff my dick through this unmarked crevice in the wall of a public restroom and wait for impending orgasmic bliss courtesy of a frisky passerby? That sounded… implausible. Glory holes have always struck me as absurd.