Where Larry Craig got his ideas

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I was out last night at Hecate's den with racy mind, sittenpretty, and the inimitable Quaker motherfucker NTodd, and of course the conversation -- and flavored vodka (courtesy of sittenpretty) -- flowed in copious amounts.

So racy mind explains that the Larry Craig incident, with its bathroom stall, its foot-tapping, and its attempted note exchange (see, I think that's why Larry was "waving his hand" underneath the stall wall), sounded a lot like something she'd read some years ago. NTodd quotes the relevant passage in his post titled, as only he can, "Does This Cock In My Mouth Make Me Look Gay?"

RM remembered a book--Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Sex But Were Afraid to Ask by Dr. David Reuben--she read when she was a kid that had this valuable information:

The next common variety of homosexual behavior is oral intercourse. This is also known as fellatio, which means the same thing except in another language. In this variation, one man sucks the penis the other. Sometimes they then reverse roles, sometimes not.

Generally the circumstances are far from romantic. According to one homosexual, it goes something like this:

“Whenever I feel like sex, I drive down to the bowling alley. I walk into the men’s room, find an empty cubicle, go in, take down my pants, and sit on the toilet. Then I wait. It never takes very long.

Pretty soon another guy sits down in the next cubicle. I watch his feet. If he’s a gay guy, he’ll slide his foot over and kind of nudge mine. That means he’s ‘cruising.’ If I’m interested, I nudge back. Then we get started.

I always use a piece of toilet paper to write some kind of note—usually I just say ‘Do you suck?’ Sometimes if I have plenty of time I add something else like, ‘How big are you?’ I throw the paper on the floor, he picks it up, comes over into my cubicle, and sucks my penis. That’s how it ends — sometimes I suck his penis but usually I just go home.”

Um ... holy shit. Wow. Why has this not been widely disseminated yet?

People, despite his denials, Larry Craig didn't come up with this routine by himself. It's practically a custom if you want anonymous gay sex. And the problem, of course, is not that he's gay or engages in gay sex. The problem is that he insists he isn't gay, and that he simply has a "wide stance." Larry, a 40-year-old book begs to differ.

Leave it to the "liberal media" to be right on top of this story. So to speak.