It’s my understanding (from various media, not personal experience) that straight men looking for gay sex usually want to give, not receive. I’m not sure why, but I’m guessing that they want to experience someone else’s penis, a unique thing for them. Getting a blowjob from a stranger, while possibly exciting (one would hope), doesn’t feel much different than what you would get from your wife.
(I’ll pause while you finish laughing.)
Remember Boogie Nights, when Dirk was paid to jerk off for a guy?
Just to be clear: I could (theoretically, of course) get a line of guys who would all pay me to get me off? I mean, hell- If all that is separating me and millionaire status is the receiving end of a few dirty bathroom blowjobs…
IMO, Rep. Allen outed himself pretty obviously when he referred to the stocky black guy as “pretty.” That just isn’t something a straight man would say.
I don’t think that anyone in this thread particularly cares about the legality or necessarily even thinks there is anything morally wrong per se about a dude offering another dude money for sex. What makes the story interesting is the fact a Republican politician feels it’s less politically damaging for his constutuents to see him as racist than as gay.
If Rep. Allen was later asked to describe the officer, and he said, “Seven inches, uncut”, would that help or hurt his case?
These stories always seem so sad to me. There are few things more anti-erotic than a public restroom. I assume the gay bathhouses back in the day were at least nicely-decorated.
Are you sure a Republican politician would even think his statements were racist? I think he probably actually thinks it’s a non-offensive explanation.
Notice he’s not saying he offered the dude $20 just to out of there safely and avoid becoming a “statistic”. He’s saying he offered the dude $20 and a blowjob just to get out of there safely.
Not to mention he didn’t avoid becoming a statistic. He’s part of the growing number of nominally gay-unfriendly Republicans who have been getting caught with dicks in their mouths recently, a very significant statistic indeed.
That’s what I’m thinking. The only people who would see racism in his explanation are people who have a problem with prejudging black guys as bad and scary. Perhaps he thinks his constituents will see nothing problematic about this defense.
Things I don’t understand:
Why would anyone in their right mind go looking for penis to suck in a freakin’ park restroom? I’m thinking that there has to be at least eleventy hundred more cleaner places than a park restroom to go frolicking in. Seriously?!
I don’t get why the cop would be inside a stall, drying his hands.
Who in the hell pokes their head over a stall to look at people in a freaking park restroom? I could imagine someone getting shot for less.
Maybe it’s a park, and park resroom specifically, known for gays trolling. That’s far from uncommon (not talking about parks specifically, but otherwise innocuous seeming places).
I have always thought that the guys trolling rest stops were guys who mainly try to live there life as straight people. I mean people who are fine with their homosexuality probably know better places to get laid than rest areas or park bathrooms.
Entrapment exists when the government induces or encourages a person not already predisposed to do so to commit a crime. When the government’s “…first and chief endeavor was to cause, to create, crime in order to punish it, and it is unconscionable, contrary to public policy, and to the established law of the land to punish a man for the commission of an offense of the like of which he had never been guilty, either in thought or in deed, and evidently never would have been guilty of if the officers of the law had not inspired, incited, persuaded, and lured him to attempt to commit it.” (Sorrells v. US, quoting Butts v. US).
It’s true that the officer mentioned money first. But this was after the accused stepped into the toilet stall occupied by the officer. At that point, we can safely say he was predisposed to commit the crime.
On these facts, an entrapment defense would simply not fly.
