# Please leave me out of your kink, or a horrifying breach of public restroom etiquette **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [August 28, 2023, 9:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-leave-me-out-of-your-kink-or-a-horrifying-breach-of-public-restroom-etiquette/989247 "2023-08-28T21:43:18Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Chef\_Troy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/85f322/32.png) [@Chef\_Troy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chef_Troy)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2023, 9:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-leave-me-out-of-your-kink-or-a-horrifying-breach-of-public-restroom-etiquette/989247/1 "2023-08-28T21:43:18Z")
I made a pit stop at my local grocery store yesterday. The first stall was disgusting, so I went into the second one and took a seat. I was on my phone and not making any noise, which is something I wish I could change. Someone came in and entered the other stall in a standing position. I noticed there wasn’t any sound of peeing and casually glanced toward the wall separating us. my gaze was drawn to an odd flickering in the light shining on the floor in front of the stranger’s boots, and at first I thought he was just shaking the dew off the lily, but then to my horror the unmistakable sound of masturbation grew and grew. It felt too late to do a territorial cough or otherwise alert the mad fapper to my presence – and besides, what if he didn’t stop? That seemed like it would be even worse! So I just tried to pretend I wasn’t there while he crossed the finish line with a teeth-gritted grunt that will live in my nightmares. I can only hope he thought he was alone, but even if he did, who needs to rub one out so desperately that they’d do it in the supermarket bathroom, especially in a stall as revoltingly filthy as that one was? tl,dr; someone audibly masturbated to completion in the stall next to mine in a public bathroom while I tried to pretend I wasn’t there. ---
**Author:** ![Spice\_Weasel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spice_weasel/32/5435_2.png) [@Spice\_Weasel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spice_Weasel)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2023, 9:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-leave-me-out-of-your-kink-or-a-horrifying-breach-of-public-restroom-etiquette/989247/2 "2023-08-28T21:45:55Z")
That’s pretty horrifying. I can’t imagine how anyone can masturbate in a bathroom much less a public one. ---
**Author:** ![Stratocaster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stratocaster/32/16393_2.png) [@Stratocaster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stratocaster)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2023, 10:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-leave-me-out-of-your-kink-or-a-horrifying-breach-of-public-restroom-etiquette/989247/3 "2023-08-28T22:19:18Z")
Listen, if I had known you were there, I’d have left out the grunt. I’m not a barbarian. ---
**Author:** ![DavidNRockies](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/davidnrockies/32/6279_2.png) [@DavidNRockies](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DavidNRockies)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2023, 10:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-leave-me-out-of-your-kink-or-a-horrifying-breach-of-public-restroom-etiquette/989247/4 "2023-08-28T22:22:28Z")
You have single-handedly (that’s just an assumption on my part) restored my faith in humanity. ETA: mine was a response to Stratocaster’s comment above. ---
**Author:** ![RitterSport](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rittersport/32/6326_2.png) [@RitterSport](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RitterSport)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2023, 10:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-leave-me-out-of-your-kink-or-a-horrifying-breach-of-public-restroom-etiquette/989247/5 "2023-08-28T22:23:40Z")
> [@Spice\_Weasel](#): > > I can’t imagine how anyone can masturbate in a bathroom much less a public one. Challenge accepted. (Oh man, gross, I’m just kidding!!) ---
**Author:** ![DavidNRockies](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/davidnrockies/32/6279_2.png) [@DavidNRockies](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DavidNRockies)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2023, 10:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-leave-me-out-of-your-kink-or-a-horrifying-breach-of-public-restroom-etiquette/989247/6 "2023-08-28T22:25:04Z")
> [@Spice\_Weasel](#): > > I can’t imagine how anyone can masturbate in a bathroom much less a public one You may have misspelled [**Publix**](https://www.publix.com/) 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Akaj](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/akaj/32/145_2.png) [@Akaj](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Akaj)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2023, 10:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-leave-me-out-of-your-kink-or-a-horrifying-breach-of-public-restroom-etiquette/989247/7 "2023-08-28T22:33:14Z")
Masturbation is a kink? ---
**Author:** ![Procrustus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/procrustus/32/2994_2.png) [@Procrustus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Procrustus)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2023, 10:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-leave-me-out-of-your-kink-or-a-horrifying-breach-of-public-restroom-etiquette/989247/8 "2023-08-28T22:39:14Z")
In a public restroom it could be called that. Depending on the motivation I suppose. ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2023, 10:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-leave-me-out-of-your-kink-or-a-horrifying-breach-of-public-restroom-etiquette/989247/9 "2023-08-28T22:46:31Z")
> [@Chef\_Troy](#): > > tl,dr; Of all the things wrong about your post, too long is not one of them. ---
**Author:** ![Chef\_Troy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/85f322/32.png) [@Chef\_Troy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chef_Troy)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2023, 10:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-leave-me-out-of-your-kink-or-a-horrifying-breach-of-public-restroom-etiquette/989247/10 "2023-08-28T22:47:36Z")
> [@Akaj](#): > > Masturbation is a kink? It is if you do it where people can catch you, especially if you know they are there. Bear in mind that when the guy came into the bathroom he couldn’t have missed the fact that the other stall door was closed. I’ve been trying not to think about that, but yeah, he probably knew there was someone in there. ---
**Author:** ![superwombat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/superwombat/32/16616_2.png) [@superwombat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/superwombat)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2023, 10:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-leave-me-out-of-your-kink-or-a-horrifying-breach-of-public-restroom-etiquette/989247/11 "2023-08-28T22:49:05Z")
You could’ve timed it so when he was juuuuust about climaxed you BANG!!! on the stall wall as loud as possible 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Chef\_Troy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/85f322/32.png) [@Chef\_Troy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chef_Troy)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2023, 10:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-leave-me-out-of-your-kink-or-a-horrifying-breach-of-public-restroom-etiquette/989247/12 "2023-08-28T22:49:31Z")
> [@Robot\_Arm](#): > > > [@Chef\_Troy](#): > > > > tl,dr; > > Of all the things wrong about your post, too long is not one of them. Are you saying you’d like more details? ---
**Author:** ![Akaj](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/akaj/32/145_2.png) [@Akaj](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Akaj)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2023, 10:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-leave-me-out-of-your-kink-or-a-horrifying-breach-of-public-restroom-etiquette/989247/13 "2023-08-28T22:54:06Z")
> [@Chef\_Troy](#): > > It is if you do it where people can catch you, especially if you know they are there. Bear in mind that when the guy came into the bathroom he couldn’t have missed the fact that the other stall door was closed. I’ve been trying not to think about that, but yeah, he probably knew there was someone in there. Well, yes, if the guy truly gets off on masturbating when he knows he has an audience – and/or on doing it in a public restroom – that would be a kink. But he may not have known you were there. Or may have thought he was quieter than he was. And sometimes, when the urge strikes, you grab whatever privacy you can. IOW, he might not be kinky, just a normal teenager. > [@superwombat](#): > > You could’ve timed it so when he was juuuuust about climaxed you BANG!!! on the stall wall as loud as possible 🙂 Grow up with brothers, did you? ---
**Author:** ![Chef\_Troy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/85f322/32.png) [@Chef\_Troy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chef_Troy)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2023, 10:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-leave-me-out-of-your-kink-or-a-horrifying-breach-of-public-restroom-etiquette/989247/14 "2023-08-28T22:54:49Z")
> [@superwombat](#): > > You could’ve timed it so when he was juuuuust about climaxed you BANG!!! on the stall wall as loud as possible 🙂 If I’d thought of it, I probably would have worried it might lead to a literal version of “jerking off.” ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2023, 11:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-leave-me-out-of-your-kink-or-a-horrifying-breach-of-public-restroom-etiquette/989247/15 "2023-08-28T23:32:04Z")
A single button press would have solved the problem (put your phone on speaker): _911, what’s your emergency?_ _There’s some dude masturbating in the public restroom of [**insert name and location of supermarket**]_ _We’ll send a patrol ca-_ _Oh, never mind, they just left._ ---
**Author:** ![El\_DeLuxo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/el_deluxo/32/9043_2.png) [@El\_DeLuxo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_DeLuxo)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2023, 12:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-leave-me-out-of-your-kink-or-a-horrifying-breach-of-public-restroom-etiquette/989247/16 "2023-08-29T00:17:46Z")
The Mystery Masturbator probably wasn’t trying to involve you in his sausage jostling, but was just really horny (like maybe he just now saw something spectacularly spank-worthy out there and just had to go whack the whanger right now and damn the torpedoes) and didn’t pay any attention to the other stall or its possible occupied status once he found one open for his biz. Believe me, if the stroking stranger had wanted or meant to involve you in anything choad related, he’d almost certainly have made that desire or intent known pretty quickly and plainly. ---
**Author:** ![dougrb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/76d3ee/32.png) [@dougrb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dougrb)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2023, 12:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-leave-me-out-of-your-kink-or-a-horrifying-breach-of-public-restroom-etiquette/989247/17 "2023-08-29T00:27:08Z")
> [@Akaj](#): > > Grow up with brothers, did you? I’m just glad I was an only child. ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2023, 12:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-leave-me-out-of-your-kink-or-a-horrifying-breach-of-public-restroom-etiquette/989247/18 "2023-08-29T00:27:44Z")
> [@kaylasdad99](#): > > Oh, never mind, they just left. It would work just as well with a certain verb for arriving. ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2023, 12:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-leave-me-out-of-your-kink-or-a-horrifying-breach-of-public-restroom-etiquette/989247/19 "2023-08-29T00:44:47Z")
Well, I’m laughing. I may have to pay better attention to the goings on in public restrooms\* from now on. Clearly I’ve been missing something. I just never knew this …kinda _thing_ goes on… \*What am I saying? I’m never going in another public restroom. Ever! ---
**Author:** ![Procrustus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/procrustus/32/2994_2.png) [@Procrustus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Procrustus)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2023, 12:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-leave-me-out-of-your-kink-or-a-horrifying-breach-of-public-restroom-etiquette/989247/20 "2023-08-29T00:48:29Z")
Upon reflection, if there was no effort to reach out to others in the room, I think I’d find this behavior less repulsive than being in the next stall to someone who is doing what the place was designed for. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-leave-me-out-of-your-kink-or-a-horrifying-breach-of-public-restroom-etiquette/989247.md?page=2)