Located in a stall in a fourth floor men’s bathroom of the Walter W. Stern Library on the California State University campus in Bakersfield is a hole approximately an inch and a half wide and, according to reporter Robin Gracia at the CSUB Runner “capable of accommodating a vegetable such as a carrot or small squash.”
But it is not there to accommodate any vegetables. It is a glory hole. And it’s causing quite a stir on campus.
According to Garcia, the bathroom has become a popular cruising destination for men who meet on Craigslist. “We uncovered three separate ads and they were each soliciting sex,” the student reporter writes.
“Studying late at CSUB” one of the ads read. “If anyone wants to stop by for a quickie let me know…looking to fuck or receive head.”
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“Anybody want to play?” another ad said. “I’ll be on the fourth floor in the bathroom from now till 5ish.”
Some students say they are weirded out by the hole.
“The fact that it’s in public, I’m not ok with that,” student Nicolas Moreno told channel 23 News.
Others are downright offended.
“It’s quite disturbing,” another student, who did not want to be identified, said. “And I am disgusted knowing somebody is capable of doing that on campus.”
(We’re sure far worse things are done on college campuses across the country on an hourly basis, but whatever.)
And others say they don’t mind the glory hole. In fact, they kinda like it.
“There are gay people around you, so to me, this bathroom hook-up is similar in a way,” student Genesis Ayala said.
The university claims it was unaware of the hole until now.
A maintenance employee recently patched it up with a metal plate, but someone unscrewed the bolts on one side, prompting campus police to alert students that any sexual activity in the restroom is illegal.
“You don’t know who you are meeting up with on the other side of that stall, you don’t know if they have a clean bill of health, if they are HIV negative or if they have protection,” Gracia warned readers. “Having sex responsibly, as well as in a non-public place, is arguably the best way to engage with another individual, casual or otherwise. College isn’t like Vegas – what happens in college doesn’t stay in college.”
h/t: CSUB Runner
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ric
Well scratch that bathroom of my bucket list. LOL
Apparatus
Forget about actual gloryholes, is it just me or are stall walls just about everywhere these days getting smaller and smaller? It feels like they’re both higher off the ground and shorter in height, and half the time they are mounted a couple inches away from the wall too! Talk about no privacy. A tall man could just peer over the top and look down onto you doing your business or a perv next to you could just look through the wall gap.
redcarpet30
I grew up in the central valley. This is totally something they would clutch their pearls over. Glad I didn’t have to go to college down there.
redcarpet30
Obviously Garcia doesn’t realize that not knowing who you are meeting up with IS THE WHOLE POINT OF GLORY HOLES!
Curtispsf
Only 1.5″ wide? Forget that!
BritAus
“You don’t know who you are meeting up with on the other side of that stall, you don’t know if they have a clean bill of health, if they are HIV negative or if they have protection,” Gracia warned readers. “Having sex responsibly, as well as in a non-public place, is arguably the best way to engage with another individual, casual or otherwise”
Just like anywhere else in life. Thanks for that Mr Garcia.
DesertSun
Proof once again that America is totally dominated by Puritanism. People who haven’t travelled much outside the US may not realize that America is a very controlled society. Not nearly as relaxed and laid back as most countries. Because the media makes us believe that our culture is “out of control” we are fed the perspective that our culture is more open than it really is. Our society is extremely rigid.
Trippy
@redcarpet30: BAHAHHAHAHAHAHA! So true.
Trippy
What is this place? The Liberty Baptist University of California?? I was in a NC college over 30 yrs ago and we had (literally) 100’s of gloryholes all over campus. No one ever said a word about it, and we certainly weren’t penning outraged editorials over it in the campus paper or on the local TV news outlet.
Such is the sad state of college life these days… sexual puritanism has returned. And from what I’ve been reading lately, even straight men are scared to have sex for fear of being accused of rape three weeks later. Whatever happened to sexual liberation?
azlefty
@redcarpet30: Was that before or after they took advantage of it? Spent 6 years their and it was amazing how many “moral leaders” were into go to the City to “cruise”
throwslikeagirl
An inch and a half in diameter and the partition is jagged metal!? Owee!
QJ201
Please the stories of the action in the NYU library bathrooms AND stacks are legendary (and Columbia too). It wasn’t until the 90’s that NYU required student IDs to get into the bathroom.
Usually guys just stick it under the bottom, or just double up…like the other legendary NYC stories of guys who would walk around Bloomingdales with two folded up shopping bags…so one guy could sit on the toilet to give head while the other guy stood in the bags to hide “two pairs of feet” in one stall.
Some of you will be appalled, some of you will be at the mall tomorrow with two shopping bags.
Blackceo
There were glory holes located in a few spots at Univ of MD when I went there. No one ever complained. People seemed to know what they were about and let the people who were into that stuff have their fun. Not sure what its like now. Boy do I miss college.
jd2222248
too funny!
jason smeds
Glory holes are used mainly by married men who don’t receive blow jobs from their wives. These men form what I call the “blow-and-go” crowd. They are often straight-identifying and couldn’t care less about homosexuality as a political issue. They often oppose formal recognition of homosexual relations.
On the morality of glory holes, I just find them icky. Icky, icky, icky. The fact that they exist in toilets just adds to the ickiness factor. If you visit glory holes, you’re icky.
bottom72
Ohhh Sweethearts. How sad you want to destroy the joys of gay culture. Glory holes provide fun sexual enjoyment without any commitment at all other than getting unnamed men off. I so enjoying pleasuring these men.
Desert Boy
That was a Glory Hole? I wouldn’t stick my pecker through the metal opening. Looks like you could get tetanus.
asa1973
Are these people new to Earth? Every man – gay or straight – knows that glory holes exist, unless he has never used a public restroom in his life. This whole thing is so funny to me. And who here is surprised that the metal plate is removed. How many universities, department stores, etc., etc. have repeatedly wasted money trying to cover up glory holes??
vive
@Desert Boy, it looks like the edges were cellotaped, which would make it less dangerous. 🙂
vive
“…prompting campus police to alert students that any sexual activity in the restroom is illegal.”
Mmmmkay then. First, a restroom stall is not “public.” Any jury would agree that anyone who ever dropped his pants to poop in a stall had a reasonable expectation of privacy and of not being, say, photographed by a surveillance camera. But whatever your point of view on whether it is public; if public sex is illegal, 99% of college students are committing sex crimes as we speak. Why pick on MSM activity specifically?
DonW
Shocked, SHOCKED to learn that sex is happening in university library men’s rooms.
beerad
How the hell is this news of any kind?! Glory holes predate the Internet, the cell phone…hell, maybe even electricity!
ric
@Trippy: Trippy believe me when I say there are probably more loopholes at Liberty than we know. I had a friend that went to Library and he said there were a lot of gay out student’s there.
ric
Sorry my tablet changed my word from gloryhole to loop.
bnard620
just do it ur place or car like everybody else, y at use a hole in the wall.
nitejonboy
We had one in a bathroom when I went to Louisiana Tech, no one made a big deal out of it. Most didn’t even know what it was.
gaym50ish
I wonder if Larry Craig would claim that it was because of his “wide stance” that his dick ended up in there. Would Ted Haggard insist that he was abused as a child and therefore “sought comfort” in the mouth of another man?
Would George Alan Rekers try to tell us he was “ministering” to the guy in the other stall? Do you suppose Bishop Eddie Long might preach an anti-gay sermon and text a photo of himself wearing revealing spandex before blowing the underage kid who put his dick in the glory hole?
Anonymous sex is fun for hypocrites too — probably including some of the men whose wives are now scandalized and outraged by the existence of glory holes.
Roan
@jason smeds:
Keep clutching your pearls, Mary. Maybe the will turn into diamonds one day.
Jacob23
This is a vile practice that is a holdover from an earlier era. It is like blackface, only with STI transmission tossed in as a bonus. Of course, we have here the usual small group of aging, STI-riddled men who have ordered their lives around this kind of loveless, anonymous sex. Like good Jonestown cultists, they will believe their myths until the end, even as the bodies pile up around them.
There’s a clown (DesertSun and his sockpuppet Trippy) who insists that anyone who objects to assembly-line sex with complete strangers in a public setting is a “puritan.” Advice: know the meaning of words before you use them. There’s a loon (BritAus) who insists that there’s no greater STI risk in having sex with multiple partners in furtive settings than having sex within the context of a relationship, when risks can be discussed. Oh, and the gathering of sad losers wouldn’t be complete without someone (Roan) using effeminizing words to degrade a gay man. That’s how “liberated” gays speak to other gays, apparently.
Well, keep at it dinosaurs. A better world is unfolding for gay people. But not for you. You just keep on telling anyone who will listen that fraking strangers in a toilet is the way to happiness.
ashersea
We had these all over the place at the University of Maryland lower floor bathrooms.
Didn’t understand it until a few years later what they were.
JDean
How dare you shame the trashy queens!? If shit rooms are the only way they can find love who are we to judge.
Juanjo
Glory holes have been around as long as humans have built bathrooms. Back in the middle ages when I was in college all the straight boys who were not getting anything from their girlfriends knew of a bathroom in the basement level of the library where one could go for a little relief. And they did, often some of them so daily. Likewise in the stacks there were single user bathrooms where both heterosexual and homosexual couples would go for a little study break quickie. Everyone knew it and people even joked about it on campus.