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Cottaging is a UK gay slang term referring to anonymous sex between men in a public lavatory (a "cottage",〔 "cottage ''noun'' a public lavatory used for homosexual encounters (UK)."〕 "tea-room"〔 "tearoom; t-room ''noun'' a public toilet. From an era when a great deal of homosexual contact was in public toilets; probably an abbreviation of 'toilet room'.〕 or "beat"),〔 or cruising for sexual partners with the intention of having sex elsewhere.〔(''Sex Tips for Gay Guys'' ) by Dan Anderson; Published by Macmillan, 2002; ISBN 0-312-28873-5, ISBN 978-0-312-28873-0〕 The term has its roots in self-contained English toilet blocks resembling small cottages in their appearance; in the English cant language of Polari this became a double entendre by gay men referring to sexual encounters.〔(''Fantabulosa: A Dictionary of Polari and Gay Slang'' ) by Paul Baker; Published by Continuum International Publishing Group, 2004; ISBN 0-8264-7343-1, ISBN 978-0-8264-7343-1.〕 "Cottage" is documented as having been in use during the Victorian era to refer to a public toilet and by the 1960s had become an exclusively homosexual slang term. The word used in this sense is predominantly British (a cottage more commonly being a small, cosy, countryside home), though the term is occasionally used with the same meaning in other parts of the world. Among gay men in America, lavatories used for this purpose are called ''tea rooms''.〔Rodgers, Bruce ''Gay Talk (The Queen’s Vernacular): A Dictionary of Gay Slang'' New York:1972 Parragon Books, an imprint of G.P. Putnam’s Sons Page 195.〕〔In 1970, an American graduate student at Washington University, Laud Humphreys published a famous and controversial PhD dissertation, ''Tearoom Trade: Impersonal Sex in Public Places'', on the tearoom phenomenon, attempting to categorize the diverse social backgrounds and personal motives. See .〕 ==Locations== Cottages were and are located in places heavily used by many people such as bus stations, railway stations, airports and university campuses. Often glory holes are drilled in the walls between cubicles in popular cottages.〔 〕 Foot signals are used to signify that one wishes to connect with the person in the next cubicle. In some heavily used cottages, an etiquette develops and one person may function as a lookout to warn if non-cottagers are coming.〔 Since the 1980s, more individuals in authority have become more aware of the existence of cottages in places under their jurisdiction and have reduced the height of or even removed doors from the cubicles of popular cottages, or extended the walls between the cubicles to the floor to prevent foot signalling. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「cottaging」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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