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...familiar with the events in the men's public bathroom in the Science Center basement. The police have instituted a program of arrests, the legality of which is being challenged...
While there is likely some truth to the assertion, it is overly simplistic to attribute the arrests solely to pervasive homophobia. It seems just as likely that the motivation for the crackdown stems from a long history of using the Science Center bathroom as a "tearoom" for anonymous sex between gay men. These men have reportedly repeatedly made unwanted sexual overtures towards Harvard students and staff. It doesn't matter whether the propositions were heterosexual or homosexual--the University has a responsibility to keep such activity out of its restrooms...
...idea that simply posting a "No Sex" sign would eliminate sex in the bathroom is ridiculous. One might as well post a "No Armed Robbery" sign in a bank. A sign recently installed in the bathroom warns that the premises are periodically patrolled by plainclothes officers. This should eliminate the objection that off-campus men will not be forewarned of the arrest policy...
SOME of the arguments against the arrest policy are transparent veils for defending the practice of anonymous public sex. Rattner and Barrios write that bathroom sex is a "victimless crime" and that the University's opposition is caused by a "selective sense of decency"--as if there were some inalienable right to have sex in public...
...they also reveal that campus gay activists damage their efforts to win much-deserved support when they attempt to protect sex in the Science Center bathroom, a practice very few people can defend...