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Laud Humphreys - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Laud Humphreys (October 16, 1930–August 23, 1988) was an American sociologist and author. He was born as Robert Allan (Laud) Humphreys, in Chickasha, Oklahoma, to Ira Denver Humphreys and Stella Be...
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Cottaging - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Amazon.com: Tearoom Trade: Impersonal Sex in Public Places
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I have chosen the term “purlieu” (with its ancient meaning of land severed from a royal forest by perambulation) to describe the immediate environs best suited to the tearoom trade. Drives and walks that separate a public toilet from the rest of the park are almost certain guides to deviant sex.
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Published in 1970, "Tearoom Trade" is full of useful information about foot tapping, shoe touching, hand signaling and all the other rituals those so inclined use to make contact with one another in such places.
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Tearoom Trade: Impersonal Sex in Personal Places, a doctoral thesis which was published in 1970, detailed exactly the pattern—of foot-tapping in code, hand-gestures, and other tactics—which has lately been garishly publicized at a Minneapolis-St.
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