SOCB51H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Strip Search, Public Sex
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A low level law that police used to harass gay men. Women"s bathhouses were rare since bathhouses were usually men"s space. Bathhouse raid were a thing of the past. This was the last time police raided a bathhouse. The liquor license law is a provincial law. There was a public area that had the liquor and a private area. There is a history of bathhouses being raided because of the liquor license act and other minor violations. Public sex is illegal meaning they cannot have sex in the public area of the bathhouse. It"s a private space but since they have a liquor licence act, it"s considered a public area. It"s a hybrid space: private (restricted access) and public (covered by public interest and liquor license act). Bathhouses are extremely tightly regulated and control because the space is vulnerable to outside interference and influence. They gave these rules to every woman entering the pussy palace.
