Cruising for sex
"Cruising for sex" describes the act of walking/driving (cruising) about a locality in pursuit of a suitable partner for the purpose of (often quick and anonymous) sex.
The term itself originated in the homosexual community, but can be used to describe the behavior of either homosexuals or heterosexuals. In the United Kingdom, the term is generally restricted to homosexuals, the equivalent term for heterosexuals being dogging.
Reasons may be:
- preferring this over a relationship, or enjoying it in addition
- lack of a relationship
- a married bisexual man wanting sex with another man without his wife knowing about it
Sex may occur in public places such as a park after dark, a beach or in dunes. In such places, sex in the stricter sense of touching and exposing genitals, with or without penetration, is rarely (probably nowhere) legal. In the Netherlands it is in some places more or less tolerated if the general public is not confronted with it.
Cruise can also be used semi-synonymously with flirt (as in "he was cruising me"), but is more suggestive of a sexual invitation.
See also gay bathhouse, safe sex party, cottaging, gay slang, dogging
