Relegated to the realm of depravity, it feeds off its most structuring disciplinary features.
Cruising is the illegitimate child of hygienist morality. Somewhere between anti-architecture and vernacular, the spatial and aesthetic logic of cruising is inseparable from the one of the proper metropolis. This sexual practice generally takes place in public sites like parks, toilets, and parking lots, or in dedicated establishments like bathhouses and sex clubs.įrom the 19th century Vauxhall pleasure gardens in London to the '80s Mineshaft BDSM club in New York, the Cruising Pavilion looks at the conflictual architecture of cruising. Cruising usually describes the quest for sexual encounters between homosexual men in public spaces, but it cannot be reduced to neither men nor homos.
