‘I went through to the kitchen and kept walking until I found someone,’ he says.
Ian came out of the toilet to find the pub was empty and the doors were locked.
Somehow we were in there for about an hour. She kept putting her hand in my lap, then when I went to the loo she headed me off and dragged me into the ladies. We’d been drinking for four hours and I was feeling really randy. He says: ‘I was in the Spice of Life pub in Soho with a work colleague. On another occasion, Ian had the opposite problem – he found himself locked in. While David’s always slipped under the radar, Ian’s had issues every time. So when they arrived at Victoria with 20 minutes to spare, they ‘passed the time in the disabled toilet.’ They looked for somewhere secluded on the way from Hyde Park Corner to Victoria station, but didn’t find anywhere. Still in a relationship with Miss Meridien, David says: ‘we’d had a few mulled wines, and Amaretto hot chocolates, so we were feeling happy and horny, and couldn’t wait until we got home.’ Afterwards, we went back to the bar to finish our drinks.’ĭavid’s third lavatory love-in was at Victoria station, after a trip to Winter Wonderland. ‘And there was no worry about cleanliness. ‘It’s a five star hotel, so nothing was going to go missing,’ remembers David. Having been to the hotel before, David knew his way round, and so leaving their coats and bags in the bar, they slipped off for sex in the men’s cloakrooms. ‘At first she wasn’t sure if I was serious, but when I said I was, we went for it.’ We were feeling a bit amorous and getting a bit handsy – that’s when I said, “shall we…?”‘ĭavid was surprised when his girlfriend said yes. ‘We’d been seeing each other for about a year,’ he says, ‘and we were in town drinking cocktails in the hotel bar. We felt a bit giddy – the dive bar vibes made it feel illicit – and it brought back teenage memories of sneaking around.’ He says,’it was quite early on in the night and we didn’t want to wait until we got home.’ĭavid checked the coast was clear, then they rushed in and did the deed.ĭavid says: ‘Someone saw us come out, but we walked straight to the bar as if nothing happened. Whereas cottaging emerged in less liberal times as a way for men to meet men (with secret signals to communicate their intentions), heteros with perfectly good homes to shag in are sneaking into toilets for the thrill of it.ĭavid was on a bar crawl with his girlfriend of a few weeks, when they had sex in the men’s room at The Barfly in Camden. While getting jiggy in a public toilet is usually associated with gay men having anonymous sex, there are plenty of heterosexual couples connecting crotches in cubicles. Ian has since gone on to have numerous saucy encounters with women in public loos – and he’s not the only multiple offender. But we ended up doing it in bed a week later, so it did have a successful ending!’ He remembers, ‘the floor was so slippery it became a laugh fest as we were all over the place.