Strange Sex In Public Parks "Dogging" Londoners

[matcom]

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LONDON (Reuters) - Voyeurs and exhibitionists drawn to outdoor fun have discovered erotic pleasures in normally placid English parks that have nothing to do with walking the dog.

"Dogging," a term that loosely describes a variety of sex acts performed outdoors or in parked cars in front of strangers (and sometimes with them), has become such a craze that health authorities have warned against its dangers.

The term "dogging" apparently comes from those who claim only to be "taking the dog for a walk" -- but are actually on the prowl for something more.

Web sites have sprung up across Britain extolling the pleasures of sex under the stars and online message boards list the best parks and carparks to watch people express themselves.

An academic who set out to study anti-social behavior in parks and stumbled on a thriving dogging underworld said dangers were also lurking in the bushes.

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=573&ncid=573&e=6&u=/nm/20030926/od_nm/britain_dogging_dc

[GOPisEvil]

1. I'll read this after I get back from walking the dog!

:P

[emad]

2. Hampstead Heath has been the traditional dogging ground

for carnal pleasures for the last 100 years, with West Heath the fave gay enclave and Parliament Hill the ac/dc fetishists' hotspot. The mixed bathing pond on the Heath generally permits nude bathing but someone tampered with it a couple of years ago and introduced a blue alga that spreads crotch rot. The ladies pond had to be trawled last year after a spate of used condoms was discovered among the rushes....

The Serpentine in Hyde Park is central London's main cottaging arena - Marble Arch gentlemens' conveniences being the most widely reported 'fun' tourist destination.

NB: re your 'dangers lurking in the bushes': isn't this Dr Kelly's grim prediction about his own demise?

[xchrom]

3. oh goody

i'll be there in just afew days-- and i love sex in parks or parked cars{moving ones, even}.
you have just made this dogs day!

[BiggJawn]

4. Heard about this on the Beeb yesterday....

And i thought Brits didn't like sex?

Shouldn't that saying be "No Sex, pleez, We'uns is Murkans!"

[plcdude]

5. question

heard this term "milf" on TV recently do you know what this means?

[Drifter]

6. MILF

Mothers I'd Like to F*&k

Cheers
Drifter

[plcdude]

8. okay

that explains it and fits the context it was in. Thanks.

[Aristus]

7. Uh, news?

Hyde Park has been a well-known sex destination for decades!

[Cheswick2.0]

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