Amsterdam’s Vondelpark will become a “sanctuary” park for the city’s gay men looking for uncomplicated sex. The city has decided to allow homosexuals to have sex, in public, in the park’s rose garden:
Why should we try to impose something that is actually impossible to impose, which also causes little bother for others and for a certain group actually means much pleasure?”, he said.
Amsterdam’s beautiful Vondelpark in the centre of city draws hordes of summer visitors, families, skaters and joggers.
But the park’s rose garden has become famous as a trysting spot for gay men looking for uncomplicated sexual encounters.
Mr van Grieken stresses that tolerance to “cruising” gays, aimed at protecting homosexuals from violence, will have “strict rules attached”.
“Thus, condoms must always be cleared away, it must never take place in the neighbourhood of children’s playgrounds and the sex must be restricted to the evening and night-time,” he said.
Those are some strict rules. So, you can go to the rose garden for anal sex, and that’s fine, but you better have your dog on a leash or that’s big trouble:
The new park code of conduct will set out stiff fines for dogs that are allowed to run around the Vondelpark off the leash.
“Research showed that many people find this disturbing,” said Mr van Grieken.
One dog owner protested: “As long as the park has existed, we’ve been allowed to let our dogs run freely. It’s outrageous that we will be punished from now on but public sex won’t. If they can drop their trousers, why can’t I let my dog loose?”
Well, I think that is obvious. Dogs running loose might upset people, and, being a dog owner, you are not a protected class. Just because the city is encouraging anonymous homosexual sex, which will probably result in the spread of STDs like HIV/AIDS, does not mean that Tiger gets to run loose.
Unless Tiger is a euphemism for something, then it’s fine.
