Porn Shopping Daddies Protesting Entrapment At Mayor’s House in NYC

As we reported late last year, young, hot undercover cops have been entering gay sex shops in Manhattan and chatting up older men. In the course of the aggressive courtship, the cops casually insert some sentence like, “Oh, I want to pay you $50 to suck your dick.” Before the men can raise a confused eyebrow, they are arrested for prostitution, even though they never intended to bring money into the equation. There have been a total of over 50 arrests at establishments like Blue Door Video on 1st Avenue in the East Village and Unicorn Video in Chelsea–and the middle aged, porn shopping queens with no prior arrests are fucking pissed.

A protest has been arranged in front of Mayor Bloomberg’s house tomorrow, Valentine’s Day at 17 East 79th Street at noon. The protest is being led by one of the arrestees, Robert Pinter, who told his story to BUTT magazine:

I’m 53 year old… I was in the store shopping for a DVD, and I was approached by a very charming young Asian man, very personable, about half my age.  He iniated conversation with me and we decided to head out to engage in what I thought was consensual sex… Just before we left he said very suddenly and quickly, “Oh I want to pay you 50 dollars to suck your dick.” At first I thought he was asking me for fifty dollars, which would have made more sense since he was half my age….So we exit the store, and crossed the street, First avenue, and I was pushed against the fence by a group of guys. I thought it was a gang, I thought I was being robbed and I had been set up. They grabbed my wallet, and finally I saw the one that was orchestrating this scenario, and dangling from his neck was a police badge.

So, video store cruising has its pitfalls; but meanwhile, BUTT is asking ‘Is Online Cruising Over?,’ but we think that’s just a case of a few gay hipsters being bored with everything “online” this week and calling it a trend.

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Protest (BUTT)

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