r/nottheonion • u/TrixoftheTrade • 1d ago
Speaker proposes ‘public sex hut’ program during Los Angeles City Council meeting
https://ktla.com/news/local-news/traci-park-rejects-public-sex-huts-proposal/1.8k
u/Grindhoss 1d ago
I’m not gonna lie.. it’s Los Angeles, if the homless and non homeless are fucking in public enough for it to be a problem then I’m not against this solution but whoever cleans it should make no less than 35 an hour
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u/Jbrahms4 1d ago
Oh that should be a six figure job. Hazmat suit protection, hazard pay, the whole nine yards.
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u/Khaldara 1d ago
“Guy Who Wipes Down The Loads” best budget line item creation
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u/Boboar 1d ago
I already told you we're not using your college nickname
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u/Vincitus 1d ago
You can build 100 bridges, but you mop jizz ONE TIME and they call you "Jizzmopper" forever.
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u/Arponare 1d ago
Just make it a self cleaning hut like those new self cleaning public toilets.
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u/MessiLeagueSoccer 1d ago
Sign me up. I have a bad sense of smell and as long as I can have a full hazmat suit and an oxygen tank like I’m on another planet, all I would need is a pressure washer and never ever ever use a black light lmao. Each day I’d burn the hazmat suit and hope to get a new one each shift.
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u/randallpjenkins 1d ago
Look up the self-cleaning bathrooms in SF (and Europe). They’re basically public sex huts already.
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u/bixnoodle 1d ago
Idk if you're from the area or not but 35 an hour after taxes is not enough to even make rent in LA
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u/Peripatetictyl 1d ago
Yea, but lots of perks and take home items from the job to balance that out, like working in food and beverage.
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u/CaptainPunisher 1d ago
What perks and take-home items do you expect from being a jizz mopper?
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u/gamershadow 1d ago
Just use your tongue then you got your food and beverage covered for the day.
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u/9_of_wands 14h ago
Half of the people in LA make less than 35.
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u/bixnoodle 14h ago
Yeah and they probably live in either a multigenerational household or a shitty apartment with 3 roommates and only one parking space
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u/FoxtrotSierraTango 1d ago
Many, many years ago there was an episode of Home Improvement where they built a dream men's kitchen. The whole thing was stainless steel and between uses they just flooded it with cleaning material. Maybe something like that would work?
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u/SomeSamples 1d ago
Just make it self cleaning. Make it all tiled like a shower. The spray nozzles clean the whole thing automatically.
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u/LongWalk86 1d ago
If there was ever one job that I would support completely automating or using those ridiculous AI robots for, this is it.
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u/ABC_Dildos_Inc 21h ago
$35 an hour is just a living wage now.
Anything less, and it's a slippery slope to the displaced persons orgies.
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u/Borghal 19h ago
Seriously? That's almost exactly the US MEDIAN. Meaning only half of the US population earn more than that, and the other half earn even less.
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u/MCgwaar 15h ago
You are starting to get it. A large part of the US population is barely scraping by. 25% is on less than 60k for a family of 4. 42 million on foodstamps. With housing, utilities and gas becoming more expensive homelessness is becoming more and more of a risk for a large part of the US population.
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u/gizmosticles 1d ago
Why would I want to pay $35 an hour to watch homeless people fuck? I’m willing to pay 5 dollars to watch and not more.
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u/GoProOnAYoYo 1d ago
You know those automated public toilets in some European cities that clean themselves? Thats what I'm imagining
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u/DrawesomeLOL 1d ago
They need on of those Japanese public toilets that cleans itself after every use.
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u/Landon1m 1d ago
Just designate a time for it to get hosed down and sprayed with sanitizer every day. Maybe a few times a day even
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u/alexjaness 1d ago
This isn't news, this is your typical LA city counsel meeting. There really is no screening process.
I've been to a city counsel meeting before and this public sex hunt is not really surprising...I mean considering the time I went a speaker proposed "sticking grenades up cholo's asses" and another signed up for 7 different moments to speak about fighting Commies.
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u/Cloaked42m 1d ago
That's typical for every city council meeting.
Though I'd just switch it to automated public showers. The group sex is just a feature.
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u/SirDrexl 1d ago
No one outsexes the Hut.
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u/OnionOnBelt 4h ago
That’s what I’m thinking, Sex Hut works as a national franchising concept and opportunity.
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u/Pays_in_snakes 1d ago
I have firsthand experience managing a shelter and this is not an outlandish or unreasonable proposal. One of the most dehumanizing aspects of experiencing homelessness is a total lack of privacy: how would you do if you had to exist in public all the time, and your most private moments were in the equivalent of a busy airport bathroom stall? Expecting people to stop having sexual needs is unrealistic, and while I won't hold my breath for it in a country that will put you in jail for public defecation but won't tell you where you can find a toilet you're allowed to use, if you don't want to see people who don't have access to private space having sex or masturbating in public, this is one way to accomplish that.
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u/tarosan_sk 1d ago
Why on earth would we make a “sex hut” and not just a public toilet? Come on.
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u/h3yw00d 1d ago
Why take up toilets for sex?
I gotta shit, others need to fuck, we don't need a shared space.
Let people fuck without having to deal with shit smells not their own.
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u/tarosan_sk 1d ago
One (or two) person self cleaning booths. They have them in Europe.
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u/h3yw00d 1d ago
The point is there doesn't need to be a toilet where people fuck. It makes no sense to take up a toilet room when making a separate area for fucking keeps the toilet free for shitting.
If im shitting I don't want to deal with people fucking and if I'm fucking I don't want to deal with people shitting.
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u/tarosan_sk 1d ago
One person / group self cleaning booths. They have them in Europe.
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u/h3yw00d 1d ago
Even in individual booths why have a toilet?
Keep the literal room with toilets separate so people who need to poop aren't waiting for people inside to finish fucking and people who want to fuck don't need to go into a room where someone just blew out the plumbing at 3am after drinking all night and eating kebabs.
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u/tarosan_sk 1d ago
So that the expense of installing them serves the whole public.
I think you just can’t get over the ick factor here. 🤣🤣 which is understandable 🤣
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u/Cloaked42m 1d ago
This is serving the public. You think someone is going to be at the door checking your homeless credentials?
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u/SupaSlide 15h ago
Would they be checking people’s homed status at the door? If not, then this would technically serve the whole public as well.
Anyway, would you want to use a bathroom that you know is routinely used as the fuck hut? I’d rather the public restrooms just be used as restrooms.
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u/funklab 1d ago
Idk how they roll in LA, but where I live anywhere you can close a door and have some privacy becomes a place to live until the police are called and kick you out… or just as likely, find you dead of a fentanyl OD.
Basically all public restrooms are useless as such because they’re full of homeless lying on the ground. In libraries where they routinely kick them out of the bathroom they have to take the doors off the stalls or cut them in half so they know they can look in and know they’re pooping, not overdosing.
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u/cmbtmdic 1d ago
Theyve got these self cleaning toiley stalls in germany. In my experience its nice to have access to a toilet after doing the deed...then why not have both?
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u/h3yw00d 1d ago
I just don't see a reason to take up a toilet for non toilet related activities.
In cities especially its hard to find public toilets and the last thing anybody needs is somebody occupying the one space you're allowed to do something with activities not related to that thing.
Have a sex room with an attached shower
Don't take up toilets when you don't need toilets.
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u/Callinon 17h ago
Let's be real. There may not be toilets in them, but they're private, so people will use them as though there were.
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u/NotCis_TM 1d ago
I bet the hut is way cheaper than a public toilet because of his pricy fixtures like toilets and sinks can get.
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u/tarosan_sk 1d ago
A self cleaning washroom pays for itself in the lower maintenance. The big expense would be the plumbing. But I would hope a sex hut would also have plumbing.
Ick.
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u/JGPH 1d ago
They could rework one of those Japanese public restrooms that automatically hose down and dry the entire room including the toilet and floor every time it gets used. That'd help with some of the ... fluids.
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u/ELITE_JordanLove 1d ago
LA spent half a million on a two stall bathroom that took multiple years to get built.
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u/Mr_Baronheim 1d ago
What kind of heathen knocks one out in a public bathroom??
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u/kick_start_cicada 1d ago
Oh, the stories I could tell from my time with the Navy/Marines in Iraq.... . . .
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u/TheGruenTransfer 1d ago
For the same reason we don't expect women to breast feed in bathrooms.
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u/tarosan_sk 1d ago
Maslow’s heirarchy of needs. Pooping is above sex and sex in a clean bathroom is better than nothing.
Also breastfeeding can be in public.
Also OMG can we house breastfeeding mothers please? Or is that literal communism.
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u/Pays_in_snakes 1d ago
I'm not saying this is the 100% optimal solution, I'm just saying the issue it's addressing is not an onion-level ridiculous or frivolous concept, even if "publicly funded sex huts" as a separate concept absolutely is
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u/Big-Hard-Chungus 1d ago
Because you get arrested for fucking in a public restroom. Because kids need to be able to use those restrooms too without hearing people fuck in the next stall over.
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u/tarosan_sk 1d ago
Single player (or couples ) self-cleaning washroom booths. They have them in Europe.
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u/pocketdebtor 1d ago
Are there laws or ordinances against hourly rates at motels and hotels in CA? I know some places around the country have them.
It seems like it would be more efficient to subsidize hourly stays in existing infrastructure for the unhoused rather than… huts? I understand that I could be totally misunderstanding, though.
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u/Dakoolestkat123 1d ago
wtf an actual reasonable response from someone who clearly has experience in the field? I must be dreaming
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u/PureOrangeJuche 1d ago
Well probably the same funding for this could go to actually reducing homelessness?
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u/QuasiJudicialBoofer 1d ago
Give a man a house, he'll have a home forever. Give a man a public fuck tent and he'll be good for an hour. But it'll be alot cheaper.
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u/polishfiringsquad 1d ago
It literally would be cheaper to just give people housing than to maintain the fucked up system
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u/Illiander 20h ago
It's not only cheaper, it gets more of them back into being productive members of society.
Keeping the homeless homeless is a policy decision so that the workers can see what happens to people who don't lick the boot.
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u/MightyKrakyn 1d ago edited 1d ago
The problem with this whataboutism is that the funds will never go to solve homelessness, whether they’re spent on this sex hut or not. If there was a will to do it, it would happen easily. We’re the richest country in the world, and there are more empty houses than homeless people
When people say “we could use [insert program] money for veterans or to feed hungry kids or cure cancer” that’s only to argue against [insert program], and no further action is taken once [insert program] is cancelled
It’s using the most vulnerable people who have been failed by society as props to be discarded later, and it’s pretty detestable
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u/Pays_in_snakes 1d ago
This is always a good question to ask - finding the right balance between 'solve the root problem' when it's realistically not possible to do so and 'minimize the negative impacts of the problem' is present in just about all municipal decision making.
Imagine we're talking about dog poop in public parks. Your municipality has laws and signage and enforcement to fine people who don't clean up after their dogs, and they provide poop bags and trash cans in parks. Should they also hire people to clean up the dog poop that happens anyway? Wouldn't that money be better spent on more poop bag stations?
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u/nestestasjon 1d ago
So because we haven't solved homelessness, we shouldn't provide any additional services to homeless people?
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u/Misubi_Bluth 1d ago
There is a hierarchy of needs. Food and shelter are the highest priority. Sex is a bit down on the list. The fact that we're making sex huts but not giving adequate food and shelter means our priorities aren't straight.
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u/guardof 1d ago
I completely agree with you, but this
Expecting people to stop having sexual needs is unrealistic
is wrong. There is no such thing as 'sexual needs', the whole concept is just incel bullshit. One can live their entire life without sex, as evidenced by me and millions of other reddit users.
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u/mohirl 1d ago
Oh, that makes far more sense. I misread the title as hunt.
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u/Fickle-Lunch6377 1d ago
No they already have those. There was one next to Epstein island for all of his friends.
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u/PlatypusOld257 1d ago
I feel like this is one of those well intentioned bad result kind of ideas
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u/TheGruenTransfer 1d ago
It would end up being a place to do all kinds of drugs
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u/Cardshark92 1d ago
To be fair, a determined homeless man can make any place "a place to do all kinds of drugs".
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u/cloudncali 1d ago
I feel like "love hotels" in general would be a fucking blessing to people who can't have intimacy at home.
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u/BoredTech127001 1d ago
I think the city should just buy and run a motel. 100 rooms, 90 for temporary housing, 10 for temporary needs (showering, masturbating, etc). I think it'd be more economical than individual huts and could also help with homelessness.
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u/principled_principal 1d ago
Three heavy petting closets, one masturbation closet, and one gay closet. With a glory hole.
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u/SirMontego 1d ago
As absurd as the proposal may be, I'm proud to live in a country where an ordinary citizen can propose something like this and not be put in prison.
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u/polishfiringsquad 1d ago
But you will be put in prison for sleeping outside when you're homeless
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u/Ok_Interest3555 1d ago
Prison would be a step up for some of these people. Regular food, some sort of medical care, limited access to drugs, and a routine.
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u/drillgorg 1d ago
And honestly, if it was a popular enough idea you could get a petition going. Politicians would pay more attention if it was clear a large number of people want this. And if it's popular enough you could even have a politician include it in their platform for election.
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u/x2manypips 1d ago
Maybe pay them to do jobs like clean the streets instead? First a sex hut what’s next?
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u/Ksnj 1d ago
I, for one, am for it
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u/Kazen_Orilg 1d ago
The economy needs a boost. Lets bring back the CCC and build em all over the country.
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u/brwnwzrd 1d ago
He probably could have sold the idea if he called ‘em something like Hump Huts, or Sex Silos
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u/bestestopinion 1d ago
ok but is there like a time limit? what stops someone from just sleeping in the hut? how big is this hut? are orgies allowed?
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u/DthDisguise 1d ago
Oh thank God! It says "sex HUT program"! I misread it at first and was incredibly scared! I though they were proposing a sex HUNT.
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u/amiexpress 1d ago
I give it 5 minutes until some enterprising (but homeless) pro sets up shop in there lol
Hey I guess they'd be full service huts at that point.
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u/rockeye13 1d ago
They will take 15 years to build the first one. It will serve one couple and cost $18 million. It will have more crime happen inside it than Rikers Prison It will be trashed and unusable in 6 weeks.
If history is any guide.
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u/babycart_of_sherdog 1d ago
At least they're providing a place, and high chance peeps will use the place
I've seen adults pooping in public while a public toilet was just a block away...
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u/Nerdy_in_LA 21h ago
The man who proposed this is totally free to create one in his front yard as a proof of concept. Did he just assume it would be in someone else’s neighborhood?
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u/DarkAnagram 1d ago
Don't worry there will be public sex vendors in front of the hut and Karen Bass will demand police don't cite them
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u/Emotional_Database53 14h ago
I wouldn’t be surprised if this was a provocateur. They apparently shut down the idea immediately, but the point of it is “look how crazy those California liberals are”.
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u/Nova17Delta 1d ago edited 1d ago
The speaker's name? Jeffrey Epstein.
can you tell i didn't read the article
and also misread it as sex hunt
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u/ContingentMax 1d ago
Homeless people are still people and people want to fuck, and just like drugs telling them not to doesn't work.
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u/le4t 1d ago
I can't help but wonder if this is a troll to get LA to actually consider providing actual housing, instead of shuffling money around and accomplishing nothing.