Policing sex in public toilets in 1930s London
Bluestein
22 points
1 comment
October 10, 2026
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Discussion Highlights (1 comments)
stuartd
> [policemen] acted as agents provocateur, enticing men through deceptive means to respond to sexual invitations – so they could catch them red-handed This was still the case in the 1980s - I worked with an ex-policeman who was ‘young looking’ and his job was this kind of entrapment.