Well, Sept. 15 was the occasion of a raid on a women's bathhouse event at Club Toronto. Well, it's important to note that bathhouses are traditionally gay men's spaces. Men flirt and then have sex behind closed doors in closet-sized rooms, or sometimes join each other for orgies elsewhere. But lesbians don't have bathhouses. Because women in our culture don't have the rights men do, and their sexuality is not respected.
Women know that if they are openly sexual, they run the risk of being raped or murdered.
But recently, sex-positive dykes have been fighting for a woman's right to take her pleasure without being threatened. In major cities across North America, lesbians are organizing sex parties, bathhouses and fetish nights for themselves. These usually take place in private homes. Some lesbians in Toronto did convince the owners of Club Toronto to let them have one night a year where their sexuality might be as privileged as that of their male counterparts. That hard-won victory for sexual liberation was dealt a brutal kick in the face when five male Toronto police officers pulled up near Club Toronto last Friday night and sat in their cars trying to intimidate those inside.