Dan Savage

The new high reported earlier this summer. The new high in the number of people living on the streets in New York City. So about this shocked and aghast local, he wasn't so shocked, he wasn't so aghast that he was paralyzed. He was able to pull out his cell phone and start recording a video from his window.

Three videos, in fact, that he sent to the New York Post, which published them on their website. Now, I'm not a lawyer, but what this guy did, who I'm guessing actually isn't a local, not a born and bred New Yorker, I'm guessing what he did... violates New York's revenge porn law, which prohibits the distribution of intimate images without the consent of the people in them.

Three videos, in fact, that he sent to the New York Post, which published them on their website. Now, I'm not a lawyer, but what this guy did, who I'm guessing actually isn't a local, not a born and bred New Yorker, I'm guessing what he did... violates New York's revenge porn law, which prohibits the distribution of intimate images without the consent of the people in them.

Now, people fucking in public don't have a reasonable expectation of privacy, a legal standard that allows news organizations and individuals to take pictures of people in public. But it would be an interesting test case. Revenge porn statutes punish people who distribute sexual images with the intent to do harm. They want to get their ex fired or ruin their ex's relationship with their parents.

Now, people fucking in public don't have a reasonable expectation of privacy, a legal standard that allows news organizations and individuals to take pictures of people in public. But it would be an interesting test case. Revenge porn statutes punish people who distribute sexual images with the intent to do harm. They want to get their ex fired or ruin their ex's relationship with their parents.

And this guy, Mr. Aghast, he sicked the New York Post on this pair. He wanted the police to do something. And the police aren't exactly a benign presence in the lives of homeless people. They could have been harmed.

And this guy, Mr. Aghast, he sicked the New York Post on this pair. He wanted the police to do something. And the police aren't exactly a benign presence in the lives of homeless people. They could have been harmed.

Back to the post, locals, they went and found some more of them, locals bemoaned the daylight debauchery as a symptom of the area's decay, particularly given how close it is, where those two people were fucking, how close it is to the waterfront pathway, which is regularly used by bikers and joggers, as well as families out for a stroll. I watched the videos.

Back to the post, locals, they went and found some more of them, locals bemoaned the daylight debauchery as a symptom of the area's decay, particularly given how close it is, where those two people were fucking, how close it is to the waterfront pathway, which is regularly used by bikers and joggers, as well as families out for a stroll. I watched the videos.

They're behind a barricade under a freeway. Anyone walking down the path would not be able to see them. Only someone peering down from the window of an apartment above could see them.

They're behind a barricade under a freeway. Anyone walking down the path would not be able to see them. Only someone peering down from the window of an apartment above could see them.

Anyone walking by who managed to maybe hear them over the roar of the traffic on the FDR above them and then decided to climb over the barricade to check out where that wet slapping sound was coming from would only have themselves to blame for what they saw. Look, we're in the middle of a housing crisis that is helping to drive the homelessness crisis.

Anyone walking by who managed to maybe hear them over the roar of the traffic on the FDR above them and then decided to climb over the barricade to check out where that wet slapping sound was coming from would only have themselves to blame for what they saw. Look, we're in the middle of a housing crisis that is helping to drive the homelessness crisis.

We talked about it on our last Sex and Politics with California State Senator Scott Weiner. It's been great as a Yimby to see Democrats at the top of the ticket, Kamala Harris, and Democrats who topped previous winning tickets like Barack Obama get on the Yimby bandwagon. Here is Obama at the DNC. In his speech, endorsing the construction of new housing.

We talked about it on our last Sex and Politics with California State Senator Scott Weiner. It's been great as a Yimby to see Democrats at the top of the ticket, Kamala Harris, and Democrats who topped previous winning tickets like Barack Obama get on the Yimby bandwagon. Here is Obama at the DNC. In his speech, endorsing the construction of new housing.

Ugh, music to my ears. Yeah, we need to build millions of units of new housing, which will require cutting through forests of red tape and undoing exclusionary zoning, also known as single-family zoning, locked in place decades ago to keep the poors and non-whites... out.

Ugh, music to my ears. Yeah, we need to build millions of units of new housing, which will require cutting through forests of red tape and undoing exclusionary zoning, also known as single-family zoning, locked in place decades ago to keep the poors and non-whites... out.

But undoing the housing crisis we've created for ourselves here, building those millions of new units, which need to include SROs, single room occupancy hotels, bottom rung housing, that is going to take time. That is going to take decades. And in the meantime... People are going to keep fucking. Housed people. They're likely to fuck inside their houses, but not always.

But undoing the housing crisis we've created for ourselves here, building those millions of new units, which need to include SROs, single room occupancy hotels, bottom rung housing, that is going to take time. That is going to take decades. And in the meantime... People are going to keep fucking. Housed people. They're likely to fuck inside their houses, but not always.

Most of the guys fucking around in the rambles in Central Park have apartments nearby. Most of the guys who have sex in the park near my house, Seattle's Volunteer Park, so named for the men who show up there after dark every night and volunteer to give blowjobs, most of them left their houses to go fuck in the park. Homeless people are unhoused neighbors.