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An MSP has been accused of placing a secret camera in a toilet at the Scottish Parliament in Edinburgh. Colin Smyth was suspended by Labour earlier this month on a separate charge of possessing indecent images of children.
Holyrood’s corporate body told staff in an email that Smyth’s building access had been revoked during an “ongoing criminal investigation”.
Maybe he can save himself by doing a lightning-fast “transition” to being a woman.
Ahead of Holyrood returning from recess next week, Holyrood chief executive David McGill contacted MSPs to say Smyth would be denied access to the building.
He wrote: “We recognise the nature of the criminal charges and the ongoing investigation may be upsetting for colleagues and cause distress. We would therefore like to remind everyone who works at Holyrood or in constituency offices of the confidential support services that are available.”
Taking a wild guess I suspect it’s more “upsetting” to female colleagues. As far as I know it’s generally women who get upskirted and stealth-filmed in toilets. It’s mostly women men like to degrade that way.
While I agree with the ‘mostly’s there, I will note that a surprising number of men are apparently quite worried about being spied on (by other men) in the public toilets. I base this, as a retail employee, on the number of times I’ve been tasked with sweeping up the men’s room only to discover that half the stalls have a long strip of toilet paper dangling over the gap that exists at the hinge (seriously, why are public bathrooms so horrible at privacy?).
@Freemage
This seems to actually happen – one of the toilets in our main campus building frequently has holes bored in the walls between the stalls that are the closed by some janitor. So it seems that men do spy on other men.
Sonderval: Okay, so someone needs to inform you that those holes are not merely for spying. They’re usually large enough to accommodate a penis, and thus are used for anonymous hand-jobs or oral sex. They were more common in the 50s-70s, when being caught being gay was enough to completely ruin your life, so a lot of gay men went with risky sex with anonymous strangers as a preference over celibacy or jail; it’s still part of the culture today, as a result, though of course the AIDS epidemic resulted in a lot less of that sort of activity. All that said, I don’t doubt that some men do also use them for spying on others.
You can google the term “Glory Hole” if you want confirmation of the above info, wikipedia has an article up for it, for instance.
Nope. These holes are small, just large enough to look through.