Andrew: I’m all for finding the appropriate philosophical debating point in Larry Craig’s bathroom stall, but, if you’ve ever solicited sex in public toilets, you’ll know that, if your solicitation is successful, the sex usually takes place in said toilets. Your eyes don’t meet under the bathroom partition and your feet melt in each other’s toes and you then book the honeymoon suite at the airport Radisson. It’s gonna happen then and there.
Speaking personally (and, if you’ve got a “wide stance”, this might be a problem), I’d like to have sex in the metal detector at Minneapolis Airport. But that’s not what it’s for. And for Nick Gillespie to suggest there’s some kind of libertarian argument lurking in Stall #3 is one reason normal people recoil from excessive political theorizing.
Only one hundred people out of 300 million get to be U.S. senators. Granted a wide public tolerance for creeps and weirdoes, an understanding that one will not solicit sex in airport men’s rooms is about the minimum entry qualification.