Glory hole (sexual slang)
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A glory hole (also spelled gloryhole and glory-hole) is a hole in a wall, or other partition, often between public lavatory stalls or adult video arcade booths for people to engage in sexual activity or observe the person in the next cubicle while one or both parties masturbate.
Usages in popular culture
Popular culture references within both the gay and LGBT communities as well as the mainstream culture have become more common.
The 1982 teen comedy film Porky's, about the escapades of teenagers at the fictional Angel Beach high school in Florida in 1954, featured a glory hole scene in a shower room where the boys were able to view teen girls in the shower.
In John Waters's 1994 dark comedy film Serial Mom, a glory hole is used as a plot device when an eyewitness sees the title character through the hole hiding in the neighboring stall prior to a murder at the nearby urinals. An earlier film by Waters, Desperate Living (1977), contained a scene in a women's lavatory depicting a chest-high double glory hole—for breasts.
The opening stunt in Jackass 2 features a man inserting his penis into a glory hole that opens up into the cage of a hungry snake, which proceeded to violently bite his penis.
In the 2002 film The Sweetest Thing, Cameron Diaz gets injured in the eye when she unknowingly peers through a glory hole in a men's restroom.
In the 2000 comedy Scary Movie, which spoofs popular horror films, Shawn Wayans' character Ray, who had shown stereotypical signs of being gay or closeted throughout the movie, goes to the bathroom in a theater. Upon seeing a glory hole and hearing sexual noises, he proceeds to listen with his ear pressed to the hole and is suddenly impaled through his head by a penis.
In the fifth season of The Shield, gay men patronizing glory holes in public restrooms were assaulted with rat traps.
In the 2008 teen sex comedy Sex Drive, the protagonist Ian (Josh Zuckerman) uses a roadside reststop and while in the stall a "men's room predator" (Allen Zwolle) who is trolling for sex sticks his erect penis through a glory hole. Meanwhile Ian is preoccupied texting and making appreciative noises about the conversation, which are comically misinterpreted as affirming his desire to have a sexual experience with the other man; he mistakenly also grabs the man's penis, which was obscured by toilet paper.
In Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, an advertisement on the in-game radio describes 'Glory Hole Theme Park - where strangers become friends'.
It is also mentioned by Peter Griffin in "Family Gay", an episode of Family Guy.
In the episode "Mac & Charlie Die" of the television show "It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia", Danny DeVito discovers a glory hole in one of the stalls at the gang's bar, Paddy's Pub.
In Ricky Gervais's Out of England, he tells a childhood story of a teenage boy who practiced fellatio on a man through a glory hole that turned out to be his father.
Internet Celebrity Chris Crocker made a video about going to a gloryhole. The sketch comedy troupe The Whitest Kids U' Know features a glory hole in a sketch on their television program of the same name.
In the NES game Total Recall, there are holes in a fence which, although they're supposed to be fists punching at you through the fence, the poor design of the game makes them resemble gloryholes. This is made fun of in an episode of Broken Pixels from 1up.com.
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