For those of you who may have missed this news, and its sad follow-up.

Need help? Man freaked out by glory hole at bus terminal bathroom

They've shut down Pad Riw bus terminal's ‘glory hole’

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I have a backlog of places I've collected from this Message Board and other sources to add to the Sex Listings for Thailand. One aspect of the Sex Listings which is especially helpful to visitors and travelers is that it has the ability to provide maps and directions if the actual location can be determined when I publish or edit a place''s page.

I'd like to add this place along with a "Heads Up" notification, but I'm not sure which bus station it is. Google was not helpful, or at least I did not enter the correct search terms, although it did give me the names of bus stations in Bangkok where one can travel to Chachoengsao.

Zooming in on Chachoengsao on Google Maps I found this location, but I don't know if it's the one we're talking about:

Chachoengsao Bus Station
270, Chachoengsao - Bang Pakong Road,

I did add Chachoengsao just now as a subcategory under Thailand. If you or anyone knows if this is the correct bus station or if there's a different bus station to be added, please respond in this discussion.

Also, there's many missing places in Thailand in our Sex Listings that come up now and again in the Message Board in Thailand and other nearby countries.

Please feel free to use the Suggest New Place for This Area link near the top of the page to add a missing place for Thailand, or go into the city page and use the corresponding link. Neighboring countries and some of the cities also have pages and similar "Suggest New Place" links.

If there's some problem with accessing the Sex Listing pages from your country -- I know some countries or Internet providers have filters -- please let me know.

Thanks!

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Bob - infopop, are we still able to put in reviews and other listings? I have submitted one for Adonis but will be in Bangkok in a couple of weeks and would like to submit some more.

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GringoBi - You absolutely can submit reviews and listings for new places. Please do submit more places! However, keep in mind that the Sex Listings are generally about reviews of a place that is already listed or letting more people know that a place exists if it isn't listed already.

The "tldr;" version of the following is "The Sex Listings are about reviews of places, The Message Board and/or The Personals are about travel plans and hookups."

A personal note, I noticed that you, GringoBi, are a longtime member. The oldest user join date is from 1999, the year before I started working with Keith in 2000. 1n 1999 he used an entirely different message board system that I later replaced after creating the initial version of the Sex Listings for him, also later replaced. Thanks for being here and for asking your question!

The Sex Listings aren't really for making announcements that anyone plans to be in a place nor to set up a meeting. Often when I'm going through the queue of submissions to publish, I see things like "I am here now" or "I'll be here Friday" or whatever, and I have to delete those. Usually that time has passed, since there's a delay in me handling all the submissions.

Also, both Keith before me and I had a policy that the Listings pages were for places, what they were, where they were, what people thought about them, what happened there, what was your experience, and so on. If people write in detail that's even better.

He and now I encourage people to use either this Message Board or the Personals instead for travel plans or hookups at an existing place. And obviously, the Message Board is the place where you can comment or discuss things and post it immediately, although sometimes when the moderators or I review postings we have to remove contact information or similar things.

Likewise, the Personals lets both CFS Members and non-members post their ads, travel plans, etc., immediately without waiting for me to edit them first. The Personals also allow people to publish their contact information although we encourage them to use common sense.

The Personals are actually the current version of the "Communal Stall" site that Keith established in the late 1990s at www.communalstall.com. I plan to rebrand it as "personals.cruisingforsex.com" to make it easier to integrate with the other parts of the site - especially with the Sex Listings - so that anonymous users and people who do not register with CFS can still make their hook-ups for specific places and announcements, too.

FYI, people who are not registered or not logged in are limited to having their ads expire in no more than 10 days. Logged-in CFS members had a slightly longer expiration period to choose from in the drop-down box for the number of days.

I just made a change in the Personals ad submission form so that logged-in CFS Member you now can choose expiration periods of up to 90 days.

For anyone who is curious:

In the future I plan to change the Sex Listings page programming for places to that it displays more reviews, even if they are older. When I work on that I will also try to connect the page more explicitly to the personals and show a list of ads for that city, area, country, or whatever is applicable.

All of the site software and appearance, especially with respect to mobile devices, is several years behind on software updates, since some time before Keith passed in 2012.

I've been in touch the the third-party developers who provided the main software for the Listings and the Personals which I installed for Keith and integrated with the Message Board software I had previously installed for him. A large upgrade awaits, although my daily tasks and responsibilities, as as budget/financial issues, prevent me doing it or having it done right now. It's a matter of know what to do but also knowing other priorities come first.

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One more thing, I'm finishing with my daily Sex Listings update just now. I see the one you submitted for Adonis; it's pending and should come up for me to edit and approve by the end this week, I think.

I just handled some reviews from September 28 and 29, but not all from those dates. The end of last week was extremely busy and I ran late with both business and personal matters.

My goal is to to approve Sex Listings submissions within five days. Sometimes I reach that, sometimes it's not possible. ~ Bob

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"Zooming in on Chachoengsao on Google Maps I found this location, but I don't know if it's the one we're talking about:"

This is not a bus station, mistake in Google maps. I was at exactly this spot (parking next to supermarket, sand sculpture exhibition is a the end) two years ago, there is no bus station (just confirmed by satellite image and street view).

I can't help you where the bus station is, anyway the glory hole is closed (how long will it take until it's open again?). But Chachoengsao is on my travel plans anyway, I will have a look at bus station toilets!

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Thanks very much! If you do find something in Chachoengsao like a cruisy toilet, a sauna, a go-go bar (is that even likely?), a neighborhood with street cruising or whatever, I'd be so grateful if you add it to the Sex Listings.

On this page Chachoengsao: CRUISING for SEX Listings you can use the link Suggest New Place for This Area near the top of the page specifically for places in Chachoengsao.

Thanks again. ~ Bob

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Chachoengsao is a quiet little town to the east of Bangkok. You will not find anything gay there -- at least not in an organized fashion.

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I can confirm there is an active glory hole at the bus terminal in Chachoengsao.

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Thank you. I will see that it's added to the Sex Listings. From what ChristianPFC had said in December, I am unsure of the location. When it comes up in my queue of new places to publish I will look into it again. icon513, if you can provide the address or approximate location that would be a big help.

I think we all understand that such places, not just in Thailand but everywhere, may exist for awhile and then disappear. Nothing is permanent, but the Listings are a guide and a record of what has been said about a place at a particular place and time.

Also, and as we've previously discussed, other sites are more comprehensive for East Asia, Southeast Asia, and other regions, I hope that CFS can provide a global resource to the extent possible, even though it has historically US-centric.

Thanks again. ~ Bob

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The entrance terminal in Chachoengsao is off the main road into town, with the entrance across from the Big C Superstore. There's only one terminal; can't miss it.

Unfortunately, the diameter of the hole is a little small for comfort. Nevertheless, the local boys know it is there so it was attracting them at around 9pm last night when the terminal was mostly quiet.

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Location:

https://www.google.co.th/maps/place/...6c5e6b5b?hl=en

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Thanks! That's very helpful. ~ Bob

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Hi all,
Newbie here. Just saw a new gloryhole opening up at Big C Ratchadaphisek. Accessible via MRT Thailand Cultural Centre Station. The facility I'm referring to is located at the car park area next to some restaurants. In my opinion the hole needs a little bit more work because it is now just slightly bigger than a 5 baht coin size so bring along your tools.

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Is this the one? Big C Extra Ratchadaphisek « Big C Supercenter

I'll add it to the Sex Listings for Bangkok if that's correct. I know most of you find info sometimes here on the Message Board, and in many cases more often on other sites, but a Sex Listings entry may be useful to some.

~ Bob S.

P.S., I'm actually developing a philosophy that the Sex Listings exist not just as a current guide of where to play but also a digital archive of people and places going back for years. It shows the changes in cruising with new technology and new attitudes and so much more. To that end, someday I will actually "restore" deleted places but have them coded as "archived" so they would not come up in search results or an area listing unless a user explicitly wanted them.

I'd like to expand beyond the primarily US content on the Sex Listings, although for now - with only me working on this site - I'm behind on many needed projects to update and modernize all of CFS.

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