The partition maintains anonymity and a sense of reassurance that the people involved would not be identified and possibly arrested. Glory holes are especially associated with gay male culture, and anal or oral sex, and come from a history of persecution. A glory hole (also spelled gloryhole and glory-hole) is a hole in a wall or partition, often between public lavatory cubicles or adult video arcade booths and lounges, for people to engage in sexual activity or observe the person in the next cubicle while one or both parties masturbate, tea-bag or fellate.
