Cruising

Nozlee Samadzadeh interviews photographer Chad States about his series:

The wonderful thing about cruising parks is that there is generally a great cross-section of subcultures. Sex is the great unifier. All these different types of men who normally wouldn’t interact much in another situation come to the park with the same desire to physically connect. I do occasionally talk with some of the guys in the woods, but the conversations are kept brief as talking isn’t usually condoned. You don’t come to a cruising park to have full-blown conversations, though that does occasionally happen. Most interactions are kept to just making eye contact. Words are spoken only when needed.