Tracy Clark-Flory investigates the romantic rumors around OWS:
It’s easy to see how reports of drugs, public sex and other licentiousness could take off at an overnight camp site. But while some on the right have seized on such stories to dismiss the movement as one big public orgy, the truth is that those like Alexander — who boasts of fooling around with "a chick" under a tarp just feet from a police officer — are easy to find but not the norm.
Not even among the hardcore protesters who camp out every night. "Sex doesn’t happen here," says John, a 22-year-old college graduate from Virginia Beach who has slept in the square for a couple of days now. "There are a lot of people in a very tight space. It’d be really hard to do." A handful of other protesters in their 20s tell me that they haven’t seen any of the apparently apocryphal "lawn sex" or condoms littering the ground. Indeed, Zuccotti Park is by far the cleanest sliver of the city that I’ve seen.
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