it's interesting how people in today's day and age will have a morality crisis over niall having casual sex in public with men when it's clear the show is portrayed in its early 00's when lgbtq+ was not nearly as progressive in scotland and niall is a closeted homosexual with internalised homophobia who would find dark and secret places to have sex and then act like nothing happened. in the plainest way possible - it's just how it was back then. illicit hookups in bar toilets and the back of cars. i mean tbf it still happens today. but back then it's accurate that the only way niall could be true to himself was having sex in dirty toilets because he's terrified and sickened still by the real version of himself. there's no bringing a man to his bedsit so they can do it in a bed. it's a quick dirty 5 mins in a bog to have an orgasm.
