The Legendary Troughman Streams Onto ABC Iview’s ‘You Can’t Ask That’
“There was a guy pissing and I got down on my knees and he got the signal and and and he started pissing on me.”The legendary Troughman, AKA Barry Charles, discusses his watersports origin story on the most recent season of ABC’s, You Can’t Ask That.“I came back from United States in 1978, having been to the Mineshaft and discovered watersports as a sexual activity; being pissed on.”Charles explained, “I went down into the basement of that club (Mineshaft) and there was a bathtub. There was a guy in the bathtub and about five or six guys standing around, pissing on him.“About 20 minutes later I was in the bathtub.”(The Mineshaft was a members-only BDSM club in Manhattan’s Meatpacking District from 1976 to 1985.)As there was no watersport scene in Australia, once he got back, he visited a leather bar that was in Kings Cross.Charles explained, “I was there one night and I went to the toilets to the urinal.