THE COCK RING (180 Christopher St. at West St.) | On the street level of the Hotel Christopher, this was a flat-out raunchy dancing-and-shtupping palace full of guys sporting tell-all keys and bandanas, sniffing Poppers, and looking for “love.” The West Village was alive with hormonally-based bars and clubs in the ’70s, and the colorfully named Cock Ring was a de rigueur jewel in the that neighborhood’s gay crown.
