Brussels has a sex-positive layer, but it does not dominate the city’s identity in the way it can in Berlin or Amsterdam. For most travelers, the more defining experience is the central gay village, the bar scene, and the broader social rhythm of the capital. If cruising matters, it exists as part of the wider gay infrastructure rather than as the main reason to come. The city makes more sense as a bar-and-capital destination than as a cruise-first one.