“The tubs” are BAcK!

Will we see another AIDS-like plague rise up and make the new bathhouses its breeding ground?

I think the app hoes are already working on that.

How many times he going to tease this big reveal? Even the other Corey rolled his eyes in the grave....

Sorry wrong thread

I'll never understand how eldergays could stomach this. I know that being gay means you have to grow a pair and not get grossed out easily, but I don't even get in my friend's hot tubs. These kinds of things are like bacteria and parasite farms.

R5, most pools have a sign asking you to shower before entering the pool.

On a gay cruise they referred to the jacuzzis as “egg drop soup”. Gays either had sex in it —or used it as a “flea dip” after having sex elsewhere on deck. So romantic.

R6 A shower won't kill the fungis and other gross body issues people have.

The Pacific is wide but I'll get there, R1. I promise.

I don't know how the eldergays did this shit in the 70s. I'm not sex-phobic at all, but that tub shit was so unsanitary and unhygenic. Parasites, fungi, bacteria. Just disgusting.

R9 is that MRSA bacteria?

Free Folliculitis!

I want hot tub lung

I hope the baths are coming back. I hate fucking Grindr.

R5 I'm sex phobic AND germ phobic

I think they get a bad rap. Maybe the ones in the US are always dirty sleazy places, but Europeans know how to do it well. The high quality ones in places like Germany are nice to go just to relax whether or not you also have sex, and it's good sometimes to just be in an all-male environment, with a bit of a sexual charge in the air. Where else do you get to experience that?

And least you get what you see and no endless back and forth on your phone all night.

R7 that's hilarious and gross at the same time, but it's as I imagine.

r1, bathhouses never went away in europe, do you see this there?

The Club in Ft. Laud had a tub. It was cleaned every couple of hours and there was a ton of chlorine in the water....

Steamworks- alright!

EWWWWWWW

I'm going to a korean sauna tomorrow in fact

R23 = coronavirus superspreader

I'm not going to stick my bare ass in water that 500 other guys have stuck their bare asses in. That is fucking NASTY.

no, it's cleaner than your own shower in most regards

500 men don't rub their bare asses all over my shower.

[quote]I don't know how the eldergays did this shit in the 70s. I'm not sex-phobic at all, but that tub shit was so unsanitary and unhygenic. Parasites, fungi, bacteria. Just disgusting.

I can assure you that it's no more unsanitary than the hot tub at a 5-star Four Seasons resort. All public spas and pools are of the same risk.

[quote]All public spas and pools are of the same risk.

Except guys are not cumming all over the place.

R29, Guys cum in the spas at all gyms and hotels. They also pee and poop in them. If your going to use public facilities, then you have to accept the germs.

I went to the Tubs many times,in many different places ,and I never once got in a pool or a hot tub. Id use the steam room and the showers,but that was it . Im not germ phobic,but I saw too many times drunk granny queens passed out and shitting in them.

How about linking the source that broke that story, instead of the constantly plagiarizing and utterly despicable Queerty?

Bring 'em back. It's nice to be in an all-male gay environment. Sometimes you have sex, sometimes not. But a gay bathhouse is a nice way to escape from the world for a few hours.

[quote]I'm not going to stick my bare ass in water that 500 other guys have stuck their bare asses in. That is fucking NASTY.

Yet you'll shove your tongue up some guy's asshole.

Not 500 of them, r34.

GROSS!!! Why would you be in a room with a bunch of disease-ridden men touching you everywhere? Just go on Pornhub and jerk off. Thank goodness I am a Millennial and we are more civilized than this.

Some like the chase. Some like to watch. You don't even have to do anything. Just get some cheap thrills and scurry out smiling and biting your finger like Madonna at the end of her Justify My Love video.

Baths is where it is at. I’ll never have sex with a guy who doorsnee know that at least from a one time experience

prudes are always nasty sex partners

Your phones have more germs on them than any thing. When was the last time you sterilized that?

I doubt my phone has as many germs on it as some dude's asshole.

Kind of depends on what you do with your phone.

[quote]I doubt my phone has as many germs on it as some dude's asshole.

you might be surprised

[quote]I doubt my phone has as many germs on it as some dude's asshole.

my dear, my feet are officially cleaner than your hands.

Will they have pReP vending machines?

Can I get my taint disinfected there?

[quote] Why would you be in a room with a bunch of disease-ridden men touching you everywhere? Just go on Pornhub and jerk off. Thank goodness I am a Millennial and we are more civilized than this.

SHRIEEEEEK!!!!!!! Clutch those pearls, Mary!

r46=Cockgobbler Aaron Schock

So what if phones have more germs on them than anything else? That doesn't make the baths any more sanitary.

That's like saying eating a dog turd is grosser than swimming in a pool full of diarrhea. Either

Ignore the "either".

MRSA is not your friend

You all sound ridiculous - most of the world uses bathhouses and a couple ninnies here get their panties in a twist

Why can’t eldergays just use an app and hook up with one person? Why are Roman orgies required?

Beause most people on there have no intention of meeting up. Just game players, pic collectors or bots. Someone at a bathhouse has a to do list.

Yep but you'll get in a hot tub where fifty cunts have been in and dropped their smegma filled periods in.

R55 Why are you so angry about it? Why do you care? You're not participating, you don't like it so why are you commenting? Are you trying to change people's minds? Because you're not. Go do something else with your life. I don't get people like you. haha.

[quote] I am a Millennial and we are completely emotionally and sexually stunted and crippled.

Fixed that for you

Millennials should all be exterminated ASAP. Re-open the concentration camps already.

MARY!

R58 HEY! Don't leave out Gen Z. Believe me, they are even worse.

R60 yes. Gen Z and Millennials deserve Andersonville. They should be locked there and left to die in the snow , the mud and the rain in winter, the scorching sun in summer, drowning in a pool of their own feces, covered in vermine, with no food whatsoever and an infected stream full of piss , vomit and diarrhea as sole water supply. Starting with the swedish retard baby lez who don't want to take no plane.

Bring them back, just require a higher standard of cleanliness. When I came out in the late 1970's, most gay establishments, bars, baths, adult bookstores, etc. were either mob-run or disgustingly filthy/sleazy. It said a lot of how gay men thought of themselves back then.

Please - we can barely keep gay bars open. And millennials hate being naked in front of peripheral. And no one has time or desire to lounge around in public anymore.

[quote] 500 men don't rub their bare asses all over my shower.

It’s a shame you never enjoyed a Saturday night.

[quote]If your going to use public facilities,

Oh, dear!

[quote] Why would you be in a room with a bunch of disease-ridden men touching you everywhere?

You sound like a fucking homophobe from the 1980s. Fuck off.

Gay ≠ disease you asshole.

Off topic but I have to ask. Why do younger millennials and gen Zs bust their ass at the gym 24/7 to get these gorgeous bodies, and won't shower there, or even take off their tshirts in the locker rooms ? Don't they like the attention ? Some of these guys at my gym could seriously be on the cover of men's health right now, and they won't let anyone see their chest !!! Not talking about being naked, but the chest !! WTF ?? (even weirder, they don't close the toilet door when they take a leak.. It doesn't make sense)

[quote] Why can’t eldergays just use an app and hook up with one person? Why are Roman orgies required?

Clearly you’ve never been. What makes you think it’s a Roman orgy? Or that everyone hooks up with more than one person?

You sit and look at a screen with a grid that has pictures of guys, select the guy you’d like to talk to and the long, usually fruitless, dance begins. That is, if he even responds to you.

I sit and look at real guys standing in front of me, select the guy I’d like to talk to and do so.

Hmmmm. I can’t figure out which one is easier for reaching my goals.

OP was so excited his typing got all fucked up.

R5, there seems to be a misunderstanding of what “the tubs” were like back in the day. The word isn’t meant to be taken literally. Public bathhouses had been around forever and became a hot spot for gay sex. As attitudes toward homosexuality relaxed in the 1970s, gay bathhouses were built specifically for sex that didn’t have the same sort of facilities as legitimate bathhouses. There was no bathtub or pool. There were no hot tubs or jacuzzis, which were just barely coming on the scene in the ‘70s anyway. There was a shower; that was it. It was pretty spartan.

You went to the baths, rented a locker, changed into a towel and walked around looking for sex, which you had in a private cubicle or in the so-called orgy room or anywhere, really. You showered afterward. Maybe you went back for more sex. Then, you got dressed and left. While there were diseases aplenty, they were not acquired by lounging in hot tubs. I know things are different nowadays, but men sitting around in germ-infested pools or hot tubs was not a thing 40 years ago.

R37, right. It was a voyeur’s paradise, both visual and aural. Also, the aura of sex surrounded everything, which increased the horniness of the experience. That's something that can't be duplicated by an app.

Eldergays whine about people who are averse to the baths being prudish prisspots and then wonder why so many of them were wiped out by AIDS in the 80's and 90's.

All one needs to do to understand how AIDS spread like wildfire among the gay community is look at this thread. The tubs are disgusting playgrounds of disease and you're an idiot if you think otherwise. You should avoid them for the same reason you should avoid hotel hot tubs.

Not just STDs, but parasites and amoebas and all the disgusting shit you can get from contaminated water. It's just gross.

I moved to NYC in 1981 and never went to any of those places. I thought and still do that they're nasty.

How do you know that if you never went, R75?

All of you “disease!! AIDS!!” shriekers:

Can you explain to me what the difference is between having sex at a bathhouse and having sex with someone from an app? Or a bar?

There is none. Also, are VD rates higher in European countries where bathhouses are common? No

VD? Now that's a throwback to 50 years ago. At some point: VD > STD > STI. I don't know why or when. It just evolved.

r70 I started going to bathhouses in the late '80s; every one I've ever been to has had at least a jacuzzi, and some have had indoor or outdoor pools.

They are a great alternative to getting robbed, beaten or killed by strangers on apps!

And no one ends up tied up in the basement by a stranger at the tubs—unless they want to be!

[quote] They are a great alternative to getting robbed, beaten or killed by strangers on apps!

Those kinds of things just don’t happen.

Yeah, right

Do you know where your going to (on Grndr)?

R23 how was the Korean sauna?

delicious - very warm and clean. I got a body scrub from one of the staff members.

“The tubs” are BAcK! Hitch up your caftans, ladies...”

Lifting our caftans only exposes the tubs.

Bless your heart, r83.

I'm guessing this will introduce a new and twice as destructive strain of the gay plague, right?

Maybe three times, r89!

The baths were great fun back in the Ritch Street days in 70s SF. Buddy night was great for couples like us. We met friends we have had for life. The place was constantly being cleaned by the staff. Fresh towels were available. Everyone with a few exceptions wore towels. I met celebrities and many very hot men and boys. I was 20. Of course, we stopped going instantly when AIDS happened. We never understood why they weren't closed immediately.

I had a gay old time

Eldergay here...In the pre-Aids era, I used to go to the baths all the time. I constantly got colds, rashes, and weird infections. Sex aside, if you’re kissing a lot of strangers, you’re going to be sick constantly.

Nobody asked you to kiss them, you moron. Just suck their dick and FF

FF???

Live it up sluts!

[quote]"All public spas and pools are of the same risk." Except guys are not cumming all over the place.

Wrong, Iv seen it with my own eyes, straight guys fucking chicks in the hotel hot tub while pretending to just be in a loving embrace. Right in front of everyone. So add Vag Juices to that soup as well.

[quote]I'm not going to stick my bare ass in water that 500 other guys have stuck their bare asses in. That is fucking NASTY.

So you have never been to a hotel pool? You don't think old ladies and incontinence men take a piss in therm? Iv seen them even babies in diapers which is supposed to be against most pool rules but no one stops the breeders from letting baby spawn piss and shit in the pool that I have ever seen. Everyone turns a blind eye.

[quote] Everyone turns a blind eye.

Only if you open them underwater.

Rub a dub dub dub...

I want more than three men in a tub, r100.

Denver has two bath houses, which I've gone to occasionally. They both seem to get good crowds but it's not like orgy central. And both have attendants going around cleaning on a regular basis. Sometimes it's just nice to go hang out with other gay men even if you're not planning on having sex.

steamworks in oakland and chicago are the best

The tubs remind me of tubgirl.

At the baths, all seems to breathe freedom and peace, and make one forget the world and its sad turmoils and various vectors.

Deep, r105. Real deep.

I agree though

It's like you guys never heard of chlorination.

There is a weird unscientific fear of water by much of the online community.

Hell yeah. We saw Jaws!

The Ocean is literally one big giant toilet. Billions of people around the world; shit, piss, shag, bathe and eat out of that thing! Let's not pretend you "Eew" queens are really concerned about bacteria, germs and diseases. Otherwise you'd never step foot outside your front door.

Walking around barefoot on wet floors, sitting with your bare ass on wet benches that hundreds of other guys' bare asses have sat on, etc. It's gross.

It's delicious R112

R112 doesn’t go to the gym.

Ever.

R111 That's true. And you can pick up bacteria in the ocean that can kill you. R112 I have never gone barefoot in a bathhouse or put my bare ass on anything anywhere. What are you talking about? And pools are just as bad as hot tubs. Everyone knows that. You can also pick up the flu, a cold, or pneumonia ANYWHERE. Stop living in fear dude. haha.

your hands are likely dirtier than your ass

r114 I go to the gym every day. I'm not stark naked rubbing my ass all over the equipment, though.

Bathouses had their day a long time ago. It's just sad old queen who never left the 80s.

Bathhouses are back (in the US). They had some rough years due to sex shame and HIV terror, but they are now the hookup venue of choice for men who actually want to get laid, married guys who don't have a place, etc. Because they cost $$ to get into, they screen out some of the less desirable types you might find in an adult book store.

[quote]I go to the gym every day. I'm not stark naked rubbing my ass all over the equipment, though.

You're exercising the wrong way then.

My ass caught pneumonia in the hot tub at the baths. I'm pretty sure it's coronavirus, tbh.

r120=Debbie Downer

Yeah, I guess. And my ass won't cover it's hole when it coughs.

[quote] I go to the gym every day. I'm not stark naked rubbing my ass all over the equipment, though.

So you think you have to be naked to spread germs? You think all the dirty sweaty asses in shorts sitting on the same equipment you use at room temperature is clean?

How can you think of sweaty men in sports gear exercising and associate that with bacteria ??? I have a boner just reading half that post

R102. Totally agree. Bathhouses are good places to hang out for a while and escape from the world even if you don't have sex. San Diego used to have four bathhouse. We now only have one. Club San Diego closed for part of last year due to a fire. Everyone thought is would shut down for good. But it cleaned up the fire damage. Modestly remodeled some areas of the club and reopened about five months ago. I hope it does well. It's good to have at least one place to go and hang out and not have to waste your time on Grindr, which sucks.

r123 it's not an asshole, though.

It's just something from another time that lots of modern men find gross and disgusting.

The big drawback is they become a haven for serious drug users or places for the homeless to stay, clean up, etc

You mean where gay guys routinely stick their dicks, and to a lesser extent, their tongues, r126?

R128, that’s the first valid anti-bath reason I’ve seen so far in this thread.

Though if the price of admission is high enough, along with strict “no drug use” policies being enforced with ejection, that can be quelled.

The gross, lecherous trolls in the gym locker room are bad enough, I don't need or want to go to another location and have to deal with that.

Chances are we don’t want you there, either.

Prancing queens are looked down upon.

Not a prancing queen by any means, though I can't really stand them either.

I just went to a bathhouse in Troy, NY of all places. And I'm the ripe, old age of 40.

Never had a desire to go in my life, but I'm single after a long relationship and was in the area to look at real estate. I went in on a Saturday afternoon expecting nothing but trolls. Holy shit was I wrong. Sure there were many old guys, but there were also some very very sexy men too, ages 20s-50s. One was a handsome beefy guy with a dark beard who looked like a hip ski instructor. We ended up leaving together (swoon, thats another story) but overall, it was a cool experience and the place was really well-run and clean. Very glad I went.

Bathhouses should be reopened, with regulation. They're safer than meeting people online, because you 1) have to pay to get in and show ID; 2) you have to put your clothes in a locker, so no weapons; and 3) the guys you hook up with only know where you live if you tell them.

Also, bathhouses can provide PrEP, condoms, on the spot testing, you name it.

Having been to both sex clubs in Europe and the US and bathhouses in Europe (London, Paris, Berlin, etc.) and the US (NYC, Chicago, San Diego, etc.) I can say they are definitely something gay men should fight for. The range of men alone at all of them I've ever been makes them worthwhile.

[quote]Also, bathhouses can provide PrEP

How can they do that? They're not pharmacies.

I’m guessing the same way Naloxone is readily available.

I've seen this scene too many times in gyms over the years to ever get into a public hot tub: 1. Naked dudes soaking in hot tub. 2. Naked dudes get out of hot tub soaking wet and barefooted. 3. Naked dudes walk barefooted into toilets and enter a stall. Take a steaming dump. 3. Naked dudes leave toilet area and sit their asses (freshly shat) into hot tub.

R128 has a valid nothing.

Bath houses cost money to enter. More than an ABS, less than a hotel room. Most cities it costs about $20 or so minimum, more if you want a (larger) room. They have limits on how long you can stay. At the two in my city, one permits 6 hour visits, and the other 8 hour visits. You are only allowed one visit per 24 hrs. There are no in and out privileges. So no, R128, they aren't a haven for homeless people, even though I'm all for allowing homeless people to enter and have a shower & do whatever bathhouse people do.

The ABSes in my city do have a homeless and drug problem. As a result, most of the ABSes here charge a significant fee, from $5 to $15, to enter the booths or theater spaces. They camp out in the bathrooms, nod off in the booths, hit up the patrons for money, smell bad, and along with the cackling cross dressers, make the places no-go zones.

There are drugs at the bathhouses, and there always have been. In fact, many gays who want drugs go to bathhouses, because dealers are often there. But last couple times I was at the baths, the druggies kept to themselves in their rooms. There are signs posted if you see drug activity, contact management immediately. In any case, you're as likely to find a meth head on the apps, so there's no special problem at the baths.

Millennials grew up in spacious suburban mcmansions with their own bathroom. But now they're on their own and either still living in those homes with their parents, or in a shared space elsewhere. They need a place to go get laid and spend some time around their peers. Bath houses are great places for this. Just because they spent a few years unfruitfully on the apps is no reason they can't change course now and spend time in a public space.

[quote] Bathhouses should be reopened, with regulation. T

Just like in Europe, dingbats. They never closed there, did all gay men die there? No, far from it. Holy fuck the prisspots are tedious

Bath houses sound like sleazy, nasty, sordid and disgusting places. They also seem transphobic.

They are not.

Also, if it has a pool or jacuzzi, you are not allowed to have sex in the water.

Sometimes you're feeling lonely and you just want to be around other men. The added bonus of sex is icing on the cake. That's why the baths are usually hopping on big holidays like Christmas, New Year's and Thanksgiving. I know it sounds sad to spend holidays at the baths, but I guess it beats being alone and feeling sorry for yourself. And maybe they can meet a new friend in the process.

For a lot of men who are introverted, the baths can be a godsend. There's usually very little talking going on, so you can find a sexual partner with minimal conversation. Again, it beats standing against the wall at a gay bar for hours and then going home alone because you were too shy to talk to anybody.

Im an extrovert and I love it too

[quote]They also seem transphobic.

Towards who? 'Boys with pussies'?

[quote]Not a prancing queen by any means

Nobody is forcing anyone to go to the baths, so why the panic? Like others here, I've been to bath houses in Germany, Spain, the UK, Hungary, Denmark, and around the US. Nearly all were very clean, offered clean, fresh towels, free condoms, and sexual health counseling and testing services. Many were large, and more like a social club with TV lounges (not porn), bars, fitness centers, (legit) massage services, and snack bars. Yes, there is sex for those who want it.

How is hooking up with a guy at the baths different from a Grindr hookup? Well, in the baths you're far more likely to be freshly showered -and to shower afterwards. You're also far less likely to be disappointed, as you're seeing each other face to face, mostly naked, and able to move on if the encounter isn't what you wanted. And you and your partner are far less likely to be drunk or under the influence of some substance or other, as that is not tolerated in most baths. There are people around, so it's far less likely someone will be forced into something he doesn't want to do, or get assaulted/robbed.

I'd bet my next paycheck that the majority of the guys here shouting "ewww" and "disgusting" are the same idiot towel-dancers in the gym locker room who are so hung up about sex and nudity, so filled with shame and self-loathing that they must demonize everyone around them...

Relax, guys!

I find it funny that the people trying to defend these cauldrons of disease immediately jump to the conclusion that everyone who opposes the baths must be afraid of sex. Regardless of AIDS, there's so many more things to be worried about in those tubs than the plague. God, the E. Coli alone.

But whatever. You can have all the fun you want contracting coronavirus and ebola while we "prudes" sit this one out.

It's not the STDs, it's all the other nasty shit you can get from a damp, humid environment with naked people all over the place. Amoebas, parasites, fungal shit, and bacterial shit. Those places are giant petri dishes.

And a lot of the men in those places are "momma's mussy" types aka the most disgusting trolls you will ever see in your life.

[quote] I find it funny that the people trying to defend these cauldrons of disease immediately jump to the conclusion that everyone who opposes the baths must be afraid of sex.

You lost me right there, bye!

[quote] And a lot of the men in those places are "momma's mussy" types aka the most disgusting trolls you will ever see in your life.

Gee, you made that up on the spot? How charming! Do you write for a living?

The masses willingly sign up for disgusting shit like this and then wonder how people in the first world manage to get flesh eating parasites and bacteria.

Where?

I started visiting the baths in the 80s, and have continued up to the present day. I have never had an STI of any kind. No MRSA. No eColi infections. No giardiasis. And, yes, I was a Bad, Bad Boy who not only sat in the jacuzzi, stark naked with other naked guys around, but I also fucked more than a few guys bareback* in the days before PREP.

I did get scabies once. But that was shown to have come from shaking hands with everyone while "passing the peace" at church...

* Not actually in the jacuzzi, of course. In a private room.

r141 Hardly. Some baths even have T-Girl and crossdresser nights.

crazy nights

[quote]The Ocean is literally one big giant toilet.

Well not quite, there are processes there that clean the ocean like coral, anaerobic and aerobic bacteria as well as microorganism that act as a biological scrubber. You can see it for yourself, with billions of years of animals and sea life it would be brown by now if not for those self cleaning processes. Lakes on the other hand, being such a small enclosed body of water are much more like toilets without a drain.

Inside the bath house:

Ugly people have no place in a bathhouse :(

When I go to a bathhouse I usually just get a blowjob. Last time as was at this one bathhouse the employee gave me a quickie blowjob.

The baths were fun. I never got in the pool or hot tubs. Occasionally went in the sauna. But the atmosphere is cool.

The cleaning crew in bathhouses should get 50 dollars an hour for what they have to do and full hazmat gear.

They don’t but it’s not that dangerous.

there is something disgusting about going to a place to have anonymous sex with half a dozen strangers, it makes gays look like animals.

Davey Wavey is just insufferable.

R163, you’re insane

[quote] And a lot of the men in those places are "momma's mussy" types aka the most disgusting trolls you will ever see in your life.

Wait a minute. I thought you’d never been. How do you know the clientele?

Guess you’re just ASSuming, right?

No, they're full of trolls. If that's your thing have fun but I'm not going to parade around naked in front of those freaks.

Might do you good to learn humility, doll. Make you more attractive generally :)

He’ll recognize that when, if he’s lucky, he becomes a troll (which is really just a negative expression for older guy, not the old definition of troll).

I always go to the tubs with my hair in a towel turban and a box of Mr Bubble.

Me @ the tubs

[quote]No, they're full of trolls. If that's your thing have fun but I'm not going to parade around naked in front of those freaks.

not at steamworks in Chicago

R170 and r171 has me crying.

😂

I love a good soak

WS, r174?

Not necessary. Just a nice hot bath

I swim and wash my clothes in the cement pond

Did someone say baths?

Budapest has the best

The baths for the win. Grindr will never replace being there.

Totally. Grindr is now mainly bots. In all my years I’ve never met a bot at a bathhouse

I haven’t either. Though some have given head like bots.

That’s a shame

That’s a shame

Anyone been to the baths in NYC? The East Side or West Side clubs? How are they these days?

I thought all the NYC baths had been shut down.

Nope, just the nice ones

not now

And here's a cheery thought for you all. We humans, we have almost as many cells from bacteria inside and outside of us. The ones inside amuse me - once we die they proceed to eat us and liquefy us.

Here's another cheery thought. Water never really goes away it just gets sublimated, evaporated etc. until it's clean again and re-cycled many times over. It never goes away. Just recycled over and over again.

For the few that are still in existence, are people still going to venture out and hook up?

By the time they are allowed to reopen, it shouldn't be any more dangerous than any other hooking up.

As long as men continue to get horny, there will be a demand for places to have sex. Covid-19 will pass someday and when it does, testosterone will rise again!

R193, we have homes. We no longer need to hide and we certainly don’t have to go to bars to find a lay. This is the 21st century. Gays are as boring as breeders.

Perhaps you are, R194. But speak for yourself.

Lol, this two month old thread didn’t age well. What was left of bathhouses will be killed by Covid.

Smell you!

[quote] we have homes.

Yeah, but you inviting someone back to your double-wide on Grindr may limit your selection (and your life).

Has Flex reopened in Atlanta?

R196, you are wrong. There is much talk online of men who are chomping at the bit to get back to the bath houses.

That's true, R199. But the local Departments of Health will have a difficult time looking the other way and letting these places be called gyms. And if they do allow them to operate as gyms, look for the private rooms to be closed, as well as the sauna and steam room. The orgy room? Fugheddaboudit.

[quote]we have homes.

Rub it in, why don't you?

The only people who want so-called baths back have one foot in the grave. No one under 40 even knows what the fuck a bathhouse and they spend the money.

Once this pandemic is ended I want to check out Flex in Atlanta. Me and water - love it.

Indeed, I am eager for this to be over and for the bath houses to re-open.

Be careful of CA-MRSA. Those places are often open 24/7 and so it’s hard to keep them as clean as they should be.

Anyone can get CA-MRSA, however outbreaks have been seen among athletes, prisoners, military recruits, daycare attendees, injection drug users and other groups of people who live in crowded settings and/or routinely share contaminated items. Poor hygiene practices, such as lack of hand washing, may spread the bacteria easily.

I'm 66 and you're certainly getting an ewwwwww from me. What could possibly be worse than hanging around in a smelly, humid, moldy, festering cesspool of disgusting, fat, old queens? The whole thing is cringe-worthy.

[quote] What could possibly be worse than hanging around in a smelly, humid, moldy, festering cesspool of disgusting, fat, old queens?

Obviously you’ve never been. There are all types there.

Do you really believe if even half of your description was accurate, these places would stay in business? Some for many, many years?

[quote]What could possibly be worse than....

You and your attitude.