When Was The Last Time You Went To A Bathhouse?

Make bathhouses cool again. I like going, but haven't been in a while. They are the best places to be in an all-male, gay environment. Have sex, don't have sex or just jack-off together, steam, sauna, etc., bathhouses provide an escape from the world for aw few hours where you can actually see someone in person with whom you're attracted, maybe talk, and not play those endless online chats that rarely if ever amount to anything. Several men all under the same roof at a bathhouse is a hell of a lot more appealing than an online mystery man that is soul-sucking and not much else.

R1- I didn’t have sex with so called HOT 🥵 guys. They were just regular mature guys like myself. I didn’t care I was just happy to have some fun for a few hours.

R2 is me the OP.

I went about 20+ yrs ago. I went about 5x & always with the same hookup/friend. Neither of us had a place so we’d go there to get a room & have sex. A couple times we ventured out to the pool 7& the porn room just to see what was what. I remember people having sex in the porn room—which was prohibited. I was turned off by the smell of ass & we beat a hasty retreat to our room. I remember the Moby song We Are All Made of Stars playing.

In 1981 when I was 21 I spent the summer in NYC working at the Club Baths. It was an interesting experience and I only had sex with one person while working there, being around all that sex all day kinda turns you off to it after awhile. Although I did still have hook up with guys I met while not working.

My last bathhouse visit was in February 2020 at the MegaPlex sauna in Providence, Rhode Island. Yes, Covid was already in the news, but in America, nobody seemed too aware or too afraid of -- yet.

I was in the tiny darkish sauna with two guys as I watched one getting sucked for awhile. They weren't interested in me, as they were younger and the suckee was attractive -- but I was happy to simply watch. I was 59 and way out shape.. No interruptions because it wasn't busy in MegaPlex that night.

I still wonder what they would have thought then about Covid starting in a few weeks. Probably turned into a memorable, otherwise random, hookup, as it was likely their last hookup for a while, right? Plus, the soon-to-be epicenter of NYC/NJ was only over two hours south, so maybe some patrons from the that area were in the club already spreading Covid, right? Maybe I was!

I guess the club had to close for awhile, but so far, it seems to have survived?

No, it's not anywhere as nice as Steamworks in Chicago, but better than nothing, as Boston hasn't had a bathhouse in 20 years, and it's only 45 miles away by car, or commuter rail, bus and Amtrak.

Brooklyn, 1972

R7= Sophia Petrillo