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Contents:

• UNCLOAKG DIRE: EXPERIENCG THE GAY SNA
• GAY SNA EXPERIENC
• WHAT ARE GAY SNAS LIKE?
• THE FUTURE OF BRA’S GAY SNAS
• HISTORY LSON: WHY SNAS REMA IMPORTANT TO GAY CULTURE
• MY NIGHT A GAY SNA
• GAY SNAS AND THE RISKS OF HIV AND SYPHILIS TRANSMISSNS CHA—RULTS OF A META‐ANALYSIS
• GAY BATHHOE
• JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS ASSISTANT COACH KEV MAXEN MAK HISTORY AFTER COMG OUT AS GAY
• THE DOS & DON'TS OF GAY CLUBBG
• NEW YORK CY GAY SNAS AND BATHHO
• LOS ANGEL GAY SNAS
• GAY BATHHOE EROS TO OPEN S NEW TENRLO LOTN FOR PRI WEEKEND

UNCLOAKG DIRE: EXPERIENCG THE GAY SNA

The other day, I performed one of the self-experiments while aimlsly roamg the streets of London: searchg for a new experiential plate to tt the lims of my ‘self, ’ I impulsively walked to a gay sna. For those not the know, a gay sna is as an unrground plex of showers, snas, steam rooms and sex booths where gay men go to relax and have totally anonymo sex of all sorts.

GAY SNA EXPERIENC

All sts is 10 quid (only 5 if you’re a stunt—lerally: stunt disunts at a gay sex stutn. Gay Sna Experienc | Hip Foms. I am thkg of gog along to a gay sna.

Have you had any gay sna experienc? You may be a gay sna, but that do not mean that you have to say 'y' to each and every offer you receive. Is weird that I would love to be a fly on the wall a gay sna?

No not really, means you like heat and watchg gays. I'm not really to gay porn at all though....

WHAT ARE GAY SNAS LIKE?

What are gay snas like? It's on one of my support ssns we cid to go out and about and whilst we did that he poted out all the gay bars the gay scene and also said "that's ----- 's a gay sna, I'll tell you more about them later"...

What is a gay sna like?

THE FUTURE OF BRA’S GAY SNAS

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HISTORY LSON: WHY SNAS REMA IMPORTANT TO GAY CULTURE

I'll jt say that roughly 100% of the people are there to have hook-up sex, and that you're about two s younger than the standard gay sna patron. Not a way of "you have to go there" my support guy was jt showg me the gay scene and potg out everythg to me so I knew what was what. Like a whole gay sexft.

Gay sex, EVERYWHERE. Before ronavis h, Charts Vxhall claimed to be ​“Europe’s largt gay sna” for men wantg steam, queer mararie and a potential subterranean hook-up. Charts Vxhall was the last survivg outpost of a gay sna cha which at s 2005 peak had six branch dotted across London.

Losg Charts is a major blow for London’s queer male muny, but gay snas across the UK have weathered an credibly ttg 12 months. “Gay snas n of the possibily of sex, but whether people actually have sex when they get here is a pletely different thg, ” says Stephen Gunn of Mantire Spa Plymouth.

MY NIGHT A GAY SNA

In 2021, gay snas are faced wh the same toxic cktail of threats as any other LGBTQ venue.

GAY SNAS AND THE RISKS OF HIV AND SYPHILIS TRANSMISSNS CHA—RULTS OF A META‐ANALYSIS

But when we talk about savg our val queer spac, gay snas tend to be exclud om the nversatn. Nick Batt, owner of Pk Broadway Southampton, says a lol rad statn was terted hearg about his stggle to survive the panmic as a small bs owner until he said he ran a gay sna.

Even wh the LGBTQ muny, gay snas have a lgerg image problem. In 2016, gay magaze Attu published an op-ed tled: ​“Perhaps the time has e for gay snas to close – and that’s fe. Pl Town, manager of The Locker Room South London, says is rctive to pigeonhole all gay snas as ​“expensive knockg shops”.

GAY BATHHOE

Clearly, gay snas exist so that men have n sex wh men a space that isn’t their home, a hotel or a cisg spot. Sce I started visg gay snas a ago, I’ve seen steam room i, group jack-off ssns the showers and men wag expectantly large leather slgs.

In my experience, gay snas are sexy, sex-posive spac where not everyone ends up havg sex. “Nobody ever talks about the lonely olr gay man, ” says Pk Broadway’s Nick Batt. ​“Maybe their partner’s passed away and they want some pany, but they don’t feel like they belong the [gay] bars bee you’re visible those plac if you’re over 40.

JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS ASSISTANT COACH KEV MAXEN MAK HISTORY AFTER COMG OUT AS GAY

” Batt also says his sna provis a safe space for gay and bi men who aren’t out. ​“I’d say up to 70 per cent of our ctomers don’t live what you’d ll a ​‘gay liftyle’, ” he says.

THE DOS & DON'TS OF GAY CLUBBG

​“I’ve had ctomers e up to me and say: ​‘My mum died yterday and she never knew I was gay. Gay snas like London’s Pleasuredrome, which pre-Covid opened 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, n also bee a refuge for vulnerable and homels young men.

Dean, a 25-year-old queer man om London, says he ma his first viss to gay snas around seven years ago ​“out of sheer necsy”.

Dean adms that gay snas were ​“ no way an idyllic sanctuary” and says he sometim felt sred sleepg such a sexualised environment. Other young gay and bi men vis snas bee they offer relatively hassle-ee hook-ups. Tom, a 23-year-old gay man om Edburgh, says that pre-Covid he popped to gay snas once every uple of months bee felt ​“slightly kky and different and excg”.

NEW YORK CY GAY SNAS AND BATHHO

Whereas the mastream LGBTQ scene ​“favours cis, whe, affluent gay guys, you see a different si to the muny at snas – people you wouldn’t see bars”.

Jack, a 25-year-old gay man om Plymouth, says he would normally vis his lol sna once a week simply to ​“chill out and have fun” while ​“meetg new and different people”.

A relic of an era past, gay bathho and snas are seen as some to be on their way, vis one any of our big ci, and you will fd that bathho and snas are still monly equented, ntug to have huge importance for many gay men. This is a ntuatn of the history of an important stutn that has been re to gay culture for many first known rerdg of same-sex sexual activi snas, Italy. In 1492, thori engaged a purge agast the “vice of sodomy”, nvictg 44 men for homosexual relatns, who they picked up taverns, baths and si (sheds and ho ed for illic sex).

LOS ANGEL GAY SNAS

While smattergs of siar rerdgs exist the followg centuri, wasn't until the late 19th Century that snas beme a standard place for gay sex to late 19th and early 20th centuri when queer people began to gather more regularly public spac, and turn, me to be fed unr the banner of ‘homosexual’. As this occurred, signifint reprsn of gay men and homosexual acts beme predomant across the wtern world as men ught havg gay sex beme subjected to huiatn, imprisonment, and vlence.

In a webpage that tails the history of gay snas, “numero urt rerds om the turn of the century nta s of men who were arrted after neighbours, landlords, policemen and YMCA janors looked through keyhol, or broke down doors to disver men havg sex wh each other. ”To al wh this, gay — public plac such as parks, toilet blocks, and movie theatr, where they uld have sex but wh ls of a threat of beg ught by thori.

GAY BATHHOE EROS TO OPEN S NEW TENRLO LOTN FOR PRI WEEKEND

Digned for the general public to e , relax, and unwd, gay men ed the relative anonymy and privacy of snas as a safe space for sexual enunters.

Inially many snas operators reacted strongly agast this, wh some llg the police on gay men, or hirg private guards to protect their facili., ’s reported that New York police nducted a raid agast a sna the Ariston Hotel, arrtg 26 men, wh twelve eventually beg brought to trial on sodomy owners, however, turned a bld eye to the activi,.

In dog so, the snas beme an important venue for gay men. In the spac men had a safe venue to have sex— one that me wh signifintly ls risk of beg ught that other gay muni beme more visible the post-war era, the 1950s saw dited gay snas beg to open.