The Dos & Don'ts Of Gay Clubbg | Mistry of Sound

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.

WHAT ARE GAY SNAS LIKE?

I'm not really to gay porn at all though....

THE FUTURE OF BRA’S GAY SNAS

What are gay snas like?

HISTORY LSON: WHY SNAS REMA IMPORTANT TO GAY CULTURE

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? It also says s a iendly and nice place where gay guys n meet others.

Gay.

MY NIGHT A GAY SNA

Gay bathhoe - Wikipedia, the ee encyclopedia. (Which, when you thk about , 's kd of sad that if you have a "gay sna", immediately generat to a sexft. If I ad to gus one big gay sex.

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

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.

GAY BATHHOE

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.

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

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

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”. 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.

THE DOS & DON'TS OF GAY CLUBBG

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.

NEW YORK CY GAY SNAS AND BATHHO

​“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.

” 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.

LOS ANGEL GAY SNAS

​“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.

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

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”. 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”.