bathhouse

A trip to Budapest would not be complete without taking a soak at one of the many fancy bathhouses, pools, or spas around the city.

In bathhouses, however, simple ones, sometimes with a little carving only and a leather-strap upper, were also worn by men.

Both civilizations erected bathhouses to cater to their people for many different purposes: for exercise, relaxation, or as a social center.

Roman notables once flocked to the city's pools, bathhouses, and other structures to enjoy the health benefits of the natural springs.

South of Market bathhouses and gay bars across the city were thriving.

The huge bathhouses were outlawed in 1984, and gay men crowded into meeting rooms to hear the latest on how to survive.

Hot spring resorts are a much more romantic variation on Beijing's bathhouses.

Public bathhouses, meanwhile, are provided in some older districts where poor housing accommodation still exists.

Chinese courtyard houses traditionally didn't have plumbing, so public bathhouses and toilets dotted the city.

Bathhouses are against the law.

Who Goes? What Goes on at Bathhouses?

In 1935, Beijing alone had 123 traditional bathhouses.

HIV & Gay Bathhouses: Public Health Responses in US Cities HIV

Bathhouses attract high risk men, but most men there are not having high risk sex