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Gay baths - still a haven for unprotected sex?
Pushed to fringes after AIDS epidemic, 2 New York spots live on
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 NEW YORK - Wearing just a small white towel and a smile, Bob prowls the dark halls of the East Side Club, looking into dozens of its closet-sized rooms and hoping eye contact with another man will lead to sex. "It's better than going to a bar and taking your chances," said Bob, a 46-year-old garden supplies salesman from New Jersey who declined to give his last name. "You always know something is going to happen here." For some gay men, the city's two 24-hour bathhouses - the East Side Club in midtown and the West Side Club in Chelsea?- live on as a spot for sex without strings despite a recent trend toward more men hooking up online. They rent small rooms to have sex in at a cost of $21 for four hours, after paying a nominal annual membership fee. Bathhouses, pushed to the fringes of the gay scene in the mid-1980s when the city shuttered most of them to stem the spread of AIDS, still offer patrons something a bar or the Internet cannot - near-guaranteed sex in a safe environment. "In a bathhouse you meet a person in the flesh in a relatively safe and clean environment where everyone has the same agenda," said Bill Stackhouse, director of the Institute for Gay Men's Health at the Gay Men's Health Crisis, a group that fights AIDS in New York City. "It's safer than the Internet, where all you have is a photo and maybe some video footage before you go to someone's home," he said. | Click for related content |
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