VIEW ALL BULLDOG'S BLOG ENTRIES
A lawsuit by a patron of the David Barton gym alleges he was horrified (shocked even!) that illicit activity went on in the sauna there, and nothing was done by the staff to stop it. Oh who's kidding whom here? You join the gayest gym in NYC and what do you expect? Look, when they were building this place, here is what their Mr. Marks told the New York Times: Mr. Marks said the gym would be a "one of a kind luxury spa." "They are planning a Turkish Room," he said, "with indoor waterfalls and eucalyptus scrubs done by men in sarongs, combined with afternoon tea." Hello??? Gaydar alert?
But even more amazing is that the New York Times then wrote an entire article about the subject, with juicy bits such as:
Men cruising men in the locker room is a near-century old pursuit. And the steam rooms, showers and saunas at health clubs continue to be meeting places for men seeking anonymous sexual activity, much as bathhouses in New York and other cities were before fear of AIDS prompted a widespread shutdown in the 1980's.
"It has always been there, and it has its ups and downs," Charles Kaiser, the author of the 1997 book "The Gay Metropolis," said of sexual behavior in locker rooms. "People complain, and they shut things down, and then it creeps back up again."
Tags:
None
© All rights reserved.
Posted on 6/22/2005
(
Permanent Link
)
Send to Friend
