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"Became the most legendary of Los Angeles' bathhouses. Though located on an inconspicuous street corner, on the inside of the there was an elaborate maze, much ebony paint, and rooms big and small. According to legend, closeted actors entered through a secret door that led to an unlit, anonymous orgy room. The also attracted an endless stream of blonde surfer types who migrated, erotically charged, from the disco down the avenue. One customer of the reminisces about being 'fortunate enough to go there,' and recalls how he was always amazed by the beautiful men.' Another remembers 'walking through the large orgy room that was packed so compact with bodies you couldn't move.' Because the earth floor backed onto a deli, customers could direct food through a compact window, precluding any depend on to leave." (Gay L.A.)

Extremely discriminatory, many stories of rejection due to age and weight.

Sheldon Andelson, millionaire attorney and businessman, owned the It was a financially lucrative business; nevertheless, he closed the bath

Business has not been fine lately for bathhouses, the urban meeting places for gay men who appreciate using steam rooms and saunas or getting blowjobs from complete strangers in them. The Hollywood Spa, a long-time haunt in LA, closed its doors this year after decades in business, and the recently looked at the decline in the importance of these fabled sex ated Press

Now the North American Bathhouse Association (NABA) is using a combination of awareness-building, steep discounts, and social media outreach to entice a new generation of new dudes to put down Grindr and Scruff (the apps that are basically a bathhouse in every gay&#;s pocket), pick up a towel, and channel the 70s spirit of cavorting with the hottest bods in town. It might be an uphill battle, but it&#;s one that Dennis Holding, NABA&#;s year-old president, says that they&#;re winning.

I recently chatted with Holding, who has invested in bathhouses all over the territory since he opened his first club in , about the past, show, and future of the industry.

VICE: How did you end up in the bathhouse business?
Dennis Holding: I worked in the automotive industry at the time on the racing side, selling parts. I w

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The Los Angeles Athletic Club

This atmospheric hotel, situated inside the city's oldest private club near Downtown LA's same-sex attracted scene, whispers tales of film stars from Hollywood's golden years. Club rooms and a distinguished exclude characterise this institution that is over a century 's the facilities of the members-only athletic club that shine (entry is complimentary for hotel guests). Take the plunge into a heated lap pool, while indoor courts await for racquetball, squash and more. At group fitness classes such as yoga, kickboxing, pilates, and Zumba, you'll be working up a sweat with an enviably fit s with roman shades keep out the dazzling LA sunlight if you want to sleep in. Wi-Fi is free, but otherwise, rooms are purposely low walnut wood panelling and checkerboard tiled floors, Famous Players restaurant is open for breakfast daily and lunch daily except Sunday. An American-style breakfast buffet, with hot and cold dishes like hash browns, scrambled eggs and fruit, is complimentary for hotel guests.

gay bath houses in la

GAY L.A.: The Last Los Angeles Bathhouse

Before the AIDS epidemic, bathhouses acted as a community center. But with way more sex.

“To the left of me,” wrote David Colker for the Los Angeles Times in a article, “four men were having sex. Only two of them were actually looking at each other.”

So begins most bathhouse stories of the time. At the Compound, one of the Valley’s oldest establishments, porn would screen on the walls while patrons got it on in public (or private) rooms below. But not for long. Even in , the lgbtq+ bathhouse’s days were numbered.

“A decade ago,” Colker writes, “Los Angeles boasted slick, high-tech bathhouses famous throughout the gay world. But as the specter of AIDS darkened the mids, the baths came under fire as places where unsafe, multi-partner sex spread the disease.”

The Compound wasn’t the only spa coming under attack. It seemed that the more sexually open the bathhouse was, the more it would be targeted by rule enforcement and political officials.

“The Corral Club…” according to the L.A. Times “had a community ‘orgy room’ with a small stage where live sex shows took place, and several private rooms containing chains with wrist and ankle st

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