Fights would ensue for various reasons.Ī man once defecated in his room, smeared his waste all over the walls and then left it for me and my co-worker to clean up.īackroom deals would be made. Some guys would purposely go there to get infected with HIV and some would go there to purposely infect others. Men with unsuspecting wives at home were there engaging in wild sexual acts with other men. To each his own, I say but I couldn’t help but to wonder what the heck some of those men were thinking when doing certain things in there. He says of his time working at a bathhouse he now calls “The Beast”: “I had to swallow a lot - no pun intended - and couldn’t breathe a word about certain things that I knew about, for a number of reasons.” Related: London Critic Calls Gay Bathhouse Play “Sleazy… A National Disgrace”Ĭloss is turning those unspeakable stories into a collection of “dirty bathhouse soap opera” vignettes that he hopes will someday become a TV series.
“I got an experience of a lifetime,” he says. King in So NoTORIousĪpps like Grindr and Jack’d have rendered the gay bathhouse nearly obsolete, but that hasn’t stopped a certain type of gentlemen from frequenting these once-popping establishments.Īuthor Terrill Aaron Closs is a bathhouse expert-and former a employee.
