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.
