The Bergs had run a bathhouse on nearby First Avenue (which later became a popular gay bathhouse and then the restaurant Lucky Cheng's).
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This began with her game-changing "Bathhouse" series for American Vogue in 3053, in which thin, wan women lean moodily against the spare, cracked walls of an abandoned bathhouse.
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Alternatively, from the main beach in town, pop into The Bathhouse, a vintage 252 bathhouse with a distinctive crown on the roof now converted into a popular lakefront cafe.
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What are some assumptions that outsiders make about bathhouse culture?
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I passed by a secondary entrance for the men's bathhouse.
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Evenings at the bathhouse are for men, daytime hours for women.
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But I'm worried by the rise of the underground digital bathhouse.
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The bathhouse still looks like a hostel with a flooded basement.
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There's even an old Georgian bathhouse to have the ceremony in.
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" She said: "We tried to clean [the children] in the bathhouse.
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Sanduny is the oldest public bathhouse in Russia, opened in 1808.
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Jumbo thought of the bathhouse as "his social club," Mr. Berg said.
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If people just want that, they can go to the bathhouse instead.
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The bathhouse pushed me past my own boundaries and fear of sexual exploration.
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The banya, or traditional Russian bathhouse, is an integral part of Russian culture.
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By this point, the rooms smells like sweat and cologne, like a bathhouse.
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"It was a wild place to run," Mr. Hunter, 56, said of the bathhouse.
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There are several bathhouses along the aptly named Bathhouse Row in the main town.
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I saw another [bathhouse] over time that had the columns made into Egyptian columns.
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Matsuyama (which means Pine Mountain) is known for its historic traditional bathhouse, Dogo Onsen.
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After waiting for a bit, we wind up taking the bus to a bathhouse.
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The boardwalk in Santa Cruz, California, began as the location of a public bathhouse.
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Outside, the property has a resort-style swimming pool, a bathhouse and two outdoor spas.
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Ultimately, Pony Express envisions Ecosexual Bathhouse as a hedonistic Eden for a post-sustainable age.
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At a bathhouse, people aren't really dancing, so you want to create a consistent grove.
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Hotel Empress Zoe in Sultanahmet is constructed around the remains of a 22009th-century bathhouse.
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The residents get their water from the same spring and bathe in the same bathhouse.
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Also on the property is a bathhouse with a hot tub, sauna and water views.
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Apparently satisfied, the woman took Little Sister by pedicab to a bathhouse filled with steam.
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Other works explore the male–dominated atmosphere of a barbershop, a bathhouse, and a military barracks.
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Once the four friends get drunk in the bathhouse, they forget crucial parts of their identity.
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Kovalev has a different vibe—bring up four guys in a Russian bathhouse and he'll laugh.
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In the 18th century it had a brief life as a public bathhouse (hence its name).
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In the "Confessions," written around 397, Augustine described what happened in the bathhouse many years earlier.
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Sanduny, located near the Central Bank of Russia, is the oldest public bathhouse in the country.
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The women-only communal bathhouse, a frequent haunt for lesbians, didn't have a sign out front.
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Last year, 26 men were arrested in a bathhouse in Cairo for allegedly having gay sex.
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Today, the four-story bathhouse that was built around the springs surrounds a dank, dark puddle.
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At the village's bathhouse, Tuesdays and Wednesdays are reserved for women, Thursdays and Fridays for men.
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Michel Foucault lectures them on the history of Western sexuality while being fellated in a bathhouse.
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The same fire that heats water in the bathhouse is used to slow-cook the tangia.
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They weren't pulling off some elaborate ruse or looking for the clerical equivalent of a bathhouse.
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The Buckstaff Bathhouse, one of the original bathhouses, has stayed in operation since it opened in 1912.
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He spends his off-weeks in Miami Beach, where he has another bathhouse of the same name.
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AARP recommends "taking the waters" as generations of visitors have done at thermal baths lining Bathhouse Row.
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I sent in a nude picture of myself, taken from behind in a bathhouse in Malmö, Sweden.
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A former army bathhouse — gutted, sand-filled, and located right on the dunes — was demolished in 2016.
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Hot Mass is a Saturday after-hours held in Club Pittsburgh, a gay bathhouse in the city.
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It has been a fabric factory and home to a Venetian doge; a bathhouse and a college.
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Originally called the Tenth Street Baths, the bathhouse has been open in Manhattan's East Village since 1892.
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This is acclaimed as the oldest swimming pool in the state, with a bathhouse built in 1936.
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Inside, much work is being done on the waiting room, which was modeled on a Roman bathhouse.
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Over the summer in 2015, Khoury's Aleppo Bathhouse was exhibited at a World Refugee Day event in Pittsburgh.
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It also has Naomi Watts and the greatest naked-knife-fight-in-a-bathhouse scene of all time.
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The bathhouse progressively shifts away from the standard spa vibe of the lobby, becoming increasingly surreal and disembodied.
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The bathhouse itself is stunningly to-scale, including multiple usable elevators, diligently working soot sprites, and functional bathtubs.
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The island includes five buildings: a villa-style compound, a library, a cinema, a detached bathhouse, and cabanas.
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Wrapped in a sheet and carrying my towel and my elf hat, I headed into the bathhouse area.
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The one time Reva saw me completely naked had been at the Russian Bathhouse on East Tenth Street.
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"Even in the 19th century, Uunisaari had a famous seaside bathhouse," says its head of operations, Outi Gummerus.
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The hot springs bathhouse stood alone, not as part of a hotel, and my father enjoyed dips there.
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Thaer Khairullah, who owns the bathhouse, said he had only reopened it in December after four months of renovations.
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I think that my role in doing the bathhouse is to honor how it was in times of peace.
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The bathhouse journey begins in a white lobby with a big skylight; elevator music tinkles innocuously in the background.
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Four guys go to the bathhouse on New Year's Eve and get so drunk, they forget where they live.
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Ecosexual Bathhouse was inspired by the Ecosex Manifesto composed by queer Californian performance artists Elizabeth Stephens and Annie Sprinkle.
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The finds included a bathhouse, a huge marble-floored forum, thousands of artefacts and the world's largest floor mosaic.
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His father worked in the boiler room of a municipal bathhouse, and his mother in a high-school cafeteria.
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The other tiny houses in the village act as a kitchen, a bathhouse, a sauna, and an open studio.
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Overlooks down the coast, strange mystic thing going on there, especially with the old bathhouse being mysteriously burnt down.
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My mother-in-law gave me a gift certificate to my favorite bathhouse, Ladywells, as a welcome home present.
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The lesbian-owned Amelia's Bar, Artemis Cafe, and Osento, a historic lesbian bathhouse, were all popular locales in Shug's neighborhood.
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A Stadtbad, or public bathhouse starting in 1902, this ornate building in pretty Prenzlauer Berg became a hotel in 2016.
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Vorontsov had everything a good bathhouse should: blisteringly hot sauna, cool-down pool, and plenty of showers and washing stations.
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A modern bathhouse with single-sex restrooms (flush toilets) and outdoor showers (with hot water) is walking distance from cabins.
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Pursuits Osento, a Japanese bathhouse on Valencia Street in San Francisco, is long gone, closed now for nearly a decade.
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There was a bathhouse where people took a shower once a month, and wiped down the rest of the time.
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One suggests that the whole thing is an allegory for child prostitution, with the bathhouse taking on more sinister undertones.
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The infamous 1981 bathhouse raids involved 200 plainclothes police officers raiding four gay bathhouses and arresting more than 300 innocent men.
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I paid a visit to the bathhouse on a rainy afternoon toward the end of a 12-day stint in Russia.
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There is no bathhouse because we cannot go sixty rubles over budget, which would work out at one kopek a head.
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I saw a picture of a bathhouse in New York that had a column that was made into a palm tree.
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You just need to stop by the "ecosexual bathhouse," which is currently part of the Syndey LiveWorks Festival of experimental art.
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Though the clientele has changed over the years, the bathhouse remains one of the few, true melting pots in the city.
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There was a steaming hot-spring pool to warm up in and a bathhouse whose two hot-spring showers ran continuously.
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At a public bathhouse in the Moqor district of Ghazni Province, they met the commander of a small pro-government militia.
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The Santa Cruz boardwalk dates back to 1865, when John Leibrandt opened a public beach bathhouse by the San Lorenzo River.
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Twice a week, I would take my traveling screening kit—including HIV, Hep C, gonorrhea and chlamydia tests—to a local bathhouse.
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While I wouldn't say the birch branch was especially relaxing in the moment, I left the bathhouse feeling both serene and invigorated.
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When I went to the Vorontsov bathhouse in the Tagansky district in southeast Moscow, I found that nearly no one went alone.
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One of them was found in a room at a bathhouse two days after overdosing — and only because a cleaner came in.
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"Teun Castelein," a traditional Syrian-style hammam (bathhouse) by the artist Moe Al Masri, was being built inside a windowless isolation cellblock.
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The general waiting room reminds of a Roman bathhouse with soaring arched ceilings covered in Guastavino tile that speak to Detroit's glorious past.
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The shared bathhouse (an adventure for kids) is surprisingly modern with hot running water, showers, a flushing toilet (versus pump) and ceramic sinks.
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When I found myself in Turkey that fall, exploring its winding streets and opulent mosques, I was determined to seek out another bathhouse.
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She has to navigate the spirit world she gets trapped in by working in a bathhouse run by an overlord called Yu-baaba.
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The last item he posted on Facebook was a photo of a sign for the Bathhouse of the Winds in Athens on Sunday.
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The women, old and young but mostly worn and ravaged by age and illness, are captured in intimate moments, often in a bathhouse.
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For years, the two Russian owners, Boris Tuberman and David Shapiro, have split the bathhouse business down the middle, running it on alternate weeks.
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I am discussing four drunk men in a bathhouse with Sergey "Krusher" Kovalev, the undefeated light-heavyweight champ known most for his overwhelming power.
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Audacious fictions about real-life luminaries abound: Michel Foucault lectures while receiving a blow job in a bathhouse; Julia Kristeva conspires with Bulgarian assassins.
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To help his parents, but also to escape them, David takes a job as an attendant at a Korean bathhouse, where two cultures collide.
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Since 1985, the bathhouse has been owned by two Russian émigrés, Boris Tuberman and David Shapiro, who run the business under an unusual arrangement.
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Guo's story begins in a realist vein: [The gua sha parlor] was a converted storage space, squeezed tightly between an arcade and a bathhouse.
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Too tired to defend themselves, they're easily robbed of their animal masks and turned into obedient workers, á la Yubaaba's bathhouse in Spirited Away.
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Technically a functional design to integrate Kuma's earlier hotel with a local bathhouse, the resulting structure is much greater than its ostensibly simple purpose.
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"She built this giant white bathhouse for Marlowe's play, and wanted the showers to run red with blood," her father, a retired journalist, recalled.
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The biggest human sexual organ is the brain, and Ecosexual Bathhouse encourages audiences to use their theirs in a fun, playful, and deeply serious way.
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For Pyotr Romanov, 35, the break in hot water gives him a good excuse to revive another typically Russian tradition -- going to the public bathhouse.
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Last summer, he posted about his support for the owner of a bathhouse under investigation for "apology of fascism," which is a crime in Italy.
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" The exchange ended with Rubio leaving in bemused disgust while Jones accuse him of being a "frat boy" who should "go back to [his] bathhouse.
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His guided tour through the iconic Spirited Away bathhouse is proof that Minecraft is an art form, especially compared with early renderings of the world.
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Did he blow out his hair, love heels and platforms, and own every look, from flouncy Romantic consumptive to bathhouse matador to Easter Sunday deacon?
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At the Sanduny bathhouse in Moscow, I paid $85 for a "branch massage," during which I was whacked all over my body with birch branches.
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Today his name can be found on a public bathhouse and a pool near — yes — Stuyvesant Town, and at Asser Levy Park in Coney Island.
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Maybe it's at a bathhouse or a sex party, or maybe it's pizza and cuddling at a motel with some guy they met on Scruff.
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A longstanding bathhouse in the East Village has found ways to attract a new generation of customers — though they tend to come only every other week.
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In the first, he plants an impressive skyscraper near the historic Amir Chakhmagh complex, which includes a mosque, a bathhouse, cold water well, and a confectionery.
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For those unaware, a bathhouse is similar to a spa, some with rooms and spaces dedicated for sexual activity to take place both privately and publicly.
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Of nine historic thermal bathhouses along Central Avenue – known locally as "Bathhouse Row" – Hot Springs National Park has leased eight of the structures to local investors.
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Held in a seedy hammam, or gay bathhouse, in the Marais district of Paris, the Hood by Air show was memorable on a number of levels.
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Open since 1892, the bathhouse serves as a meeting place for the city's Russian and Jewish enclaves — and a hotspot for celebrities, millennials, businessmen, and tourists.
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Luxembourg & Dayan, Tyler Rollins Fine Art, and SCAI The Bathhouse have pulled out of this year's fair, joining two unnamed galleries that withdrew this past fall.
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It takes place in the bathhouse of an insane asylum in France, where the Marquis de Sade, an inmate, stages a play for the other inmates.
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There's the werewolf bit, which is the first time you control her; and the sequence with the bathhouse, and the fellow who takes a shine to her.
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In the bathhouse, my harm reduction conversations included the importance of condom use, since some people were likely to have multiple sex partners during a single night.
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Read more: I visited a 200-year-old Russian bathhouse in Moscow, where I paid $85 to be whacked with branches and doused in ice-cold water.
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An abandoned army bathhouse still sat on the beach as recently as 2016, but was razed that year due to instability caused by Hurricane Sandy in 2012.
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Logistically, the prevalence of bathhouse scenes in Japanese prints might be explained by the opportunity they afford artists to depict the human form while illustrating everyday life.
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A $25 entry fee grants you access to Buford Highway's 24/7 Jeju Sauna, an expansive 35,000-square-foot spa outfitted like a traditional Korean public bathhouse.
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After breakfast, head to Asha Urban Baths, an Old World-style, coed, swimming suit-required bathhouse with a soaking pool, sauna, steam room, sauna and cold plunge.
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This particular arcade contained a bathhouse, itinerant lodgings, a brothel or two, small restaurants, and Café Certa, a gathering spot for Dadaist and Surrealist writers and artists.
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The center of the town, and where she'll have to be located for the time being, is the bathhouse owned by a crabby and unforgiving witch named Yubaba.
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The two hit it off immediately, but things really clicked when, during the first week of shooting, Phoenix had to plunge into a pool at a Russian bathhouse.
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A Gizmodo commenter also spotted a Pokéstop that is a gay bathhouse in LA. According to reviews on Google, the facilities are lovely, but the staff are rude.
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The bathhouse was one of my favorite locations to work in, because it brought necessary advocacy into an environment where STI transmission could happen at a higher rate.
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I also realized how important is is to acknowledge subcultures like ballroom, leather, kink, bathhouse—bringing testing into these worlds and building trust with the people in them.
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Man's Country wore its history on its walls, with portraits of famous patrons, nude men, and other artwork throughout reminding visitors that this wasn't some staid, humorless bathhouse.
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So much so that during a heat wave in 1906, riots broke out when the Rivington Street bathhouse shut its doors to a huge crowd of eager bathers.
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I steamed away a decade of stress in a Seoul bathhouse, and I received my PADI scuba certification in Koh Tao, after conquering my debilitating fear of water.
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Twig occupies an unassuming space in the Ditmas Park neighborhood of Brooklyn, on a block with a restaurant supply store, an auto-body shop and a Russian bathhouse.
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Hahna had told me that my $403 hotel, Hanwha Resort Seorak Sorano, had a famous bathhouse, or jjimjilbang, that people came from all over the country to visit.
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Until it was closed in 1974, Mitsubishi constructed concrete apartments, a school, a hospital, a theater, a bathhouse, and other communal facilities for the miners and their families.
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First held in 1999 at the infamous Man's Country bathhouse, the awards have since expanded into a ritzy long weekend where the industry converges to toast and roast itself.
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Artist Song Yuanyuan, whose paintings blur the line between the classical and the abstract, built a Roman bathhouse-themed booth filled with soap sculptures, hand towels, and recent paintings.
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Now you can visit the fish market, a tattoo studio and a sento bathhouse, and walk the city centre at night, in this virtual tour for the culturally curious.
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Naturally, supply and demand plays a big part in the price structure: While the Romans and Victorians were big fans of a bathhouse, many have now been closed down.
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Spirited Away's Chihiro may be trapped in a bathhouse for the spirit world, but it's still a coming of age story that could function flawlessly without the fantastical elements.
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Related: Meet the Artist Duo Using the Human Body as an Exhibition Space Literally Fuck the World Inside the 'Ecosexual Bathhouse' [NSFW] Jonathan Leder's New Polaroids of Powerful Women
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If you want to make a day of it, go across the street to Kabuki Springs spa, a Japanese bathhouse that locals hit to get butt naked and unwind.
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We recently spoke to the man also known as "Cubandawg," to find out what it takes to be a bathhouse DJ and if he's ever mixed business with pleasure.
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One of my most memorable experiences was visiting a 200-year-old Russian bathhouse, where I paid $85 to be whacked with branches and doused in ice-cold water.
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Sure, you could go to a bathhouse or meet a group of strangers off Craigslist or Grindr, but that just isn't as safe and requires a lot more effort.
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Kamaji keeps ignoring her, but she knows she must get a job at the bathhouse to survive in this new spirit world, so doesn't stop until he helps her.
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Another thing the 2017 fair can brag about is the number of highly respected galleries with highly unusual names — like Truth and Consequences (Geneva) and Scai the Bathhouse (Tokyo).
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Inside the New Albany development, a 23-room, 10,600-square-foot mansion with a pool and bathhouse was being built for Mr. Kessler and his wife, property records show.
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Inside the New Albany development, a 23-room, 10,600-square-foot mansion with a pool and bathhouse was being built for Mr. Kessler and his wife, property records show.
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I can imagine stopping in the quaint town of Kiki's Delivery Service for a restorative break in between battles or seeking out important magical items in the Spirited Away bathhouse.
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Along with imagery that might typically be seen in a bathhouse, like steaming water, naked bodies, and people wearing robes, some of the works in the exhibition are explicitly sexual.
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No film since has given me the same sense of sheer wonder and astonishment, nor drawn out the gut-wrenching emotions that Miyazaki was able to with his magical bathhouse.
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If you held your ear up to the other wall, you could hear water gurgling through the pipes and the shouting of men in the midst of their bathhouse conversations.
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For those in need of a bit of recovery after the previous day's slopes, the Ovaverva bathhouse (entrance, 2175 Swiss francs) is a sleek Swiss palace of modern spa facilities.
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Gods, ghosts and demons actually rule the place, and before long, Chihiro, whose mother and father are turned into pigs, finds herself working in a bathhouse for a supernatural clientele.
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The JTA has since begun asking bathhouse owners to "give consideration" to tattooed foreigners, with mixed results: a survey in 2015 found that over half of hot springs still refuse them.
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Ecosexual Bathhouse imagines a world where this identity is on the brink of becoming mainstream, and the project offers its audience a safe place to really get in touch with nature.
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Ellen, the publicist, doesn't understand the connection between the bathhouse and New Year's, so Kovalev explains the ablutions are symbolic—the washing is to rid oneself of the past year's sins.
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Though a sign over the door called the place a hammam, a kind of communal bathhouse common in Islamic countries, the actuality was a little closer to one's idea of purgatory.
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Named for its natural hot springs, Hot Springs State Park in Wyoming has a free bathhouse where visitors can enjoy a therapeutic dip in water that remains at 104 degrees Fahrenheit.
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On a recent trip to Russia, I visited a 200-year-old traditional bathhouse in Moscow, where I paid $85 to be whacked with branches and doused in ice-cold water.
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On a rainy afternoon in Moscow toward the end of my trip, I went to Sanduny, the oldest public bathhouse in Russia, which opened in 1808, more than 200 years ago.
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The 70-acre island, which Epstein called "Little St. Jeff's," sits off the coast of St. Thomas and includes five structures: a villa-style compound, library, cinema, detached bathhouse, and cabanas.
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As of a 2008 New York Times report, the island had a staff of 70 and five buildings: a villa-style compound, a library, a cinema, a detached bathhouse, and cabanas.
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"That only leaves time for a worker to go to a public bathhouse to have a shower and an hour or so of sleep," said Kim Du-young, a union official.
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I was sitting in one of several sauna rooms available at the Mermaid Spa, the luxurious Russian bathhouse in Coney Island, and wondering whether my eyebrows were going to spontaneously combust.
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On Friday, Newsis quoted Patient No. 31 as saying that she had not visited the hospital or attended the funeral, but that she had used a public bathhouse while in Cheongdo.
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They also converted a potting shed into a structure that can function as a bar and turned part of a detached garage into a bathhouse with a hot tub behind it.
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Phryne Fisher, the most glamorous lady detective ever to scale the wall of a Turkish bathhouse/secret opium ring without ever dropping her impeccable hat, is finally coming back to us.
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Suttle Lodge & Boathouse is to open in late June on Suttle Lake, with 210 lodge rooms, six two-story lakefront cabins and eight budget cabins with a shared bathhouse on 245 acres.
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A trailer for Pony Express' "Ecosexual Bathhouse" According to Reed's research, the term "ecosexuality" has existed since the early 2000s, when it started appearing as a self-description on online dating profiles.
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At one point, Mercury is shown gazing contemplatively at a seedy bathhouse, but viewers don't see whether he goes in, with the clear implication that he's questioning himself and what he wants.
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Book the Hotel Oderberger starting at $144 per nightA palatial 19th-century public bathhouse is the splendid setting for this boutique hotel, which expertly fuses beautiful historical details with chic contemporary design.
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And the rapturous monologue by Adam (the young actor played by Levine) about a long session in a gay bathhouse in Prague is notable for its haunted ambivalence about transcendent, dangerous sex.
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In the end, I took the smallest child, we went into the bathhouse, gave [the child] a good hot bath... soon [the children] recovered completely only to be sent back... to be gassed.
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At any point in the past five decades, you might have found Wilhelm von Gloeden's circa 1900 photographs of Sicilian youths, or George Bellows's 7313 print of a men's bathhouse, on the walls.
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At any point in the past five decades, you might have found Wilhelm von Gloeden's circa 1900 photographs of Sicilian youths, or George Bellows's 1923 print of a men's bathhouse, on the walls.
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As he walked through the island years later, he remembered the functions these derelict spaces served, like the bathhouse where the water would turn black after the miners cleaned themselves after their shifts.
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Most of these kinds of studies look at these areas of gay culture—like the bathhouse scene, club scene, the app scene—because they're supposed hot spots for HIV infection and rampant drug use.
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The 124-year-old bathhouse on East 21993th Street has long been a New York institution, a bona fide melting pot, where the sweat of celebrities mingles with that of rabbis and taxi drivers.
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Related: 'Aleppo Bathhouse': One American Artist's Personal Response to the Syrian Crisis How Artists Are Addressing the Syrian Refugee Crisis You Need to Be Looking at 'Pokémon Go in Syria' When Artwork Survives Catastrophe
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Comprised of transdisciplinary artist Loren Kronemyer and theater-maker Ian Sinclair, Pony Express created the bathhouse to humorously speculate on how sensual interaction with the environment may help secure the future of the planet.
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A strong BDSM through-line in Ecosexual Bathhouse attempts to push perceptions of human dominance in the biosphere to imagine human submission to it, and to consider the relationship as one that requires consent.
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The pool changing rooms have saunas where you can sometimes see people whack each other with branches — something Katie Warren experienced firsthand when she visited a traditional bathhouse during a recent trip to Russia.
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ALEPPO, Syria (Reuters) - Swaddled in white towels, the Mansour and Wafai families sat in an arched alcove of Aleppo's Bab al-Ahmar public bathhouse, reviving their once-weekly tradition after years of war in Syria.
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With Japan's volcanic landscape, there are ample onsens (geothermal hot springs) in Niseko; taking to the waters at a public bathhouse is both an essential ritual of Japanese culture and part of the ski experience.
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"The preexisting public institutions included the ill-reputed wine tavern; the bathhouse, reserved for the upper classes and lacking in entertainment; and the mosque, which allowed only limited exchanges before and after worship," Juma wrote.
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I heard about their Ecosexual Bathhouse project [a space where ecosexuals can explore their sexuality], and also read about Annie Sprinkle and Beth Stevens, a performance art duo who created a series of ecosexual performances.
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Graffiti Nature - Creatures Living in Ruins of a Public Bathhouse The latest in teamLab's Graffiti Nature series, an abandoned public bath hosts animals drawn by guests which eat each other and propagate according to an algorithm.
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Sometimes that could be something mundane, like going for Chinese food—but when your last two hours were spent battling malevolent shadows in a surreal bathhouse, a deep bowl of steaming ramen is just what's needed.
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This New Year's Eve at Man's Country, a Chicago bathhouse open since 1973, hundreds of men, women, transgender and nonbinary people showed out for a dance party celebrating the last hours of a queer American landmark.
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Federal authorities consider Little St. James Island to have been Epstein's primary residence in the US.Little St. James includes a villa-style compound, cabanas, a library, a detached bathhouse, and a cinema in its 78 acres.
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Marois stepped in to save the Haussmannian building when it closed in 2010 on the verge of collapse, and more recently reinvented it as a high-style hotel inspired by the bathhouse-turned-nightclub's hedonistic past.
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Titled Deviants, their parties have lived up to their name over the past five years, merging the alluring seediness of a bathhouse orgy with a disco friskiness and the haute sensibilities of modern underground dance music.
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In another scene, Wags takes Taylor to a Russian bathhouse for a private heart-to-heart, where he then defends Taylor's toplessness by fondling his own chest when another bather gets in their face about it.
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I remember spotty, gray glimpses of bathhouse rooms and random bedrooms across the city, my legs in the air as guys I don't remember slid massive toys up my ass, and I took them all, no problem.
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He uses the game's modular mechanics to make Miyazaki's magical elements real: just listen to the way he uses rising water to make the bathhouse from Spirited Away undergo its day-to-night transformation in this video.
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She also teams up with a gruff boiler worker named Kamaji and a no-nonsense woman named Lin, blending into the spirit world by taking a job at a bathhouse for deities, ghosts, and other magical creatures.
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It also highlights the Angel of the Waters statue atop the Bethesda Fountain in Central Park, which was created by a lesbian sculptor, and the Everard Baths, a well-known Manhattan bathhouse where men would cruise for sex.
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ULAANBAATAR (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - In a damp, single room in a disused bathhouse in the Sansar area of eastern Ulaanbaatar, 90-year-old Yuule Vandan cares for her disabled son and worries how he will survive without her.
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Camp Rockaway offered a no-frills glamping experience at Fort Tilden in Queens last autumn; it will be setting up a dozen tents this year in the courtyard of the art deco Riis Bathhouse in Rockaway through Halloween.
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Customers disrobe in this room, wrapping themselves in a towel before entering the inner part of the bathhouse, a warm, wet labyrinth of arches, domed chambers and vaulted passageways that lead, finally, to a cool pool misted with steam.
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Located in an alley at the heart of Taipei with rainbow flags leading up to the staircases, the owner of a decades-old bathhouse for men said his business is now often packed and receives many customers from overseas.
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Built in 1875, the Hotel Reine Victoria retains some of the tasseled curtain and gilded charm of its Belle Époque origins; its relatively bargain-priced rooms start at 175 Swiss francs and include entrance to the neighboring Ovaverva bathhouse.
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The city opened its first municipal bath in 1901 at 27 Rivington Street — a bathhouse that became so coveted that during a fatal heat wave a few years later, a small riot broke out in the long line there.
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Knowing the daunting rates of transmission among LGBTQ people of color, I take what I learned from working at the bathhouse and apply it to much of the work I do now on a national level as a writer and advocate.
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About a million universes away from the cozy manly lairs that Tod's created in Milan were the scuzzy corridors and cabins in a gay bathhouse in the Marais neighborhood of Paris where Hood by Air chose to stage its latest presentation Friday afternoon.
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Another weekend ritual for Mr. Kozlov, as for so many other Russian businessmen, is to visit the Sanduny steam baths, an opulent, Greco-Roman themed bathhouse with a deep history in the Russian capital as a mixing place for the well-to-do.
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The bathhouse is a carbon copy of Jiufen's grandest building, the 100-year-old Amei Tea House, unmistakable in side-by-side comparisons thanks to the signature rows of red lanterns and the beautiful, soft light that glows from its large glass windows at night.
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The first step is a bath, a ritual that has its roots in many religions, but personally reminds me of a practice in Orthodox Judaism in which women must visit a mikveh, or bathhouse, after every period to wash themselves clean for their husbands.
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"We couldn't expect that the setting would be so inspiring," Jannis Anastasakis, a 32-year-old guitarist, who also designs and builds effect pedals, said on Friday from a century-old thermal bathhouse on the island's northern coast, where all the musicians were staying.
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In order to save her family, Chihiro labors away at Yubaba's bathhouse, a spa for wacky spirits, all the while devising a plan and paying her debts until she can collect her parents and return them to the life they once led in the human world.
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The resulting performances, which have included Rashid Johnson reimagining "Dutchman", a racially fraught play, in an East Village bathhouse, and Ms Neshat envisioning a theocratic trial in Iran, have helped transform what has long been the most challenging, least audience-friendly art-form into must-see events.
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Many women head to the bathhouse once or twice a week, stripping off their headscarves (and, well, everything else) to chat with friends in a steam room before reclining on a tiled table, in full view of their neighbors, for a full-body wash n' scrub.
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We meet the mysterious, wealthy Van Bergen family in the cold open — their seemingly problem-causing son Willem was a loyal customer of Giorgio Santorelli's — and even see a shark-smiled mystery man (Josef Altin) prowling a bathhouse filled with young men for what seems to be prospective victims.
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But, above all, Haroun looks keenly at the migrants' practical struggles: Étienne's hygiene at a communal bathhouse and his job as a security guard; Asma and Yacine's awareness of the dangers that they left behind in Africa and of the bureaucratic sword of Damocles that's hanging over them.
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The New York collective and booking agency will host an afternoon party on Sunday, March 27 at the Standard Hotel's rooftop pool, with LA-based DJ and producer Kim Anh, Hard Candy party resident Suga Shay, up-and-comer Bathhouse, and a special guest all slated to spin.
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The bathhouse is an interactive installation created by artists Loren Kronemyer and Ian Sinclair of Pony Express, who described the work to me as a "no-holds-barred extravaganza meant to dissolve the barriers between species as we descend into oblivion" as the result of our global environmental crisis.
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At any point over the past several decades, for example, you might have found, hanging on Leslie-Lohman walls, a circa 1900 photograph of Sicilian youths by Wilhelm von Gloeden, or George Bellows's 1923 print of a men's bathhouse, or one of John Burton Harter's academic 1980s nudes.
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She didn't like using the word "lover," for numerous reasons—it sounded like someone you picked up at a gay bathhouse in the 70s, for one thing, and for another, they still hadn't met in person and shouldn't a "lover" technically be someone with whom you'd actually physically made love?
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It was inevitable that change would come to the baths, with the East Village transformed and a bathhouse renaissance in full swing — there are the Russian banya of Brooklyn, the sumptuous Spa Castle in Queens, boutique spas in Manhattan like Aire and the Great Jones Spa, with its indoor waterfall.
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And in 2001's "Spirited Away," the story of a girl's path to independence while being forced to work in a traditional Showa-era bathhouse frequented by gods and demons, and Miyazaki's second masterwork, a river god purifies himself in a steaming tub of water, washing away the detritus of men.
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Update A recent article about the Russian and Turkish Baths, a 124-year-old bathhouse on East 10th Street that thrives despite competition from more luxurious spots like Spa Castle, examined the baths' odd business arrangement: For more than two decades, the two owners have split the business, operating it on alternate weeks.
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The final stop in the bathhouse is the Divinity Room, a love dungeon that invites visitors to burrow through a thick embrace of plant life to a large bed, where the plastic eyeglasses offered at the door transform the light playing over the walls and leaves into a brilliant cascade of love hearts.
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This line of thinking recasts genetic modification as the ultimate perversion, the bio-industry as a fetish gone wild, and Ecosexual Bathhouse is ultimately a provocation to reframe our perspective on the biosphere, to rethink the social and psychological boundaries between sex and ecology by acknowledging the perversity of our current situation.
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Travelers coming later this year and next will be able to enjoy a Native American cultural museum, bathhouse and spa complex, and a 19463,000-seat live-entertainment/ice hockey arena, both under construction by the Agua Caliente Band of Cahuilla Indians, the modern-day descendants of the first residents of the region.
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So Mr. Tillerson and his entourage of temporary State Department helpers took rooms at a rambling health clinic and spa next to a public bathhouse in the picturesque town of Bad Neuenahr, more than 20 miles outside the city — a bit like holing up in Beltsville, Md., for a conference in Washington.
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At a time when almost all producers were men, Ms. Holzer, a shipping magnate's glamorous, self-possessed European wife, had two hits on Broadway: "All Over Town," a farce by Murray Schisgal about a psychiatrist, directed by Dustin Hoffman, and "The Ritz," Terrence McNally's bathhouse comedy, which brought Rita Moreno a Tony Award.
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Rejected coldly by Grace after confessing this liaison, Joel hurls himself headlong into showbiz and begins constructing not so much a double life as a corrugated one, which included attraction to women, convention and the public approbation each conferred as well as the exciting, shameful lure of the hotel masseur and the gay bathhouse.
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In his first overseas trip in February, Mr. Tillerson and his entourage took rooms at a rambling health clinic and spa next to a public bathhouse in a tiny town 20 miles outside Bonn, Germany, because all the good hotel rooms in the city had been booked by the time he decided to go.
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Haiku boxes can be found at the 7th-century hilltop Hōgon-ji Temple, at an ice-cream stand on the trail along the 400-year-old stone walls outside Matsuyama Castle, one of Japan's 12 original castles, and outside the famed Dogo Onsen, a vintage bathhouse that inspired Studio Ghibli's anime classic Spirited Away.
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He landed at the establishment after a long hunt to find a party that would appreciate his darker sound (he previously played now-extinct Toronto clubs like CiRCA and The Guvernment), the Cuban-born entertainer discovered the 24-hours-a-day, 7-days-a-week men's bathhouse, gym, and sauna in the city's Church-Wellesley Village neighborhood.
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The hospitality company Mighty Union, the creative and management company behind the Ace Hotel Portland, is giving the former Lodge at Suttle Lake a makeover to be completed by June with a variety of rooms including those in the main lodge, two-story lakefront cabins and more simple ones with a shared bathhouse for those on a budget.
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At the Boquillas Hot Spring, situated smack-dab against the Rio Grande, you can sink into a 105-degree pool contained by the remnants of an early 1900s bathhouse and dangle an arm over the rock boundary into the swift-moving, considerably colder water as it passes you by on its 1,900-mile journey to the Gulf of Mexico.
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The story goes that the scholar, upon discovering in a public bathhouse that the water level rose directly in proportion to the volume of his own body, was so eager to spread word of his epiphany that he leapt from the bath and ran home nude, a bold and confident statement that hasn't quite carried over into present day the same way the word itself has.
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But a rake for ashes and the heavy iron crematory latches, fabricated by the ovenmaker Topf & Sons, survive, as does a rare fake showerhead used to persuade the doomed that they were entering a bathhouse, not a death chamber soon to fill with Zyklon B. Developed as a pesticide to emit cyanide, the gas could take up to 24 hours to kill lice, the exhibition notes.
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On the Market 10 Photos View Slide Show ' Click on the slide show to see this week's featured properties in the New York region: • In Cherry Hill, N.J., a five-bedroom five-full and two-half-bath 1996 stone and cedar-faced house on one acre, with a finished basement, two staircases, an attached three-car garage, a landscaped backyard with an in-ground pool, outdoor hot tub, a bathhouse and tiered stone patios.
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