Get naked, make friends! I’ve been to Washington lots of times without ever edging up the nerve to take myself out to Crew Club, DC’s last remaining gay bathhouse. I’ve always come up with lots of reasons to avoid it, but the bulk of them always (often secretly) boiled down to “I’m probably not hot […]
Don’t Be Shitty: 5 Bros Not To Be In The Sauna
Public naked time can be stressful enough for some guys without you making it extra weird. It’s a well known fact that I’m a big fan of a sauna. I love the Russian Baths in New York. I really really love Steamworks in Chicago. I’d go back to the Pleasuredrome next time I’m in […]
Pleasuredrome: If David Lynch Opened A Gay Sauna
Like Eraserhead, but with steam and a lot of penises. I’ve been to a lot of saunas. I’ve even been to things that marketed themselves as saunas, but were essentially just warm, damp rooms where guys have anonymous sex. I’ve been to gym saunas, home saunas, underground saunas, and you can find me running […]
One of My Favorite New York Places, The Russian Turkish Baths, Profiled in the Times
“The hipsters come in with their Groupons, sporting their tattoos and their man buns,” If you’ve lived in New York and never been to the Russian Turkish Baths, you’re doing yourself a huge disservice. Likewise, if you don’t live here, but come with any regularity, you owe it to yourself to check out what […]