Today I'm posting a triple feature on bath houses. The Romans are said to have invented the
concept of public bathing facilities, but there is some archaeological evidence they might have
been around even longer than that. In part one, we look at the Turkish hammam, a type of facility
that closely approximates the Roman. These photos came to me undated, but some
of the details make me think they are several decades old.
As for sexual activity in hammams, the official line is that it is not allowed, but according to a 2019 travel blogger, "I received assurances from my hotel concierge, the taxi driver, and the guy at the front desk that this place was absolutely not a gay bath house. After twenty minutes, the groans emanating from the dark corners convinced me that their definition of gay differed from mine. I can only imagine what the hammams advertised as gay might be like."