It’s been nearly 40 years since bathhouses, a cultural staple and welcoming space for gay men for much of the 20th century, operated freely in The City. Those who have pushed for the return of bathhouses are now imagining what they could look like today.
Loren Bruton, left, Ken Rowe and Douglas Hingst, owners of Eros adult sex club. The club first opened in 1992 and was able to operate within city rules because it did not offer customers private rooms for sex, which were a staple of bathhouses in the 1970s.
Proponents for reopening bathhouses believe that even in a world where it’s as easy as ever to find casual sex through an app, there’s still value to having a safe place in which to have sex. Legislation passed by the Board of Supervisors on Tuesday, which should clear the way for bathhouses to return to San Francisco after they were closed during the AIDS epidemic, explicitly mentions the value they offer in terms of sex education and disease prevention.
The bathhouses can still be relevant, Goldfarb said, “especially in a place like San Francisco where many people have roommates or living situations where it may not be workable to have another safe space to have sex.” The City’s last remaining sex club, Eros, has been caught in the zoning purgatory. After being priced out of its lease on Market Street, the sex club planned to move to a site in the Tenderloin.
“We’re not anticipating to rush to do anything like that, because we know our business model and real estate is expensive in The City, and private rooms need space,” Rowe said. Though not outright banned, restrictions were tight enough to make operating a sex club so onerous that few remained.
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