Batting 0 for 3 (0.000) on Bath houses / Saunas!!

Oi, Al Gente!

 

Just a short post to say that I am batting 0.000 when it comes to my personal bath house experiences.  For those of you who do not know what a "bath house" is, simply, it is a place where men go to have sex with other men.  It does usually contain some proper bath house / sauna amenities including, dry saunas, steam saunas, Jacuzzis, and showers.  They usually also have a small bar, TV room, and private rooms in which to have some of your fun. 

 

I have been to three of these bath houses / saunas (they go by both terms depending on your location and the people with whom you are conversing) in my lifetime.  Now that I think about it, they each have been on different continents, but one commonality they all have shared is that they have been complete busts.

 

My first bath house experience was actually in Wellington, New Zealand.  It was not my intent to go to this establishment, but the Englishman I was traveling with and I were enticed to go there by a local Maori with the promise of smoking weed along the way.  We did stop off in a deserted parking garage in downtown to smoke the weed.  That was both promising but also hinted at the impending creepiness of the experience.  For the sake of brevity, the Englishman and I entered the establishment, sat politely in the TV area a while, and then left to go back to our hostel and play amongst ourselves.  The clientele and our host were very creepy guys and not very appealing.

 

My second experience was at a bath house in San Diego.  I didn't think I would patronize one of these establishments again, but this time I was convinced to go because I received an unexpected call from a friend while I was at home saying that he and two other friends were going up to the bath house and thought I should join them.  I was immediately turned on by this idea because the three guys in question were all friends, they are all hot, and I had had sex with each of them before.  They were already near the bath house when they called me so they obviously got there before I did.  By the time I had arrived, they were all getting kicked out.  I did not know this until I had already paid my money to enter and saw them in the locker room area.  One of them was drunk and pretty obnoxious which is why they were being asked to leave.  They left, but since I had already paid my money, I decided to walk around and see what there was to see.  Unfortunately, there wasn't much to see and only old, ugly men were hitting on me so I also left within 10 minutes of entering the premises.  0-2...

 

Well, I had not visited a sauna since then which was a couple of years ago at least.  Ozell is much more experienced than I and often visits these establishments in foreign countries.  He does not really go to them in the States.  The main reason, as I understand it, is that bath houses / saunas tend to be much classier, laid back, and have a better clientele in foreign countries compared to the USA.  Anyways, he has wanted me to go with him to one when we have been in Europe.  It didn't work out that way on our last trip even though I was interested.

 

When we were just in Florianopolis, we met a Brazilian traveler in our hostel who befriended us.  The previous posts discuss that.  Anyways, on one of the rainy days while we were there he was going to a sauna and invited us along.  There was nothing else to do on the rainy afternoon so Ozell and I both went.  It wasn't a disaster.  The facilities were fine.  It was just a waste for the both of us because the clientele were mainly old and fat-  and unattractive in general.  For the vast majority of the time, Ozell and I were the hottest guys there.  We did see a couple of guys we were both interested in, but they did not want to give us the time of day.  They never indicated that they were interested.  So we spent $20 on the entrance fee and a couple of beers and five hours of our time for nothing.  The one thing I did get out of it was sitting in my first true dry and steam saunas.  I have too hard of a time breathing in the steam sauna so I did not like it much.  I definitely understand how people have heart attacks in those things.  But I did like the dry saunas with the hot rocks and hot air.  That felt good for my pores.

 

I think I am done with bath houses /saunas for a while again.  I think I will wait until we go back to Europe since they seem to have the best ones.

 

Ciao for now....

 

Sean  :)