Toronto gay bathhouses
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DRUGS, SMOKING, AND ALCOHOL ARE ALWAYS PROHIBITED INSIDE THE CLUB/ON OUR PREMISES.
Sometimes you just need to fetch laid, you know? Or sometimes, you just want a gigantic steam room outside of your gym locker room filled with naked people, who also wish to be around naked people.
Lucky for you Toronto still has a few hot and steamy options to help facilitate said rocks getting off. Though the hay day of bathhouses in Toronto has come and gone (thanks a lot, internet!) and selection isn't huge, there are still a few amusing options out there, and that's something to be thankful for, right? Most spots are for men (trans inclusive), but we also have Oasis. Get out there and support these spots if you can, once they're gone, Toronto will ensure they're gone for good.
Here are the best (and only) lgbtq+ and queer bathhouses in Toronto.
// THE CLASSICS
Steamworks
Definitely the city's largest and most popular bathhouse, Steamworks is a men and transsexual men only spot at 540 Church Street complete with damp and dry sauna's, a huge hot tub, a smaller scorching tub if the big one intimidates you, two shower rooms - both of which are completely transparent, so get ready to put on a production. There are a couple gloomy rooms, maze situations, glory holes
Welcome to Toronto – city of migrants, culture, culinary and the freezing frosty weather. What can be better than a visit to a gay bathhouse to enjoy the steams? Spa Excess is another fantastic gay sauna in Toronto which caters the gay collective and is located downtown, not too far from the gay village.
I have to open by saying I really almost abhor gay saunas and bathhouses where there are multiple floors and steep stairs. Spa Excess indeed has many many stairs. 3.5 floors to be precise and not including the lovely deck, if you dare sitting there towel only in the limbs numbing climate.
A special distinctive of this polish and safe bathhouse is the proof that it has 0 style. I was always riddled about how on earth could anyone think carpets depart well with soggy play halls. The carpet in this sauna’s bar must have been installed in the 90s and it seems that keeping and maintaining the ancient is a frequent practice in this city.
Having all that said. This place has a super clean colorless colored jacuzzi which is always a plus. Water temperature was wonderful too. Yet not as boiling as in the neighbouring Steameworks Baths. The jets are so freaking strong that you can easily massag
When the late gay activist Rick Stokes founded the Steamworks bathhouse chain in Berkeley, California, in 1976, the world was a different place. Though same-sex attracted saunas were given licences in many North American jurisdictions in the 1960s and ’70s, they were still at risk of community outrage and raids by the police. Men frequented them anyway—there was no internet and many of the other ways to pursue sexual encounters, like blind dates and park cruising, were even riskier.
At the industry’s summit in the 1970s, the United States had nearly 200 bathhouses, according to numbers from gay move guide Damron. One former chain, Club Baths, operated an estimated 42 locations in the U.S. and Canada. By 1990, fewer than half of America’s bathhouses remained, at least partly because they were unfairly alleged to be hotbeds of unsafe sex during the 1980s HIV/AIDS epidemic. San Francisco, for example, closed its bathhouses down in 1984 because of fears about the spread of HIV/AIDS. But bathhouses remained an crucial part of gay male life in many metropolitan cities—Steamworks itself continued to open new locations right into the early 2000s.
In recent years, the decline of bathhouses in guy