Gay Bathhouse To Open Soon In ClevelandSurrounding Business Owners Have Concerns
POSTED: 10:52 am EDT July 3, 2006
CLEVELAND -- The Flex Bathhouse Club, the largest gay bathhouse, operates in five major U.S. cities. There will soon be one open in Cleveland.
The owner, Charles Fleck, gave NewsChannel5 an exclusive preview of the 50,000-square-foot facility.
The new facility is raising concerns for local law enforcement surrounding businesses and residents.
The native Clevelander and millionaire believes most of the concern over the opening of his palatial gay bathhouse at East 25th Street and Hamilton Avenue is gay discrimination.
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I dunno ... maybe I'm just a closet bigot ... but for some reason this does strike me as weird. Hardly dangerous, just ... ahh, forget it.
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It's no different than living near a strip club; everyone says "not in my backyard" but where do 90% of the population go for bachelor parties?
Remember how Arlington freaked out when Kahoot's opened?
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Yeah, I think the concept sounds a little strange because I can't think of any sort of straight-equivalent to a gay bathhouse... but public bathhouses are still a part of other cultures in other countries, and were a huge part of the culture in ancient Rome.
So yeah, if bath houses become a part of gay culture, that's fine with me. It's not going to hurt anyone. :roll:
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The word bathhouse is hilarious to me.
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honavery wrote The word bathhouse is hilarious to me.
True.
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I'm just a little pissed there's no HETERO bathhouses...of course, it'd end up looking just like the gay ones because no women would show up.
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honavery wrote The word bathhouse is hilarious to me.
It's a much more accurately descriptive word than "restroom". :lol:
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Coremodels wrote I'm just a little pissed there's no HETERO bathhouses...of course, it'd end up looking just like the gay ones because no women would show up.
...and the ones that would, might look like a man anyway....
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there supposedly are several in Columbus. I have a gay friend who says he only goes to work out, but that the "steam room" areas are pretty vial.
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