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The past couple of days two articles have appeared with bathhouse connections.<\/p>\n

To PrEP or not to PrEP. This pill raises questions about gay identity. Which is a daily preventative pill against HIV has revived a decades-old debate about sex in the gay community in Chelsea, Hell’s Kitchen and the gay baths. Is this a false sense of security? Or a license to relive the free-wheeling days of the sexual revolution before HIV and AIDS set in. <\/p>\n

Writing<\/p>\n

On the second floor of a bland building in east Chelsea, men order rooms and lockers for $39. In between the reception desk and the prison-like portal to this bathhouse is a poster advertising free HIV tests. Practically every inch of this entrance hall is black save for the 8 x 11-inch blue poster and a stack of pink and green postcards promoting HIV-related medications, filed in a cardholder on a black metal table. In this space of discreet caution and desire the realities of sexual liberation and HIV infection compete for attention.<\/p>\n

The gay bathhouse, long a symbol of the spread of AIDS, has a new vibe: The availability of a daily preventative pill against HIV has revived a decades-old debate about whether gay men have license to engage in promiscuity, pitting a hard-won sense of freedom and equality against the stigma of disease and casual sex.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Click To PrEP or not to PrEP<\/a><\/b><\/u> to read more.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile Brian Moylan<\/a><\/b><\/u> interviews the president of the North American Bathhouse Association. 75-year-old Dennis Holding and how he sees the baths evolving in today’s technology market. Read Can We Make Gay Bathhouses Cool Again?<\/a><\/b><\/u><\/p>\n

So click on both articles for two different takes on these bathhouse connections in 2014.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The past couple of days two articles have appeared with bathhouse connections. To PrEP or not to PrEP. This pill raises questions about gay identity. 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