{"id":5432,"date":"2019-01-14T19:21:07","date_gmt":"2019-01-15T00:21:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bathhouseblog.com\/?p=5432"},"modified":"2019-01-14T19:21:10","modified_gmt":"2019-01-15T00:21:10","slug":"play-about-gay-life-including-the-gay-baths","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bathhouseblog.com\/index.php\/2019\/01\/14\/play-about-gay-life-including-the-gay-baths\/","title":{"rendered":"Play About Gay Life Including The Gay Baths"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p> Matthew Lopez\u2019s seven-hour play <em>The Inheritance<\/em> (which is split into two parts, <em>The Inheritance Part 1<\/em> and <em>The Inheritance Part 2<\/em>) features a few scenes that take place in a bathhouse. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><blockquote>plucky aspiring actor Adam is detailing an erotic sexual \nencounter with countless strangers in a bathhouse. The story turns from \nan impulsive sexual encounter with multiple men, to bleeding, to testing\n HIV positive, to PEP rendering him HIV negative. <\/blockquote><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The playwright Matthew Lopez tells Another Man Magazine about the bathhouse scene\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n<p><blockquote>With Adam and the bathhouse story, you know, I was so eager to tell a story of ecstatic sexuality. In the moment of sex, we live with as much sexuality as possible, the consequences and regret come later. I was pre-Truvada [prescription medication that can help reduce the risk of contracting HIV-1] and in my 20s I was sexually adventurous \u2013 that\u2019s the truth of what it was like. The epidemic was just coming to subside and there was a lot of residual fear about gay sex, but we were still doing it, we were still enjoying it and having fun. Sexual ecstasy existed and exists alongside the tremendous guilt and fear. 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