What was the name of the 1st gay bathhouse you ever visited, and where was it.

[Pozguyinchi]

On 1/21/2026 at 11:15 AM, GIVEMESEED1974 said:

Man's Country in Chicago around 1996 and then MANY times after that.  I liked to rent the DeSade room just off the performance space on the top floor.  I'd just open the door and get in the sling and take any cock offered.  One night I took my career best of 23 loads in one stay.  Incidentally, it was also likely the place where I got converted. 🤪

I was there once or twice. It was after you cum load extravaganza. If I was there I would have been jealous. But impressed. 

[PozBearWI]

1 hour ago, Pozguyinchi said:

I have only ever known it as steamworks. It has really never changed.

Before it was named Steamworks, it was known as The Unicorn (club).  I never heard the word "club" when we talked about it, but I'm sure it registered as a business as The Unicorn Club.  

[PozBearWI]

True @Pozguyinchi, my most piggy fun was at the Island House "video" room with the convenient big bed, sling.  There is only one way to warm up at Kenosha; room temps aren't going to do it...  Skin on skin a survival requirement there!  😀  

[Pozguyinchi]

6 minutes ago, PozBearWI said:

True @Pozguyinchi, my most piggy fun was at the Island House "video" room with the convenient big bed, sling.  There is only one way to warm up at Kenosha; room temps aren't going to do it...  Skin on skin a survival requirement there!  😀  

Oh they wouldn’t work for me. I like to be piggy when it’s hot.

[NJCPig]

A good friend of mine, who sadly passed away 12 years ago would tell me stories about watching Bette Middler perform at NYC Continental Baths. Barry Manilow was her pianist. 

 

[think before following links] https://www.nyclgbtsites.org/site/continental-baths-at-the-ansonia-hotel/

[wetbred]

Anyone else remember The Office from Winnipeg? My first bathhouse and anon-load, 1991.

[NWUSHorny]

15 minutes ago, wetbred said:

Anyone else remember The Office from Winnipeg? My first bathhouse and anon-load, 1991.

Was it a predecessor to either the Aquarius or the Adonis, or at another location? I've been to both of the current ones, had a lot of fun at the Aquarius when I was working in Winnipeg.

[NWUSHorny]

1 hour ago, Pozguyinchi said:

Everyone knows all the piggy fun goes on in Kenosha. Lol

Don't knock it till you've tried it. From my experience it is a good spot for the BZ sluts looking for an experience with our darker pigmented brethren. I had a few pretty memorable flip fucks with some of them.

[wetbred]

15 minutes ago, NWUSHorny said:

Was it a predecessor to either the Aquarius or the Adonis, or at another location? I've been to both of the current ones, had a lot of fun at the Aquarius when I was working in Winnipeg.

I believe it's called Adonis now, though I haven't been there in about 20 years. I used to visit Friday afternoons and fell in love with Kenny, who worked the front door... with his cock and load, that is LOL 

[PozBearWI]

1 hour ago, Pozguyinchi said:

Oh they wouldn’t work for me. I like to be piggy when it’s hot.

If we ever meetup there, I'll make it a point to keep you warm...  ☺️

[spike-the-cat]

On 1/21/2026 at 8:27 AM, RandyCubby said:

Steamworks in Chicago. (Was is always Steamworks or was it named something else once?) I was like a kid in a candy store in the glory hole room--walking around, playing with myself in front of everybody and sucking dicks. Polish, Italian, black... Stepping in puddles of cold cum with my bare feet till my feet were sticky. I think that's where there was a gloryhole in a plexiglass wall (with gray dried cum from the gloryhole to the concrete floor) with Jabba the Hutt on the other side, and I was licking cum off his little, fat veiny cock, off the plexiglass, off the floor while twinks watched. Good times. 

Before Steamworks bought it (and even for a couple of years after they bought it), Chicago's Steamworks was known as The Unicorn. I think the name change happened back in the 1990s.

It was The Unicorn back when I first went to it. 

Edited Friday at 03:09 AM by spike-the-cat

[SFCumdog]

My first was in France, Paris to be exact. I don't remember the name. All I remember was that they had these cubicles for rooms that were raised off the ground and you kind of crawled into them. Does that ring any bells for anyone? My boyfriend took me there to open me up to that side of gay life, but then got pissed at me when I crawled in with two guys in their cubicle. We hadn't really set any rules and I was kind of naive and didn't know any better. I thought that this was just how it worked at a place like that. I should have known then already that he was a controlling asshole... but it took 30 more years till I came to my senses.

My second bathhouse was the Chancellor in Philadelphia. Spent a lot of Friday nights there. I loved that place. Almost always had a great time and met a lot of fun people there too. There was a small group of regulars there that we all became kind of friendly. There were two guys who were friends, both married, who were there ALL the time. We always called the one Larry Ferrari because he looked like him. It's a nickname that anyone from Philadelphia will immediately understand.

[RandyCubby]

11 hours ago, spike-the-cat said:

Before Steamworks bought it (and even for a couple of years after they bought it), Chicago's Steamworks was known as The Unicorn. I think the name change happened back in the 1990s.

It was The Unicorn back when I first went to it. 

The Unicorn! Yes. Thanks!

[kente]

Trombeta Baths in Lisbon. Got several BB fucks and loads there

[hntnhole]

On 1/20/2026 at 3:43 PM, Justaholeff said:

I've heard that place was wild!!!!

Yeah, it was ..... any sexual act you can imagine taking place on any/all three floors at any given time. There were other baths in Chicago of course, and I went to them occasionally.  But "home" was always at Chuck Renslow's fuckjoints.