Posted on 04/08/2026 12:31:34 PM PDT by Libloather
The Minneapolis City Council is preparing to consider legalizing and regulating venues, such as bathhouses, where consenting adults can engage in sexual activity, possibly reversing the city’s 38-year ban.
The ordinances in question would remove “stigmatizing language” and add “new definitions to be inclusive of establishments where sexual activity between consenting adults may be facilitated,” according to The Minnesota Star Tribune.
The outlet noted that bathhouses and sex clubs operated in the city until a 1988 ordinance banned businesses that facilitate “high-risk sexual conduct,” which was defined as fellatio, anal intercourse and vaginal intercourse for pay.
The language of the 1988 ordinance was changed in 2023 at the behest of activists with the Safer Sex Spaces Coalition, who argued that it targeted same-sex partnerships and individuals with HIV and AIDS, the Tribune reported.
Additionally, the Safer Sex Spaces Coalition argued that the ban discouraged outreach to communities and drove sex-related gatherings to “unsafe and inaccessible spaces.”
“The Minneapolis Health Department and other public health organizations acknowledge this ordinance is no longer the tool needed to promote public health. Social science research tells us that commercial sex spaces, like gay saunas, are important for promoting safer sex practices, enhancing HIV prevention, and increasing access to testing and treatment.
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and used to be pretty boring!
I guess people doing stuff in private residences is out of the question.
Can Minneapolis’ Samalians bring in their camels?
They mean gay bath houses.
In another story Bill Clinton shops for real estate in Minneapolis.
Next they’ll be unionized!
Minneapolis and Gommorah.
with all the mohammedans, Wednesdays will be “family night” at those places.
And most definitely not allowed custody or manufacture of children.
$#!+ like this is why God threw up his hands and nuked Sodom and Gomorrah...
Sad but true.
If your "stuff" is to have 10-15 partners per night, every night, and each of them is going to have 10-15 partners per night, every night, you're talking about hosting a private party with maybe 50-100 gay guys running around naked with Crisco on their butts making ooh-ahh noises... every night.
That's bound to draw the neighbors' attention eventually. Even if you live next to a cemetery.
...there is nothing too depraved or immoral or sickening enough for some male not to attempt it...just the truth.
What adult bathouses do with other consenting bathouses is none of our business! < /sarc >
Minnesota is a write-off. I wish we could trade it for a non-crazy chunk of land with normal people.
Trade it for Alberta.
Of course another is granting conservative Canadians asylum and settling them all in Minnesota - it is purple enough than an influx of a few hundred thousand would flip it red.
Tampon Timmy will probably be the first customer.
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Bathhouse Barry just contacted his realtor.
“Some cities like a variety of pandemics and never met a public health crisis they didn’t like.”
Exactly, these people don’t understand what history is for. There’s a reason they were outlawed. Shortly they’ll be begging for a federal bailout because of a STD pandemic.
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