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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“obama will be there.”
Probably Whoopi Goldberg, known bar hopping whore, trolling for anyone that would have a go at her.
Homosexual STD rates will go through the roof and then they will demand help from the government.
Hopefully President Trump will tell them, “you made your bed now lay in it.”
Why should the rest of us subsidize your sexual urges?
Monkey pox isn’t bad enough, now we have to Make Aids Proliferate Again?
How long before they traffic homeless minors through these things?
“... [gay] guy told me that they all had 10-15 “partners” every night that they went [to the bathhouse].
Very dirty and unsafe. Incomprehensible except it actually happens.
https://actionnetwork.org/groups/safer-sex-spaces-coalition
Our mission is repealing the outdated and ineffective local laws (ordinances)that made facilitating sexual conduct in commercial spaces illegal and modernizing the code to allow for safer sex spaces.
We have met with City Council members, city staff, and public health experts to discuss legalizing sexual activity in commercial spaces. With full support of the City Council, the city’s Health Code was amended to neutralize stigmatizing language that targeted specific communities and sexual activities, but the ban on bathhouses and facilitating sexual conduct in commercial spaces remains.
I wonder who funds them?
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