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San Francisco Relaxes Restrictions on Gay Bathhouses So They Can Contribute to the Economic Recovery
Red State ^ | 07/26/2020 | Streiff

Posted on 07/26/2020 8:32:09 PM PDT by SeekAndFind

Great news in California. If you can’t go to church why not head off to your favorite gay bathhouse.

Gay bathhouses could have an easier time returning to San Francisco, after the board of supervisors approved an ordinance that would ease restrictions for adult sex venues on July 21 with a unaminous [this typo is not mine] vote.

This will amend the Heath Code, requiring the Director of Health to “adopt minimum health and safety standards” for commercial adult sex venues. It will also remove decades-old policies that required these businesses to monitor sexual activities and prohibited private rooms and locked doors.

“What this ordinance will do is allow for adult sex venues to be apart of our economic and cultural recovery when it is safe to do so,” Mandelman said in a July 9 meeting. “During the ’70s and early ’80s, bathhouses were a focal point of gay social life in San Francisco, and were important community meeting places for friends to gather to share stories, dance to the latest disco hits, or watch a live show.”

I tried to think of some way to snark this but it was a challenge. Especially with my skin crawling after reading that last sentence.

More detail:

“The only backlash that we’ve received [from this proposal] is, I think the crankiness of social media, wondering whether this is the most important thing to be doing in the light of a pandemic. I’ve also heard it from queer people who say, ‘HIV may be dropping in San Francisco, but STDs aren’t. Isn’t this just going to become a place where STDs spread?’ And my response to that is, well, people are having sex right now,” he says.

“They’re having sex in private parties. They’re having sex with multiple partners on a given night, based on the apps, and they’re not getting any kind of health messaging that could be provided in a bathhouse.”

Mandelman stresses that the ordinance does not require or allow the reopening of adult sex venues until restrictions requiring social distancing due to the COVID-19 pandemic have been lifted.

“Bathhouses are not going to open during the height of the pandemic and nobody’s going to expect them to. The legislation gives the Department of Public Health until January to come up with regulations to allow this,” he says.

 

I guess you have to have your priorities.

San Francisco homeless count goes from bad to worse, jumping 30% from 2017 – Los Angeles Times

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TOPICS: Government; Health/Medicine; Society
KEYWORDS: botox; calif; california; churchgatherings; diannefeinstein; economy; essentialbusiness; gavinnewsom; gaybathhouses; genderdysphoria; homosexualagenda; nancypelosi; restrictions; richardcblum; sanfrancisco; sanfrannan
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1 posted on 07/26/2020 8:32:09 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

ok you fearpers and covidiots here

can you not see this entire thing is a total sham

they keep us from church but homos full of aids group phucking in bathhoouses, no prob

anyone with a minimum of intelligence can see it

wake up now


2 posted on 07/26/2020 8:34:38 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not Averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...
The Demagogic Party is really just trying to mass-kill the gay community.

3 posted on 07/26/2020 8:42:20 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Bathhouse Barry will be delighted.


4 posted on 07/26/2020 8:47:20 PM PDT by hercuroc
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To: Secret Agent Man

This is the most political disease in history. I think even more so than AIDS.


5 posted on 07/26/2020 8:55:47 PM PDT by ChildOfThe60s (If you can remember the 60s.....your weren't really there..)
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To: Secret Agent Man

yes....


6 posted on 07/26/2020 9:00:12 PM PDT by cherry
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To: Secret Agent Man

yes....


7 posted on 07/26/2020 9:01:56 PM PDT by cherry
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To: SeekAndFind

Exact change to use a stall


8 posted on 07/26/2020 9:02:09 PM PDT by BigEdLB (BigedLB, Russian BOT, At your service)
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To: SeekAndFind

Ew


9 posted on 07/26/2020 9:05:35 PM PDT by Ouchthatonehurt
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To: BigEdLB

But wait...wait...they can’t use cash, can they? Wouldn’t that spread the coronavirus???


10 posted on 07/26/2020 9:06:20 PM PDT by rlmorel ("Truth is Treason in the Empire of Lies"- George Orwell)
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To: SeekAndFind

I almost feel that I should immerse myself in Lysol after reading that.


11 posted on 07/26/2020 9:15:43 PM PDT by GaryCrow
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To: SeekAndFind

If adult sex venues are a part of the economic and cultural recovery, why not allow sex venues on the job? A happy employee is a productive employee. At the doctor and dentist’s office? At the library? When you get your car serviced? Taking your pet to the vets? Even going out to dinner could have a whole new meaning.


12 posted on 07/26/2020 9:17:41 PM PDT by mass55th ("Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway." ~~ John Wayne)
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To: ChildOfThe60s

And same guy in DC is running the sham show

But, at least he got his own baseball card out of the deal


13 posted on 07/26/2020 9:24:53 PM PDT by digger48
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To: SeekAndFind

Bug chasers gotta felch

and don’t demand that they wear masks, gloves or condoms


14 posted on 07/26/2020 9:27:35 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (Joe Biden- "First thing I'd do is repeal those Trump tax cuts." (May 4th, 2019))
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To: SeekAndFind

Soon it will be mandatory.


15 posted on 07/26/2020 9:28:30 PM PDT by Mr. Blond
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To: null and void

ping


16 posted on 07/26/2020 9:28:47 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (Joe Biden- "First thing I'd do is repeal those Trump tax cuts." (May 4th, 2019))
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To: a fool in paradise
Re: “felch”

You probably ought to add a warning like, “DO NOT, under any circumstances, look this word up. You’re better off not knowing what it means.”

Just sayin’.

17 posted on 07/26/2020 9:35:55 PM PDT by dayglored ("Listen. Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government."`)
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To: SeekAndFind
"bathhouses were a focal point of gay social life in San Francisco"

That should read fecal point, not "focal point".

18 posted on 07/26/2020 9:36:04 PM PDT by PallMal
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To: SeekAndFind

Super dumb...

coronavirus superspreaders..


19 posted on 07/26/2020 9:41:08 PM PDT by Crucial
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To: dayglored

Yes, I made that mistake years ago. Ignorance is bliss.


20 posted on 07/26/2020 9:41:50 PM PDT by allblues (God is neither a Republican nor a Democrat but Satan is definitely a Democrat)
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