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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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— 🌹Growing Increasingly Restless (@GrownRoom) July 12, 2020



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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To: SeekAndFind
Just burn the whole shihtole town to the ground again but first block the exits so the residents can't rebuild.


21 posted on 07/26/2020 9:42:46 PM PDT by eldoradude (Boycott Chinese made goods)
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To: SeekAndFind
Oh, yeah. THIS is a really good idea 🙄
22 posted on 07/26/2020 9:46:26 PM PDT by Beowulf9
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To: SeekAndFind

The SF Board of supervisors

https://sfbos.org/


23 posted on 07/26/2020 9:48:29 PM PDT by Beowulf9
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To: rlmorel

24 posted on 07/26/2020 9:48:57 PM PDT by BigEdLB (BigedLB, Russian BOT, At your service)
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To: SeekAndFind

And “contribute” to HIV, venereal disease, broken lives, broken families, street prostitution and immorality....among other “contributions.”


25 posted on 07/26/2020 9:53:39 PM PDT by Fungi
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To: Crucial

“up against the wall and spread ‘em!”


26 posted on 07/26/2020 9:53:44 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: dayglored

DO NOT, under any circumstances, look this word up. You’re better off not knowing what it means.”
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Hmm Since you put it like that, can guarantee that the site will freeze up from so many hits...<: <: <:

Don’t throw me in that briar patch...


27 posted on 07/26/2020 9:54:40 PM PDT by xrmusn (6/98"HRC is the Grandmother that lures Hansel & Gretel to the pot")
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To: Mr. Blond

That was Bob Hope’s fear.

That it would go from prohibition of male on male sodomy to acceptance to promotion to mandatory requirement.


28 posted on 07/26/2020 9:55:01 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

Sodomite bathhouses open, but churches and bible studies closed. California...


29 posted on 07/26/2020 9:58:38 PM PDT by Jan_Sobieski (Sanctification)
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To: SeekAndFind
"important community meeting places for friends to gather to share stories, dance to the latest disco hits, or watch a live show.”"... 🙊🙉🙈
30 posted on 07/26/2020 10:06:18 PM PDT by Rusty0604 (2020 four more years!)
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To: SeekAndFind

BOOM!!!

here is your minimum timeline for this:

The legislation gives the Department of Public Health until January to come up with regulations to allow this,” he says.


31 posted on 07/26/2020 10:16:39 PM PDT by Vendome (I've Gotta Be Me https://youtu.be/wH-pk2vZG2M)
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To: SeekAndFind

SF proctologists are excited at the news of more new customers.


32 posted on 07/26/2020 10:33:24 PM PDT by doorgunner69 (Peace is that brief glorious moment in history when everybody stands around reloading - T Jefferson)
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To: doorgunner69

But CA is closing down the Churches.


33 posted on 07/26/2020 10:36:09 PM PDT by sport
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To: Secret Agent Man

They prefer sleep over the bloody battle to keep our rapidly disappearing freedoms. And to scold the rest of us according to their self-righteousness.


34 posted on 07/26/2020 10:37:12 PM PDT by DeplorableGirl
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To: SeekAndFind

Mandelman: “... and their not getting any kind of health messaging that could be provided in a bathhouse.”


35 posted on 07/26/2020 10:45:56 PM PDT by A strike (" Was that wrong? Should I not have done this? " - Costanza)
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To: A strike

they’re


36 posted on 07/26/2020 10:47:25 PM PDT by A strike (" Was that wrong? Should I not have done this? " - Costanza)
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To: SeekAndFind

As the British gentleman said after reading this, “Well bugger me!”.

Mandelman should change his name to something more honest such as “Manhandling Man”.

San Francisco is the first city I want the Red Chinese to “take out” (no pun intended) when they attack us in the future. Want to live long enough to see it do a Cheech and Chong death spiral, i.e. to go “ Up In Smoke”.

That will take care of the rats, politicians (but I repeat myself), communists (again I repeat myself), feminazis, Red Chinese agents/colonies, Marxist-dominated universities and schools, and STD spreaders (includes most of the above).

Sodom and Gomorrah would be jealous of SF if they were still around.

Come on Peking, “drop the big one”, the bomb, not a turd on a SF street.


37 posted on 07/26/2020 10:57:08 PM PDT by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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To: rlmorel

#10. Re “they can’t use cash, can they”? Well that depends on how they refer to “bucks”.


38 posted on 07/26/2020 10:59:05 PM PDT by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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To: mass55th

#12. Re “why not allow sex venues on the job?” Well, that would make Congress a much happier and productive place, but I’m not referring to legislation.

Page-ing Rep. Gary Studds (D-Mass), you are wanted in the cloakroom closet.


39 posted on 07/26/2020 11:01:35 PM PDT by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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To: MadMax, the Grinning Reaper

Come to think of it, Congress already had something like sex venues on the job. It’s why they had to create a hush slush fund to pay off all their victims.


40 posted on 07/26/2020 11:42:04 PM PDT by mass55th ("Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway." ~~ John Wayne)
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