NO! I was trying to explain to my fellow Americans that "bath houses" in Eastern Europe are NOT for gay carousing, but rather like country clubs and lodges where men meet to shoot the sh-t and discuss business and political deals.
Ahh, yup, you're right. The soviets didn't allow mixed sex places but the modern ones, at least on my trips there and to Ukraine, were pretty mixed. Never quite got into the whole birch branch slapping thing though.