Posted on 03/04/2020 7:46:22 PM PST by karpov
Largely banished since the outbreak of the AIDS epidemic in the 1980s, gay bathhouses could return to San Francisco under new legislation introduced to the Board of Supervisors.
District 8 Supervisor Rafael Mandelman, who represents the Castro neighborhood, introduced an ordinance Tuesday calling for the Department of Public Health to amend city standards established in the 1980s for adult sex venues that effectively shut down gay bathhouses.
Mandelman said bathhouses were once the focal point of the gay community and health care advancements to help prevent the transmission of HIV has made the standards outdated.
In many ways they symbolized the newfound freedom to live out, proud and happy that gay men from previous generations could never experience, Mandelman said. Our current regulations for adult sex venues were put in place as an emergency measure at the height of the AIDS crisis, when San Francisco was desperate to slow the spread of HIV/AIDS.
The proposed legislation was first reported by The Bay Area Reporter.
Gay bathhouses were shuttered during the HIV/AIDS epidemic, after The City cited them as a public health nuisance in 1984. A court order allowed the businesses to remain open, but only under strict standards that required the use of safe sex monitors and door modifications for individual cubicles, rooms or booths to prevent private interactions.
The court order remained in place, and in 1997 the Department of Public Health adopted minimum standards that included staff monitoring and prohibited sex clubs and venues from having doors that patrons could lock.
However, the rules may not have worked as officials hoped.
There is no evidence showing that the monitoring of patrons at commercial venues that allow people to engage in sexual activity results in safer sex.
(Excerpt) Read more at sfexaminer.com ...
Oh look! Somebody dropped a Baby Ruth in to pool!
“Mandelman bringing bathhouses back to The City (of San Francisco). New ordinance would amend health code restrictions imposed in 1980s”
absolutely incomparable timing; just when the AIDS epidemic is under control, but just in time for the coronavirus epidemic ....
Did someone already write a joke about them having to walk through many piles of poo on the sidewalks to get to there, I always am too late to these threads
It just gets worse and worse. Sodom by the bay. God is not mocked; there will be a fearful price paid.
Thank goodness for CA or NY would be the wackiest state :)
Sure, why not? What could possibly go wrong?
Oh the street people are going to love this! A place to scrub down plus get a cuddle!
They’re baaaa-aaaacckkkkk !
They just tried to blame Mike Pence the other day for the spike in HIV cases in a small section of Indiana. Liberals are the scourge of the country. They whine about the Coronavirus, but then turn around and make it easier for other diseases to spike. The Washington State Legislature is trying to reduce the punishment for deliberately infecting someone with HIV. They want to move it from being a felony to a misdemeanor.
A return then to the raids they would have I suspect.....
Well, there’ll just be more feces on the sidewalks.
“I called on a nurse who was a gorgeous male “
I sure hope you are female!!
Excrement and aids — what a ombination. Maybe Tony Bennetcan amend his song title to “I Left my Poop in San Francisco.”
Never realized they went away.
Are they going to invite the homeless in?
They could have coronavirus parties.
Between homosexual saunas and legalized theft they should seriously consider renaming the city to Sodom. It won’t even look extravagant anymore.
Coronavirus will sweep through like a wildfire.
Absolutely vile.
Yep. I like the timing. SF has a serious death wish.
https://www.cnn.com/2020/02/26/health/san-francisco-coronavirus-emergency-declaration/index.html
Coronavirus is an emergency, even before they had their first case. Bath houses? Those are a celebration of freedom.
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