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Glinting wet bodies are everywhere. Upstairs, a locker room provides an alternate dancefloor Photo by Arielle Domb. With a little negotiation, I wrangled my way back onto the guestlist. Getting it on in the water.

Homosexuality was illegal in New York up untiland bathhouses offered a space of privacy, community and sexual expression. We provide our members with brand new lockers, new david byrne gay room, new Chicago style showers and massage area.

Getting off on the red-light dance floor. As easy as it is to be skeptical about a scene that is open to everyone — provided you look the part — new possibilities for interaction are opened up in a space where freakiness and non-conformity are encouraged.

Arielle is a writer based in New York City and London whose work has appeared in The New York Times, Dazed, Attack, and more -- she writes about health, subculture, and everything in between. Sweating is encouraged at the banya Photo by Arielle Domb.

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Some guests, however, felt that they were leaving too clean. There's only one remaining full-scale gay bathhouse in the Big Apple.