DYK medieval women & men had no shame to be naked in #PublicBaths? Why do many #Christians see it as immoral & #sinful today? Why do police see it as crime? Ghosts of #HistSex still haunt. HowSexGotScrewedUp.com #PersonalHygiene #PublicNudity
The Public Baths of Ancient Pompeii Were Actually Pretty Gross—Until the Romans Built an Aqueduct: Hygienic conditions were poor in the city's older bathing facilities, a new study reveals. The analysis sheds light on Pompeii's… @SmithsonianMag #Pompeii #AncientRome #PublicBaths #Aqueducts #History
DYK Germans have enjoyed being naked for centuries? #PublicNudity for Medieval #PublicBaths in Europe was common until the 14thC Black Death closed them up. But they survived in Baden & other German towns. Ghosts of #HistSex still haunt. HowSexGotScrewedUp.com
DYK medieval women & men had no shame to be #naked in #PublicBaths? Why do many #Christians see it as immoral & #sinful today? Why do police see it as crime? Ghosts of #HistSex still haunt. HowSexGotScrewedUp.com #PersonalHygiene #PopularCulture
Marshall Street Baths, Westminster. Built 1850. Rebuilt 1928-30. Architect Alfred Cross 1931
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DYK medieval people at #PublicBaths were not embarrassed to see one another unclothed? Women & men made their way to the baths in various states of undress. This was especially true in northern Europe, in countries such as Germany & Switzerland.
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But not all people were welcome. Towns across Europe banned
#Jews, #Muslims, & #SexWorkers from the #PublicBaths except on certain days of the week. Ghosts of the #HistSex still haunt. HowSexGotScrewedUp.com
DYK medieval women & men had no shame to be #naked in #PublicBaths? Why do many #Christians see it as immoral & #sinful today? Why do police see it as crime? Ghosts of #HistSex still haunt. HowSexGotScrewedUp.com #PersonalHygiene #PopularCulture
The surviving entrance to the former Whiteinch Public Baths in the west of Glasgow. Designed by the Office of Public Works in an Edwardian Baroque style, it opened in 1926.
#glasgow #whiteinch #architecture #glasgowbuildings #publicbaths #architecturephotography
In #JUNE 1883
‘“Get in line, gentlemen!”
Opening of the free baths in New York’ *Harpers Weekly*, June 1883
The baths were open from mid-June to mid-October.
#NewYorkCity #tenements #PublicBaths #FloatingBaths #PublicHygiene
Collection of Maggie Land Blanck
The point of a PUBLIC spa is that it is for Public Good
It still requires upkeep
every major #WorldCulture has #PublicBaths
Except #NorthAmerica who treats #ILLNESS or #PAIN as something you don’t prevent with improved circulation, stretching, mobility…
One of the reasons we have an #opioidCrisis!
Such public baths and steamies (as the wash houses were known) were once common in Glasgow, especially in the late Victorian and Edwardian eras when few tenements had their own bathrooms or washing facilities.
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The former Glasgow Corporation Public Baths and Wash House on Tollcross Road in the Parkhead area of Glasgow. Designed by A.B. MacDonald, it was built in 1904.
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The Art Nouveau era was a cultural scene with progressive approaches in art, fashion, philosophy were being discussed. Several notable cities fostered an atmosphere of tolerance that allowed homoerotic encounters in public baths.
#ArtNouveau #Jugendstil #Homoerotic #PublicBaths #Tolerance #gayart
