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Ep.12: Spiritual Guide to Gay Saunas and Bathhouses with Michael Dilorio

Can't Host: Gay, Bisexual, and Queer Men’s Sex and Relationships

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I'll Go Just Because I Want to Get Off

I would go to the bathhouse for I think the reasons a lot people do to get off because I was probably drunk and or high and I wanted to have fun. Then it was just very much more surface level which is fine now though. Most people's judgment of bad houses and cruising and casual sex essentially in the gay culture is that it's a way for us to cover up our shame and prevent intimacy. We're seeking these brief encounters where they're giving us intimacy in the moment but they're not fulfilling us on a deep level.

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