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Bathhouses are wholly designed to facilitate anonymous sex–sex as a purely physical perform, without context, past, or future. But the most anonymous areas of all are the “maze” and the “glory hole” booths. The maze is completely black, a tangle of paths and dead ends defined by vertical sheets of darkly painted plywood where men grope until they find one or more receptive bodies. The booths are paired and separated by plywood through which fist-sized holes possess been cut at hip level. Men manage to have not just oral but also anal sex through these holes, guaranteeing that each hasn’t the slightest idea with whom he is copulating. With the act of sex stripped to its crucial physical steps, it is easy–and quite common–for patrons to have sexual contact with several men in a single visit.

Even beyond their physical designs, baths influence their patrons’ behavior by maintaining certain clear-cut rules. “Most bathhouse cruising is non-verbal,” advises a bathhouse Web site, which also makes it clear that “most of the time you don’t learn each other’s names.” “Conversations in the orgy