Contact sauna
A contact sauna , often also referred to as a sauna club , combines the use of a sauna with the initiation or implementation of sexual contacts . The term is mainly used for saunas used by heterosexuals ; The naming and usage behavior of the so-called gay saunas differ in some points.
In some contact saunas there are freelance prostitutes , in some they are employed (then they are colloquially called brothel saunas). Contact saunas are also visited by people without financial interests.
history
Sexual contacts are already suspected in the baths of Roman times. That put u. a. Frescoes from ancient Pompeii that adorned the walls of the public thermal baths with erotic images. Sexual exchange in medieval bathhouses was generally tolerated as a human need. In the literature, for cities with a pronounced spa culture such as Budapest or Istanbul, reports of sexual contact in steam baths are increasing. Even then, such places harbored the risk of unwanted pregnancy or infection with sexually transmitted diseases . This is why many contact saunas today support safer sex practices by providing condoms.
Web links
- For the classification of contact saunas under building law , Stuttgart Administrative Court