The Minneapolis City Council is considering a proposal to bring back bathhouses where people can have sex. And it's provoking a wider conversation around stigma, criminalization, and community.
The proposal involves four related measures, introduced on March 26. They include plans to amend regulations for places "where sexual activity between consenting adults may be facilitated" and to update "provisions pertaining to indecent conduct and disorderly houses, adding exceptions for licensed establishments where sexual activity between consenting adults may be facilitated." (See here, here, here, and here for more.)
