Gay bathhouse safety

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As the late Randy Shilts wrote in his seminal history of the AIDS epidemic, And The Band Played On : "Promiscuity was rampant [in the bathhouses] because in an all-male subculture there was nobody to say 'no'--no moderating role like that a woman plays in the heterosexual milieu.

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