Talk:Public bathing

message: I would just like to suggest that a stub be created for Baths and their album Cerulean. Not an unknown band. Highly reviewed on pitchfork and allmusic. Thanks.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.119.163.214 (talk) 23:45, 1 September 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  The Band: Baths 

message: bath·house  (bthhous, bäth-)
n.
1. A building with facilities for bathing.
2. A building with dressing rooms for swimmers.
As seen in the above dictionary definition for 'bathhouse', the term can refer to a building for changing into bathing costumes rather than a building for bathing.  This second meaning can apply to a private facility as well as a public one.  For example, the wealthy female patrons of Bailey's Beach in the late 19th century changed in and out of their bathing costumes (for wading into the ocean) in private bathhouses.  (Each family had their own bathhouse.)
Also, as can be read in the article on Volubilis, private bathhouses for bathing have existed since at least the mid-3rd century.
I suggest that the 'Public bathing' article be renamed 'Bathhouses' and add content to fully address both public and private bathhouses and bathhouses used for changing into bathing costumes as well those used for bathing.  An alternative would be to create a separate 'Bathhouse' article.  (Given the length and expansive scope of the 'Gay bathhouses' article, I believe that it should remain a separate article.)Penelope Gordon (talk) 19:59, 20 February 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Other meaning of bathhouse 

message: It currently seems a bit odd. On one hand, we try to divide the article up into "ancient" and "modern", but at the same time try to divide the article up by countries, like so:
    1.1 Indus Valley Civilization
    1.2 Ancient Greece
    1.3 Roman Empire
    1.4 Ottoman Empire
    1.5 Japan
    1.6 Indonesia
    1.7 Modern public bathing
        (Europe, during the middle ages and beyond)
        (Scandinavia)
        (UK and Ireland)
        1.7.1 Hot public baths
        (UK)
        (Sydney, Australia)
        (United States)
        1.7.2 Russia
It's not really linear although it kind of tries to be. It's broken up by cultures and civilizations. Instead of nesting that don't quite make sense, I suggest grouping by region as follows:
    * Indus Valley Civilization
    * Ancient Greece
    * Roman Empire
    * Europe, during the middle ages and beyond
    * Ottoman Empire
    * UK and Ireland
    * Sydney, Australia
    * United States
    * Scandinavia
    * Japan
    * Russia
--Makkachin (talk) 04:28, 28 June 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Article organization 

message: We have a new "Russian & Turkish Bathhouse" in the downtown area.  I didn't go in.  There is a $40 entrance fee for the entire day.  I figured I'd get water logged.  I was told it was like a spa.  Besides, I have a bathtub.  I was curious having thought bathhouses to be illegal.  I have seen the landmark here in NYC many times and the remnants of the ones on the water in San Francisco.  Although I never heard specifics, I understood there were reasons the government had shut them down.  There are not specifics here about the closing of the New York City one, nor were there specifics about the Roman ones, but I have heard allusions.  After all I have seen, heard and experienced in this neighborhood, in the context of this neighborhood when I see a bathhouse, I personally would associate the history of a bathhouse and my experience of this neighborhood and get an unfavorable opinion. However, that is merely an impression that I get.  I am truly unhappy here.  However, I must add I once accidentally rented an apartment and a room with only a shower, locally. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.108.157.26 (talk) 05:45, 18 July 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  New Bathhouse In New York City - Modern Public 

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message: The article covers nothing about where public bathing exists today, much less how common/popular it is in those places, or how it is done there, or anything else. The section on "Modern" public bathing, covers the early Middle Ages (far from Modern), to the early 1900s, and no further.
That makes no sense. 155.4.221.27 (talk) 01:04, 14 February 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: IMO we should just merge History with Modern public bathing. The history section is already full of contemporary information and there's almost no connecting thread between its subsections. small jars tc 10:53, 14 February 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: Full of contemporary information? No. It has a tiny mention, under the Japan section, and that's it. 155.4.221.27 (talk) 17:21, 14 February 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Why is this purely historical? Why nothing about Public baths/bathing, today?