In the past few years, however, many of San Fran’s most popular clubs have closed their doors, including Mack Folsom Prison, The Brig and Playspace.
Other gay sex clubs soon began popping up around the city. The idea was that there would be less unprotected intercourse than in private cabins.
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The only real difference was that it didn’t have private cabins, just a series of large rooms where men could hookup in semi-public areas. In 1984, during the height of the AIDS crisis, San Francisco public health officials ordered all gay bathhouses be shutdown, claiming the businesses promoted unsafe sex. The city’s last bathhouse, 21st Street Baths, closed it’s doors for good in 1987. Eros opened a few years later, billing itself as a “sex club” rather than a bathhouse. A visit to Eros is a necessary rite of passage for any sexually-adventurous homosexual residing in (or just visiting) the city by the bay.īut how is it that the Castro, arguably the gayest neighborhood in the gayest city in the world, a place even rabbits have nothing on, boasts just one solitary gay sex club? Many an innocent lad has wandered into this two-floor sex palace after stumbling out of one of the nearby bars to navigate the dark, maze-like floor plan of bunk beds, massage parlors, and public play areas. Located on Market Street in San Francisco’s Castro neighborhood, Eros is one of the city’s last remaining gay sex clubs.
Eros, located at 2051 Market Street in San Francisco.