but overall it was a wonderful experience, and gave me a deep and rich appreciation for the complexity of that cross-section of society which constitutes "men having sex with men."
There were men of all types -- skinny, fat, ugly, pretty, old, young, married, out, poor, rich, urban, rural, etc -- and this sheer diversity never ceased to amaze me.
So, yeah, I love bathhouse sex, but I also think such places can be profound crossroads of social classes, races, identities, etc -- crossroads that exist nowhere else but in the free expression of queer sexuality.