As a resident of Japan for 26 years, I used neighbourhood bathhouses in my student days and was never rejected.
As a result, "soaplands" (bathhouses where men are serviced by women) and "delivery health" (women dispatched to homes or hotels) are legitimate businesses.Mr West presents a judiciary that is sometimes out of step with the "sense of society" on which it regularly bases its rulings.
The show presents him as a master implementer; Mr Caro painted the young Moses as an artistic genius who made bathhouses rise from the dunes of Jones Beach.
The sex work industry has infiltrated the entire city, from hotels and bathhouses to hair salons and restaurants.
For example, there is a growing suspicion that the domestic stockmarkets' stellar performance reflects nothing more than market manipulation by a few dominant brokers (colluding naked in bathhouses, according to some reports, for fear of being bugged).
Mosques were blasted with rockets, ancient bathhouses ransacked and houses raked by machinegun fire.
Bathhouses and onsen (hot springs) usually forbid entry to tattoo wearers.
Half the traditional bathhouses in Qazvin, an industrial town west of Tehran, have closed in recent years.
The government has helped Himin to grow by requiring apartment buildings to be equipped with solar water heaters and by subsidising solar-heated bathhouses in villages.
It accepts gay marriages but not bathhouses.
His series of affectionate if disenchanted comments on married life, the theatre, the courts, concierges, musicians, painters, bluestockings, bathhouses, and children constitute as full a report on Paris in his time as Rembrandt's drawings were for 17th-century Amsterdam.
