I cannot remember where, I read about a turkish bath being described as a place where you go and get covered in oil, and they scrape it off with these wooden blades, something you did when there was no water, to get “clean”.
Searching with Google, “turkish bath” seems to be pretty similar to Roman bath, three seperate large (12 ppl plus) hot, tepid, cold, and having nothing to do with oil, or scraping it off. So I have mis remembered or they mis-wrote. but now I want to know what that place was.
It was a raunchy story, about two ppl having sex in this place, lots of oil, and it happnned in like a large… pan, like, six feet by six feet with low sides 12" high, tiled, and 1" deep with some sort of oil.
I need to find a location like that for a photoshoot, but if I don’t know what it’s called, that makes it difficult. Can anyone offer any tips?
all over japan except now they are called soapland. Seems the turks found it offensive that these combo sauna/whorehouses were called “turkish baths” so the name got changed.
They do have Turkish baths, not too unlike Roman ones. In HMS Brilliant, a docu-show about life aboard a navy ship, the sailors visited a bathhouse in Turkey for a bath and a massage. The bath was fine, but Turkish masseurs are built like wrestlers and their massage is of a nature appropriate to this, involving lots of hearty smacks and twisting all limbs to the very limits of their movement. One matelot was heard to say that he could have got himself mugged in Portsmouth and it would have cost less and not hurt as much, and another was heard reciting his name, rank and serial number.
But it’s probably less punishing if you’re accustomed to it. And you probably feel immense relief the moment it’s all over.
