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It's only open on weekends (sadly), Friday to Monday, and it will remain open, it seems, until the new owners come to evict.
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Scott Morris, owner of local porn company Factory Video (whose titles include Who's Load Is That? and Seed My Ass), is co-owner of The Brig along with porn star Nick Moretti, and he says the style of the place is meant to appeal to an older clientele, especially those who remember the bad old days of Folsom's original leather scene. that the new owners are likely looking to demolish the place and build some condos, and that's a shame, because he just installed a new row of glory holes. The owner of The Brig, which just underwent a renovation after its previous life as Playspace, tells the B.A.R. To support local, independent, LGBTQ journalism, consider becoming a BAR member.A two-month-old, jail-themed sex club at 960-962 Folsom, as well as the adult store downstairs from it, may have to close or move after the building they're housed in was just sold. Help keep the Bay Area Reporter going in these tough times. "People are happy we are open but they're also too timid to go out-and-about," Rowe said. To date, it has raised $5,270 of its $30,000 goal.
#GAY SEX CLUB SF UPDATE#
The Department of Public Health has until January 1 to update the city's health codes regarding adult sex venues so that the establishments are no longer restricted from having private rooms with locked doors for rent and need to police the sex their patrons engage in.Įros, which opened in 1992, has set up a GoFundMe page to help it survive the COVID-19 era, as so many other businesses have since shutdown orders were imposed in March. The same month, the San Francisco Board of Supervisors passed legislation that effectively re-legalizes bathhouses in city limits (which are legally distinguishable from sex clubs) after 36 years of restrictions imposed in an attempt to prevent the spread of HIV. Very shortly afterward the South of Market sex club BlowBuddies announced it, too, was shuttering. previously reported, San Jose's Watergarden - which survived the AIDS epidemic - announced in July it was shutting its doors for good. The COVID-19 pandemic has been devastating to gay America's bathhouses and sex clubs, echoing the steep decline in business and government closure orders they saw during the beginnings of the AIDS epidemic forty years ago. Across the Bay, in Berkeley, Steamworks Baths is still closed due to the pandemic, according to its website. It will continue to move forward depending on government regulations. The most we've had at one time is eight or 10."Įros is open every day, noon to 9 p.m. "That's much less than what gyms allow," Rowe said. There is a limit of a dozen visitors at a time, though the sex club has not seen that many since re-opening, Rowe told the B.A.R.
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Plexiglass has been installed at the front desk, Rowe said. Rowe said he has not been in touch with anyone specific at the city's health department regarding the club's operations.Īccording to its website, there are temperature checks required upon entering and updated cleaning protocols every hour. It has been open to customers since September 24. As restrictions for massage studios and gyms eased last month, the club decided to reopen following the rules as applicable to those types of venues, Rowe said. previously reported, Eros had closed March 16 due to the COVID-19 shelter-in-place orders.
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You're not allowed to touch."Īs the B.A.R. "Everyone has to wear masks and stay six feet apart. "We have no steamroom, shower, sauna or locker rooms," said Rowe. Closed since March due to the coronavirus pandemic, gay sex venue Eros on upper Market Street in San Francisco's Castro neighborhood has re-opened as a "jack-off club," its co-owner told the Bay Area Reporter.įor the time being, patrons are not allowed to physically interact with each other because of the health crisis, noted Ken Rowe in a phone interview October 14.