NYC Bathhouses: Safe Sex Allowed

"Being able to do this type of work in venues where people are
actually congregating is invaluable."

New York City's Prevention Planning Group endorsed changes to a state code that regulates sex clubs and bathhouses that would allow sex with condoms in those businesses and said that such businesses are "important sites for HIV/STD/harm reduction interventions."

With 29 members in favor, none opposed, and two abstaining, the 50-member group, which advises the city on HIV prevention initiatives, backed a proposal from the Commercial Sex Venues Coalition that wants to change the 1985 code from its current ban in businesses on oral, anal and vaginal sex, with or without a condom, to prohibitions that are "directed specifically towards unprotected sexual activity," a coalition briefing paper said.

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