The bathhouse is a place where emotional attachments of any variety become meaningless in a sea of sensation, sex being the overriding framework, without any barricade to having as much sex as possible. Creating, or giving in to, opportunities as irresistible as feeling a new mouth replace the one that was going down on you while being fingered. A glance that does not break off, a tentative light caress, or simply lounging with cock hard and legs spread, are all enough to lead to having sex with a stranger - possibly for the third or fourth time that day. Such pure freedom is incredible, understood by everyone there.
All of whom are men who have sex with other men, a major reason that such places are called gay saunas. That is not wrong, precisely, since a gay sauna is plainly understood to mean a sauna where men go to be completely uninhibited with each other. Other terms do not really hide that fundamental reality, but they do obscure it. Though group sex is equally available at a gay or male only sauna, male only sounds more restrained. Which is not the case as the men who go know, surrounded by other equally aware potential partners. Even a man that has not experienced bathhouse sex yet is nonetheless wanting to, potentially, on that first occasion.
Types of sex do not make you gay, as an opinion. I have only been fucked twice by a man, yet each time was far better than the several times a woman pegged me. For a combination of reasons, including that a real cock is better than any imitation, and that men understand what fucking means. The strangers I have fucked would agree that a man knows best when it comes to riding a hot tight hole, pumping it with a hard cock. Being fucked is fantastic, something that takes a man to do properly. A conclusion that becomes more encompassing when discovering just how amazing men are as partners.
The baths allow men to enjoy sex without restraints, taking advantage of all possibilities that arise. Along with creating those possibilities, knowing that other men are easily tempted in a place where sex is openly available. Men and women are different, something apparent from the fact that there is nothing like gay saunas for women.
I have no personal experience of swinger clubs, though I do know swingers. According to them, not only are there normally couples, but that the man is generally controlling what his female partner does. Though part of this may also be all the single male attention easily becomes pestering at the swing clubs they have visited. Not all swinger places or events even allow single men, to avoid this problem.
A problem that does not exist at the baths, where there are no couples for long in the first place. Male couples that go to the baths share the same fundamental interest, which is having sex with multiple strangers. This is also the fundamental reason why pestering is quite rare, as finding partners is as simple as getting hard watching gay porn, or watching men have sex in front of you before joining in. Conceivably, individual repeat visitors may have never sucked another man, or been fucked. Quite possibly there are also visitors who have never fucked another man, even after attempts to use tempt their hard cock to slide past a ring of incredibly soft yielding flesh. But basically no visitor has not gotten head from another man - and it is fantastic.
Cock sucking is central to what happens at the baths, leading to all sorts of further pleasures. A spit covered cock feels so good rubbing against another man's. Or sliding over the soft yielding hole of the man that has just been going down on you, preparing another cock to slide into paradise. 69 with a stranger is also extraordinary, mouths and cocks merging gloriously - especially when using poppers. Cock sucking has an universal appeal, as broad as men would expect, even if women might not. At the baths, it is very rare to find someone who is not an enthusiastic cock sucker.
After enjoying hundreds of blow jobs while at the baths, the joke that the best blow job in the world is the one you are getting right now is quite provably true. There has not been a single man who hasn't taken all of my pumping hot cum, even before leaving my cock uncovered. None have let my orgasming cock leave their mouth until nothing is left to taste. Oral sex is the foundation on which most of the bathhouse's pleasures are built, and there has never been a visit I have made without any oral sex occurring.
Obviously every man who went down on me wanted to. The same being true of every man I have gone down on. Still, that number does not have a 1 to 1 correspondence. Certainly there are men who made me cum so good in their mouths without my mouth ever sliding down their shaft, and undoubtedly men I have sucked who did not go down on me before or after their blow job.
This is one reason it can be difficult to say anything much beyond noting that the baths are places where men have sex with men. Everyone inside the baths knows why they are there. Getting lusciously sucked is easy, being done by a partner, or partners, wanting to go down on sexy cock. I assume that most visitors are more than aware of how hot it is to suck cock, but it is not a requirement for enjoying strangers going down on you. A fact that is undoubtedly appreciated by those men whose wives or girlfriends never go down on them, but who love getting head. Especially the way the sensations of getting harder as lips slide down your shaft drown a mind in growing pleasure, which is too exquisite to pass up enjoying because a woman is not interested in cock sucking.
The baths provide a setting that is a true contrast to adult bookstores or porn theaters. Oral sex is quite available at both places, to a greater or lesser extent. Yet not so openly as at the baths, where nudity is the norm. Where watching men have sex is not hidden. The men in front of you in a steam room are likely getting off on being watched, kissing and grinding in front of horny strangers. And they are likely to enjoy watching you stroke in front of them. Often reaching out to make their desire to include you perfectly explicit, or just one bending down to slide soft lips down your willing shaft. This open mutual awareness is a massive turn-on. Being a voyeur and an exhibitionist is quite appealing, particularly when among so many other exhibitionists and voyeurs.
This is a major difference to a gloryhole, where you can at least pretend the sex is hidden. Even if everyone knows what happens between the booths, the contact is fantastically focused. At the baths, even the most shy discover what a delight having hot sex in a public space is. Being naked cock to cock is pure male sex, fantastically so, each man knowing exactly how the other is feeling, grinding in a most public display of affection. When pre-cum starts to spread, its effect is entrancing magic, utterly seductive as the sensations take total control. A twosome can become a threesome or moresome when getting off in the public spaces of a bathhouse, definitely including booths with the door left open as two men play. Nothing is secret, being sucked with another man at the same time by a kneeling stranger while watching hot porn, or doing the sucking as they kiss above you, is never really a surprise, everyone enjoying the freedom to get off.
Once you discover a place like this, there is no reason to keep from returning. The desire to return grows steadily between visits, especially when starting to stroke and wanting to be sucked off as you get hard. Remembering getting deepthroated by strangers, delighted to have your horny available length in their wet soft mouths. Of course there is much more to enjoy than just head, and once hard, it becomes delightful to surrender to curiosity when surrounded by equally aroused men.