Don't like any references to women in male only saunas? Then I suggest reading another story, regardless of how hot this first time bathhouse woman was.
There are two chapters, the first detailing what was left out in the first Mixed Bathhouse Ch. 1 story and this one concerning various thoughts, some more than a year old, before that first amazing visit.
Checking new bathhouses to visit less than a couple of hours away, I discovered one where the baths are open to absolutely anyone who wants to enter each Monday. At that point, exploring other options became unimportant. Unfortunately, it took over a year to finally arrange visiting. Finally, I arranged a half day visit. On the Sunday before visiting, at a sex site where I have been a member for over a decade, for the first time registering for an event. Becoming the third person to do so, the others being a single woman and a single man.
For me, the pure anonymity of the baths is part of what makes them so attractive, though this time was different. Having seen previous comments from other members about this place had been useful, and letting members know was a small but definite step in making more public my tastes and desires, something readers here already know.
Checking Monday morning before leaving, two other men had signed up, one roughly my age and bi, the other younger and straight. Which may or may not be accurate, as it turns out that the site categorized this bathhouse's mixed day as a swinger party. Considering that admission for a single man to visit a sex club is easily four times more expensive, possibly a straight man might not be aware that they were going to a bathhouse.
Or about as likely, he might be curious, with a mixed day providing the necessary excuse to pretend not actually being more interested in experimenting with other men. The reality is that married men are common at the baths, with the same logic applying to the glory holes at porn arcades. No one who gets hard in a booth before enjoying head at a glory hole cares that the person doing the sucking is a man. With the door closed, the incredible orgasm remains private in a way that allows an illusion, simply not needing to acknowledge you could not stop from orgasming in a man's skilled mouth. The baths are places where there is no pretense about what happens once inside, making it an easy step for a man used to glory holes to take.
Bathhouses and sex clubs are not really the same thing, even if my knowledge of sex clubs is purely second hand, from several sources. A good bathhouse is also a sauna, at a price that normally matches what a public mixed sauna costs, with the benefit of being an environment to participate in male only sex. Direct sex, being naked from the start, where it is quite possible to get head as soon as you start watching porn. This is a wonderful way to get hard, 5 minutes after entering the bathhouse, and maybe 1 minute since finishing your beer, unconcerned if anyone sees. Along with being more than happy when others join in, feeling another mouth on your cock.
Long term bathhouse visitors have likely had sexual encounters in pretty much every part of the sauna that is not clearly public. Areas not explicitly intended for sex that is, places where having sex in a group is a regular occurrence. Though swinger clubs also have darkrooms, they include much more, such as a dance floor. They generally serve a buffet at the start of the evening, and often, drinks are part of the entrance fee. Further, nudity is not common, unlike a sauna.
Sex, at least from what I have heard directly, is not necessarily something happening often at a sex club. Or at all when things go poorly. A mixed swinger's club seems to lack the pure experimentation of the baths, though such a club provides a much more social environment for everyone, something to be appreciated when wanting more than just sex. However, the baths are not a place where anyone needs to get to know anyone else before having mind blowing sex. In fact, generally quite the opposite, as the third mouth stretches over your cock, another man sucking your nipple as you passionately kiss a third man, the one who first went down on you, whose spit covered cock you are jacking.
That same observation about a potential lack of actual sex also apparently applied to the only place I saw advertised as a bathhouse for men and women. Reading reviews, the bathhouse aspect apparently was not occurring, because the sort of men that enjoy a reliable bathhouse experience did not visit, and the prospect of women brought visitors interested in women, not bathhouse sex. When I visited the city where it was located, I chose two bathhouses to visit, not having time to go to this experiment, in the clear description of the owner.
That explicitly mixed establishment started that way, having middling to poor success when reading about it after being open a half year. The reaction against women in bathhouses is surprisingly robust. Trying one day a week, with no restrictions at all, is a more interesting framework, as even a regular bathhouse visitor is likely to tolerate such a completely open attitude without thinking 'no women.' Inside a bathhouse, my intention is always to have sex, so having a real bathhouse atmosphere with or without women was a consideration. I like poppered oral sex, and would be bringing a new magic brown bottle, fully intending to share. The first partners I had used poppers with were women, making me thoroughly aware that women also love poppered sex.
Many straight men reflexively reject the idea of having sex with a man and woman equally. Using reasons that do not make particular sense to me, but the men holding them are never shy expressing their refusal to even consider MMF sex. On the other hand, any man who hears about a bathhouse having a day with women might consider that an acceptable way to satisfy curiosity about what sort of sex men can have among themselves.
Bisexual men certainly exist, but are not really a large market segment, since a male only environment is definitely not a barrier for bi men. Bathhouses don't allow women, and most sex clubs, most the time, don't allow men to have sex, so true MMF is pretty much unavailable in both places. That does not mean that MMF encounters could not happen in a sex club, but in contrast to the male freedom of the baths, likely this is a relatively rare occurrence.