You know you’ve hit the sweet spot in your bathhouse session when the dim lights illuminating the dank, sweaty environs start to blur and a foggy halo appears around them. This optical illusion ...

With four kids under the age of 7, Australian influencer Bronte Towns deserves an uninterrupted bubble bath. But as it turns out, she actually prefers family tub time. In a viral Instagram post titled ...

With four kids under the age of 7, Australian influencer Bronte Towns deserves an uninterrupted bubble bath. But as it turns out, she actually prefers family tub time. In a viral Instagram post titled ...

I wait in line, shivering, my skin beginning to resemble that of a plucked chicken. Glancing left, I see that several open, communal shower stalls lay empty, yet I stubbornly wait to enter a private ...

LONDON — When I received an invitation to a birthday party at a social sauna, my first thought was: "Do I have to be naked?!" The answer (thankfully) was no, although some sauna traditionalists would ...

For many centuries we have bathed in communal waters. Sometimes for cleanliness but more often for pleasure. Indeed, in ancient Greece, baths were taken in freshwater, or sometimes the sea — which was ...

Amid a decline in the number of public bathhouses – driven by ageing facilities, an equally ageing operator base, and a slow ...