From: Mark Mitchell <mark.mitchell@...>
Subject: [Yorkhall] Contact details for York Hall & Free July 08 Open day offer
To: Yorkhall@...
Date: Monday, 30 June, 2008, 4:09 PM

Martin,

or anyone else who wants to call the management and point out that
they could increase the BOS numbers they obviously so badly need by
scheduling single sex days where nudity and body rubs were
permitted. Say 1 day a week male, 1 female.

This group has 167 members who would take up the offer and there are
hundreds more that haven't joined the group but would be interested.

Here are the contact details :-

5-15 Old Ford Road
Bethnal Green
London

E2 9PJ

Tel: 020 8980 2243
Email: james.bowden@ gll.org

http://www.gll. org/centre/ york-hall- leisure-centre. asp

Please let the group know about how you got on.

Best Regards Mark

PS

Service Update (from the gll website)

All London Borough of Tower Hamlets Leisure Centre's are running 4 FREE open days from Friday 4 July until Monday 7 July. Enjoy programmed activities and sessions for FREE. Please view centre news for more information
http://www.gll. org/centre/ york-hall- leisure-centre. asp

--- In Yorkhall@yahoogroup s.co.uk, martin dowland
<martindowland@ ...> wrote:
>
> puritanical  and hypocritical I think! Wearing clothes in a bath
is perverse.
> I am also sick of  gays ruining any male space there is by
arrogantly thinking it is theirs to wank at each other in.
> Thereby driving other users away.
> The Draconian thing of seeing there is a problem with literal
wankers, and rather than just doing what is done elsewhere in Europe
and just banning wanking, no you suddenly have to wear clothes.
>  
> I object to the clothes wearing because it implies that men
together is the same as men and women together and thus it is
impossible for men to chill out together without having sexual
tension.
> Yes, I would take up the York Hall case, I would point to places
elsewhere in Europeand not some diktat from the Taliban,
fundamentalist Muslims or Americans who are still on the Mayflower.
> York Hall was a great institution, it was a great male chill out
space where men could really relax. The exception was when there
were a bunch of pervs wanking at each other to spoil it.
> They still go there to do this, I guess,. Many of them were the
minority wearing clothes anyway.
> There is a bloke at the Oasis who single handedly has ruined the
sauna there by making it into some sort of a brothel.
>  I would support any move to introduce serious penalties for
those found abusing the freedom of a sauna.
>
> --- On Mon, 30/6/08, Mark Mitchell <mark.mitchell@ ...> wrote:
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> From: Mark Mitchell <mark.mitchell@ ...>
> Subject: [Yorkhall] Re: New Turkish Baths in Philadelphia
> To: Yorkhall@yahoogroup s.co.uk
> Date: Monday, 30 June, 2008, 3:09 PM
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> Martin,
>
> Not sure why you say they have an issue with gays - the bathing
> suits are there because it's mixed & it's in the puritanical US
> rather than Germany/Austria/ Switzerland.
>
> I suspect that if they thought that by having single sex days they
> could get more Bottoms on Seats (BOS) without driving away the
> existing straight cliental they probably would.
>
> Anyone up to moving the York Hall situation on?
>
> I have lost interest in it to be honest but if anyone has the
> energy/time/ inclination an approach would be to call the
management
> and point out that they could increase the BOS numbers they
> obviously so badly need by scheduling single sex days where nudity
> and body rubs were permitted. Say 1 day a week male, 1 female.
>
> This group has 167 members who would take up the offer and there
are
> hundreds more that haven't joined the group but would be
interested.
>
> Anyone feel like taking on the job or has another approach?
>
> Mark
>
> PS: I thought not :(
>
> --- In Yorkhall@yahoogroup s.co.uk, martin dowland
> <martindowland@ ...> wrote:
> >
> > that is all very well, but why are people wearing 'bathing
suits'?
> On this account, ti suggests some phobia or draconian fear of
> homosexuality which cannot be respected so, no thanks.
> >
> > --- On Mon, 30/6/08, Chris J Brady <chrisjbrady@ ...> wrote:
> >
> > From: Chris J Brady <chrisjbrady@ ...>
> > Subject: [Yorkhall] New Turkish Baths in Philadelphia
> > To: "York Hall" <yorkhall@yahoogrou p s.co.uk>
> > Cc: "Malcolm Shifrin" <malcolm@ >
> > Date: Monday, 30 June, 2008, 11:17 AM
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> > Makes the new York Hall look amateurish.
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