Multi-Purpose Facilities

There is a legal battle shaping up over whether nine Los Angeles bathhouses and sex clubs are subject to new regulations on "commercial sex venues."

We “are not commercial sex venues at all,” nine gay bathhouses and sex clubs said in a lawsuit filed March 3 against Los Angeles County.

“That’s a lie,” said Michael Weinstein, president of the AIDS Healthcare Foundation, who has been pushing county health officials to step up oversight over such businesses. “What are people going [there] to do? Play chess?”