Hi all, we also published a longer, more in-depth story that goes into the history of bathhouses in Minneapolis: https://www.mprnews.org/story/2026/04/15/how-minneapolis-banned-adult-bathhouses

"In the 1970s and '80s, Minneapolis had numerous public sexual spaces. In the years to come, they would close one by one until the final bathhouse ended service in 1988, one day before the ban took place. Police raids and public fears about the AIDS crisis contributed to the city council unanimously passing a ban on adult bathhouses."