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🗣️ NYC’s ‘sex spa’ is grossing people out, The New York Post (2016)
Two Fridays ago, my friend and I took advantage of our last “summer Friday” (aka the NYC custom of having a half day at work between Memorial Day and Labor Day to go to the Hamptons or whatever) to go to the spa. I boarded the F train to trek an hour into Brooklyn to visit WORLD SPA, which was no better or worse than you’d expect. Later that day, I went on a date with a person who was under the impression that this particular spot was actually known to be a sex spa. A sex spa!! This was tittilating and horrifying (what effluvia might I have been soaking in?), but thankfully my research availed no such information. I did, however, uncover a New York Post article that was genuinely one of the most entertaining things I’ve read in weeks (sorry, tender Substack authors). The article is a classic NYP shitshow and the scenarios it describes are trashy heaven. Some prime sentences:
“During two recent visits, The Post found patrons in their birthday suits, groping each other, making out and having what appeared to be underwater sex.”
“In the outdoor pool I would see lots of girls sitting on guys’ laps and they would be bobbing up and down. It was pretty obvious they were having sex. I’ve also seen guys rubbing one out the wet way.”
“When the guy came out of the pool, he had the biggest erection I had ever seen.”
“I think all the alcohol that they serve there makes people more sexual.”
What a romp! Run, don’t walk to read it.