Talk:Public bathing
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[edit] Culture and Other Racial Topics Pertaining to Public Bathing
I know, I sound so racist, but I'm sure you know what I mean. I don't mean anything bad.
There are a lot of various origins of the American idea of "Public Bath," so the article is too disorganized. It's not a very, very important article, but it will be good to arrange public baths by origin more. So, put information on Turkish baths and other Byzantine-type in distinction. Put Medival and Western European/American in another distinction, emphasizing historical origins in a mostly historical context, since there isn't much to say about Medival bath houses. And incorrporate the sex-segregation and such into the American or modern area, so it doesn't bleed into historical information. And make distinction between Japanese and Western styles. I put some information based on Korean bath houses, but it's obvious that most of the non-Western is about Japan. Actually, a lot of stuff in the article is unnecessary or doesn't belong, and I saw there are articles for onsen and the like, so I don't know why there needs to be step by step instructions and things in this article, which I think should focus on the origins, impact, trends, and so on...
OK. So, if anyone likes to, organize more effectively by segregating the various "racial" origins. And the second segregation is by modern and historical: Byzantine and Medival are in historical and decline of public bath due to sex segregation. And the modern is about modern baths, which will change. For now, focus on Japanese, the spa sensation and health/wellness sensation (I supose it fits in, but I can be wrong), and any other issues that pertain. The sex segregation is also a good possibility that will be addressed in modern-mode and history-mode, no need to block information with bureaucracy... And so on. These are just my idea. If no one grossly objects, I will hopefully start organizing in the near future, possibly over the Thanksgiving weekend-off. I'm not often at wikipedia editing, but for some reason I want to share about public bath houses so much...
[edit] Biggest Bath
The biggest bath in the Roman Empire was the Baths of Diocletian not the Baths of Caracalla.
[edit] Changes
I tried to remove the POV parts of the article, as well as removing the redundant and reoganizing a bit. A lot of better quality information on public baths can be found in the linked articles.
