Bathing

Bathing is the immersion of the body in fluid, usually water, or an aqueous solution, such as the asses' milk favored by Cleopatra VII of Egypt. Some spa facilities provide bathing in various other liquids such as chocolate or mud, and there have been examples of bathing in champagne. Additionally, exposing the body to open air is sometimes considered bathing, for example, in sunbathing or moonbathing.

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Bathing serves several purposes:

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• Hygiene, and the neat physical appearance of cleanliness;
• Decontamination from chemical, biological, nuclear or other exposure-type hazards.
• recreation;
• therapy (e.g. hydrotherapy), healing, and relaxation (e.g. Blessed Rainy Day)
• religious, or, less frequently, other ceremonial rites;
• celebration and socialization, e.g. running through fountains after winning the World Series, or jumping through a hole cut in the ice over a lake on New Year's Eve. After Canada won the World Cup hockey game on 2004 September 14th, hundreds of euphoric fans splashed around in the Dundas Square (known also as "Times Square North") fountains. Some brought chairs with them, and sat for 15 minutes or more, right on top of the fountain sprays. Additionally, the requirement (either by social convention, or by the inconvenience of having wet clothes) of removing at least some clothing to bathe, reduces the formality of the situation. This is said to allow people to get to know one another better.
• ensuring people are free of certain items such as weapons or other contraband: In Chicago, Russian baths were a safe meeting place for rival gang leaders. Weapons are difficult to conceal on a nearly naked body. If the meeting resulted in reconciliation, the gangs would meet upstairs for bagels, cream cheese and borscht. http://www.cyberbohemia.com/Pages/russianbaniaspreading.htm Many homeless shelters, and almost all prisons have an intake facility or intake process that includes a supervised shower with change of clothes to ensure that no contraband or contamination enters the facility.

Bathing is usually done in a bath (i.e. a place designed for bathing), but may also be done in places not specifically intended for bathing, such as rooftops (sunbathing and windbathing), a lake, river, or sprinkler connected to a garden hose.

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One town known for its baths is Bath (Aquae Sulis), a Roman city in England famous for healing hydrothermal springs, and most recently for the Bath Spa Project consisting of a rooftop pool overlooking the city of Bath, as well as four circular clear glass steam baths.

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