Today, baths serve to fulfill the activity of self-cleaning in a private manner. Most people in North America have the luxury of having their own bathroom in their residences, a bathroom that they don’t have to share with anyone but perhaps close family members living in the house. Can you imagine that not so long ago, on the other side of the ocean, baths were a public activity, shared by the people of an entire community, as a way of cleaning but mostly a way of socializing and interacting with one another.

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