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Embattled NYC spa’s lawyer rejects viral UTI-from-pool claim —suggests ‘whistleblower’ got it from romantic exploits they posted about

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A lawyer for Bathhouse wrote to a customer who complained online about a UTI to say that they’d likely got it from sex rather than spas.William Farrington

Hoist on their own pee tract!

A hipster customer helped cause an uproar that spread across the internet and into the mainstream press last month after claiming on social media that they got a UTI from a scene-y Williamsburg spa.

But after digging into the matter, an attorney for the spa had a urethra eureka moment: he concluded that the influencer may have got the affliction not from a relaxing dip but from “other activities.”

There was something of a virtual pile-on last month after a number of influencers and other online commenters claimed to have had unsavory experiences at low-lit retreat Bathhouse in the trendy Brooklyn neighborhood.

New York Magazine’s Curbed blog picked up the story, as did the New York Post. (The spa has rigorously denied all the allegations, and says that multiple routine and special visits from the New York City Department of Health have found no irregularities).

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The spa was hit by a string of online allegations, and fired off legal letters to a number of commenters.Adrian Gaut

The spa fired off a number of legal letters to various people with inflamed tempers (some with allegedly inflamed other bits, too) who had made the incendiary posts.

But one contained a rather pinkeye-catching detail.

Attorney Adam P. Gilbert Esq., senior counsel at the firm of Nixon Peabody LLP, discovered that the same account that was used to complain about the alleged UTI was also used to crowdsource advice on a vexing sexual relationship they were in, with somewhat graphic depictions of their intercourse.

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One customer claimed she got an infection from a pool.Bathhouse/Instagram

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