Bath: nudity, hygiene, communication

The paper discusses the basic laws of communicative preferences formation of public baths visitors as well as the features of the perception of a heterotopic bath space in the public consciousness of various eras and parts of the inhabited space. It was established that at different times baths served not only to maintain the purity of the body, but also acted as a space intended for the formation and preservation of social roles. In addition to its basic functions - cleansing and sanative - the bath combines a lot of other ones, communicative, relaxational, and recreational.