So, yeah, I check out guys in the shower. And I’ve been known to do the flirting eye contact, smile routine as well, from time to time. I often question whether I’m being rude. Particularly when I try to initiate eye contact/smile, and it gets ignored, or a frown in response.
Yesterday, after lifting, the showers were a minor zoo. Usually there’s maybe 4 guys in there at once, this time there were more like 8 (with 20-25 shower heads). So, shower, sauna, some out of shape, wrinkly, white-haired guy “scratching” himself alot in the sauna, while looking at me. I suppose that’s kind of flattering, but this sauna is fairly crowded, this isn’t steamworks, and furthermore, it’s not that much farther/more expensive to go to steamworks instead. Not the right place for it*, and not someone I’d want to do anything with really, though I have no real objection to him doing whatever he wants with himself.
*=(I regard surreptitious masturbation in a not-specifically-queer gym (in fact, in this case, parents-and-kids-oriented gym) as a minor rudeness, while openly masturbating in the sauna of a not-specifically-queer gym would be really rude, almost certainly get him disapproving reactions, and probably get him tossed out if he continued it, like the way smoking ought to be, thank you CA)
Out to the shower. Scratchy guy relocates to the showerhead immediately adjacent to me. (note that currently makes 6 people to 20+ showerheads). Another guy comes out, starts a shower two heads down from me the other way, then moves to the one adjacent to me. A third guy showering half the room away, relocates to the shower directly across from mine. All of them (not in unison) start soaping up their dicks. One of them (across from me) is marginally attractive. Doing my best not to stare, and not to give any encouragement. Unfortunately one part of my anatomy is not cooperating. This is inspiring claustrophobia. Wrap towel around me, head to steam room. 4 seconds behind me are my adoring fans. Fortunately the steam room is less crowded, and they sit farther away.
Eventually they stop following me, my muscles are less tight/sore, I rinse off. Hey, pretty cute guy, eye contact, smile, reciprocation.
While I’m waiting for Ro out front to take me to board gaming, cute guy introduces himself and we exchange contact info.
Mmmmmm, ettiquette ambiguities, mmmmm.
Your life. ahh. I wouldn’t trade.
ditto
I’m not sure whether or not I would, actually. Still figuring that one out.
oh… my…
you’re the pied piper of the shower 😉
Now I have images of being chased naked by rats and little kids. <shudder> 😉
what are you packing in those pants to get such a following in the shower? 🙂
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may i add that your journal has become even more interesting than usual to read over the last several entries? yes, i may …
Yeah, it’s something I feel like I ought to figure out, and as long as I don’t examine it, don’t think about it, well, my sex life is going to unfold more according to habit than according to where I want it to go. Talking about it leaves me no choice but to examine it. If it happens to be tittilating in the process, well, that’s an added bonus. =)
Funny, that out of that whole ordeal, I would focus on this, but …
8 people, 25ish shower heads, and this is a minor zoo? That hardly seems crowded at ALL. Zoo-ness to me would seem like 20 people to 25 shower heads, or being very close to capacity.
*shrug* Just a comment/observation.
I actually counted yesterday when I went for a swim. 20 shower heads. There weren’t quite enough people that guys had to be showering immediately adjacent to one another. Probably more like 9 or 10 guys. It was a zoo only relative to its normal occupancy. “Minor” definitely applies.
The space between showerheads also definitely impinges on my concept of personal space, which seems to expand when I’m naked. =)
funny… almost sounds to me like your required personal space might diminish when you’re naked *grin*
if it actually, really bothers you (the infringement of your personal space), you could shower at home, but think about all your disappointed fans! 🙂
clearly you need to shower at the gym more often. i can’t say anything this interesting has happened for me at the rsf lately 🙁 i’m jealous!
Ah, but you have a warm, emotionally significant attachment with whom to share your bed most nights. That, I envy you. =)
It only expands by like 50% or so. An additional foot or so. But there are many advantages to showering at the gym, not the least of which being practical things like not having to choose between contaminating my street clothes with sweat, and walking home in my gym clothes. Visuals are nice, though.
how dirty is the gay mind? so, so dirty.
you get one guess as to what i initially thought you were speaking of when you said, “It only expands by like 50% or so. An additional foot or so.”
no wonder you have such adoring fans. 🙂
while openly masturbating in the sauna of a not-specifically-queer gym would be really rude, almost certainly get him disapproving reactions, and probably get him tossed out if he continued it
as opposed to tossed off….
*ducks rotten tomatoes*