Naked Gyms Coming To London, Sydney, NYC. Aren’t Those Called Bathhouses?
If one of your new year’s resolutions is to hit the gym more often, you might have an interesting new option in 2012.
Aussilicious blogger Brenton has shared some details about an alleged chain of clothing-optional gyms for men, set to open later this year.
A while back I posted about a rumour I’d heard that someone was starting a chain of clothing optional gyms. Some of you expressed concern about hygiene. To be honest, it should be no different to a regular gym. You have to work out with a towel on the equipment already so it will be no less safe.
Well I can now report a bit more information. I’ve been in touch with the guy who is opening the gyms. They are men only gyms as he felt like women had women only space but we don’t so it was a gap in the market. I haven’t had any full details yet whether it will be clothing optional times or separate clothed and nude areas.
What I do know is that the website will be up early in the new year and gyms are already close to opening in New York, London and here in Australia. I can’t wait. It will be interesting to see what the market will be like and the public response but I do know that I’ll be giving it a go!
How would a place with showers, workout equipment and naked dudes be any different than, say, the West Side Club or Steamworks?
And even if people really went to a nudist gym just to work out, we’re not sure we’d find the aesthetics all that pleasing. You really want to be standing behind someone doing squat thrusts with no pants on?
Don’t answer that. Or rather, do—in the comments.
Source: Aussielicious.com via Fleshbot (NSFW)
Oh, please, I can’t imagine any half-decent looking guys going there. No half-decent looking guy would want to be perved on by some skinny twink wielding a small towel and pretending to be interested in doing shoulder presses.
Also, can you imagine the streaks they’ll leave behind on the bench presses? Please don’t serve curry.
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I fail to see how this will be any different than the gyms at steamworks. Around here, they day pass is $8 for 4 hours of access. The only thing i can think of is legal issues. They may be able to get this built out in places that ban or make it too difficult to have a bathhouse. Have it classified as a gym instead.
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and the last station after the universal and bench and leg lifts could be a thrust station
where bottoms and tops could take their turns and do their final excercise of the day
but then that would require a drain and flush kit which in NYC would probably add $230,000
to the build out so that’s a no go. oh well
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@chiDan: I thought bathhouses were already illegal?
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@Dale..why did you tell me that. I was just remembering http://scottmadsen.tripod.com/
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Shannon1981 wrote, “I thought bathhouses were already illegal?” They aren’t in general, although some cities have banned them, or at least made life uncomfortable enough for the owners that the businesses shut down.
There are none in San Francisco (those were closed due to public health concerns near the start of the AIDS epidemic) but there is one in Berkeley called “Steamworks” and another in San Jose called “The Water Garden”. They are fairly well known – including by gays who would never go into one. Ironically, the religious nuts still rant about San Francisco bathhouses and the perversions that go on inside.
Curiously, San Francisco did not shut down sex clubs, but they do have to operate under specific rules – for example, no private rooms so that people can be monitored to make sure they use condoms, etc.
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No thanks, too many people come to the gym sleeveless stinking of BO and think nothing of it. I’ve overheard queens brag about not believing in deodorant while stinking up the gym floor. I don’t mind the smell of clean sweat but these queens evidently don’t believe in daily bathing either.
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So the people we never want to see naked will be naked all the time??….It’s ok as long as they leave my gym to do it….
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The word gymnasium is the latinisation of the Greek noun ????????? (gymnasion), “gymnastic school”, in pl. “bodily exercises” and generally “school”[2] which in turn is derived from the common Greek adjective ?????? (gymnos) meaning “naked”,[3] by way of the related verb ??????? (gymnazo), whose meaning is “to train naked”, “train in gymnastic exercise”, generally “to train, to exercise”. (wikipedia)
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One plus of a clothing optional gym is not having to think about what to wear. All the guys at my gym have stellar bodies and they invest as much time and money in their gym outfits as they do in what they’ll wear to a club.
Also, some guys might go their just to avoid having women around.
Just because you don’t have to wear clothes there, doesn’t mean that everyone will go bareassed. In the locker room, lots of guys cover with towels and do the whole underwear on under the towel to keep from unveiling their junk.
My big question: Will the trainers be sans clothes? If so, I’m down for at least a trial membership.
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Three comments: 1. If you don’t like it, Don’t Fcuking go!! It’s as simple as that! Then if you see someone you don’t like the look of, don’t look, FFS do I need to spell it out!!
I think this is an awesome idea! Men should be proud of their bodies and show all they have to offer, if it encourages sex, then all the better! HOT! HOT! HOT!
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Looking into the hairy abyss of my neighboring workout partner would be one thing, sure, but I’m not thinking I would enjoy working out. Period. Even on my own I prefer throwing something on over me to make the process more comfortable.