In the past we’ve shared myths about gay guys in the locker room, but even then we were up front that sometimes things are exactly as they appear to be. No, all guys aren’t constantly checking each other out, but we’d be kidding ourselves if we thought it didn’t happen. And that’s just a tame introduction.
Which is all fine and well — gotta keep our edge, right?
Just in time for the big game, we asked Whisper to mine their data for some salacious locker room confessions. We certainly weren’t disappointed with what they found.
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Tackle
But most of the guys, who take showers, and go into the steam and sauna rooms at my gym, (body wise) look nothing like those guys in the pics.
jason smeds
You shouldn’t have sex in a locker room. It’s a public space. Learn to control your sex drive.
Stevenw
The guy who takes ‘secret pictures’ is a creepy SOB who lets down the entire community.
Large Marge
@Stevenw: that KID is a kid… it’s probably the only access he has.. otherwise he’d be getting it on the internet… most gym classes don’t have people get ‘naked’ either.
Desert Boy
The gym — or more precisely, the men in the gym, is a gay, male zeitgeist. Nothing like getting head in the shower after a workout. The act makes the experience complete.
Captain Obvious
@Large Marge: Actually there are a lot of grown men who do it, just look at the many blogs where they post their “finds”. It’s extremely creepy.
There are plenty of places with actual gay guys. Not sure why some feel the need to take pics of some random guy on the subway.
Scribe38
@Stevenw: Agreed don’t film me without my knowledge. Creepy as f*ck. I couldn’t imagine sitting down at the lap top for some “personal time” and finding a nude pic of myself from the gym.
Merv
At the gym I used to go to, people wore towels most of the time when walking around, but might take it off when in the sauna or steam room. One of the exceptions was this guy who had an enormous penis. Just huge. I can’t really blame him for showing off. If I were hung like that, I might want to show it off, too.
Paco
I always avoid the locker room at the gym. The straight guys aren’t the reason why.
dave lopes
This is creepy.
Grown azz man not knowing how to behave in a public place.
jwtraveler
So what we learn from this is that gay men like looking at attractive naked men in the locker room. What a shock!
Arcamenel
Doesn’t this confirm what every homophobe believes would happen if gays were out on sports teams? lol
Also I hope the guy taking creep shots gets caught and his ass whooped. That’s really disgusting.
Stache99
At the 24 fitness in West Hollywood they used to post signs near the sauna that sex was not allowed. The steam room was especially bad. You’d have actual orgies going on in there.
barkomatic
The problem with the guy taking the secret pics is that they will end up on the Internet, possibly to be discovered by the subjects coworkers/boss/family. It could potentially have a serious impact on that guys life based upon assumptions made that he may have posed for the pics. Say the guy was a kindergarten teacher–I could easily see him being fired. All because some brat snapped a pic in a place where men have a reasonable expectation of privacy.
bklynboy11209
I have been going to my current gym for 2 years. In all that time, I’ve seen 2 men completely naked, both of whom were 65-70 years old. Everyone else, WHEN they take a shower (most don’t) walk to the showers either in their towels while wearing their underwear or just in their underwear and t-shirts. The showers are individual stall showers, they hang the towel and underwear over the frosted glass door, dry off in the shower, put the underwear back on, go back to the locker and finish dressing.
There is no stream room or sauna at my gym.
The locker room is more like high school gym class, where no one ever got naked.
For the record, I go to the gym to work out, not look at naked men, I go to nude beaches for that.
DarkZephyr
Woohoo! I just love when Queerty helps to perpetuate stereotypes that homophobes are always screaming about to excuse their bigotry! 😀 Not.
EdWoody
Oh, stop clutching your pearls. Put a group of naked men in a room together, and things are going to happen. You can say it shouldn’t happen as much as you want, it’s still going to happen. There’s not a force in nature that’s going to stop it, because it IS nature. Men’s nature.
Straight men would do exactly the same if they could. In fact a lot of them do – do you think every man jerking off in the sauna or letting a random suck their dick is 100% gay? Of course they’re not. They just know where they can get a good no-strings blow job and then go home to the girlfriend.
As long as everything is consensual and not in view of anyone who shouldn’t see it, I see no problem with it. And even I did have a problem, it wouldn’t matter because like I said, nothing you or I or anyone else can do will ever stop it from happening.
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rand503
I have a straight friend who is half italian and half Austrian and hot as hell. He has a huge dick and big balls and knows it. David loves wearing jockstraps and gets off on guys who like to smell his crotch, used jockstrap and underwear. He goes to another gym, but he tells me he loves parading around the gym in a tight jockstrap hard or semi hard just to see all the straight guys check him out. Some of these gym buddies will hang around his locker just to watch him strip, and he knows that but loves it too. YEs, he s married and has no interest in sex with men, but with some convincing, he will let a guy suck him off.
Whats funny is that he is convinced a lot of straight guys are just like him, and a lot of straight guys would love to smell his crotch or even taste his cum. Ive told him he is right,and he really wishes more men would admit they like this stuff, especially since women dont get it and think a smelly jockstrap is gross.
jason smeds
No wonder the NFL players don’t want openly homosexual guys in the NFL. Their fear of homosexual men ogling them in the locker room is confirmed by articles like this.
Face it – it is homosexual men who contribute to homophobia with their appalling public behavior.
Ridpathos
While I do enjoy seeing naked guys at the gym, it’s more for the novelty of it. Growing up, I never saw any naked guys besides myself. The only guy I really see naked now is my boyfriend, and the guys I see on porn. It’s kind of fun to look at guys in real life and realize they have naked sides to them too.
Though I’ve yet to see a really hot guy get naked at the gym, and I’m not about to be trolling down to the showers or the sauna just to check them out. That’s just creepy.
But I mostly see old-ish, too skinny/too overweight guys.
rand503
@jason smeds: sorry Jason, but the straight guys are already oogling everyone in the locker room. If it bothers you, stay out of the locker room.
spiffy
Whisper really should rename their app, call it “Fantasy” or “Wishful Thinking” — because I don’t believe half of the stuff that are posted, this topic or others. Being anonymous, people can say whatever, including outright lies. Who’s going to check?
Zenguy
Don’t generalize. Straight men, as well gay men, can appreciate a good looking guy. So not every straight guy lives in fear if some gay guy ogling them. Most will take that as a compliment, not a threat to their manhood.
And don’t marginalize ogling behavior as man on man. Men do it women, and women do it to men. How is it any different?
D P
@EdWoody: – Your response is the most on-point observation here. *But*, it’s still fun to have the superficial, too.
@Stache99: – I remember that.
Clark35
@jason smeds: Exactly. The guy that secretly films or takes pics of guys is a creep and gives all gay men and LGBT people a bad name.@dave lopes: Indeed it is creepy.
Clark35
@Stache99: Gross. I don’t care who you are, a gym or locker room is not the type of place to be having sex. Seriously if grown adult men get that horny and want to have sex with strangers go online, or go to a public sex club or bath house, and don’t go to a gym or gym locker room.
Not all gyms geared towards bi and gay men are like that. I know a guy who managed a gym for bi and gay men in a major city for a decade, and they didn’t allow sex at the gym, or in the locker rooms at all.
mgkbus
@EdWoody: Anyone who makes a reference to my pearls is worth a vote in my book. What a bunch of prigs. I’ve seen some of the most facinating men in dark parts of bars all over the globe and I never once thought about my image and the image of gay men from our actions. Trust me, it didn’t come up.
What did happen were some of the best conversations of my life, in various languages. Really.
Brendan
The first one seems like a fantasy, not a reality. I mean, I even saw that in a porn featuring Johnny Rapid… nice try though.
likearolingston
I go to the gym because I want to look good naked. I want to be healthy and in shape. And because intense physical exercise allows me to dissociate from stress and the pressures of everyday life.
What I cannot stand is the cruising locker room creep. It is true that a small side benefit to going to the gym is the occasional glance at some lovely, healthy body (“eye candy”). This is a small pleasure, and one that vanishes if treated as more than it is (eye candy). When a person crosses the line, they become a creep. They ruin the gym as a temple, a comfortable place of relaxation for straight men (who I fear will think we are all like this), and for gay men (disrupting their place of peace and shelter). And it is almost always the case that these creeps are gross, out-of-shape fat uggos. Perhaps if they spent a little time actually working out, rather than loitering in the sauna (*&#*W^#(&#^@&!!!!!), they might be able to have meaningful personal connections with other people. Perhaps even meet a boyfriend.
Creeps, back the fuck off, and find a bathhouse: you are not entitled to sexually interact with me.
This concludes today’s rant.
Rude Drew
Its funny because when I played sports in high school all my team mates all acted really gay. Always talking about each other’s dicks and grabbing each other’s asses. Me being the only guy that was secretly into it had – acted like i wasn’t just to avoid any accusations. It was pretty hot though. I like the big corporate gyms that I’m members wih (LA and 24) they do a pretty good job at closing the steam rooms before it gets too late and making them co-Ed to cut down on nasty gay dudes trying to fuck each other. Honestly have some fucking respect. Get on grindr or jackd if you want to fuck strangers. I just want to work out and use the steam room sauna without creepy gay dudes messing around, taking pictures or staring unnecessarily long…
ric
Not to sound or seem prudish. but the gym is for working out. And getting and keeping in shape. If you want some dick. GO to the nearest bathhouse. It’s that simple.
Bad Ass Biker
I see more naked men at my gym than I do at the bath house. Almost everyone at the bath house wears a towel while the men at the gym just parade around stark naked. Sadly, nothing much of interest to see there.
Boricuaex
Some of the best sex goes down at a gym locker room. Or so my friends tell me 🙂
SouthwestSun
@Zenguy: Now, more than before, I think you’re right.
SouthwestSun
People should be allowed to have sex in saunas and locker rooms. Sex is a normal part of the human experience. Society just doesn’t want to accept that.
GayMafiaKingpin
@Large Marge: What makes you think the guy who said that is a kid? There nothing in the confession to indicate that. Just curious.
dave lopes
There is nothing wrong with looking at a beautiful body. I am gay i appreciate and acknowledge a woman’s beauty or her physical shape.
Society allows women to admire and compliment each other, but not men.
Engaging in sex in a public place designated for another purpose, in this case working out is unacceptable.
dave lopes
And one more thing, STRAIGHT guys do not get their d-ck sucked by another man while their girl is at home or away. STRAIGHT guys get it done by other women.
When was the last time you heard of GAY guys getting their d-ck sucked by women while their boyfriends were at home or away.
The straight identified guys having sex with men and women are bisexual not STRAIGHT.
polarisfashion
I have never felt comfortable in a locker room. This article does not help me with my phobia. I will continue to exercise in the comfort of my own home.
Random
Reading through these comments, it’s interesting that no one has really talked about how THEY enjoy being on the receiving end of attention at the gym, which I think tells us quite a lot about how most people feel about being objectified.
Just because someone is (semi)naked in your presence, doesn’t mean you’re entitled to treat them as your personal object of lust because, well, that is pretty douche-y, and not really any different to the straight men that think it’s OK to cat-call a woman in the street just because she’s wearing a short skirt and think she looks ‘hot’.
cflekken
My gyms’ locker room only had pruned old fucks getting naked. The truly hot guys rarely get naked.
o.codone
a really hot guy at the gym, i thought it was a bad idea to suck that (monster) baby in the gym, so i invited him to my house. at home he was so bizarre, so posturing, almost threatening, i should have just sucked him dry in the steam room and saved myself the hassle. seriously.
Random
@cflekken: Maybe the ‘truly hot guys’ don’t want to be sexually objectified by you…..?
ScottOnEarth
I am so definitely not a prude but I do not gawk at guys in the locker room. I don’t want to be that guy that perpetuates stereotypes and makes other guys uncomfortable. It’s just respect. Do you what you want but think about how the guy you’re staring at (or having sex in front of) might feel.
Jake2432
The YMCA I go to has a standard locker room where 90% of the guys, especially the young straight ones go, and an expensive membership plus locker room with big gang showers (and stalls for those who want them), a sauna and a steam room. There’s also family locker rooms for peoel with families. The fancy locker room seems about 90% gay.
There’s a lot of open cruising. I’m in mildly okay shape and feel like a piece of meat there. If STDs could be passed through staring, it would be pretty much be burning when I pee all the time. I’ve seen guys with boners in the steam room and once walked in on a bunch of guys sucking each other off.
I’m a prude, but I mind my own business. I’ve been grabbed in the group showers a couple of times, but I say thanks but no thanks.
But today, the manager came in and pounded on the solid door of a shower stall. They’re closed stalls and nobody can see in side. He pounded really loudly. He said he knew what was going on in there and he needed them to come out now. Two guys eventually came out. He then orderd them to get dressed and followed them to their lockers while he stood there watching. And very loudly told them he was cancelling their memberships. I’m assuming somebody saw them go in together (posibly somebody who wanted in on the action and had been rejected, knowing that place).
Fine enforce the rules. But the public shaming seemd unnecessary. They weren’t bothering other members. And the cruising commenced the second they left. As I was getting ready to leave, I saw two other guys go into the same shower stall.
I left soon after and he was still reading them the riot act outside in the lobby, which was packed with people, some with kids.
The manager’s gay as heck and advertises on Grindr that he’s on PREP.