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A gay in the gym!!

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  • Registered Users Posts: 318 ✭✭rochey84


    Ah yeah we know gyms are full of your types, no real interest in getting fit but in finding a friend.

    Rimmers over to the right, handhelds, well hold on a sec and see:eek:

    My Type that are there to get fit and not stare at lads???? I'm happily hooked-up so not looking for a "friend" as you put it.

    As for the bit in bold, what?????????????


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,341 ✭✭✭El Horseboxo


    A few years ago there was this chap that I ended up changing beside on numerous occasions. Caught him looking at me on the sly a good few times. I always wondered if he was gay or was a bit curious or just a strange fúcker. Never made me feel comfortable or anything. Did make it a bit weird when paths crossed on the gym floor though.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,075 ✭✭✭Wattle


    rochey84 wrote: »
    I should first off define perving by my standards, I would consider it perving to be tryin to sneak a glance. Secondly the reason I posted it wasn't due to my own issues it was because a straight lad was chatting to me in the sauna the other day talkin about his missus and asked me if I had a bird cause I'd know what he meant then, and I suddenly had a moment of fear of weather or not I should tell him that I don't have a bird but I have a fella and I still know what he meant! instead I just told him I didn't but it got me thinking if I had have told him would he have felt awkward then later on in the changing rooms when we were both getting changed!

    Buy a parrot or a budgie and the next time someone asks you that question you can say honestly that 'yes yes I do have a bird'.

    Either that or get comfortable with your sexuality.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,747 ✭✭✭Bluefoam


    Doc wrote: »
    How do you know if a person you don't know who showers next to you is or isn't gay anyway? I don't really care one way or the other I shower get clean and get out.
    He's the one singing Whitney Houston...

    I made a funny...


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,923 ✭✭✭cloptrop


    Id be really pissed if I spent an hour a day working out and the gym gay guy wasnt eyeing me up . Id kinda feel rejected and ugly . Perve away and let me catch you doing it , its how I feel my hard work validated.


  • Registered Users Posts: 318 ✭✭rochey84


    cloptrop wrote: »
    Id be really pissed if I spent an hour a day working out and the gym gay guy wasnt eyeing me up . Id kinda feel rejected and ugly . Perve away and let me catch you doing it , its how I feel my hard work validated.

    What gym you in? I'll put up a notice on the website the other user mentioned ha ha!!!!


  • Registered Users Posts: 228 ✭✭starch4ser


    I once worked for a company that offered to pay 50% of the membership in a certain Dublin gym and thought why not join up. Noticed right from the start that other men in the changing rooms were looking at my tackle and at first thought maybe that's just the way some men are. Maybe they just want to compare. This one time I caught a guy kind of bent over and looking at me through his legs. Another time a middle aged guy with a goatie had one leg up on the sink as he dried his nuts in full view of anyone leaving the showers. I was starting to get worried. Then there was the pairs of men walking around the gym and I remember one time this one guy kind of looked at me a bit odd. Not a passing glance like most men but a kind of I'm prettier than you look. The last time I was at the gym which was only a few weeks after joining, I was using one of the resistance machines and there was this guy with the typical flat nose chatting with another guy. The one guy was asking the other if he had any exciting plans for the evening and the other guy replied, nah, just heading into the george for a few. When i got home from the gym that day, I googled the name of the gym and the word gay and wouldn't you know it, all the results were for gay messageboards describing the gym as a gay friendly one. I cancelled my membership as i genuinely feared being raped some day in the corner of the changing room. Some of those gay guys that lift weights are very well built and would be well able to overpower your avarage guy i'd say. And for a while after, I wondered if it was some cruel joke by the management at the company where I worked!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 400 ✭✭marcus2000


    starch4ser wrote: »
    I cancelled my membership as i genuinely feared being raped some day in the corner of the changing room. Some of those gay guys that lift weights are very well built and well able to overpower your avarage guy.

    Genuinely?

    I've never heard of a gay rape at any Irish gyms. With the amount of activity, I'd be quite confident in telling you that you were probably reasonably safe.....intimidated maybe, but that's not really the same thing!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,137 ✭✭✭44leto


    This is strange, what am I doing here, I feel i do not belong, HMM let me think....I know I am a double post..

    Please delete.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,137 ✭✭✭44leto


    Originally Posted by El Jefe viewpost.gif
    Was in my gym a week or so ago and after workout myself and girlfriend got into the hydropool ( Jacuzzi), 2 gay guys got in and proceeded to pretty much straddle and grope eachother for the 10 mins they were in there. Now i am not homophobic in the slightest but this really pissed me off especially cause they kept checking everyone else there for a reaction. I mean no other straightcouples in there acted this way so i didnt really see why they should and i think they were looking for a reaction from someone just to cause an issue. Meh just a wee rant .



    rochey84 wrote: »
    You're right that is highly inappropriate and I would never act like that anywhere that's public!!!

    and you're right as well there are gay guys out there that act outlandishly to get a reaction and they wreck my head!!!

    Call me a prude, I think that is just inappropriate behaviour, for any couple, gay or straight, anywhere in public, never mind a public jacuzzi. There is nothing worse then seeing at any pair gobbing in public, take it to the bedroom.

    And concerning the OPs question, No OP why would anyone mind, really.


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  • Posts: 0 [Deleted User]


    I'm confident enough in my sexuality to not let it bother me if a gay guy checks me out - if anything, it would be a compliment somewhat!


  • Registered Users Posts: 228 ✭✭starch4ser


    marcus2000 wrote: »
    Genuinely?

    I've never heard of a gay rape at any Irish gyms. With the amount of activity, I'd be quite confident in telling you that you were probably reasonably safe.....intimidated maybe, but that's not really the same thing!

    Well it crossed my mind but your right, I was more uncomfortable more than anything else. If it did happen though, i don't think many guys would report it. It's just not the way men are.
    I don't think gay and straight men should share changing rooms thought. That's more or less the same as a straight man going into a womens changing room.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,194 ✭✭✭saa


    No their sexuality wouldn't make a difference.

    I don't get the showers/changing rooms in gyms, all my life I have never had to change in front of other people, made feel weird about my body and the whole idea of nakedness and now you expect me to change and shower in front of others, no ugh uh honey that ain't happening.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,205 ✭✭✭Bad Panda


    I don't care.

    If you did look, I'd take it as a compliment and not overreact and give out that I'm treated like a piece of meat! Treat away sir!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,721 ✭✭✭Balmed Out


    rochey84 wrote: »
    I only ask cause I'm gay and I just joined the gym and I feel uncomfortable for people in the changing rooms.

    Why would you possibly feel uncomfortable for other people in the changing room???
    Im suspicous, are you sitting there staring until they glance back at which point you lick your finger and use it to rub your nipple?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,923 ✭✭✭cloptrop


    starch4ser wrote: »
    I once worked for a company that offered to pay 50% of the membership in a certain Dublin gym and thought why not join up. Noticed right from the start that other men in the changing rooms were looking at my tackle and at first thought maybe that's just the way some men are. Maybe they just want to compare. This one time I caught a guy kind of bent over and looking at me through his legs. Another time a middle aged guy with a goatie had one leg up on the sink as he dried his nuts in full view of anyone leaving the showers. I was starting to get worried. Then there was the pairs of men walking around the gym and I remember one time this one guy kind of looked at me a bit odd. Not a passing glance like most men but a kind of I'm prettier than you look. The last time I was at the gym which was only a few weeks after joining, I was using one of the resistance machines and there was this guy with the typical flat nose chatting with another guy. The one guy was asking the other if he had any exciting plans for the evening and the other guy replied, nah, just heading into the george for a few. When i got home from the gym that day, I googled the name of the gym and the word gay and wouldn't you know it, all the results were for gay messageboards describing the gym as a gay friendly one. I cancelled my membership as i genuinely feared being raped some day in the corner of the changing room. Some of those gay guys that lift weights are very well built and would be well able to overpower your avarage guy i'd say. And for a while after, I wondered if it was some cruel joke by the management at the company where I worked!
    Holy **** dude , just cause their gay doesnt mean they are all gonna rape you . Im sure the fact that there is a gym full of gay men they wont feel the need to risk doing ten years just to do you . Do you rape all the girls you see in the gym .


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,432 ✭✭✭df1985


    In my gym anyway, everyone has cheeky looks at eachother, gay, straight whatever. straight poser lads in the gym are always comparing themselves to others.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,737 ✭✭✭BroomBurner


    smash wrote: »
    Anyone ever hang out around the showers using their erection as a towel holder? :pac:

    I forgot though that my local swimming pool has unisex changing rooms beside the pool, but has separate sex changing rooms for the gym area. Weird.

    :eek:


  • Registered Users Posts: 5,933 ✭✭✭Logical Fallacy


    starch4ser wrote: »
    I once worked for a company that offered to pay 50% of the membership in a certain Dublin gym and thought why not join up. Noticed right from the start that other men in the changing rooms were looking at my tackle and at first thought maybe that's just the way some men are. Maybe they just want to compare. This one time I caught a guy kind of bent over and looking at me through his legs. Another time a middle aged guy with a goatie had one leg up on the sink as he dried his nuts in full view of anyone leaving the showers. I was starting to get worried. Then there was the pairs of men walking around the gym and I remember one time this one guy kind of looked at me a bit odd. Not a passing glance like most men but a kind of I'm prettier than you look. The last time I was at the gym which was only a few weeks after joining, I was using one of the resistance machines and there was this guy with the typical flat nose chatting with another guy. The one guy was asking the other if he had any exciting plans for the evening and the other guy replied, nah, just heading into the george for a few. When i got home from the gym that day, I googled the name of the gym and the word gay and wouldn't you know it, all the results were for gay messageboards describing the gym as a gay friendly one. I cancelled my membership as i genuinely feared being raped some day in the corner of the changing room. Some of those gay guys that lift weights are very well built and would be well able to overpower your avarage guy i'd say. And for a while after, I wondered if it was some cruel joke by the management at the company where I worked!

    Bit of an overreaction there mate.

    You are way too ugly to get raped.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,044 ✭✭✭gcgirl


    starch4ser wrote: »
    I once worked for a company that offered to pay 50% of the membership in a certain Dublin gym and thought why not join up. Noticed right from the start that other men in the changing rooms were looking at my tackle and at first thought maybe that's just the way some men are. Maybe they just want to compare. This one time I caught a guy kind of bent over and looking at me through his legs. Another time a middle aged guy with a goatie had one leg up on the sink as he dried his nuts in full view of anyone leaving the showers. I was starting to get worried. Then there was the pairs of men walking around the gym and I remember one time this one guy kind of looked at me a bit odd. Not a passing glance like most men but a kind of I'm prettier than you look. The last time I was at the gym which was only a few weeks after joining, I was using one of the resistance machines and there was this guy with the typical flat nose chatting with another guy. The one guy was asking the other if he had any exciting plans for the evening and the other guy replied, nah, just heading into the george for a few. When i got home from the gym that day, I googled the name of the gym and the word gay and wouldn't you know it, all the results were for gay messageboards describing the gym as a gay friendly one. I cancelled my membership as i genuinely feared being raped some day in the corner of the changing room. Some of those gay guys that lift weights are very well built and would be well able to overpower your avarage guy i'd say. And for a while after, I wondered if it was some cruel joke by the management at the company where I worked!
    Rape has zero to do with sex, just because its gay friendly does not mean its a crusing spot, what age are you 15?


  • Registered Users Posts: 228 ✭✭starch4ser


    cloptrop wrote: »
    Holy **** dude , just cause their gay doesnt mean they are all gonna rape you . Im sure the fact that there is a gym full of gay men they wont feel the need to risk doing ten years just to do you . Do you rape all the girls you see in the gym .

    I didn't say gang raped. The majority of men wouldn't report a rape as the humiliation and embarrassment of it being made public would be far greater than the humiliation of the rape and I know there's a slim chance of it actually happening at least in this country. It's just terrible when you catch another man perving on you. The thoughts that must be going through his mind. Probably imagining you in all kinds of positions and dressed in a gimp suit or a policemans unform.
    I'd never rape a woman personally but there are plenty of sick men in this world that if you put them amongst a group of half naked women in a confined space they'd probably go for it.


  • Registered Users Posts: 228 ✭✭starch4ser


    gcgirl wrote: »
    Rape has zero to do with sex, just because its gay friendly does not mean its a crusing spot, what age are you 15?

    Rape has everything to do with sex. I take it from your username your a girl so how could you possibly claim to know the motivation for rape which is perpetrated by men almost exclusively?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,118 ✭✭✭Babybuff


    ut oh


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,923 ✭✭✭cloptrop


    starch4ser wrote: »
    I didn't say gang raped. The majority of men wouldn't report a rape as the humiliation and embarrassment of it being made public would be far greater than the humiliation of the rape and I know there's a slim chance of it actually happening at least in this country. It's just terrible when you catch another man perving on you. The thoughts that must be going through his mind. Probably imagining you in all kinds of positions and dressed in a gimp suit or a policemans unform.
    I'd never rape a woman personally but there are plenty of sick men in this world that if you put them amongst a group of half naked women in a confined space they'd probably go for it.

    That sounds like you imagine people in all kinds of positions and in policemens uniforms .


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,118 ✭✭✭Babybuff


    anyway..
    just to get back on topic, I used play footy with a bunch of lesbians and none of them (us) ever used the changing rooms, despite being horribly sweaty from running around a pitch for an hour. I often thought about how nice it would have been if everyone were to have a nice hot soapy shower after training. yeah.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 203 ✭✭Oddjob


    gcgirl wrote: »
    Rape has zero to do with sex, just because its gay friendly does not mean its a crusing spot, what age are you 15?

    That's true, figures have shown that 87% of rapists just put their big toe in victims ears.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,802 ✭✭✭beks101


    Couldn't give a flying fuck at all, knock yourself out.

    Sure as a straight woman I regularly sneak a peek in the changing rooms just to see what the competition looks like, sometimes you catch other women doing the same, could be competitive, could be sexual, a compliment either way.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 393 ✭✭Foghladh


    starch4ser wrote: »
    I didn't say gang raped. The majority of men wouldn't report a rape as the humiliation and embarrassment of it being made public would be far greater than the humiliation of the rape and I know there's a slim chance of it actually happening at least in this country. It's just terrible when you catch another man perving on you. The thoughts that must be going through his mind. Probably imagining you in all kinds of positions and dressed in a gimp suit or a policemans unform.
    I'd never rape a woman personally but there are plenty of sick men in this world that if you put them amongst a group of half naked women in a confined space they'd probably go for it.


    Well I for one think you made the right call in getting out of that gym.

    It's better to have a little excess flab around the midriff than run the risk of ending up splayed across the rowing machine, dressed up as a member of An Garda Síochána, whilst a baying crowd of juiced up gym bunnies surround you with devious intent.

    Better safe than sorry


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,906 ✭✭✭✭PhlegmyMoses


    starch4ser wrote: »
    I once worked for a company that offered to pay 50% of the membership in a certain Dublin gym and thought why not join up. Noticed right from the start that other men in the changing rooms were looking at my tackle and at first thought maybe that's just the way some men are. Maybe they just want to compare. This one time I caught a guy kind of bent over and looking at me through his legs. Another time a middle aged guy with a goatie had one leg up on the sink as he dried his nuts in full view of anyone leaving the showers. I was starting to get worried. Then there was the pairs of men walking around the gym and I remember one time this one guy kind of looked at me a bit odd. Not a passing glance like most men but a kind of I'm prettier than you look. The last time I was at the gym which was only a few weeks after joining, I was using one of the resistance machines and there was this guy with the typical flat nose chatting with another guy. The one guy was asking the other if he had any exciting plans for the evening and the other guy replied, nah, just heading into the george for a few. When i got home from the gym that day, I googled the name of the gym and the word gay and wouldn't you know it, all the results were for gay messageboards describing the gym as a gay friendly one. I cancelled my membership as i genuinely feared being raped some day in the corner of the changing room. Some of those gay guys that lift weights are very well built and would be well able to overpower your avarage guy i'd say. And for a while after, I wondered if it was some cruel joke by the management at the company where I worked!

    So much win.

    Wouldn't the lads in a gay gym just be walking around on the horn the whole time?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,268 ✭✭✭naughtysmurf


    i wouldn't use the showers in a gym... not because of others looking at me but because its the best way to get fungal infections in your feet.

    Flip flops?


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,930 ✭✭✭Jimoslimos


    starch4ser wrote: »
    I googled the name of the gym and the word gay and wouldn't you know it, all the results were for gay messageboards describing the gym as a gay friendly one.
    Indeed, that's what you were doing. Just 'researching' eh?
    starch4ser wrote: »
    Rape has everything to do with sex. I take it from your username your a girl so how could you possibly claim to know the motivation for rape which is perpetrated by men almost exclusively?
    I guessing you're trolling (badly), but if not try engage your brain before posting. So you're saying women can't comment, oh I guess numbering the vast majority of victims doesn't really qualify as any sort of experience or insight does it. Using your logic, unless you yourself were a rapist, you wouldn't understand the motivation for rape.
    Babybuff wrote: »
    anyway..
    just to get back on topic, I used play footy with a bunch of lesbians and none of them (us) ever used the changing rooms, despite being horribly sweaty from running around a pitch for an hour. I often thought about how nice it would have been if everyone were to have a nice hot soapy shower after training. yeah.
    Wha....ya....ggggooo....mm:)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,160 ✭✭✭Eurovisionmad


    I find the talent in my gym is rubbish anyway, couldn't be bothered perving, that's what the internet is for!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,398 ✭✭✭whatdoicare


    Doesn't bother me at all - why would it? (im a married woman) I know for a fact that one of the trainers is lesbian and her partner works out regularly with me, changes with me, showers in next stall thingy- generally a whole lot of nakedness. I'm good friends with them- thoughts of them checking me out never occurred to me but if they did I'd be flattered not upset, nice boost to think someone likes the look of me after all my hard work in the gym - no different than a guy checking out my ass on the threadmill really.
    I'd be more concerned with the pervert fella who hangs out in the jacuzzi and fiddles with his crotch when he thinks we're not looking.:mad:


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,118 ✭✭✭Babybuff


    Jimoslimos wrote: »
    Wha....ya....ggggooo....mm:)

    I write smut for a living


  • Registered Users Posts: 228 ✭✭starch4ser


    cloptrop wrote: »
    That sounds like you imagine people in all kinds of positions and in policemens uniforms .

    Yeah, your right. I have a filthy mind. People of the opposite sex though.

    Indeed, that's what you were doing. Just 'researching' eh?

    Your gonna be amazed when you find out what I actually do for a living. I'm genuinely a :
    Researcher!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,137 ✭✭✭44leto


    Originally Posted by starch4ser viewpost.gif
    I once worked for a company that offered to pay 50% of the membership in a certain Dublin gym and thought why not join up. Noticed right from the start that other men in the changing rooms were looking at my tackle and at first thought maybe that's just the way some men are. Maybe they just want to compare. This one time I caught a guy kind of bent over and looking at me through his legs. Another time a middle aged guy with a goatie had one leg up on the sink as he dried his nuts in full view of anyone leaving the showers. I was starting to get worried. Then there was the pairs of men walking around the gym and I remember one time this one guy kind of looked at me a bit odd. Not a passing glance like most men but a kind of I'm prettier than you look. The last time I was at the gym which was only a few weeks after joining, I was using one of the resistance machines and there was this guy with the typical flat nose chatting with another guy. The one guy was asking the other if he had any exciting plans for the evening and the other guy replied, nah, just heading into the george for a few. When i got home from the gym that day, I googled the name of the gym and the word gay and wouldn't you know it, all the results were for gay messageboards describing the gym as a gay friendly one. I cancelled my membership as i genuinely feared being raped some day in the corner of the changing room. Some of those gay guys that lift weights are very well built and would be well able to overpower your avarage guy i'd say. And for a while after, I wondered if it was some cruel joke by the management at the company where I worked!

    I think mate you were really in a gay sauna, besides what is a gay friendly gym, is that opposed to a gay unfriendly gym.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,107 ✭✭✭booboo88


    What I dont get is, unless you walk around with a big sign on your forehead, why you would advertise the fact?
    Who cares if your gay or straight, you're at the gym?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,100 ✭✭✭ectoraige


    Doc wrote: »
    How do you know if a person you don't know who showers next to you is or isn't gay anyway? I don't really care one way or the other I shower get clean and get out.

    He'd be the one with the pink shower cap and the feather boa.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,608 ✭✭✭newport2


    rochey84 wrote: »
    Let me state as well by the way I DO NOT USE THE CHANGING ROOMS AS AN OPPORTUNITY TO PERV ON LADS CAUSE THE GYM IS NOT THE PLACE FOR THAT!

    If you did it would stick out like a sore thumb. Albeit quite a large one.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 20,739 ✭✭✭✭starbelgrade


    one of the trainers is lesbian and her partner works out regularly with me, changes with me, showers in next stall thingy- generally a whole lot of nakedness.:

    Nice.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 9,463 ✭✭✭KTRIC


    one of the trainers is lesbian and her partner works out regularly with me, changes with me, showers in next stall thingy- generally a whole lot of nakedness.:

    Nice.

    Niiiiiiice


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 504 ✭✭✭Pacifist Pigeon


    starch4ser wrote: »
    I cancelled my membership as i genuinely feared being raped some day in the corner of the changing room.

    Ah yes, because we all know that an average gay man is far more likely to be a rapist than an average straight man...


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 504 ✭✭✭Pacifist Pigeon


    And now for some Village People ... :D



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