A gay in the gym!!

rochey84

Hi Lads and ladies,

I posted something similiar in the LGBT forum but I would love a straight persons response to this question!

How would you feel in the gym changing rooms if you knew the bloke/girl beside you and equally naked was gay? Would it make you feel uncomfortable?

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

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!

Sir Digby Chicken Caesar

id imagine the majority of straight men use gyms as an opportunity to perv on fit women, go nuts.

minidazzler

Eh, he's just a guy, sh1t, I'd feel just a bit flattered if he did check out my junk.

Logical Fallacy

I honestly couldn't give a ****.

RachaelVO

Frankly, couldnt give a fiddlers...

If there is a chick in the changing room and she's getting joy looking at my flabby bits, she's got seriously low standards!

NiallFH

Wouldn't really care, I dont imagine gay guys are in the gym changing rooms to perv and in my opinion if someone thinks they are there to look at them they have some serious ego issues

rochey84

Sir Digby Chicken Caesar wrote: »

id imagine the majority of straight men use gyms as an opportunity to perv on fit women, go nuts.

Yeah but I'd imagine that unless he is a proper ninja he isn't checking out the women in the changing rooms!!!!

OldPeculier

As long as you're not standing there talking to me like the meteor ad guy I've no bother with it at all, your sexuality is irrelevant to me!

admiralofthefleet

Logical Fallacy wrote: »

I honestly couldn't give a ****.

likewise

smash

rochey84 wrote: »

I DO NOT USE THE CHANGING ROOMS AS AN OPPORTUNITY TO PERV ON LADS CAUSE THE GYM IS NOT THE PLACE FOR THAT!

I don't believe that for a second. If the changing rooms were universal then both sexes would perv on each other whether intentional or not. If someone is attractive then you'll look.

Ellis Dee

rochey84 wrote: »

Hi Lads and ladies,


How would you feel in the gym changing rooms if you knew the bloke --- beside you and equally naked was gay? Would it make you feel uncomfortable?

Not in the slightest. Does that mean there's something wrong with me?

BraziliaNZ

My gym is full of gays, most in central London seem to be anyway. It's not like they're staring at every guy that walks past, couldn't care less me.

Yakult

I would only feel uncomfortable if I was being stared at while getting dressed/undressed. Mind your own business and no one would be the wiser.

rochey84

smash wrote: »

I don't believe that for a second. If the changing rooms were universal then both sexes would perv on each other whether intentional or not. If someone is attractive then you'll look.

I honestly make a concious effort not to look cause I really don't wanna get the head kicked off me by some juiced up gym goer!!!

Doc

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.

giant_midget

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 cleanbummed and get out.

FYP

Greentopia

I wouldn't give a damn. Other people's sexual orientation is irrelevant in such a situation.

I'm female btw

seamus

rochey84 wrote: »

I DO NOT USE THE CHANGING ROOMS AS AN OPPORTUNITY TO PERV ON LADS CAUSE THE GYM IS NOT THE PLACE FOR THAT!

No, but as smash says, if you saw a fit guy you'd check out his ass from the corner of your eye. Because that's natural and if they were unisex changing rooms, straight men and women would do the same.

That's normal and natural. Pervy is when you sit there checking out everyone who comes in and making opportunities to talk to them.

Frankly if a gay man found me attractive enough to be worth sneaking a glance, I'd be flattered. Exactly the same as I'd be flattered if a woman did it. I'm not gay and he's not going to try stick his cock in my ass, so what would I be worried about?

Doc

giant_midget wrote: »

FYP

No. No you didn't.

xzanti

OldPeculier wrote: »

As long as you're not standing there talking to me like the meteor ad guy I've no bother with it at all, your sexuality is irrelevant to me!

Lets get some tunes in here!! :pac:

tmc86

wouldn't bother me everyone minds their own business in the changing rooms anyway

ch750536

Seems you felt awkward because you wanted to perve them OP. If I were in there knowing you were trying to perve me that would make me awkward...

The fact that you posted this means there is an issue in your mind.

Dravokivich

Hmm, as long as no one is a prick, I couldn't care who is in the gym or changing room.

Nothingbetter2d

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.

rochey84

ch750536 wrote: »

Seems you felt awkward because you wanted to perve them OP. If I were in there knowing you were trying to perve me that would make me awkward...

The fact that you posted this means there is an issue in your mind.

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!

Celly Smunt

If i was in the changing room and you were there with your friends and i saw This,then we'd have a problem

rochey84

pmcmahon wrote: »

If i was in the changing room and you were there with your friends and i saw This,then we'd have a problem

I don't think that would ever be an issue but it's a funny pic cause it turns out 1 of them was my manager in the bookies years ago and is gay!!!!

marcus2000

rochey84 wrote: »

if I had have told him would he have felt awkward then later on in the changing rooms when we were both getting changed!

You should have told him, unless of course he looks like someone who would have beaten you up!! I had a similar conversation (in the sauna at the gym) before and I said I was gay. It killed the conversation, but I was glad I said it!!

Let others worry about being uncomfortable @ the gym..Its not your problem really. (Unless of course you do something to make them uncomfortable!!)

rochey84

marcus2000 wrote: »

You should have told him, unless of course he looks like someone who would have beaten you up!! I had a similar conversation (in the sauna at the gym) before and I said I was gay. It killed the conversation, but I was glad I said it!!

Let others worry about being uncomfortable @ the gym..Its not your problem really. (Unless of course you do something to make them uncomfortable!!)

Good advice and if you substitute any other location in there instead of the gym, it is something that I live by completly it's like I've a mental block when it comes to the gym!!!

drunkmonkey

If you were a straight man in the girls changing room and copped the odd look you'd be a perve.
If you were a gay guy on the guys changing room the same rule with apply.

The perve bit is got to do with your perspective not your sexual orientation. So if your a guy and don't like to look at other naked guys you'd be doing nothing wrong, but if your just like the majority of straight gays and think about every girl they come across in a sexual way before checking out their personality you shouldn't be in the guys changing room without foggy goggles on.

The same would apply to Lesbians in the girs changing room, but they can't get the horn so it's a little less obvious.*


*(changes the thread to a similar topic even straight guys can dig)

Celly Smunt

rochey84 wrote: »

I don't think that would ever be an issue but it's a funny pic cause it turns out 1 of them was my manager in the bookies years ago and is gay!!!!

small world all the same

Sonnenblumen

OP - why would it matter. I'd say get a grip or else use common sense.

kfallon

Perv away as long as you don't cum on my botty if you have a crafty pedal while checking me out :pac:

People perv people, tis the way of the world!

Gummy Panda

I couldn't give a fúck.

Just don't bicep curl in the squat rack :mad:

rochey84

Sonnenblumen wrote: »

OP - why would it matter. I'd say get a grip or else use common sense.

I'm not loosing sleep over it, just thought I'd use AH for a bit of insight, I thought that's what forums can be used for!

jester77

You're thinking too much, I've been in places that have unisex changing rooms and it was never an issue.

rochey84

jester77 wrote: »

You're thinking too much, I've been in places that have unisex changing rooms and it was never an issue.

What can I say? I'm a repressed little irish man who grew up during the tyranical reign of the Catholic Church!

forfuxsake

Sonnenblumen wrote: »

OP - why would it matter. I'd say get a grip or else use common sense.

Ye'd better ****in not

El Jefe

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 .

marcus2000

i'd actually wonder how many straight guys take a look (out of body curiousity rather than sexual orientation)...(i can word that better in my head)...if i was in a unisex changing room (??), and saw a nice voluptuous woman about to slip out of her leotard, id probably want to look ( just to see. im gay. )......does that make me a perv ??

Deus Ex Machina

As long as they take the weights off the mo'fuckin' squat rack when they're finished I don't care if they are sexually attracted to Jerusalem artichokes. I was in the gym yesterday and a fat version of Sebastian Chabal spent 25 minutes doing 9 reps on the squat rack and then fucked off out of there without clearing his weights off the bar! Absolute prick!

rochey84

El Jefe wrote: »

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 .

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!!!

drunkmonkey

marcus2000 wrote: »

if i was in a unisex changing room (??), and saw a nice voluptuous woman about to slip out of her leotard, id probably want to look ( just to see. im gay. )......does that make me a perv ??

Worse again, it makes you straight.

Jen Pigs Fly

Unisex changing rooms don't bother me, only ever had one bad experience and that was of a 50+ old man trying it on with me, of course he waited untill I was in a towel, he had great timing :rolleyes: it was quite alarming however as he pretty much cornered me (I'm' not the tallest or largest) boyfriend had to rescue me

It doesn't bother me though if I was in the changing rooms with lesbians, my best friend is a lesbian and I've gone to the gym and swimming with both her and her fiancee, and some of their gay single friends (females). I don't ever feel like they're perving on me, and to be honest I never really thought about it until I read this thread. Maybe it's just because they're so blatantly open that they'd pretty much shout 'you've got a lovely arse!' if they say something they'd like :pac:

Immaculate Pasta

Me personally? No it wouldn't but when you come out of the gym to the changing rooms with your handlebar moustache and you start taking off your leather trousers it would probably raise a few eyebrows for practicality reasons of course as it isn't appropriate gym attire :cool:

Brendog

Well I use the gym a lot and I always bench press more than I can do to get the bet possible pump and look great because I'm so ripped and tough and my calves are..........



what were you talking about?

Jen Pigs Fly

Brendog wrote: »

Well I use the gym a lot and I always bench press more than I can do to get the bet possible pump and look great because I'm so ripped and tough and my calves are..........



what were you talking about?

Asexuality is getting popular these days

ScumLord

xxxJennyxxx wrote: »

It doesn't bother me though if I was in the changing rooms with lesbians, my best friend is a lesbian and I've gone to the gym and swimming with both her and her fiancee, and some of their gay single friends (females). I don't ever feel like they're perving on me, and to be honest I never really thought about it until I read this thread.

Now we'll all be thinking about nothing else. You should send this post into Playboy.

Jen Pigs Fly

ScumLord wrote: »

Now we'll all be thinking about nothing else. You should send this post into Playboy.

Isn't playboy pretty much old news now though? :rolleyes:

CL7

Gummy Panda wrote: »

I couldn't give a fúck.

Just don't bicep curl in the squat rack :mad:

lol, what? Is this a joke I'm not getting or do some people actually do that?

IrishEyes19

Wouldn't matter an ounce if they were gay/straight. i like privacy and using the cubicles provided in changing rooms either way