The Steam Room

#1

The Steam Room

Posted: 6/7/05 at 3:31pm

It's not just for clearing your sinuses, ya know!

It's also a place where men sometimes have 'encounters' with each other.

And what's most fascinating about it is the number of wedding rings that seem to populate these dens of iniquity.

Did you ladies out there know about this?

I wonder if anyone here has ever partaken.

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#2

re: The Steam Room

Posted: 6/7/05 at 3:33pm

please. I'm so virtuous.
*adjusts chastity belt*

#3

re: The Steam Room

Posted: 6/7/05 at 3:34pm

never letting my husband go to a steam room. hm.

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#4

re: The Steam Room

Posted: 6/7/05 at 3:37pm

Now now. I'm not trying to ruin all the fun. It's just interesting. Someone remarked about the concept of the 'down low' in the African American community...but I don't think many people realize the amount of white men on the 'down low' at the gym. It's a study worthy of Margaret Mead.

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"I'm so looking forward to a time when all the Reagan Democrats are dead."

#5

re: The Steam Room

Posted: 6/7/05 at 3:38pm

I'm sure someone's compiling the case study right now.

#6

re: The Steam Room

Posted: 6/7/05 at 3:40pm

I'm compiling it, bway, I've got you scheduled for 6pm, right?

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#7

re: The Steam Room

Posted: 6/7/05 at 3:42pm

I can vouch for the 51st Street NYSC and the 50th Street Equinox.

I like when they use the hand with the ring to do their business, and the light glints on the metal band like a neon sign saying---not sure what...

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#8

re: The Steam Room

Posted: 6/7/05 at 3:43pm

Oh, the steam room stories I could tell...

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#9

re: The Steam Room

Posted: 6/7/05 at 3:43pm

*looks at CM2, points to his PM function*
*cough tell them to me cough*

#10

re: The Steam Room

Posted: 6/7/05 at 3:44pm

Alright when I find a husband, he's going to be chained to me at all possible times seeing as the last thing I need is to lose him to a steam room.

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And hang on, when did you win the discus?

#11

re: The Steam Room

Posted: 6/7/05 at 3:44pm

Don't waste it on a pm :)

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I sing for myself. I sing when I want, whenever I want to, just for me. I sing for my own pleasure. Do you understand that?

#12

re: The Steam Room

Posted: 6/7/05 at 3:45pm

I find this activity with gold bands happens more at mid-town locations. When I go to the ones downtown, same activity without the glimmer of gold. Can anyone say bridge and tunnel "down low".

#13

re: The Steam Room

Posted: 6/7/05 at 3:46pm

"Alright when I find a husband, he's going to be chained to me at all possible times seeing as the last thing I need is to lose him to a steam room."

haha this thread is scaring all the straight girls. (including me)

oh well.

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#14

re: The Steam Room

Posted: 6/7/05 at 3:47pm

None of that depravity happens here in DC... honest.

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I sing for myself. I sing when I want, whenever I want to, just for me. I sing for my own pleasure. Do you understand that?

#15

re: The Steam Room

Posted: 6/7/05 at 3:47pm

The gays are getting married nowadayz in places as far-ranging as Canadian provinces, some European places, and of course, Republican Governor Mitt Romney Presents: The Commonwealth of Massachusetts.

What that means, for steam room queens, is that wedding bands aren't as much fun any more.

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#16

re: The Steam Room

Posted: 6/7/05 at 3:48pm

I was about 13, in the sauna at the gym on a cruise once when this 30 something employee of the cruise line started jacking it right in front of me. I remember being shocked and amazed, and I didn't know what to do. I spent the rest of the cruise dodging this dude. He was the frigging Chief Purser, so he was everywhere. Do you think he wanted me (as a kid) to join in? That's just awful, illegal I think - international waters? - and very creepy.

Great, this thread has brought back a repressed memory, and I'm now afraid of any kind of humidity or dry heat.

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#17

re: The Steam Room

Posted: 6/7/05 at 3:48pm

And for Steam Room read Sauna and Gym. Plenty of gold bands in those places, too.

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#18

re: The Steam Room

Posted: 6/7/05 at 3:56pm

An old saying is, "Women need a reason to have sex, men need a place." Nowhere in that statement is the issue of 'with whom' addressed. Which brings to mind another statement - "Close your eyes and call me Shirley."

#19

re: The Steam Room

Posted: 6/7/05 at 3:56pm

That's so funny, when I was trapped on a cruise three years ago (which I agreed to against my better judgment) I spent the only GOOD time I had in the sauna and steam room and harassing the cheif security officer who was HUGE and Welsh but insisted on wearing a Speedo in the steam and sauna.

Frickin tease.

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#20

re: The Steam Room

Posted: 6/7/05 at 3:59pm

Picturing Namo on an Atlantis cruise...

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#21

re: The Steam Room

Posted: 6/7/05 at 3:59pm

Well...Namo...that's very true. My boyfriend and I wear rings and we haven't even had any sort of ceremony yet.

But you as well as I know that many of us can still tell the difference between the straight and gay ring-wearers.

Ah the memories!

50th St. Equinox, huh?

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"I'm so looking forward to a time when all the Reagan Democrats are dead."

#22

re: The Steam Room

Posted: 6/7/05 at 4:01pm

Namo, it must have been really steamy - Catherine Zeta Jones was Chief of Security on that cruise!

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...fragment of the day...

#23

re: The Steam Room

Posted: 6/7/05 at 4:05pm

I was afraid to go into the men's steam room when we went on a trip with the choir, so I went with the girls. Much less scary, until our director walked in. Eesh.

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#24

re: The Steam Room

Posted: 6/7/05 at 4:10pm

Yikes, Pattifan, it was not she!

I USED to be able to tell the difference between the ringwearers, Robbie, but not any more.

I've lost my touch.

And Joey, I wouldn't EVER go on an Atlantis cruise.

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#25

re: The Steam Room

Posted: 6/7/05 at 4:14pm

I haven't read the book...is the point that for straight guys it's not really cheating if it's not with a woman? Or is the implication that these guys are repressing their true inclinations?

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