The Steam Room
The Steam Room
robbiej
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/20/03
#0The 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.
#2re: The Steam Room
Posted: 6/7/05 at 3:34pmnever letting my husband go to a steam room. hm.
robbiej
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/20/03
#3re: The Steam Room
Posted: 6/7/05 at 3:37pmNow 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.
#4re: The Steam Room
Posted: 6/7/05 at 3:38pm
I'm sure someone's compiling the case study right now.
BT
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/16/04
#5re: The Steam Room
Posted: 6/7/05 at 3:40pmI'm compiling it, bway, I've got you scheduled for 6pm, right?
#6re: 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...
ConvinceMe2
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/7/05
#7re: The Steam Room
Posted: 6/7/05 at 3:43pm
Oh, the steam room stories I could tell...
#8re: The Steam Room
Posted: 6/7/05 at 3:43pm
*looks at CM2, points to his PM function*
*cough tell them to me cough*
#9re: The Steam Room
Posted: 6/7/05 at 3:44pmAlright 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.
BT
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/16/04
#10re: The Steam Room
Posted: 6/7/05 at 3:44pmDon't waste it on a pm :)
poodleboy
Understudy Joined: 5/15/03
#11re: The Steam Room
Posted: 6/7/05 at 3:45pmI 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".
#12re: 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.
BT
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/16/04
#13re: The Steam Room
Posted: 6/7/05 at 3:47pmNone of that depravity happens here in DC... honest.
FindingNamo
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/22/03
#14re: 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.
#15re: 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.
pattifan2
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/12/04
#16re: The Steam Room
Posted: 6/7/05 at 3:48pmAnd for Steam Room read Sauna and Gym. Plenty of gold bands in those places, too.
Unknown User
Joined: 12/31/69
#17re: The Steam Room
Posted: 6/7/05 at 3:56pmAn 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."
FindingNamo
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/22/03
#18re: 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.
robbiej
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/20/03
#20re: 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?
pattifan2
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/12/04
#21re: The Steam Room
Posted: 6/7/05 at 4:01pmNamo, it must have been really steamy - Catherine Zeta Jones was Chief of Security on that cruise!
Snaps
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/17/05
#22re: The Steam Room
Posted: 6/7/05 at 4:05pmI 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.
FindingNamo
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/22/03
#23re: 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.
iflitifloat
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/10/03
#24re: The Steam Room
Posted: 6/7/05 at 4:14pmI 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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