A guy in the gym

Every now and then, I wonder what's happened to all the guys that I've encountered over the years, and whether I'll ever run into any of them again. This thought wasn't in my mind yesterday when I went along to one of my usual group exercise gym classes, but during my class, I notice that there are a couple of new male participants that I haven't seen there before.

"That new guy looks cute :-)," I think to myself during one of the pauses between exercises.

Then suddenly I recognise him! It's a guy who I'd visited for fun on a few occasions early last year. I'd even gone out for dinner with him once, after which he came back and stayed the night with me in my house. I had wondered whether he'd make a nice boyfriend, but after the dinner I'd decided that he was a bit dull, so I didn't pursue anything with him.

Nonetheless, I remember that he's a nice guy so all through the class I keep glancing in his direction, trying to smile at him and make eye contact. However, either he doesn't notice, or he doesn't want to notice! Perhaps he's upset that I wasn't interested in deepening our casual friendship.

"Hey," I say to him after the class, "I think I visited you in your apartment last year :-)."

He looks at me and smiles, but it's quite a distant smile.

"Yes," he says after a short pause, "I think we have met before."

"Have you done that class before?" I ask, trying to make the conversation last, "I haven't noticed you in there before."

"I only started recently," he replies, "but I'm quite enjoying it."

We chat a bit more as we both head to the men's changing room, and gradually the conversation becomes easier.

Once in the changing room, we make our way to our own lockers, which turn out to be quite close to each other. He's a bit faster than me at stripping off, and as I'm about to take my shorts off, I look up to see him smiling at me.

"Hey," he says, with a cute smile on his face and looking me straight in the eye, "are you coming into the sauna?"

All his muscles are glistening slightly with sweat. Indeed, he looks magnificent standing there wearing nothing except a white towel around his waist, which only just covers his essentials so that it's possible to see a bit of pubic hair peeping over the towel.

"Um," I reply, hesitating, "actually I got to get back to work :-(".

"Pity ...," he says, looking me up and down approvingly.

"See you soon I hope :-)," I say smiling at him, and with that he heads off towards the sauna.

Later, I tell boyfriend T all about what happened.

"So why didn't you go into the sauna with him?" he asks me.

"I don't need to do that kind of thing any more, not now that I've got you :-)."

"Well indeed," says boyfriend T looking at me disapprovingly, "so you're supposed to tell him that you've got a boyfriend in that situation!"

"But I couldn't say that I've got a boyfriend in the middle of the changing room with lots of other guys around," I protest, "because that would have given all the other guys more information that they probably want to know about me!"

"And anyway," I continue, "although I knew that 'Are you coming into the sauna' meant 'shall we have fun in the the sauna', no one else would have known that, so saying 'No, I have a boyfriend' would have been a strange answer!"

"Don't worry," laughs boyfriend T, smiling at me now, "just kidding! You know that I'm OK if you want to do whatever, as long as you're honest with me :-)."

Whenever I talk to boyfriend T about this, I always think I'm so lucky to have such a wonderful and understanding boyfriend :-). Perhaps that's why I don't feel the need to have fun with lots of other guys any more!

Such naughtiness!

Last week, the evening before I posted my thoughts about how gay guys recognise each other, I went to the gym after work. After my workout, I head for the showers as usual. The showers consist of two rows of cubicles facing each other, with a big space in between where guys can dry themselves. Each cubicle has a shower curtain, so the shy guys will make sure that the shower curtain is fully in place, whereas less shy guys like me don't bother too much.

As I enter a free cubicle, I notice a cute Asian guy on the opposite side of the room, showering without having drawn his shower curtain. What's more, he notices that I've noticed him. In fact I spot that he's being quite cruisey, because while I'm trying to turn on the water in my cubicle, I see him move a bit outside of his cubicle to look around before moving back. It turns out that my shower cubicle isn't working properly, and as the only other unoccupied cubicle is next to the cute Asian guy, I walk naked across the shower room to use it.

These days, I find that I rarely make a mistake in terms of assessing a guy's cruisey behaviour, so it's already clear to me that this guy is gay. But now that I'm in the adjacent cubicle, I'm curious to know how far he'll go in a very public shower room. Of course, I do need a shower so I start washing my hair, but I stand with my back to the wall and the shower curtain only half drawn so that I can see out of the cubicle.

Sure enough the Asian guy leaves his cubicle slightly, ostensibly to soap himself without the water from the shower immediately washing away the soap, and while he's outside his cubicle he looks very directly into my cubicle. I actually feel a bit embarrassed, simply because it's such a public shower room. I look him in the face (but not the eyes) and out of curiosity I can't help but look downstairs to see whether he's at all excited or not. Possibly a bit excited, I decide, but not too obvious.

Two minutes later and he repeats the exercise, even though most of the other cubicles are occupied so that some guys might well see what he's doing. With the thoughts of mentioning the importance of eye contact in my impending blog post, this time I decide to show some interest him, after all he is a cute guy and in any case since I'm inside my cubicle no one can see what I'm doing! So I simply look him directly in the eyes, then look at this soapy crotch, and then look him back in the eyes again and smile. This time, he's definitely a bit more excited downstairs! He smiles at me, but then disappears back inside his cubicle.

However within a few seconds he's outside again, looking around, and I wasn't ready for what happens next. Suddenly, his hand reaches inside my cubicle and gives my pink oboe a few quick strokes! Shocked, I look outside my cubicle but no one seems to have seen, or if they did they don't care. But honestly, such brazen naughtiness in a public shower room, what on earth is the world coming to LOL!

The new gym sauna

In spite of the extreme heat in the sauna in the men's changing room at my new gym, I have now observed some activities :-). But I'm convinced that the gym management are deliberately keeping the sauna temperature high as a deterrent :-(. As sort of proof of this, I recently discovered that there's another sauna next to the swimming pool which is used by both men and women, and that the temperature in that sauna is much more comfortable!

Anyway, I spotted a guy that I recognised from my previous gym, seated outside the sauna last week and looking a bit hot. Although this guy never featured in any of my previous gym posts, I recognised him as a guy who had sometimes participated in sauna fun. No doubt he was feeling a bit horny, but was feeling too hot having been waiting for a willing participant inside the sauna.

I catch the guy's eye and it's clear that he probably remembers me too. I decide to go into the sauna and see whether he follows me in. Of course he does! And as he's pulling the door closed behind him, another guy grabs the door from the outside and follows him in too. The two other guys quickly arrange themselves so that their towels are barely covering their essentials, while I sit down on my towel, naked as usual in these circumstances.

Having settled down, I find myself watching the other two guys, and I note that they're both watching me as well as each other. In spite of the heat, I gradually find myself becoming a bit excited, and can't help noticing that the other guys are having a similar reaction. Before too long, the guy seated closest to me who I'd recognised from my previous gym bends forward and lifts his towel to wipe his forehead, revealing a huge erection underneath. Catching his eye, I smile a big smile at him, and we both look over at the third guy who moves his towel to reveal his own contribution before smiling back.

After about another minute, we all move a bit closer to each other, with the guy that I'd recognised in the middle. Then suddenly, before he can refuse, the third guy leans over and takes the middle guy's cock in his mouth! No time to waste I guess, in case someone comes in and interrupts us. The middle guy leans back smiling, and stretches out his arms on either side resting them on our backs, before moving his hand up the third guy's back so that he can push the guy's head down onto himself a bit more. Not that the extra encouragement is required!

"Are you gonna cum for me mate?" asks the third guy quietly, taking a breather before eagerly resuming his activities.

The middle guy just nods his head but suddenly he's pushing us both away. Surprised at first, all too soon I realise that there's another guy entering the sauna, so I hastily cover myself up and try to look as though butter wouldn't melt in my mouth which it obviously would given how hot the sauna is. The new guy doesn't take any notice and sits down on the opposite side from the three of us. After what feels like ages with nothing happening, which in reality is probably less than a minute, the third guy gets up and leaves.

There's an unwritten rule that one doesn't talk in cruising situations like this, because somehow talking destroys the atmosphere and prevents activities from starting. However, with the new guy clearly not interested in activities, I figure that there's not much to lose.

"I think I recognise you from another gym mate, have you been a member here very long?"

The guy that I'm talking to is looking the other way and it takes him several seconds to realise that I'm trying to talk to him.

"Errrr, what, um, yes I think I recognise you too :-)," he replies looking extremely surprised that I'm talking to him, "but I think this gym's much better, don't you?"

We have a short amicable conversation about the relative merits of the two gyms. Before too long though, with the new guy looking extremely unlikely to leave, we both make our way to the showers.

A very very long time ago, in the dim mists of time when I'd only been blogging for a couple of weeks, I did a posting titled How gay men cruise gym saunas and steam rooms. It still attracts readers who no doubt somehow find it via search engines, and recently a guy left a comment there asking me a question:

I have a strange request... Would you be able to write a guide on post-sauna activity etiquette? That's the one thing I'm struggling with...

The people I've met in the sauna haven't usually been regulars at the gym, but what if they are? What if you see them working out, or in the changing room? Do you say hello? Are you friendly? Do you ignore them? Any advice appreciated GB!

It is indeed very rare to talk to another guy who one only knows as a result of sauna activities, which is why the guy didn't think that I'd be talking to him last week. In most situations, such as when one sees another sauna participant working out or in the men's changing room, one doesn’t talk to them. However when I've seen guys that I recognise from sauna activities I find myself smiling knowingly at them, and they usually smile back knowingly too :-). I think it would be extremely rude to completely ignore them. In any case, the advantage of discretely acknowledging them is that it does make it easier to start activities with them the next time you're both in the sauna together!

David Barton

I started going to the gym regularly a long time ago. Over the years I've noticed that I go through phases of good levels of attendance, with occasional phases of lower attendance when I get hit by heavy workloads, business trips, holidays, injuries or illness. Since I joined my new gym though, I've been going through a particularly good phase, so in anticipation of my forthcoming business trip I was keen to find a way to try and keep it up while in New York.

"Do you know of any good gyms in NYC?" I asked boyfriend P a couple of weeks ago before my trip.

"I'm sure there are loads," he replied, "It depends what you want?"

"Well somewhere interesting would be nice, perhaps in Chelsea? Isn't that where all the gay guys hang out these days?"

"Maybe you should try the David Barton gym then? From what I've heard it's very gay and full-on, with lots of porn stars, escorts and celebs going there!"

Perfect :-). Sounds exactly like the kind of place that a disreputable blogger like me should be seen at!

So on my second evening in New York, I get my first surprise when I turn up outside the David Barton gym in Chelsea. It's in an old YMCA building! Once inside, a charming young woman shows me round the main gym areas.

"The cardio equipment and the studios for classes are all here on the main floor," she explains, "and the weights are all down in the basement. Actually tonight is a good night to visit because there's a DJ :-)."

I've certainly never heard of that before, a gym with a DJ mixing up rhythms to exercise to!

The changing rooms turn out to be on the first floor. Although I'm not quite sure where to go, I spot MEN painted in huge two feet high letters on one of the walls so I follow the wall round into the changing rooms. It seems very empty in there, and then suddenly I get a shock. I spot a woman who's just about to take off her gym shoes! But what on earth is a woman doing in the men's changing rooms, unless ... ? I hastily retreat, only to be greeted by another woman who's entering as I'm leaving:

"Excuse me, are you lost?" she asks with a tone of voice which suggests mild irritation.

"Errrr, yes, I think so!" I reply, not sure what to say. Somehow I've obviously ended up in the women's changing rooms :-(.

But how on earth did I make that mistake? Looking again at the MEN painted in huge letters on the wall, I realise all too late that when I spotted it I'd already walked past the first two letters of the word, namely the 'W' and the 'O'! Putting my error down to mild jet lag, I take the other path now and thankfully find myself inside the Men's changing rooms. In contrast to the women's locker room it's very crowded.

I end up going for a 20 minute run before heading down into the basement to find the free weights. The floor at the bottom of the stairs is packed full of exercise machines, with a huge rack of free weights along the back wall, and a big old YMCA sign propped up along one of the other walls. As I wander around to get my bearings, I realise that it's 99% men, if not more. Some are chatting with each other, but many more are single guys spending a good proportion of their time looking at all the other guys, including me! Coupled with the beat of the DJ's music I realise that I could be in a gay dance club, at the start of the evening when the music is less hardcore.

On cue, I notice a couple of well built guys joking with each other in the free weights area. Both are wearing quite skimpy gym vests, which certainly show off their huge muscles to good effect. They put their arms around each other ballroom dancing style, and then move their legs backwards and forwards while looking at themselves in the mirrors, as one of them tries to teach the other guy something. Somehow it seems perfectly in tune with the relaxed cruisey gay atmosphere. This definitely isn't a straight gym!

After my workout I head back to the changing rooms, wondering whether there are any spa facilities. Sure enough, at the back of the shower area I find a steam room. Inside the steam is really thick, so thick that I find myself bumping into another guy who's standing right next to me. Gradually the steam clears slightly, and I notice that there's seating at two levels along the walls. Most guys are wearing towels around their waist, although a couple of the guys who're seated have let their towels slip a bit, allowing the rest of us a peek at their wares :-). Just as the steam seems to have cleared enough to be able to see one end of the room from the other, I hear the hissing of fresh steam again as the next cycle begins.

In my experience, for cruising purposes this very thick steam is simultaneously a hindrance and a blessing. The problem with it is that it's hard to make contact with other like-minded guys, because when one can hardly see the guy who's standing next to you eye-contact is obviously difficult too! However the good thing about very thick steam is that if one does find a willing participant, no one else can see what you get up to, which makes activities possible even in quite crowded circumstances.

After a couple of steam cycles I head for the showers. I'm meeting boyfriend P for supper in a restaurant a few blocks away and I don't want to be late. But I certainly found my visit to the David Barton gym in Chelsea very enjoyable. If I ever move to live over in New York for a while, I might even become a member!

New gym

A few weeks ago, I decided to change gym. I'd been a member of my previous gym for almost ten years but when new management arrived, there were changes which annoyed me in several ways so I decided to look elsewhere. In any case, London has some good gyms with multiple branches these days, so opting for one with a branch close to my home and another branch close to the bank where I work makes much more sense.

After a couple of workouts at the new gym I decided that my old workout needed a face-lift, so I approached one of the eager young gym staff that are always hanging around the desk in the main workout area.

"Hi, I just joined recently, so can I book a session with someone, to sort out a new exercise routine for me?"

"Hey, sure thing," he replies enthusiastically, "do you prefer male or female trainers?"

Of course I always prefer doing it with guys, but I've never spoken with this trainer before so I'm not going to say it like that!

"Well, I guess I prefer a bloke," I say in my best business-like voice.

"No problem mate, I'm Mike," he says smiling at me and offering to shake my hand. "I'll sort something out for you, so when do you want to come in and see me?"

The session with him the following week was very useful. He had an honest, down to earth, heterosexual kind of approach to everything which I found quite refreshing. Looking back, my previous gym was quite gay. In contrast, the gym near work is full of clean-cut masculine city guys, sweating with heavy weights in the workout area, and chatting with each other about their jobs and wives in the changing rooms.

Even so, beneath the straight appearance I've already spotted some potential for activities! My previous gym used to have a sauna in the men's changing rooms, and it turns out that my new gym still does.

Indeed, on my second visit I visited the sauna after my workout, and it ended up that there was just me and another guy in there both sitting naked on our towels. Glancing over at him, I couldn't help noticing that his equipment was gradually getting bigger, or was I imaging it? In fact the more I glanced over at him, the bigger it seemed to get. I guess my own reaction to the situation encouraged him further, and soon he started playing with it. I wasn't at all interested in him, but not having been in that situation for a while I just couldn't stop watching. Unfortunately I didn’t get to find out how far he was going to go because another guy came in and interrupted him. None the less, I think I'm probably going to enjoy the new gym!

A reader's gym encounter

Last week, a young reader who enjoyed reading my old gym posts sent me an email asking for advice on London gyms. At the end of the email, he'd written about one of his own gym encounters from a few years ago. It's a nice story so I asked him whether he'd mind if I posted it, and later that day he replied to say that I could use the story if I wanted. The story is a little more explicit than what I usually write here, so bearing that in mind, if you want to read the story CLICK HERE [over 18's only]!

A few years ago when I was about 19, I was going to the gym regularly during morning free periods, usually between 10 and 12. With lots of time on my hands I usually stayed and made use of the facilities to their full extent. I noticed another guy, maybe two or three years older than me, who was there most of the times I went but I never really thought much of it.

Sometimes our showers coincided and I could see he was quite serious about the whole gym thing; his body was sleek, like a swimmers (think Ian Thorpe) and his cock always looked a little swollen. He looked a LITTLE like a buffer version of Christian Slater. He also took a long time under the showers, they were REALLY good strong power showers!!! He had never been in the steam room before, and I didn't expect him to be there this time. In fact I didn't expect anyone to be there since there was nobody else in the gym at that hour.

When I walked into the steam room though, dripping with water, pumped from my session and thinking about having just seen him in the shower, all of my muscles (including my favourite one) were a litter bigger. It was quite steamy and I walked straight towards the back, but I had to stop short because he was sitting right in front of where I was headed, his face in line with my navel, almost eye to eye with my old chap. I was taken aback for a moment, but so as not to seem rude I sat down next to him.

He asked how my workout had been, I wasn't expecting that either, and he said he had seen me taking some of the aerobics classes over the last few weeks (true). We made some cheeky chat about standing at the back of the class to get a better view of all the ladies, and then he asked, quite seriously, "So you prefer to be at the back then?" I could see the innuendo but I had no idea what to do with it, so I turned it on it's head "You prefer to be in front?"

It went silent for a while and we both looked down for a bit. I snuck a sly glance at his cock and could see it was definitely making it's presence known. My own little friend reacted instantly (and rather overfriendly) - boing, I was up!

I started to cover it and noticed he was rising quickly too, but what I didn't notice was his hand coming through the air to land gently on my shaft. I jumped, and he took his hand back and apologised. I apologised, he apologised again, then I took his hand and guided it back to my cock.

He stroked me so gently. He got on his knees in front of me and slipped his mouth around me. It was like velvet! I am ashamed to say I didn't last very long, but he didn't move, he swallowed it all. No girl has ever swallowed for me before or since, and when he sat up I could see he had unloaded as well.

"First time?" he asked me; I lied and said it was - but it was the best (up until then).

We both showered again, I got a little manly pat on the backside as he left and that was that. Although I never saw him again, I always get hard just remembering it!

I'd be interested to hear from any readers with views on where the best gyms in London are for gay guys interested in activities. Also, do any other reader's have any gym stories of their own that they'd like to share?

A surprise at the gym

It's true! I got spotted by cuteCTguy when I visited his gym as a guest recently. It's a good gym, and definitely has a high proportion of good looking guys. In fact I probably spotted cuteCTcuy first, building up a healthy sweat in a Body Attack class, but since I'd finished my workout I head to the showers.

I'm minding my own business as I towel myself dry, when suddenly I realise that cuteCTguy is smiling at me! Of course I understand that other guys like to admire my naked body and I don't mind at all (!) but cuteCTguy has other things on his mind. He tells me that he saw me cruising his colleague GN3, which is a bit unfair! Perhaps I was admiring the general scenery in the shower area :-). But I didn't know until cuteCTguy pointed him out that one particularly cute guy was GN3.

"Anyway, I think you're the expert when it comes to real-life cruising", I joke quietly with cuteCTguy, "I'm more comfortable online".

"Hmmm, not sure GB", replies cuteCTguy, "don't forget that I've read some of your old gym sauna postings!"

I must try and visit cuteCTguy's gym more often. Presumably he can't get too involved with his colleagues, and it would be a pity to see all that talent go to waste!

A cruisey steam room in West London

Thanks to one of my readers for providing me with a suitable icon for a gay banker, which now appears on my profile.

The same guy also told me about the steam room in the men's changing rooms at his gym in West London, where full anal penetration has been seen. I've never seen anything close to that in the sauna in the men's changing rooms at my gym. Although I'm upset that the sauna at my gym is perhaps permanently out of action (Gym sauna "Closed for renovation"), the information I received today suggests that if I want really saucy gym stories I need to change gyms anyway!

Gym sauna "Closed for renovation" :-((

I've had a lot of fun in the sauna over the years but it might all be over. I go to visit the sauna after my usual Monday morning workout and there's a sign on it saying "Closed for renovation".

On my way out I ask how long its going to be out of order and get some bad news - perhaps permanently. I've wondered before whether a cruisey sauna is an asset or liability to a gym (Another new face in the gym sauna), and with a new manager at the gym since last June I guess things are under review.

Now, if gaydar were to be closed down for any reason I'll really be upset!

Sauna fun last Monday evening

I usually go to the gym in the morning. Following a gym class timetable change however, one of my favourite instructors has moved to Monday evening, so I thought I’d try doing his class at that time instead.

After the class, although I need to get back to boyfriend number 1 for supper, I can’t help popping into the sauna to see if there’s any action. Of course, I’m not usually in the sauna in the evening so I don’t recognise anyone. This makes it harder to find a bit of fun, because when you’ve seen someone before you’ll usually have a good idea of whether they participate in sauna fun or not.

Before long, there are just four of us in the sauna. I have a strong suspicion that all of the guys are interested in participating, but one of the other guys seems much more shy than the rest of us. Suddenly he leaves, and within 5 seconds of the door closing behind him, the three of us remaining are gently playing with ourselves.

There are two of us on one side, with the other guy sitting opposite. Soon the guy sitting opposite comes over to sit between the two of us on my side. I fondle his scrotum, and soon he cums, which prompts me to cum too.

But even before we’ve finished cumming the door is opening. It’s the guy who left only a few minutes previously. The fact that he’s coming back is a strong sign that he’s interested in sauna fun (How gay men cruise gym saunas and steam rooms) but of course on this occasion he’s too late. One by one the rest of us leave. If only the poor guy had been a little less shy and more eager then he could have joined in too.

An exhibitionist in the gym changing rooms nearly gets caught

After chatting to C and J were in the gym sauna last Thursday I head for the shower. But I spot T who’s an occaional but enthusiastic participant in sauna fun heading in the opposite direction. So after a quick shower I head back into the sauna to see if there’s going to be any action with T today.

Apart from C, J and T, there are a couple of other guys in there that none of us recognise. Slowly T starts to get an erection. I can tell he’s feeling really horny by the way he doesn’t seem to care if other guys see. Unfortunately the guys we don’t recognise show no signs of wanting to join in so nothing much happens. After a few minutes the guys start to leave, including C and J.

All of a sudden it’s just me and T. Immediately T comes and sits next to me and touches me. I touch him back, his erection is very hard. Suddenly he pulls me towards him and starts snogging me, wow this guy really needs action today! But almost immediately we have to stop, the sauna door is opening and a guy who’s definitely a non-participant is coming in.

T leaves for the shower and I follow soon afterwards. T’s got an enormous erection, and he has to try and hold his towel in front to hide it. In the shower I spot him playing with himself a bit, and he looks a bit upset when he sees me leave, heading back towards the lockers.

Looking back towards T, I loiter in the corridor wondering what he’s going to do. I don’t have to wait long to find out. He follow me into the corridor, looks around, and starts playing with himself there and then. I can’t believe it! One of the guys who are still showering might come out and see him, or another guy might see him as he enters the corridor en route to the showers.

He clearly needs to cum. I go up to him and rub his shoulders, smiling at him and watching him. The excitement of the risky situation, coupled with me touching him turns out to be what he needs – he explodes into the towel he’d holding in front of him. “Thanks mate”, he says quietly, “I needed that”. I think I’d worked that out!

Back at home, life goes on almost as normal since I had the conversation with boyfriend number 1. But we both know that underneath this pretence things are not normal, and there are issues to sort out. I’ve been offering to show boyfriend number 1 the photos of the holiday I had with boyfriend number 2, but he keeps putting me off. We definitely need to discuss things further so when I get round to showing boyfriend number 1 I’m going to make sure a few photos of boyfriend number 2 are included. Hopefully that’ll be the catalyst to trigger a further conversation.

Back in the sauna in the London gym

Today was my first day back in the sauna at the gym in London. I'm in the men's changing room heading for the showers but just ahead of me I see J enter the sauna so I follow him in. Shortly afterwards C comes in, followed by W shortly after him.

Although we're all naked and perhaps after a bit of fun we start talking to each other. It’s clear from the conversation that in my absence J and C have been getting to know each other quite well.

“How was your holiday, have you got them all sorted out now?” C asks eventually.

I guess this is a reference to the last time I saw C in the sauna when I told him that I had too many boyfriends (Some of us have such complicated lives), meaning boyfriend number 1 and boyfriend number 2.

“Not sure, but it was a great holiday”, I reply, “Has the gym been busy?” I don't want to talk about the boyfriend situation. I'm feeling really rotten about it. I still adore boyfriend number 1 but I’m not sure he’s going to forgive me for going on a three and a half week holiday with another man. He won’t let me cuddle him in bed anymore. I’m hoping he’s going to be more rational.

“In here it’s been busy”, laughs C answering my question, “on one occasion last week there were six of us all playing with ourselves!”

We chat about the gay scene in the gym, and a bit about the London gay sauna scene too. W doesn’t really join in the conversation – he hasn’t participated in sauna fun since he got a boyfriend about a year ago. After a few minutes W leaves and I beckon to J.

“Come and sit next to me over here”, I say smiling. I really like playing with J (A session with J in the gym sauna last Wednesday).

“I’d like to”, says J, “but I’m late for work”. None the less he comes and sits next to me so I start playing with him.

“I’m feeling a bit left out,” says C.

“Well don’t”, laughs J, “come over here.”

Soon C is standing directly in front of J and while I’m playing with J, J is simultaneously playing with me and C. But we don’t get very far. We spot a guy that doesn’t participate in sauna fun heading for the door so quickly we disengage. Ahh well, there’s always another time!

Some of us have such complicated lives

With travel agents still sorting out my holiday with P (Boyfriend Number 2 - Past the point of no return?), I head for the gym sauna last Friday after my usual gym class.

When I enter there’s just a straight guy in there wearing swim shorts, but soon C comes in naked as usual (Business as usual in the gym sauna on Friday). Another guy follows C in so now there are four of us.

“Hi C”, I say cheerfully.

“Hi mate, how are you?”, says C.

“Fine, off on a four week holiday to Asia next week so you won’t see me for a while”

“That’s a long trip, going on your own?”

“Unfortunately my main boyfriend couldn’t go, so I’m meeting my Asian boyfriend out there and going with him.”

C hesitates. Both the other guys in there are probably straight and I’ve just broken an unspoken rule – no overtly gay conversation in front of straight guys. But at the moment I’m finding my boyfriend situation difficult and I’m past the point of caring what people think. I need to talk to other guys about it but I can’t talk to any of my mainstream friends because they think I’m 100% faithful to boyfriend number 1.

Neither of the straight guys show any interest whatsoever so C continues.

“Yeah, I sometimes meet my wife and kids on location for a holiday.”

Now it’s my turn to be dumbfounded! Surely there is no way that C isn't gay, so how can he possibly have a wife? Although he’s only been a member of this gym for a month he’s already one of the most promiscuous guys in the sauna scene.

We chat a bit about his wife. It turns out that at the moment she lives in New Zealand with his kids, sothey sometimes meet each for a holiday somewhere in between the UK and New Zealand. Before too long both the straight guys have left so there’s just me and C. As soon as they’ve gone I ask

“But are you gay or straight?”

“Probably gay”, he says smiling. “But if anything serious happened it’s her I’d turn to. I don’t think she’s got any idea that I prefer guys though.”

C goes on to tell me that although he doesn’t have a full time boyfriend, there’s a gay friend from New Zealand who he sees a lot.

“If I’d met him before my wife then he’d probably be my boyfriend. He knows about my wife and he doesn’t care. There’a also a policeman I see every month or two, but he’s just into hardcore anal sex.”

“I’ve got a similar problem at the moment, I’ve just got too many boyfriends.”

But unfortunately he’s not interested in talking about my situation. After this conversation, having a session with C doesn’t seem appropriate so I make my excuses and head for the shower. At least I’m not the only person with a complicated life.

A session with J in the gym sauna last Wednesday

Every day at the moment I’m talking to P, also known as Boyfriend Number 2 (Boyfriend Number 2 - Past the point of no return?). Things are a bit difficult with boyfriend number 1 at the moment, so I’m really looking forward to the holiday with P. But I also hope that things will improve with boyfriend number 1 somehow, we've been together since 1989 and I don’t want to lose him. Boyfriend number 1 still thinks I’m going on holiday alone, and I'm worried about what might happen if he finds out I’m going with another guy.

With all this going on, I was glad to see J last Wednesday. Although I had seen J quite recently (Business as usual in the gym sauna on Friday), I hadn't had a session with him for ages.

The sauna is empty when I enter, apart from J sitting naked in the corner. I go and sit close to him. We chat for a couple of minutes, with me telling him about the holiday I’m about to take. Then I tickle his scrotum underneath.

“Hmmmm”, he says, “I’ve missed this!”

So have I! We end up getting more intimate with each other than we’ve ever done before, with me putting my arms round him, and with lots of cuddling and body contact. It’s very lucky we’re not disturbed. By the time I get him to cum, I’ve got my left arm round his shoulders with him sitting on my left and his legs over my lap. I love playing with J. We kiss each other gently on the lips before we leave the sauna, something else we’ve never done before.

Since I seem to be numbering boyfriends at the moment, I guess that J is the strongest candidate for Boyfriend Number 3, even though we’ve never spent a night together.

Business as usual in the gym sauna on Friday

Yesterday I head for the sauna after my usual Friday morning gym class. Just before I enter I spot J, heading for the shower.

“See you in a minute”, he says.

I guess that J means he’ll be going into the sauna after the shower, so I enter the sauna. Inside there's C, along with a guy I don’t recognise.

Soon J comes in. The last time I saw J he was about to do an exam (The guy with the twitching cock in the gym sauna) so I ask him how it went.

”Oh fine, I passed. But I’ve still got loads more exams to do over the next couple of years”.

Thankfully it’s been ages since I had to do an exam.

The guy I don’t recognise leaves just as another guy enters. The guy who enters was in the same gym class as me this morning. He has a nice well-proportioned body, and is naked. I’ve seen him in the gym class several times but never in the sauna. I always thought he looked like a gay lad, so perhaps I’ll get a chance this morning to find out for sure.

Immediately, the guy from the gym class takes up quite a cruisey position, sitting on the bench facing C with his legs open. C has the same position on his side of the sauna, so both guys have a good view of each other’s tackle. A straight guy would never take up that position, the so I decide that the guy from the gym class must be gay.

While all this has been going on, I’ve been quietly chatting to J, but now J has to leave for work. C also leaves, probably just for a cool-down shower, so I’m left with the guy from the gym class.

Looking over at him, it’s hard to see what’s going on between his legs because he was sitting facing C, but I think I can make out a semi-erection. So I turn to him and stare at his tackle area, trying to make sure he notices. Soon I spot him glancing over at me, and I’m sure he notices that I’m starting to get an erection too. Things progress, and we’re just at the point when we’re watching each other fondle ourselves when C comes back in.

The guy from the gym class obviously doesn’t realise that C is an active participant in this kind of Sauna fun because he stops immediately, trying to hide his erection. He looks over at me and looks a bit perplexed because I don’t try to hide anything.

C resumes his position facing the guy from the gym class. However, after perhaps a minute the guy from the gym class changes his position so that he’s now facing me. I guess that he's doing this to hide his erection, but why does he want to hide it from C given that when he first entered the sauna he took up quite an aggressive position cruising C?

Perhaps a bit peeved that the guy from the gym class seems to have rejected him, C also changes his position so that he’s now facing no one. But in any case, now I’ve got a great view of the guy from the gym class. As he watches me fondle myself, his erection develops even more.

But how to take things further? There are three of us who definitely all enjoy sauna fun, but C and the guy from the gym class aren’t connecting with each other, so a threesome seems out of the question.

After a minute thinking about it I decide to be bold. I move closer to the guy from the gym class and immediately put my hand out to tickle his scrotum. He motions his head towards C with a grimace on his face, obviously concerned that we shouldn’t do anything while there’s a guy in the sauna who he’s not sure about. Of course I am sure about C, so I whisper “don’t worry” with a big smile on my face.

Slowly I start to play with him. I can feel his erection getting even firmer beneath my hand. Again he motions towards C, still very unsure about what I’m doing, so again I say “don’t’ worry” and wink at him. He smiles back. In spite of his concerns he’s clearly enjoying the attention. Curiously, C doesn’t show any sign of wanting to join in. It was only 14 days ago that myself and C had had an enjoyable private session together (A session with C even though the gym sauna is broken).

After about another minute he feels the need to take over from me to finish himself off. He’s now at the stage when he doesn’t care about C any more, and lowers his legs so that C can see what’s going on if he wants. I fondle his nipples, and scrotum underneath, and he puts on a great display. Soon its all over. Immediately afterwards he helps me reach a similar conclusion.

On my way to the showers I say cheerio to C. “Yes, cheers mate” he replies in an indifferent voice. If we’re alone together at some point soon I’ll have to ask him why he didn’t come and join in the fun.

A quickie in the gym sauna

A difficult morning at work forces me to take a very late lunch. After a quick sandwich I head for the sauna in the gym for a bit of relaxation. Lunchtime tends to be busy with straight guys, but in the early and mid afternoon it is often possible to find guys looking for a bit of fun.

But when I enter, there are a couple of straight guys in there chatting. They’re both naked, sitting on opposite sides, and I get the impression that they work in the same office.

“I suppose I should marry her, but she never seemed interested before”

“Make her an honest woman mate. Anyway, I could do with a good party!!”

They’re friendly down-to-earth guys, and they involve me in their conversation too to a small extent which is really nice. The only problem is, it’s not the kind of company I’m looking for, so after five minutes I leave to take a cool-down shower.

When I re-enter the sauna it’s empty. Soon a cute Indian guy enters wearing a towel, but he keeps himself to himself. So after five minutes I leave to take another cool-down shower.

I enter the sauna for a third time and again it’s empty so I lie down naked to relax. Soon a guy I don’t recognise enters, naked and quite well-hung. He takes up a mildly aggressive cruising position, facing me so he’s got a good view of my naked body, his legs apart so I can get a good look at him too (How gay men cruise gym saunas and steam rooms). So not much doubt that he’s after a bit of fun.

Once I’ve sat up and turned to face him it doesn’t take us long to connect with each other. Soon I go and sit next to him. He’s probably about the same age as me, but bigger and more muscular, with a lovely smooth body. We have quite an athletic session lasting about 5 minutes, and luckily we’re not disturbed.

I do wonder how many guys get off with each other in this sauna. Even though it’s very cruisey, it probably only averages half a dozen or so each day given that it’s often difficult to get a situation where everyone in the sauna wants a bit of fun.

Brief encounter in the gym sauna last Thursday

Last Thursday I enter the gym sauna after my morning work out and it's empty. So I lie down naked on my back to relax.

Shortly afterwards a slightly older guy comes in wearing swimming trunks, but when he sees me naked he immediately takes them off. Hmmm, that's interesting I think, the only real reason to do that is if you're interested in a bit of fun!

Although we glance at each other we don't quite catch each other's eye. I'm interested to find out whether my suspicion is correct, so I sit up and take notice of the situation. To test him out, I allow myself to become slightly excited downstairs.

He notices my slight excitement. He's sitting sideways on to me, with his legs up on the bench which hide my view of his cock. A couple of minutes pass, with him glancing over to me, and then I realise what's happening. He's started to play with himself, although because of the position of his legs it's almost impossible to tell! This makes me more excited, which he notices, and which gradually makes his more eager to show me what he's doing.

Eventually to get a better view I move to sit closer to him. He moves slightly close to me to and touches me, but the excitement is too much for him. "I'm gonna cum soon", he whispers, and within 10 secs its all over.

I smile at him saying "nice one mate", and head for the shower. Even though I didn't cum myself, a bit of fun before work always puts a smile on my face.

A session with C even though the gym sauna is broken

Last Friday morning I do my usual morning gym class and head to the sauna afterwards. But when I get to the sauna it’s not working. Damm, I was looking forward to the sauna all through the workout.

The gym also has a spa mixed spa area, so instead of going to get showered and changed I head over to take a dip in the jacuzzi. Action isn’t going to be possible because this is a mixed male/female jacuzzi but I want to relax after the workout so it’s the only choice available.

After I’ve been in the jacuzzi for a few minutes, C arrives (The guy with the twitching cock in the gym sauna).

“I’ve reported that the facilities aren’t working”, he says when he spots me.

The other guy in the jacuzzi won’t know that C means, but I understand perfectly.

“Yeah, it happens every now and then”, I say.

Soon the other guy leaves so we can talk a bit more openly.

“That sauna is the main reason I come to the gym here”, jokes C smiling. “I used to belong to the gym round the corner, but there was no action there. Well, once I got a blow job from one of the cleaners, but apart from that nothing.”

“I once got a blow job here from one of the staff on reception”, I say, remembering an incident from about two years ago. “No, actually I got a blow job from him twice!” I’d met this guy in the sauna, he was a good looking guy who was very well endowed. However it was busy in the sauna, so we went to the permanent locker area which is often very quiet (Afternoon fun in the gym sauna on Thursday). And this happened on two separate occasions.

C looks like he’s getting a bit frisky. “Pity there’s no where to go for a bit of privacy, well apart from that room you told me about a few weeks ago”, says C.

“So you haven’t seen it yet?” I ask.

“No, but isn’t it a bit obvious, two guys entering and leaving at the same time?”

“Sure, I wouldn’t recommend entering and leaving at the same time. Let me show you, I’ll go in first and you follow after a minute or two.” Looks like I’m going to get a bit of fun after all!

Luckily the room is empty so I go in, leaving the door slightly ajar. Soon C joins me and we lock the door. “I see”, says C, “quite comfy!” By now we’re both quite frisky so we don’t take long to complete the tasks at hand.

Afterwards I explain to C that we should both leave separately too. “You leave first, I’ll lock the door behind you, and then after a minute or two I’ll leave”.

“I see, very crafty”, says C smiling.

Leaving the gym, I head to work a happy grin on my face. I had had some fun, in spite of problems with the usual facilities.

Another new face in the gym sauna

I enter the gym sauna last Tuesday and there’s a guy I don’t recognise in there. He’s quite slim, probably early 30’s, sitting there naked but with a small towel on his right leg hiding most, but not all, of his tackle. I sit down opposite him and look at him. We just about catch each other’s eye, so it’s very likely that he’s interested in a bit of fun.

Before we can take things any further, E comes in. I hadn’t seen E for at least a month (Back in London in the gym sauna last Monday) so it’s good to see him again. We exchange greetings and a few sentences, and then instinctively go quiet. We both look at the stranger and wonder whether he’s interested in some fun.

I stare at him, and especially his tackle area. And sure enough, slowly he gets excited. Which make me and E excited. So we start to play with ourselves a bit, but then we’re interrupted. It’s W. I get on well with W but he has become a bit of a pest recently when it comes to sauna fun. He used to enjoy participating, but not since he got himself a new boyfriend 9 months ago (The guy with the twitching cock in the gym sauna).

W is clearly tempted. The new guy looks at W and gradually starts touching himself. I can see that W is starting to get an erection. But instead of letting nature take its course, W decides to leave. Too bad.

With W out of the way I move to sit between E and the new guy. We end up playing with each other, and have a lovely time together. Afterwards I ask the stranger what his name is.

“I’m K”, he says.

“Have you joined the gym recently”, I ask, “I haven’t seen you here before”.

“Actually I’m a member of one of the other branches of this gym. But they’re renovating my gym for a few months, so we’re allowed to use the other branches.”

“Is there anything like this sauna in your branch?”

“Yes actually, but I think they may be getting rid of it in the renovation.”

Later I wonder whether a cruisey sauna is an asset or liability to a gym. On the liability side, straight guys might complain about not being able to take a relaxing sauna without tripping over gay guys getting off with each other. But there's also no doubt that some gay guys join this gym rather than any other because they like a spot of fun after their workouts.

The guy with the twitching cock in the gym sauna

I enter the sauna as usual after my gym class last Friday and there’s W lying naked on his back, chatting to a guy I don’t recognise who’s also naked. Last time I saw W in the sauna he was wearing shorts (A conundrum in the gym sauna). I wonder whether he might be interested in a bit of fun again given that he's now naked.

I sit down and look over at the guy I don’t recognise. Hmmm that’s interesting, I think, occasionally his slightly erect cock is twitching so maybe he’s after a bit of fun? Soon the guy with the twitching cock leaves and I get chatting to W.

“I’m probably going to be immigrating to Canada at the end of the year with my boyfriend”, he tells me.

I find out that he’s been with his boyfriend around 9 months. That’s interesting, because that’s approximately the length of time since W was an active participant in sauna fun.

I go for a shower to cool down. Coming out of the shower, I spot J entering the sauna so I follow him in. I've got a soft spot for J and I haven't seen him for over a couple of weeks (Fun before work on a Monday morning (again!)). Once inside there are two other guys besides me and J, one of whom is the guy with the twitching cock, so it doesn’t look like fun with J will be possible this morning.

But J’s got something to tell me, “I’ve got an exam today”.

J’s studying to be an accountant and he confirms that it’s an accountancy exam. I look over at the guy with the twitching cock. He looks at me and I notice his cock twitches again.

J leaves so I follow him out, “Do you have any shorts with you today?” I ask. I’m wondering if we could visit the obscure lockable room outside the men’s changing room where we've had fun before (J gets my mobile phone number).

“No I don’t, sorry”. What a pity. I’m sure a bit of fun before his exam would have been a good idea to help him relax, but never mind. I wish him good luck, have a quick shower to cool down again, and go back into the sauna.

There are still two guys in the sauna, but instead of the guy with the twitching cock, there’s the exhibitionist from the previous Friday who’s sitting there naked (A nice show in the sauna before work). We catch each other’s eye. But with the other guy there too, nothing seems likely to happen. After a few minutes the guy with the twitching cock enters again. Soon after that, both the other guys leave. So now there’s just me and the guy with the twitching cock.

I look over at him and his cock twitches again. And again. I start to get excited. He notices and starts getting more excited too. We look at each other and smile. So as I had thought, the guy is after a bit of fun. After a couple of minutes of watching each other I move to sit next to him, but after less than a minute another guy enters so we have to try and hide our erections. I take the opportunity to leave for yet another cool down shower.

Back in the sauna, the guy with the twitching cock and the guy who had interrupted us are both still there. I go and sit opposite them both. Carefully, I look at guy who interrupted us and he looks back at me. He’s slightly obese, but at least he is naked and he does show some signs of being interested in sauna fun. The guy with the twitching cock is sitting with his legs on the bench, and from where I’m sitting I can see that he’s playing with himself quite openly, but because of where his legs are this won’t be visible to the slightly obese guy.

Slowly I work on the slightly obese guy, looking at him, looking at his hands covering his cock, and touching myself. And eventually I can see that he’s getting an erection. The guy with the twitching cock notices too, and for a short while we all just sit there playing with ourselves. But then another guy enters so again we’re interrupted. Damm, it’s not normally this busy. Looking disgruntled, the guy with the twitching cock leaves, followed by the slightly obese guy. After about a minute I follow him for another cool down shower.

While I’m showering, I notice the guy who had just interrupted us coming into the shower area too. That means that there’s now probably no one in the sauna. So I decide go return for just one last visit in the sauna, in case a bit of fun turns out to be possible with the guy with the twitching cock.

When I enter the guy with the twitching cock has already returned, and indeed we’re alone. He starts fondling himself, but before we can start anything else he says “Wow, great gym this isn’t it, I only joined last Friday”. It’s clear that he’s referring to the fun that's possible here in the sauna.

It’s a bit unusual in a cruising situation to talk like this before the activities, because it makes the atmosphere social rather than sexual. So I agree with him, make a vague comment about the nice guys that frequent the sauna, and start stroking his leg. He looks me in the eye but he doesn’t say anything so he’s clearly got the message. Within a couple of minutes it’s all over, with an impressive spurt on his part that must have landed more than two yards away.

Afterwards I tell him a bit about the regulars, especially the guys that initially one wouldn’t think participate in sauna fun.

“It’s a pity there’s nowhere private to go”, he says. So I tell him about the obscure lockable room.

“It’s amazing here”, he says. “In the last week, there have been some days when I’ve been morning, lunchtime and evening”.

As he leaves he pays me a compliment, saying “You’ve got a good body”.

“That’s because I use the gym as well as the sauna facilities! By the way, what’s your name?”

“C”, he says as he leaves for the shower, so I reciprocate and tell him my name.

C has only been at the gym one week and already he seems to know everything about the sauna scene. I thought I was one of the cruisiest guys there, but even if I ever did have that dubious distinction, it’s clear to me that the honour now belongs to C.