Steam room rules?

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The gym I go to give you a large towel & a small towel, although you can ask for 2 large ones if you want to. Anyway most guys just use the small towel in the steam room to sit on, its not big enough to wrap around, & use the larger one to dry off with. This just seems to be the norm, although I do notice some guys asking for a second towel to use in the steam room, to me it seems kinda a waste to use a large towel for. The hot tub is outside at the pool, so if I go swiming or to the hot tub I'm in shorts anyway, but sometimes after a work out I just want to sit & steam for 10 minutes,,,,actually there is so much steam that you really would not notice who has what on anyway.
 
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I just joined a new gym. My old gym was very blue collar working class/military guys. There was little modesty in the lockers, showers and steam room. This new gym has a lot of white collar guys that are either office types or medical professionals. I walked to the steam room naked and was alone so I only used my towel to sit on. Eventually a guy came in and saw me naked so he dropped his towel and we wound up talking for a bit. The next time I went in I was surprised to see about 7 guys all wearing their towels. I was naked so I wrapped myself before I sat. After a while I thought fuck it and dropped my towel and layed back. It's a big room with lots of space so it wasn't like I was in someone's face.
Do guys in most gyms keep towels on? In high school & college I never experienced this. Is this yet another part of modesty in American culture?
I have to tell you, laying naked and talking man to man just felt good. I'll miss that if this gym is uptight.
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Hi Jake,

I've experienced the same thing in the steam room at my gym. I love a good steam after a hard workout. I find it really helps with recuperation and is just plain relaxing. I was in the steam room today after my workout and had a great conversation with another guy that was using it. We were both naked and letting it hang, but there were a few prudes in there with their towels wrapped tight, or had their underwear/swimsuits on. We were sitting on our towels because there is actually a rule there that you must be in/on something (towel, swimsuit, parka :wink: - ok, kidding on the last one, but nothing would surprise me anymore with the uptight attitudes going on in the gym today). A majority of the guys go in there with their underwear, swimsuits and even spandex tights on :eek:. I prefer to let the steam get at my entire body. I used 2 gyms in the past where everyone in the steam room were as naked as the day they were born - no towels to sit on, and definitely no swimsuits, underwear or spandex (only the weirdos wore those). Like you, I had some awesome conversations in the steam rooms back then with other guys and we were all naked. Often we would continue our great talks in the communal shower after we couldn't take anymore of the steam (back in the days when communal showers were more common). I remember the first time I used the steam room at my current gym. I walked in naked (no towel) because that's what I was used to. Another guy (younger) told me that the gym rules state you can't be completely naked in the steam room. He was so uptight and freaked out that another guy would be naked in the steam room. Unbelievable! :confused: Unfortunately he was right. My current gym is so uptight, prudish and I would even say Victorian in their attitudes about nudity in the men's locker room. I just don't get it :confused: Oh well, to keep the prudes happy I just sit on my towel in the steam room now. This way I'm not breaking any rules, and I can still enjoy steaming in the nude - the way it should be.:smile:

P.S. I have really enjoyed reading your posts in different threads. I wish that I had known someone like you growing up. A man who is not afraid of being a man and celebrates his masculinity with other men. It took me a long time to be able to do that. Keep up the great posts dude.:cool:
 

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All you American guys need to come to Europe, chill out and get naked!!! There is one sauna at my gym with 2 doors one from the female changing room the other from the mens, everyone men/women/boys and girls are naked, natural and not hung up in anyway about their bodies or genitalia!!

Where is that gym, exactly?

Cuz I'm taking a trial membership next week.:biggrin1:
 

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I choose my current gym based on what I had seen in the men's lockeroom -- not the guys -- just their habits. :wink:

Good mix of both (99% str8) blue and white collar guys. It is a 50/50 split when it comes to wearing a towel in the locker area -- but in the wet areas (toilets, urinals, sinks, shaving bar, massage room, whirlpool, sauna and steam room) every guy is butt naked.

Some new guys will try and wear a towel for awhile in the wet area -- but then they catch on that every guy goes naked -- espeically in the sauna, steam room and whirlpool areas -- as it should be.

As soon as I saw that dudes were butt naked with no hang ups -- just guys being guys -- I signed up at the gym.


Sounds like my gym that my husband and I got to now.

I assume most of you guys go to gyms that have seperate steam rooms for males and females.

Probably....true!
 

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It really depends. Some guys wear towels, some bathing suits, some nothing (except for a towel to sit on). Do what you feel comfortable with. I usually go nude, but cover up if everyone else is.
 

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I think it is ridiculous to wear something in a steam room.
A towel is only to sit on, not to cover your genitals!!

Martijn
 

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My club steam room and sauna (gender-segregated in the separate locker rooms) both have the 'rules' stenciled in vinyl letters on the glass doors- swimsuit or towel/covering required. That doesn't stop many guys from choosing to completely ignore the rules and go in bareassed naked - usually sitting on a towel. This is most common during the evening (like 8:30 pm and after) when the gym seems to be used least frequently.

Some guys will go naked- especially in the sauna- and will sit and read the newspaper, using it to shield their body from the other occupants- or, by tilting the paper forward- provide a full view to only one or two guys while blocking the view of others. I guess some guys like the attention- and enjoy getting a bit excited when they know that they are being stared at.

In our club steam room, most of the guys will wrap a towel around their waist and sit down- and the prudish guys will keep their legs and knees together (revealing nothing.)

A guy who seem a little more relaxed with the 'bonding scene' may loosen the towel just slightly at the waist, and will allow their legs and knees to open a bit. He will most commonly allow both of his hands to naturally fall on his lap (basically laying right on his cock) which helps to keep him covered- especially if he is among strangers.

From my experience, it's the club 'regulars' who are the ones who know the score: if a guy walks into the room and he can see thru the steam and he knows all the other guys there, he'll come in, sit down, part his legs, and give a direct view of his hairy sack or a helmet tip to the dude(s) sitting on the bench across from him.

If he's feeling a bit horned and feels a bit more daring, he'll unwrap the towel as he sits, so that one edge of the towel lays over the top of his lap- thus remaining 'covered-' until his hardon is parallel to the edge of the towel and comes into view. As for hand position, he'll still have his hands in his lap, but he may cup his balls with one hand and place the other on top of it- allowing an extremely subtle playtime that is difficult to spot in a steamroom- but the guys close to him know it's going on, and it can start a chain reaction. These are the guys that also, when exiting the steam room, stand up, completely open their towel momentarily to re-wrap it around the waist, and show a big puffy semi unit to the guys on the bench opposite them.

To me, it's just male bonding. It's a lot of posing, and 'alpha dog' behavior, granted, but it's all in good fun. And I'd say that the guys get, um, *chubby* only if its a peer group that is of a simillar age group, if all the guys are physically in good shape, and if all the guys are regular gym users who are there 3-4 times a week...otherwise the constant opening and closing of the steam room door, and the regular parade of hairy, overweight, or voyeuristic guys coming and going keeps everyone fairly well covered.
 

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Sit on a towel naked. You'll enjoy having nothing bind, cut, dig, rub or irritate any part of your body. Although I've been a member of my gym for 10+ years it can get a little weird when a colleage or coworker joins and it's their first time to visit...I wrap the towel like a skirt until we both feel comfortable.
 

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Basically it boils down to two fundamentals:
• shower before you enter the steam room and only "wear" a fresh towel when entering
• unless you're in a bath house, NO SEX
 

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L.A. fitness and YMCA in Indiana both require you wearing swimsuite or short while using sauna. and guys will wear fully clothes doing their exercise inside the sauna. I find very discussing about it and make the whole sauna smell bad!!
 

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It has always been my understanding that when you wear clothing in a sauna the heat is concentrated where you are covered. This is supposedly not a good thing. I always am naked when I sauna as is virtually everyone else using it and I've never witnessed any inappropriate behavior.
 

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Isn't it kind of like a red state blue state kind of thing? Red states: stay between the lines (the lines are our friends!), modesty is close to godlyness, nakedness is to be avoided, keep it covered fella. Blue states: hang lose, whatever dude, god gave you this beautiful body, hottubs and nakedness in the men's room. Viva la differance!
 

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Isn't it kind of like a red state blue state kind of thing? Red states: stay between the lines (the lines are our friends!), modesty is close to godlyness, nakedness is to be avoided, keep it covered fella. Blue states: hang lose, whatever dude, god gave you this beautiful body, hottubs and nakedness in the men's room. Viva la differance!

Exact opposite in my experience. I've seen only a handful of guys doing the "towel dance" here in Texas. You go up north, the damn yankees seem to have a LOT of hangups.
 

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In college and in locker room, always naked, sitting on a towel in both sauna and steam room. In both college and gym, sauna and steam were a part of the men's locker room, so it was NBD to be naked, going to or coming from the shower. I've never thought it odd to converse with other naked guys in the sauna or steam.

(And, yes, you're not supposed to wear anything in the sauna. I typically wear dog tags I got in the Marine Corps, but take them off before I go in the sauna.
 

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After just returning from a caribbean crusie, I went to the sauna/steam room while on the ship. I did have a towel wrapped around me while walking to the sauna, but lost it when i got there. I did use it to sit on. There was a guy wearing a swimsuit and one not. After I arrived and took my towel off, the guy with the swimsuit took off his trunks. Maybe some are more comfortable after they see what everyone else is doing.