More and more, we hear about athlet g out of the closet — and to gym locker rooms. Expert Rick Clemons tackl mon fears straight men have about sharg locker rooms wh gay men and explas why those fears are pletely unfound.
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IS HE CHECKG ME OUT? WHAT GAY MEN THK IN THE LOCKER ROOM
This is partly spired by my thread 'n't stay flaccid' a few days ago and a siar thread on LPSG foms. I wonr if there's a difference straight and gay pots of view on this. - Have you ever got an erectn the lockers/showers? - Do happen often? - What did you do? Did you try... * gay locker room shower *
In this example, you happened to see him naked a settg that n be sexually arog for a lot of gay man. Jt as you didn’t choose to be gay and have the feelgs you have.
Summer mp my sophomore year, after ach left, Varsy guys held wrtlg match to terme who got the remag lockers the big varsy room. I don’t thk they are gay, eher.
GAY SNA ETIQUETTE
* gay locker room shower *
I see hts of ternalized homophobia that le, and I thk he’d be a lot more fortable if he alt wh . Rich: Jane Ward’s 2015 book Not Gay kicked off a lot of disurse about “straight” guys who engage “gay” sex, and I thk did a real disservice to nuance by beg totally crlo of self-labelg. Given the societal prsure to be straight and the history of closeted gay, bi, and queer men sayg one thg and dog another, I don’t necsarily thk we need to take people at their word when they say they’re straight and do thgs that suggt otherwise.
I thk what happens is people say, to themselv, “Well, gay/bi/queer people are like this. Do you go to particularly gay gyms? From Slate’s piece on them: “The rults of ‘Is mutual masturbatn gay?