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The latest posts from @Jock_4U. I recently got a gym membership for the first time, and I've been shocked with what I've found while spending time in the locker room and the showers. Granted, I didn't do the athletic thing in either high school or college, so this is my first experience (I'm 24). Now this may come off as homophobic but I’ve personally experienced some very uncomfortable advances from gay men in steam rooms in other gyms I’ve been to and have refrained from using saunas for over a year.

TLDR; I visited a YMCA which I found out has a major reputation for older guys cruising/being creepy. Had a great open shower and nice renovated facilities, but the gross behavior pretty much ruined the experience. Despite a fairly recent renovation, the locker rooms still had open showers. Though it's not as popular as it once was, cruising is still a part of gay culture — and there are some tips and tricks you need to know if you're into it!.

Grindr has both defined itself by and come to define the language of queer men. Louis Staples went in search of whether the quote marks were warranted or not. Downloading Grindr — then deleting it, before re-downloading it, only to delete it again — has become a modern rite of passage for queer men. The hook-up app revolutionised dating and sex when it arrived in , inspiring the likes of Tinder and the digitised, swipe-heavy dating world of today.

Grindr changed gay culture forever too: it created a visual map that proved that gay and bi men are literally everywhere sometimes just feet away! The app quickly became the most popular gay app in the world and, by , it had seven million users worldwide. But why? On the face of things, a gym buddy is just a friend to go to the gym with.

Michael, a year-old gay man who enjoys group exercise classes and going to the gym with friends, thinks this trend makes sense. Plus, they can suck each other off in the steam room or have sex in the shower. After speaking with Grindr users in London, I can confirm that Michael is right in suspecting that sometimes the search for gym buddies goes beyond a platonic friendship.

Many garments that have become part of the sartorial language of gay men, from jockstraps to tube socks and short shorts, are also rooted in sportswear. For some, there is clearly a feeling of empowerment in being legibly gay in a hyper-masculine space or reclaiming an aesthetic or pastime that they once felt excluded from.

Gyms are horny, but also quite anxious , places for some gay men. If they're not comfortable asking for the kind of sex that they actually want, this is a stand-in for that.

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So the gym is a risk-free place to meet men who might not otherwise agree to meet him. Social psychology might also tell us why men, particularly those who consider themselves masculine or straight, might highlight the gym as important to them on an app. The gym and Grindr are both places where men might feel competitive with each other or insecure about their masculinity.

Mestel thinks this affects gay men in particular. Or am I just jealous of them? These types of negotiations remind me of something PhD student Robin Craig observed while discussing why men might make an effort to appear more masculine over text. Surely, then, the same parallel can also be drawn between the digital space of Grindr and the physical space of the gym?

Why do men search for gym buddies on Grindr? An investigation Grindr has both defined itself by and come to define the language of queer men.

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