Now we have Fitness SF who split off the Gold's Franchise due to Gay Politics, now closing the Steam-Room!
I told the Manager, (who was kind enough to listen to me 2 days in a row that was in fact, "Phallic Shame". Indeed I am one of those guys who joins a Gym where I can see examples of Gay Men being Gay Men. I have tried 3 times to go to a regular gym where you won't find such a Cruisy Atmosphere, What happens is that it's a waste of my money, I end up thinking of reasons not to go to the Gym. Having Eye Candy helps keep me going to the Gym, making me a healthier Gay Man, and keeps me wanting to pay my Monthly Dues.
I've learned to join what I call a "Fun" Gym, SF Fitness formally Gold's Gym/Castro was a Fun Gym, I enjoyed, loved going there to work out. Believe me, I'm there to work out. But the Shower and Steam-Room are my rewards. Truth be known, I seldom had time or desire to actually go in that tiny Steam-Room. But I was proud that it was there.
Blake, the Manager said he got complaints. Blake, I worked for several Airlines, Six Flags Over Texas, and run my own Healthy Friction Masturbation group. You're always going to have a few complainers, but it seems strange to me that Guys don't want to be around Cruisy, Sexually Charged Men in a Gay Neighborhood. Why do these Men even join a Gym in the Gayborhood? If Gay Men and, overt Sexuality aren't your thing, Vote with your Feet and to the Hetro Gym. Why even be hang out in the Gay Neighborhood.
I know of of Gay Men who feel if we just acted str8, then the str8 People would accept us, I don't agree.
Sexualty is part of Male Experience.
Embrace it.
It's part of our Gay Male Legacy.
We don't have to follow a str8 Model of Morality to be part of Society.
My very start of going to a Gay Cruisy Gym was in 1981, I was driving down Oak Lawn Blvd. in the Gay Neighborhood of Dallas, Texas. Diana Ross was singing "Muscles" on the Radio, and I made my decision, Yeah, I want Muscles! I pulled into that strip mall that contained my first experience of a Gay Gym, where we celebrated being Gay Men.
Diana Ross "Muscles"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wXtnABtbVSc&feature=share&list=PLC7A0FF9F5A4B14B8
For me, Working out resembles Sex.
It's Physical.
My Heart beats with the Exercise.
Gay Gyms and Gay Sexuality go hand in hand.
Blake was kind enough to listen to me tell him my Gym Experience from Dallas, to Atlanta, then onto Los Angeles (Silver Lake), West Hollywood, and then to San Francisco. Again, I've tried Str8, But I stop going to the gym. I choose to go to a Cruisy Gay Gym. After all when I joined Gold's Gym/Castro (now known as Fitness SF/Castro), it was a cruisy gym, with a Steam-Room. I'm not sure I'd join this gym now, Every gym I've signed a contract with had a Steam-Room, this one now doesn't and in all places, America's Gay Mecca.
This Feminization of Men in America needs to stop, It isn't good for us.
Especially in Gay Male America.
So, I say, Don't be embarrassed of your Phallus, Be proud, You're a Man, a Gay Man.
Don't wear your towell going to and from the Shower!
Be proud of being a Gay Man, a Man, with a Penis.
This closing of the Steam-Room in a Gay Gym in San Francisco is "Phallic Shame",
and that's not good for our collective Metaphysical Self.
