Tag: sauna
My training in the gym took an unexpected turn (Part 1)
I know it’s a cliche, but now the new year has come I’ve decided to get down to the gym and finally try to get into shape. Not that I’m bad looking, I guess - but I’m quite skinny and I’ve always wanted a bit of muscles on me. So last week I looked up my local gym and spoke to one of the trainers there, and he got me signed up on a contract.
I know everyone joins a...
Owner of Hull’s biggest gay bathhouse says it’ll close before Christmas
It's closing due to the owner's mental health
Hull’s biggest gay bathhouse will close right before Christmas, according to its owner.
Brian Overton built and opened Club 69 on Wright Street in Hull’s city centre three years ago.
But due to personal mental health issues, Overton sold it to someone who plans to turn it into a block of flats.
‘I’m closing it due to personal reasons,’ he told Hull Live.
‘I’ve gone through it in my head a few times and I’ve tried...
Austin Armacost is now the face of a gay sauna in London
The model and former Celebrity Big Brother contestant features in a new photoshoot for the well-known UK bathhouse
Former Celebrity Big Brother contestant Austin Armacost has just shot an advertising campaign for a London gay sauna.
Pleasuredrome sauna is based in Waterloo, London. It is one of London’s longest running and best-known gay saunas.
However, it appears that model and former reality contestant Austin’s shoot appeared on Pleasuredrome’s Facebook page.
Austin Armacost new face of London gay sauna
In a post on Thursday, Austin...
The 5 ways gay saunas will surprise you if you’ve never been
When I first read that London’s biggest gay sauna, Chariots, would be demolished to make way for a luxury hotel, I was really disappointed.
Yet another historical gay safe haven would be lost to the gentrification sweeping major urban areas like London, Manhattan and the closer Brooklyn locales, Amsterdam, and beyond. As Dazed put so eloquently ‘assimilation is definitely not liberation’.
The stigma in the young gay community surrounding the ‘seedy nature’ of gay saunas, bathhouses, and spas is plagued with...
My dirty gay date in the gym (Part 2)
So I bet you can’t wait to find out what happened next with my mysterious gym hunk from the first part of the story My dirty gay date in the gym?
Obviously, because we never got to finish what we started in the sauna, I left the gym feeling wired and electric. I couldn’t believe something like that had happened - and with someone so hot! Obviously, every time I went to the gym after that I kept an eye out...
My dirty gay date in the gym (Part 1)
I know it’s a cliche, but now the new year has come I’ve decided to get down to the gym and finally try to get into shape. Not that I’m bad looking, I guess - but I’m quite skinny and I’ve always wanted a bit of muscles on me. So last week I looked up my local gym and spoke to one of the trainers there, and he got me signed up on a contract.
I know everyone joins a...