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6 Guys Share Their Wildest Gym Hook-Up Stories
There are scant places outside of the comforts of your own abode where you’re almost guaranteed to jog into other people wearing minimal clothing. A hot beach in the summer, for starters. A strip club (need we say more?). And of course, the gym or your go-to boutique fitness studio. Which is no wonder why “workout crushes” are such a huge thing, for both fitness fanatics and instructors alike. Exposed skin + endorphins = pheromones, flying. One recent Bowflex survey even reports that 34 percent of men have had a crush on their trainer.
“The gym could be both the best and the worst place to meet someone, if we desire to go inky and white,” says Leora Manischewitz, Psy.D., clinical psychologist and certified sex therapist in New York. “The best because there’s a lot of single people, it’s easy to chat someone up, and you’re typically near other people physically. A tough place because there can be such an emphasis on how you observe, which can be something people obsess over and a bit intimidating.”
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If you’ve spent any day on social media lately, you’ve no doubt seen gay guy after lgbtq+ guy claiming that some random figure “bred” them. Though the scenarios include gotten more and more outlandish, they all impression back to one user’s now infamous post-workout hookup.
On January 6 — a fitting date for chaos to break out — X user @twunkified mutual a moment that had made their morning. “The instructor in this morning’s EQX class told me I had impeccable shape and called me Fine Boy I think I might be in love,” he wrote.
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Did @twunkified actually hook up with his Equinox instructor, or was he fabricating a story for a petite bit of internet clout? There’s no way to be sure — but regardless of the story’s veracity, it launched a meme that’s taking over the gay internet.
The meme has a simple formula: Borrow @twunkified’s sentence structure, swap a few words around, and you could find yourself being
Yes, straight men at my gym, it&#;s true – I&#;m secretly in love with you all
There are secrets and betrayals we must take to the morbid, as to utter them would cause untold destruction. There are judgments we can never admit, covert crushes we can never operate upon, and sworn enemies blissfully clueless they are at war, because nobody says it out boisterous. But I cannot hold endorse this confession any longer. It burns inside me, a raging fire that will consume me unless I finally get it out in the open. And it&#;s all for you, linear guys at my gym. At last, the truth: yes, I am in love with each and everyone of you.
I&#;ve been going to the gym now for over a decade on and off and, I hold to admit, I&#;ve fantasised about every single straight man I&#;ve ever seen close to implode on the stair master, or retching with effort taking on a full load of weights at the lat pulldown. You&#;re just all so fascinating, so inspiring, in your own way that I, a gay bloke, am simply powerless to resist your charms.
Let me count the ways in which I adore you.
1. The way you alter into or out of y “I want to bury my face in your ass.” When an attractive, thirtyish guy said that to me in the middle of a crowded locker room many months ago, it was a wake-up call. Up until that day, I hadn’t taken the notion of sexual activity at the gym, aside from the occasional cruise or furtive glance, all that seriously. Turns out, a steam-room circle jerk is as common an occurrence for some men as the flu in winter. John, a friend and thirtysomething North Sider who agreed to be interviewed for this article (all names in the story have been changed to protect sources), recounted numerous gym hookups when we spoke via phone. He mentioned a Naperville gym as the site of his first sexual encounter many years ago. “My initial reaction was it was a little creepy,” he says of a guy who started masturbating in an open shower stall across from his, “but I wasn’t turned off by it.” John surrendered to temptation and has since become a frequent practitioner. “I figure, why not maximize my incentives to work out,” he says. &ldquo
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