posted January 06, 2009 05:12 PM         

Also you have some women that would not be caught dead with out thier makeup on I don't care where they are..I just heard about this on the radio talk show yesterday..To each his own I guess..

posted January 06, 2009 05:18 PM         

My cousin said he and his friends held a lotto once on how many times she'd do it before quitting for the day.

posted January 06, 2009 05:29 PM         

Ok, it was temporary, so I just steeled myself for that and got through it. But then it KEPT on going, this time dealing with the election, and it was like a war between CNN and FOX, with people turning up the volumes to be heard over the other. Finally, management stepped in and threatened to keep the TVs off if they didn't stop that nonsense. But hey, presidential elections cause temporary insanity, so I just had to steel myself longer, right?

posted January 06, 2009 05:55 PM         

Swimsuits I understand, because that's what many wear in communal saunas. In the case of those who are overweight, I can see it being used to cover up certain parts, too (not that I care personally, especially as I don't use the sauna to people watch, but can understand being self-conscious about it).

The first sauna I used was a private one owned by a hippie family and people used it naked (better to get out and splash about in the cold water nearby--just as I like getting out of the sauna, taking a cold shower, and going back in, as nothing like it to let you know you're alive!). So that's how I learned to do it. And to the best of my knowledge, it wasn't an orgy waiting to break out, and I certainly didn't fantasize about jumping the bones of/having my bones jumped by everyone around me (as I told someone a little snarkily who wondered why it didn't work out that way, "something about sweating buckets tends to kill the mood"--I didn't bother asking him what he thinks goes on at nudist camps and beaches).

Anyway, I'm one of the very few that use the sauna in the nude. (I DO sit on a towel, of course--and as hot as it gets, I can't imagine anyone putting their bare butt on the benches anyway!) As far as I know this doesn't bother anyone, and it's also traditional anyway (even in some communal saunas outside the USA--that is, men and women together--are like that). And I just figured those who wore swimsuits were also doing it the way they got into the habit of doing it, too. But gym clothes confuses me.

The added part is one guy there said he'd be too scared of being molested by gays if he went into the sauna naked. I overheard 2 women talking saying they didn't use the sauna at all for fear of being molested by lesbians. I'm just baffled by this assuming nudity = sex attitude people have, and the belief that people have such poor impulse control. I don't know about the guys (the gay and bi, that is), but even many lesbians would take offense at some stranger coming onto them in a sauna, out of fear of losing membership if nothing else. Sexual harassment of any kind is taken very seriously there, not to mention insurance concerns, and I'm sure getting caught making out in the sauna would be a one-way ticket out of there with other fitness centers hearing of it. Not to mention the very real risk of serious burn injuries.

IDK, maybe it's another "see it on TV too much, so it must be that way in real life." People get naked on TV and then have sex, therefore it must be that way in real life, too, no exceptions (ie, if people get naked to have sex, then everyone who EVER gets naked is intent on having sex). And having sex in the sauna does sound like one of those unrealistic scenerios (well, outside of Russia anyway) that probably shows up in those outlandish programs like CSI that so many weirdly think are "so realistic."

posted January 06, 2009 08:02 PM         

Makeup and perfume, even deodorant in a gym and sauna is gross and smelly.

posted January 06, 2009 11:57 PM         

I used to hurry to the gym *after work*, change into work out clothes and dash off to the cardio machines . . . taking off my make up at the time seemed like a *tedious waste of time* . . .

I did and still do wash make up off for sure if I'm swimming laps.

posted January 07, 2009 03:45 AM         

But no I do not put on make up to atract a man, I just love doing it and always will.
Is it a mask against the world? Most probably....so what?
Everybody puts on a mask against the world. EVERYBODY. Just different types. That happens to be mine.
I think people should be allowed to express themselves anyway they choose.
I do not judge people who go to the gym looking like a good wash wouldn't go amiss.

posted January 07, 2009 07:51 AM         

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I do not judge people who go to the gym looking like a good wash wouldn't go amiss.

Live and let live. Express yourself heh heh heh heh....

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posted January 07, 2009 08:35 AM         

There's limited situations in which I want to roll around in someone else's sweat and germs. There is one unfortunate individual charged with this task, and he has Virgo Rising, so, I'm sure you're relieved to learn, the hygiene standards are quite reasonable.

posted January 07, 2009 11:27 AM         

A good friend of mine plays for the local cricket squad. He told me that at the start of one season a team member opened up his kit bag, shook the mud off last year's trousers and put them on.

Once I worked as a hotel chambermaid. There were 3 bridal suites with four-poster beds. The full-time girls told me that in the last year three grooms had wet the bed because they were so drunk. I was a teenager at the time, and was so disgusted, I thought to myself I would divorce the b@stard right away.

posted January 07, 2009 11:59 AM         

I used sani-wipes before and after using each machne at gyms, and always used a towel in the sauna. After awhile they had an attendant go about with Lysol and paper towels doing the same.

Oh about makeup....
A little mascara and liner I can understand.
Its the full face spackle and gloppy hand lotions/creams that I dislike as it gets on the vinyl. I am talking of the chicks who came in looking like Elvira, or bad drag queens, and smelling like a brothel, not regular hygiene conscious ladies. Most of them used the bikes or did aerobics, not machines much anyhow.
Yeah the beaded sweaty guys(hairy or not, the hairless "roid" guys having body acne..ewww)) are gross too. Dripping all over the equipment. The "drippers" were mostly the "roid" guys who had heat flushes.
Fortunately there was a box to submit complaints anonymously on stinkers (both dirty clothes wearers and over perfumed)and slimers and they would get a warning....

posted January 07, 2009 12:11 PM         

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I find libraries really erotic. There is something about the silence.

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posted January 07, 2009 09:41 PM         

You might like this vid:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZK0GmiSMNGI

posted January 08, 2009 01:52 AM         

I don't know if it's my Pluto in Virgo in 6th but I think germs in libraries. All those books and not knowing who has touched them and where their hands have been.

But book shops - with brand new books - those crisp, clean pages, the book, the smell, the look, the feel.

posted January 10, 2009 05:22 PM         

Maybe they went to the gym after a long day at work and didn't have time to take off their make up?