After a successful pump on the gym floor, watching the eye candy in-between chest presses, there’s nothing like scoping out a hottie in the locker room and finding out those long stares on the floor weren’t just a fluke.

In this article, we’rel discussing how to read the signs of a gay gym cruising, how to make a move, and how to successfully ensure that you don’t get caught in a compromising situation that could result in the suspension of your gym membership.

Scoping the Workout Floor for a Gym Hookup

Cruising at the gym isn’t limited to the locker-room. A lot of your best work is going to be done out on the main floor of the gym – scoping out who’s getting hot and sweaty.

Your Gaydar doesn’t have to be too finely tuned to be able to pick up the signals on which guys are responding to your eye-fucking, but here’s some general tips to consider.

Eye-contact is everything, so be aware of who might be looking in your direction. Remember – there’s lots of mirrors in the gym, experienced cruisers will be making strategic use of the mirrors to get your attention.
Don’t put all of your eggs in one basket. If a particular guy doesn’t seem to be responding to what you’re putting out, see who else might be around and up for some fun.
When you’re ready to seal the deal, make sure that your move to the locker-room is intentional without being too obvious. If you’re following a guy in, give it a few beats and then off you go. If you want to make sure that a specific guy follows you in, give it plenty of eye contact, some body language, a strategic sweat wipe and make it clear that you’re not in a hurry to be anywhere.

Locker-room Cruising

Having worked up a sweat pumping some weights, and hopefully having made it clear to potential fuck-buddies that you’re up for some fun, the locker-room is a bit of a make-or-break moment.

Stripping off your sweaty gym-kit is your moment to shine. This isn’t just a case of taking your clothes off, you need to get naked with intention. This is when you channel J.Lo in her Hustlers era – you need to strip like all eyes are on you, like you’re expecting punters to start slipping dollar bills into your thong – this is not a time to be self-conscious.

Once you’re naked, take your time. You’re not in a hurry – let whoever is watching get a good look at every inch of you. Check your phone, take a moment to find your towel, just stand looking into your locker for a bit. Be relaxed and confident.

This is a good point to check who has been watching your performance. Assess your options, give it some more eye contact, and make your next move.

Gym Shower Cruising

In the golden age of gym cruising, it was generally the showers where things started to get a bit hands-on.

This was when pretty much every gym had basic gang-showers – just a row of shower nozzles and everyone just stood shoulder to shoulder.

Sadly, most gyms these days have upgraded to more private shower stalls – usually with frosted glass panels and doors.

While you might strike it lucky with a gym that still has some form of old-school showers, what you’re generally going to find is that the showering process provides some opportunities for eye-fucking and display of hard cocks, but not really faciliate any actual action.

If you’re feeling bold enough to pull a guy into a shower cubicle with you, you need to be a bit careful about being busted by gym staff. It’s generally fairly obvious when there’s more than one guy in a shower and you don’t want to risk your gym membership just for the sake of a quick fondle.

Gym Sauna Cruising

If you’re wanting a bit of man-on-man action in the gym, then the sauna is generally where it’s at.

If your gym doesn’t have a single-sex sauna in the locker-room, then you need to change gyms.

The gym sauna is not like your everyday bathhouse sauna, where you can expect action to happen, cruising the sauna at your local gym takes some patience and a bit of an understanding of gay cruising language. You need to figure out who is just there for just a steam and who may be interested in something more.

Guys in a gym sauna can often be a bit more reserved. You might find – especially in North America – that a guy will come into the sauna and sit on the bench with his towel securely wrapped around his body. If the towel stays firmly closed, that’s generally a bit of a red light. If he starts to loosen his towel and look a bit more relaxed, it’s game on.

Strategic wiping away the sweat on your body is an easy way to signal that you want to crank things up a bit. Wipe the palm of your hand across your sweaty chest, down your stomach and then along the shaft of your cock. It probably won’t take much for your cock to chub up a bit – this is perfect. Let him see it – see whether he responds with a similar move.

Once you’re clear that you are both on the same page, you need to move relatively quickly – it’s obviously hot in the sauna plus you could be interrupted at any time. Shift across so that you’re sitting next to him on the bench. Get your hands on his cock. It’s unlikely that you’re going to have time for much more than a quick blowjob or maybe just jacking each other off, so get on with it – make the most of your sweaty fun.

Keep your towel close by as your sauna encounter could be interrupted at any moment. It depends on how strict your gym is about this kind of thing – if another gym-user walks in on you, they’ll probably only lodge a complaint if you don’t cool it and you’re being offensive.

Gym Threesome

You can really take gym sessions with your workout buddy to the next level if you’re both on the same page in terms of cruising.

Being at the gym with a workout-slash-cruising buddy means that a gay gym threesome is always on the table. Also, you can effectively tag-team – one of you acts as lookout while the other is getting off with whoever you’ve picked up that day, load dumped, you then switch.

It gives you a whole new motivation for hitting the gym.

Written by Gareth Johnson

There’s nothing new about a circle jerk – it is pretty much what it says on the tin, and the appeal is self-evident. But it tends to be something we talk about during health crises – a way to reduce sexual contacts while still delivering sexual pleasure.

As the Covid-19 pandemic took hold around the world, sexual health experts reminded us that circle jerks were one of the strategies that our community used to try and navigate the HIV pandemic before treatment options were developed.

No doubt, with Monkeypox now on our list of worries, there’ll be plenty of helpful suggestions to turn to circle jerks to reduce potential exposure to the virus, but you could also argue that circle jerks should always be one of our go-to options for getting off. We’ve always got time for some mutual masturbation.

While there’s plenty of sex-on-premises venues that make finding places to enjoy a gay circle jerk fairly straightforward, it can also be fun to arrange your own jerk circle. This article will discuss just how to do that.

Planning is similar to a regular, full-contact sex party

If you’ve ever got a group of guys together for a sex-party, then you’ll be able to apply all of that experience to arranging a circle jerk.

The first step is to figure out who you want there and find out whether they’re available and up for it.

If you want to add some new faces to your fun, hook-up apps are a good starting point. If what you’re organising is a circle jerk and nothing else, it’s really important to be up-front about that – you need to ensure that everyone attending is clear on the dynamic of the event.

There’s no restrictions on how many guys you have in your stroke squad – you can invite as few or as many bate brothers as you want. You’re probably going to want enough guys there so you’ve got some sexual energy in the room, but also the bigger the event gets then the harder it is to manage the logistics of it all.

Arrange the Space and Location

Finding the right venue for your circle jerk is a fairly essential step in your planning.

It’s ideal if you can have the event at your place, or at the home of one of your buddies. This gives you total control over who takes part, and also puts you in charge of drinks, snacks, lube and cum-rags.

If you can’t host, hookup apps like Squirt make it easy to find the best cruising spots. Squirt.org’s cruising listings help you find the places, like bathhouses or sex clubs, where hooking up is easy and sleazy without taking your guests home.

Sometimes, your local bathhouse includes viewing rooms where the set-up is designed explicitly for a circle jerk. Even better if they also have your favourite vintage porn on the tube.

Keep In Mind Your Safety

Strictly speaking, a circle jerk means no touching anyone else. This reduces your risk of exposure to STIs or other infections.

You might require that attendees demonstrate that they’ve been vaccinated against whatever the health issue of the day is.

Holding your event in a space that has good ventilation is probably a smart move for a gay sex party, but even just paying attention to basic hygiene is good practice. Make sure that there’s plenty of paper towel and hand sanitiser available for your guests.

Cyber Like You Mean It

It’s a slightly different experience, but online or virtual circle jerks can be a lot of fun. It’s a great way to connect with people in different locations when you can’t get together physically. An online option also makes it more accessible for guys who might feel intimidated at turning up to someone’s apartment and getting naked.

The group chat rooms on Squirt make it easy to jerk off with others or arrange other types of video networking to bring your jerk circle together.

Written by Gareth Johnson