It's no surprise that people have sex in gym changing rooms. You're already undressed, you're slick with sweat — a look generously described as "sexy" — and the endorphins generated from planking for 45 straight minutes could feasibly put you in the mood for more strenuous physical activity. Members of the Virgin Active health club in Barbican, London were made explicitly aware of this on the 5th of August, when they were sent an email informing them that management had heard "reports of incidents linked to individuals [sic] inappropriate behaviour, specific to the male locker room facilities". Members were warned that "going forward… undercover police officers will be present in the male locker room and they will take any appropriate reaction should the need arise". However, a spokesperson for City of London police has since told Buzzfeed they've sent no undercover officers into Virgin Active's Barbican branch — or any other gym in the City. This is hardly surprising, given that the Sexual Offences Act prohibits all forms of sexual activity in public toilets, but has nothing to say about cruising in other locations. Under the Public Order Act , anyone who has sex in public can theoretically be charged if the police have enough evidence to convince a court that the activity was witnessed by a third party, or highly likely to have been witnessed by a third party.


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Space can get really tight—recently, it was so crowded that a man who was crouching down to get his stuff out of one of the lower lockers squatted his butt on my water bottle that was sitting at the edge of the bench. Sometimes a particularly good-natured patron will remark on how it always seems that you return to your locker at the same time that a person using an adjacent locker to yours does, no matter how empty or crowded the locker room is. But maybe also there is something to general rules of space-filling yielding to clusters of people who roughly enter and exit the gym at the same time. If he were smart, he would have slapped me with his workout glove for effect, but he just seemed like an idiot. I took their non-responsiveness as embarrassment for him. Maybe I was just imposing empathy, because I was embarrassed for him.
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Now I know plenty of other gay guys some are my best friends who engage in locker room activities. Does it matter of the gym is in a gayborhood, or obviously caters to a gay clientele? Should we insist those who get caught be arrested?