Frustrations And Trends

Received from a reader:

Hi FuelMix

Lately I've had some lousy experiences in the saunas around town and thought I'd send you an update.

1.  Galaxy

Still as grubby as ever with even more Mainland Chinese guys. This is definitely not a place for the goodlooking or the hardbodied.  Age wise seems to be 30s and up.  Don't get me wrong I have nothing against older guys - it's just Galaxy gets them in such huge amounts and they're not even good looking.  To use your phrase they're FUGLY. (Although I agree Fugly can come in all ages too).

The place gets packed every evening between 3pm - 9pm, sometimes so packed you can't even move in the dark areas.  But there's nobody hot to play with!


2.  ABC

So out of desperation I went to ABC across the street.  OK the GAMs are marginally better looking - but only just.  But they come with waaaay too much attitude and that's a real turn off.  There's a lot of Stand And Model there.

It does get a variety of nationalities and while I was there, I saw 5 white guys who seemed to be in their 30s.  They were OK to look at, and as you earlier said in your blog, they looked like standard Central Escalator clientele.  Some of the white guys hooked up with each other, others tried to hook up with the GAMs.

Again, pretty disappointing and that pop/dance radio station they play is just awful.  Hadn't been to ABC for a while and just can't figure this place out.


3.  Follow Me

I was curious to see what this place was all about since you slammed it in your reviews. I went early in the week around 7pm. Whoa.......now I know why you slammed it......  There were just 4 GAMs there.  One had a nice tanned muscular body but he was so full of himself he told me and the others not to sit near him !!

I left after 20 minutes. 


4.  QQ Fitness

I hadn't been there for ages, must have been over a year ago so dropped in on a Thursday evening about 6:45pm  to check it out.  About 10 people all GAMs.  There was one very attractive brown guy maybe Pakistani or something with a really muscular body.  The other GAMs were circling him a lot and touching him as he walked by.  But that was it.  I could see wedding rings on the GAM's fingers so maybe that had something to do with it. The hottie didn't stay long.

Even though there were 10 people there, there was not much of a vibe. It's open 24 hours but not sure whether it actually gets hot guys who show up regularly.  Won't be going back there for ages.


5.  Gateway

I hadn't been to Gateway in over 3 years and after my experience at QQ decided to drop in.  I thought it couldn't get any worse.  I was wrong.............There was just me in a towel.  

A few minutes later this GAM with a US accent shows up. He opened his locker but remained fully dressed and then sat in front of one of the computers checking out the Mainland Chinese escorts on gayhk.com

OMG........The place was deserted.  Spotless and immaculate but virtually empty.  The staff were eating cookies and watching TV even though the place is supposed to be open till 1 a.m.

I left after about 30 minutes.


6.   The Great

This is the 24 hour one in Tsim Sha Tsui on Austin Road.  What a fuckin' disaster even at the end of the week after work. 3 GAM twinks, one in the TV lounge yapping on his phone, the other 2 vibrating in the massage chairs.  The place was so dead they'd even turned of the porn in the private rooms.  I'm thinking "WTF.....?"

The only exciting thing there is the jacuzzi.  You can play with the controls.

So there you have it, pretty lousy experience all around. Maybe I just picked the shitty ones...??


FuelMix says:

.......well...., Yes and No......

Gateway and ABC have nice premises and some people actually think The Great is nicely decorated too.

But by and large, the clientele that would show up at your 6 choices would be Fugly or attitudinal -  or in the case of Gateway, non-existent.  (And that's been an historical observation with Gateway - just ask any fag around town).  As for Follow Me, the less said the better.

Underneath your frustration there's a more serious point.......just what IS showing up at the saunas these days......?

The Trends

1.   More and more fugly married men for starters and not just GAMs. You're definitely not the only one to notice wedding bands on pudgy fingers.

2.   Then there's the Mainland Chinese infestation of Very Rich Megacity Anecdotally, many of these "recreationally gay" Mainland Chinese are married and word gets around that Galaxy is the place to go.

3.   Who hasn't noticed the expatriate Indian and Pakistanis from the UK and South Asia ?  They're showing up at ABC, Action, Alexander, Big Top, CE and Galaxy. This trend kicked in over 2 years ago and is set to increase.  Are they Out to their chauvinistic conservative families or their soon-to-be-arranged wives.....? Nah.....

4.   Expect more ex-European Union types falling over themselves to get here.

5.   Noticed the number of Russian tourists wandering the streets of Very Rich Megacity? Everything gay is illegal in Russia.  Here's a prediction........it's only a matter of time before Russian guys start showing up at the gay saunas in VRM.  You read it here first.  This blog is already being read in Russia.

6.   FuelMix is still waiting for the majority of his readers to twig that the gay sauna reviews are as anthropological as they are anatomical.

"Magnetic Hot Spots"

Whilst there's no shortage of venues, there is a shortage of "magnetic hot spots".  Sure, it's well known that ABC gets white guys but it's also well known that they're similarl to or in many cases, the same people, who show up at Central Escalator.  Are they hot...?  Nope.

Even at the "magnetic hot spots" circuit of saunas, one sees the same faces and muscular bodies ad nauseam. And it doesn't matter how long the gap has been since you last dropped into the place. It's Deja vu caught in a loop of attitude and discount entry.  Somebody once remarked that if you go into a sauna Dark Room and everbody knows your name, you're over-exposed.

The fag mantra used to be, "So many men, so little time".

FuelMix suggests, "So many men, so little choice".

Thanks for the updates.

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