Confessions from the sauna(part 1)

Alcohol, Drugs & Teabagging.

*YOUTUBE VLOG at the bottom the the page*

After a good gym session or if i’m just feeling a little achy I like to spend 20 mins or so in the sauna - its the place to be! especially if you like being around nearly naked men! of which - 50% of them have trench foot. There is no age limit on the naked sauna club & it’s a place where anyone can go to get their worries out & not get judged, even for their holey ‘Y fronts’.

There are some amazing stories that come from the naked sauna, both from strangers & from people who say they are your friends when actually they just want to get in the shower with you.

In the past 4 years or so that I’ve been at my gym I’ve had some amazing, inspirational & quite frankly some very weird conversations with dozens of waxed & unwaxed men on the wooden pew, but the main thing that comes up is struggles with alcohol & drugs, either from the past or something that they are still struggling with.

Don’t get me wrong there are a lot of funny stories that come from nights on the booze, but equally there are a lot of bad memories, bad decisions & in some cases lives ruined and families ripped apart.

I have many stories myself of funny or silly things that I have done whilst pissed in the past that will stay with me forever. I also have have done a lot of things that I’m not proud of, the times that I have driven over the limit or just been a massive Bellend & upset people, if you are one of those people please accept my apology.

In our sauna mass debates one of the big problems men tend to find is that they feel pressured by their friends to get fucked up, sometimes friends get jealous too & want you to continue drinking for their sake otherwise they wont have a ‘drinking buddy’ to talk about the same boring shit day in, day out.

It’s become quite a thing in recent years to do sober October or dry January which is brilliant. I started my journey with sober October. you will be amazed how much clearer you head is and how many more pennies are in your bank that you could be spending on an only fans subscription.

If you are spending £20 a day like I was drinking at home that’s £7,500 a year - chuck in a few nights out on the tiles & you are £10,000 deep! - 10 years on that game and you have literally pissed out a very posh car!

there is no criteria or age range for people who are living with or have had problems with drink or drug addictions.

Naked conversations generally suggest that people are unhappy or bored so they drink or take drugs at the weekend, they are fully aware that it could cost them their jobs, livelihoods or families.

Some have professions that they have trained for years for, gone through college & university & yet still find them selves doing it each weekend only to spend the next week panicking & regretting it in case they are drink or drug tested at work.

My best friend often says that if alcohol was invented today it would be banned, no ifs or buts, & you certainly wouldn’t be doing it at the table on Christmas day with grandma or letting your kids have a dabble.

Society says that its fine to do so & its as right of passage to get bent out of shape on your 18th birthday, parents buying their kids their first legal pint to celebrate…

For most people, birthdays, Christmas, christenings & funerals or in fact any family event is a reason to drink. Could you imagine if everyone snorted coke and dropped E’s at baby Jennifer’s christening…. yet with drink its absolutely acceptable, in fact its part of the plan.

Things that are spoken about behind the steamy sauna door stay behind that door - this is obviously a subject that plays on a lot of peoples minds as it gets spoken about more than boobs, fast cars or even teabagging!

I’m glad that the naked sauna is an outlet for men to air their concerns about their habits or addictions without being judged or your friends calling you a pussy for not wanting to do it.

to those small minded people I say - FUCK YOU.

to the people pissing in the sauna - I hope you burn your bollocks.

& to all my budgie smuggling friends I say - “you got this” one day at a time my brothers.

ITS GOOD TO TALK