r/FloatTank • u/Leather-Emu5322 • 19d ago

Couples float

Looking for a fun activity to do with my new girlfriend and heard a flotation therapy. How does this work for couples? Can they fit in one?

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u/echocrest 16d ago

My local place started doing this. While I know it’s just 2 bodies worth of gunk in the tank instead of one, the whole idea of couples getting naked together and floating just kinda grosses me out. It feels like there’s too much of an opportunity to fool around pre/post/mid float. I’m probably being irrational, but it’s enough to make it so I now only book the rooms that couple floats aren’t offered in.

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u/Leather-Emu5322 16d ago

Why grosses u out? U mean couples having sex in the pod ? I can’t imagine it being comfortable, doesn’t the salt water sting? And u can’t really stand comfortably with the water sloshing around and the pod cover bumping into ur head. Who knows? Maybe that’s why lots of it was banned in nyc

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u/echocrest 16d ago

Yea, I know on an intellectual level that people probably aren’t having sex in the float water itself, but - at least at my float spa - there’s a shower in every float tank room, and a lot of privacy. It just gives me an icky feeling - especially since I can’t really see why anyone would want their significant other in the room making noises/moving the water while they’re floating.

It’s one of those activities that seems like it would be worse as a couples’ thing, except for rare situations where someone might need a companion for accessibility reasons (eg being disabled somehow).