There are times when my journey to this place seems to have been a meandering drift of circumstance and poor judgment. Then there are other times, when I recognize that mine was a course charted by truly innate lusts and propelled by my own determination to explore these darker regions of my sexual psyche. There is no true beginning to this story, as it involves elements of my moral-genetic code, and so extends backwards into ambiguity. My first truly sexual encounter with another genetic male occurred when I was already married and just a few months past my thirtieth birthday.
It was a slender, well-dressed, gray haired gentleman who approached the table. He was holding my wallet. "You dropped this at the shop, Robert. As I said on the phone, I tried to catch you before you could drive off, but you were in too much of a hurry. I'm terribly sorry to have called and asked you to meet me here, but I didn't want you to panic when you discovered your wallet missing."
I felt my face radiate in the infrared zone of embarrassment as he held the wallet out.
I mumbled a thank you, as I took it. My intent was to stuff it into a pocket and make my exit, but he insisted that I examine it to be certain nothing was missing. He had a disarming smile that came dangerously close to calming my conscience. I glanced hurriedly into the leather pouch. Nothing had been removed, but a business card had been inserted. It contained the name, Julian, and a phone number. He slipped, uninvited into the booth beside me. "I didn't want you to feel that we're on anything other than equal footing," he explained about the card. "I own the shop you visited today. My wife and I live on the second floor, just over it."
Although this man and I had exchanged ejaculate through a portal between booths at an adult-bookstore video arcade less than an hour earlier, this was the first time we exposed our faces to one another, or uttered more than a grunt, a groan or a moan. I could not hold his unflinching gaze. I shifted my eyes to the tabletop. The realization that his having looked into my dropped wallet for information as to my identity had stripped me of the garment of anonymity caused me to physically tremble with remorse over my unintended sexual interaction with him. All that I knew of him was that he was capable of performing the most intensely satisfying act of oral sex conceivable. He had taken my cock into his mouth and down his throat without so much as a pause to suppress any reflex gag. His gullet effectively became a surrogate vagina; warm, wet and enthusiastically accommodating.
I noticed, for the second time that day, the wedding band on his hand. The first time was when he had reached through the window at the arcade to motion me to bring my erection closer. The sight of that simple band, encircling his finger, had evoked a reassuring measure of empathy when he beckoned me. It caused me to assume that his situation was like my own, a matter of a married man compelled to seek sexual excitement beyond the monotony of simple spousal intercourse. When he reached through the portal and beckoned, I turned my back on the video of a woman orally servicing two men and stepped closer to the small window. Obediently, I had followed the directive of his gesture, placing my erection, into his hands, during that exchange.
"Your wife doesn't mind living over a pornography shop," I asked, feeling as nervous as I had been standing against the thin partition in that video booth, as I let him maneuver me into a position that permitted him to begin fondling and caressing my genitals.
He chuckled. "Well, if you enter from A Street you step into a very chic shop of pure erotica, all upscale and socially fashionable. That entrance from Z Street, the one you use is on the backside of the store. It's all impure pornography from Z Street. That side is most popular with married men...men such as yourself, Robert." A waiter, who seemed to know Julian, smiled at the conversation he was overhearing. I squirmed uncomfortably. The waiter took our order for drinks, brought them quickly and then discreetly returned to the bar. The drinks, which were very strong, were also very welcome. The alcohol massaged my nerves. Even before I'd finished the first, a second round was provided. "My wife and her friends will only enter by way of A Street," Julian continued. "I often prefer coming and going by Z Street. She indulges me in these eccentricities." Without pausing, Julian shifted gears. "I suppose I could have simply had you pick up your wallet at the shop, but I wanted to actually meet you in a setting less embarrassing for you."
I started to offer an apology for the inconvenience my carelessness had caused, but he waived it aside. "I don't believe that your leaving the wallet behind was entirely an accident, Robert. I don't mean to say it was deliberate, but I very much suspect that on some level you want to explore."
His blunt appraisal was too close to the mark. My protestation was immediate. "I'm a married man. I appreciate the return of my wallet, but I have no interest in pursuing any relationship...."
My objection to his assumption was brushed aside as effortlessly as my apology had been. "Not a relationship, Robert. I'm talking about a simple exploration of your desires...more specifically, the darkest cupboards and chambers of your libido. Earlier, after you'd emptied your testes of cum, why didn't you pull up your trousers and simply flee."