It was my first week in college. Having grown up in a small, Midwestern town, the first week in college was an immersion therapy in things that my parents and friends had only whispered about. But one thing stuck out. When I walked into my dorm, and saw my RA kissing a man. I had never seen anything like it.
I had never been interested in women. I didn't know what it was, but when the other guys on the cross country team started rating girls' bodies, I did not understand what they were seeing that I didn't. Even when the videos on the iphone were being watched, I did not understand why all of the other guys reacted so strongly to it. Strangely, the cross country guys never were attractive to me. I didn't understand my desires, and as I would find out later, I like a man with a little more meat on his bones.
The dorm shower was the first time I ever saw another man naked. He was a redhead, skinny, but his soft cock dangled between his legs and light pubic hair sprouted from above it. I looked down at it, unable to comprehend my feelings but slowly realizing that I thought it looked elegant. He quickly turned around and grabbed his towel, and he was out the door.
I walked out the door of the shower, and walked back to my dorm room. My roommate was back. A strapping muscular man, he kept complaining about all the "queers" and "gays" on campus. I finally asked him what he meant by that. He looked at me and said, "you don't know what gay is?" I nodded my head no, and he looked up at me in shock. "A gay is a dude who likes to play with another dude's cock."
I asked him "What's wrong with that?"
He said, "It's gross. One of the guys will stick his cock up the other guy's butt. God says it is wrong. I can't believe you don't know this."
I said, "Yeah, for sure. Thanks for telling me." I waited for him to leave the dorm room.
After he left, I quickly went over to my laptop and consulted the fount of all knowledge about the human condition: Google. I searched "Gay" and got a less slanted definition, and slowly began to understand what I was feeling. I realized that it wasn't gross, and that plenty of people were feeling exactly what I felt. I also realized that there were a lot more people like my roommate, and they had a label too: Homophobes.
As the first semester went on, I realized that I wanted to experience what I was feeling in a more personal way. I needed to find a boyfriend. I had been on "dates" with a girl before for dances in high school and things like that, but I had never been on a date with someone I was actually attracted to. I had no idea how to even to start. Back to google. The first answer surprised me. Yahoo answers thought I should go place an ad on craigslist.
I went onto craigslist, and first I looked at the ads. A lot of the ads were short, and some of the guys were clearly looking for things way more intense than I wanted. Some were just weird, and I realized that those were bots, the bane of the internet. Since I couldn't find an ad I thought it would be good to respond to, I decided to post my own. The title was "Boyfriend search." The ad read:
"Hello! I am a young student here at the university, and I am slowly starting to realize how I feel. I am looking for a man to go on dates with, and to be my boyfriend. I'm new to all of this, and a little nervous, but I'm looking forward to getting to know you."
The first 3 responses were bots. I responded, until I realized that all they were interested in was my credit card number. The fourth response was a really creepy looking guy whose opening line asked if I needed my asscherry popped. I wasn't sure what to say, so I passed on responding to that one. After that, I didn't get any emails for a while.