How they convinced me I'll never know. Well, that's not true. The allure of free alcohol after dropping nearly $17k on my upcoming wedding certainly helped fuel my willingness to participate in this embarrassing contest.
Without going too far into a back story that I'm sure you guys don't care about, this past weekend was my bachelor party. I was taken to Atlanta by a group of my good buddies and the 7 of us in total were living it up for a long, 3-day weekend in and out of bars, hotels, and strip clubs. It was our first night there when Kevin heard about a bar with an unusual game: Cock in a Box.
The gist: there's basically a line of glory holes that you stick your junk through for the audience to vote on which they like best. All participants get 2 free drinks (well, of course; no top shelf stuff) BUT the chosen winner gets free drinks all night, whatever they want.
The downside is that if you're chosen to be the winner, you have to accept the award so everyone would know it was YOUR dick. Apparently pictures are allowed at this bar.
With enough liquid courage in us we all reluctantly agreed to give it a go, some of us probably more excited or terrified than the others. I thought to myself, I'll get two free drinks and some people will have a picture of my dick but no way to link it back to me. I mean, my cock was fine, Sarah didn't seem to have any complaints, but I knew I was average at best. I assume the crowd will go for the biggest one and I wager one of my buds is packing something bigger. I'd hate to be them. Or would I? I guess I wouldn't mind a couple extra inches.
Anyway, we got to the bar and it became clear pretty quickly that this wasn't a bar catering to female clientele.
"It's a fucking gay bar, guys!" Brad exclaimed when we got there.
"Well," Rodger said, "I guess that makes sense. I've never really seen a lot of women vying to see a bunch of dicks."
"That's not the impression I got from your wife," Dan joked.
"Oh ha ha ha."
I spoke the first words of hesitation, "do we still want to go through with this?" It was one thing to be showing my dick to a bunch of female strangers, it was another thing for them to be gay men.
Kevin doubled down, "It's still free booze. Who knows, someone might even buy me some drinks in an effort to get lucky!"
The group razzed him on that and how not even a troll would find him hot, but I did have to admit he had a point. Our group was, generally, good looking. We'd all taken care of ourselves in the years following college sports and while some of us packed on a few pounds since the glory days we were all still big. I knew gay guys liked that at least.
"It's Ben's big weekend, let him make the choice," said Mike.
Sean, my little brother, was the last of our group to speak, "I'm not a big fan of this idea either, but if Ben's in... brother solidarity."
I leaned into the crap Sarah was always spouting out about 'live in the moment' or 'enjoy the ride of life' and said, "fuck it. Let's get some free drinks."
At the front part of the club, Kevin expressed our interest to participate in the game. It quickly surfaced that we were a bachelor party of straight guys and that seemed to tantalize the person taking covers. He let us in for free!
Once we were inside one of the staff ushered us over near the back of the club and explained what we were to do. Apparently we had arrived just on time as the game starts around midnight on Fridays only.
There were 10 boxes near the back part of a stage where I assumed drag shows or beauty contests or something went on. You could get into them from behind the stage so no one could see which one you got into. They were basically just telephone booths made out of plywood. Not super appealing but I guess did the job.
The staff member said once we were in there the MC would start the show and more or less we'd be told what to do from there. They would narrow down contestants by number, which was painted on the outside of the boxes as well as the inside so we knew what number we were.
The guy checked us all out, salivating, and recommended we play with ourselves a bit when we get into the booth to 'fluff up a bit.' That idea sort of grossed me out and I knew I wasn't going to be winning anyway so I already decided this crowd would be getting a soft, limp anonymous dick in exchange for free booze.