Let's get the footnotes out of the way. Consider a generous donation to whatever site you are reading it on. No participants were under the age of 18 when these alleged vignettes occurred. There are frank discussions of intimacy between adults and if that is prohibited where you live, please exit immediately. Any images subject to copyright protection are used only in lo-resolution for identification purposes only. If the eyes are looking up in longing, oh well. That is not protected.
Whew. I am exhausted already. The editor told me to drop something erotic up front rather than blathering on for an effective literary build up. Like that time I met a guy to see what possibilities there might be. It was like early 1990s, kind of raw like those years after the Cold War ended. The back and forth on how to meet guys looking for sex without meeting them, and without photographs was interesting. He turned out to be a former collegiate wrestler, still powerful in physique and with a goofy sense of humor. I hadn't been intending anything dramatic, mind you, so I was surprised when I rose to leave after a nice chat and a cup of coffee to be invited upstairs and being talked into going up there.
And after a surreal kind of interaction that involved a sort of sexy disrobing exchange, winding up in an upright but increasingly passionate embrace. That in turn quite reasonably wound up with my sinking to my knees on the floor before him, gazing an amazing penis, freshly showered and huge with a distinct upward curve and pronounced glans that I took great pleasure in bringing to a happy end, ropes of his jism spurting out as he gasped above me, my eyes rolled back to see the clenching of delight on his face and my unrequited pleasure at doing that for him.
There is a lot more to this, of course, but that may keep the editor satisfied until we get to the period of my life that was devoted to debauchery. That was a great and memorable decade. The pre-and-post ludes to it were sort of interesting as well, and naturally included some memorable sexual encounters.
So, here's the deal. If you are resting quietly some place you feel comfortable reading about that sort of thing, we can dispense with a lot of the usual crap. I like writing for you guys, thinking of myself in similar circumstances, that low but nearly constant feeling of mild arousal that can go critical at any useful (or inconvenient) time. This is about the time in society when aberrant hijinks were neither approved nor celebrated. That added some spice to the whole clandestine courtship ritual, shorn sometimes of even identity. Had I been born later, I might have groomed by the trans crowd and wound up living quite a different, and I think less satisfying way than I did. These days just being "gay" and out still has some consequences, but back then it was dramatic and some of the activities in some places could result in trouble. So, this is a weird time in life looking back on the erotic carnival that was life in this marvelous and fertile world.
I suffer from the writer's curse, so this has come up before. One of the first big ones was a friendship with a young man I worked with, selling men's clothes in one of those large department stores in the mall. It was a three-part romance called "CafΓ© Au Lait." Fun, and my first inter-racial fling. I refer you to the footnote in the header here about everything being of legal age. But it was the first real exposure I had to another gay male, since the interior line position I also held on the football team did not support a lot of more delicate interaction, and that may be why I liked it so much.
It turned into a cool sort of romance, since he was- what do we call it now? "BIPOC?" But it was very cool, which I suppose mixes blessing and curse in the way it always passes. There are some events that shadow the rest, of course. Some of them hang in memory, oddly focused and of great interest to me while filled with obligation and concern for others. I remember the process in attempting to manage the affairs of my own parents, a remote control process jointly attempted by their joint committee of children, all of whom lived a minimum of four states away from their lovely retirement home on the bluff above a sparkling bay on a gigantic lake of fresh, potable water.