Just as an intro, these stories I write are all true from my personal experiences. I have been married to the same woman for 35 years, so I really have no outlets to tell these stories except this one. This will be the first of a number of bathhouse stories I will share from Houston. I also have some stories from Dallas, Chicago, and Cleveland. I live near Houston, but I travel to those other cities for work often.
I wrote a while back about a gay massage that I had at a bathhouse in San Francisco. The massage was pretty good, it was the first time I ever had a happy ending from a gay man. I do not consider myself gay, which you may find strange after these stories. Here are my reasons for this. (Please comment if you have an opinion on this, or can explain my actions better than I can...)
I do not find men attractive. I don't look at any of these men and rate them on attractiveness, my goal is just to have sex
I have no interest in having a relationship with a guy. I hardly even have small talk with them
I am still VERY attracted to women. A pair of big tits or nice legs gets my engine running every time. If there was a free use sexual spa that was men and women, I would move in.
I actually keep my ipad with me when I go to these bathhouses. I occasionally go back to my room to watch straight porn, in order to get charged up to have sex.
After the massage in San Francisco I followed it up with a gay massage in Philadelphia. This was at a small private massage parlor. I have been there a few times now. The last time I had a 4 hand massage, where the masseuse had a young (20ish) kid join in. It was fun, but not great. There are a lot of options for private gay massages in Houston. I have a hard time picking one over the other, because they all have a photo of themselves, and I just do not have an ability to see one as better looking than another.
Instead of finding a masseuse, I decided to see if Houston had a gay bath house. As it turns out there is one. Club Houston. I had a very light schedule one day and I decided to go check it out.
When you walk in, there is a guy at a desk behind glass. This is where you have to show ID (they hold onto your ID) sign in and pay. Still not understanding the deal, I just rented a locker. The other choices are to actually rent a room. They have about a hundred of them. The rooms go from a single with a small single bed and about 30 inches walking space from it to the wall, to double rooms with queen sized beds to rooms with TV's (4 or 5 gay porn channels) and also a few deluxe rooms that have sex apparatus. One room has a swing, and one has some kind of rack. I couldn't figure out what to do with it.
The rental periods are very strict. You can only rent for six hours, you cannot rent more than 1 six hour period in 24 hours, and you cannot exit the site and return during your six hour period.
Finally, after you sign in and pay, the guy gives you a towel and buzzes you in. 99% of guys only wear the towel.
I will describe the place a bit to give you the lay of the land. The first floor is filled with a large lounge type area with couches and tv's. You never see more than one or 2 people here. Nudity is not allowed, so keep your towel on. Next to the lounge is a small gym. There are about 20 machines and treadmills. Every bath house has one of these, and hardly anyone uses them. I did the first couple of times as I was trying to figure out the protocol. If you use one, you have to wear typical workout clothes.
There is also a small space where the rental lockers are kept. It isn't in a private locker room, it is just separated from the main area by a half wall. This is where you strip out of your clothes, and put on your towel.
After you put your towel on you can go through a door to enter the rest of the facility. Here nudity is allowed, but most guys still wear the towels. The remainder of the first floor is a large open air shower room with about 10 shower heads. The shower is separated from the outdoor pool by a glass wall and glass door. In addition to the pool is a dry sauna and steam room.
On the second floor is a beehive of 5 hallways with all of the bedrooms you can rent.
Many guys keep their doors open. Basically an open door is an invitation for a random guy to come in and have sex with you. I believe the position you lay in is supposed to telegraph what you're interested in. Being a top, a bottom, or something in between. I have never engaged with anyone who came to my door as it was open. I once tried to engage with a young guy laying on his front. I had a very hard cock, and I figured I would try out being a top. I entered the room ( kept the door open in case anyone else wanted to join) I presented my cock to his face to kick things off with a blowjob. Then I moved to mount him when I climbed on the bed between his legs. He heard me open up a condom wrapper, and said "I don't like condoms' '. I said "Yeah, but I am wearing it". He said "No, no condoms". So I thanked him for the blowjob and left.
In addition to the bedrooms there is also a "Play Area". This Play Area includes another open shower room, a tv room with 4 large screen tv's with gay porn, a sex swing, and a bed in a small room with windows to allow others to watch. There are also two other attractions that I did not understand, but they will feature prominently in this story.
The first couple of times I visited this club nothing really happened. It is strange. The place is full of guys just wearing towels, and looking to get off, but in all honesty many of the guys seem to wander around trying their best to avoid eye contact. This was so frustrating that twice I took a couple of the free condoms they have around the place and stopped at my favorite straight massage parlor on my way home. Amy, my favorite masseuse, could be convinced to have sex but only if you had a condom.
On the third visit it finally happened. I checked in, paid my admission and stored my clothes in my locker. I spent some time in the hot tub near the pool. Hardly anything happens in the hot tub or pool, I think it is too public of a space for anyone but the most adventuresome.
After a while I wandered up to the 2nd floor playroom. I said there were two features I did not understand, and that they would play a role later in the story, and here we are.
One is a 3 sided room, with one long side being the main hallway. There are staircases on the left and right side of the room, and a platform connecting the two staircases. The platform had a half wall separating it from the center of the room.