Far from being my masturbation biography, this is how I started masturbating with other men.
The first time I even thought of masturbating with another male was some years ago, at age 33. It started with my visiting nude beaches, first when on business trips to California, then at beaches in Florida, where I live. With my first accidental visit to Blacks Beach near San Diego, I was hooked by the freedom of social nudity. On a subsequent trip to a nude beach near Cape Canaveral I saw a male much younger than myself; about 20 years old I would guess. He was walking along the beach grasses, away from the shore itself. I later thought about how he may have been looking for a mutual masturbation partner. It was something about how he was wondering around. I had never given any thought to two males masturbating together; especially with me as one of the participants.
Like with many sexual thoughts and fantasies, once you have one, it stays with you. Because of this new awareness on my part to what I thought some males might be doing at secluded nude beaches, I started paying attention to the actions and activities of the men at those beaches. Being a straight male, I would have preferred watching women do sexy things at secluded nude beaches, but few women go to these areas, especially alone. One of my concerns at that time was why I got excited thinking about watching another male masturbate. I had thought I was completely straight, but now I wondered if those thoughts made me gay. When doing some research about sexuality, I learned about bi-sexuality, and the continuum from heterosexuality to homosexuality. That explained a lot! I became comfortable with the idea of being basically straight, with some curiosity about penises. Masturbating with another male was not going to make me gay.
My other concern about masturbating at a secluded beach was getting caught by the law. But at some beaches I began to notice men would go off together into secluded areas. In California, these areas included caves and big crevices along cliffs. In Florida, they were tall grasses and heavy brush. Sometimes the men would walk together, and other times one would go first and another would follow a minute or two later. Once in a while, a guy would be near the entrance of a secluded area and begin to touch his genitals. He would not be masturbating in earnest, but sending a signal to anybody interested that he wanted either a partner or an audience.
The one time I saw two men masturbating together outdoors was at a secluded nude beach in the Los Angeles area. The rocky beach was part of a cove, with the gay men on the northern half and all others on the southern half. After walking past the gays lying on the beach, I was on a flat peninsular of rock. While watching the beauty of the waves crashing against this rocky coastline, I saw two men leaning their backs against the cliff that hid us from the others at the beach. They were stroking each other. In addition to me, there were a few other men on the peninsular. Watching us watch them indicated this was a performance they wanted others to enjoy.