Growing up I'd always had strong gay curious urges towards guys. As a teenager I was into girls, but when I first got interested in sex, it didn't seem possible that I'd ever get with a girl. When I was jerking off almost every day, my life changed when I found my dad's stash of Penthouse magazines.
The pictorials of hot naked women and sometimes couples or lesbian spreads had me instantly hard and stroking myself to orgasm after orgasm. After a couple of months, I had time to slow it down and really go through the magazines and I found the Forum Letters section. That's when my life really changed.
Most of the letters were pretty fantastical but my mid-teen horned up brain could hardly tell what was real and I couldn't believe that people were having so much sex but it was always enough to get me off. Very occasionally back then there would be a male on male story and that scrambled my brain.
I wasn't in any way repulsed but strongly curious as it seemed far more likely that my first sexual encounter would be with one of my friends than with any girl that I knew. Those jerk off sessions to those stories always produced my strongest orgasms and thoughts of sex with men stayed in my brain even as I found willing women and started to find my heterosexual way in the world.
As I moved onto college, I had sex with and fucked my fair share of women and had lots of fun, but I kept up with a stash of Penthouse Letters that sometimes offered themed issues that featured lots of lesbian and gay sex stories. I was invariably drawn to the gay stories and why I couldn't really explain to myself, and after a particularly rough breakup with a long time girlfriend, I went to visit an old friend from high school that I'd stayed in touch with who was going to school out west.
He'd broken up with his girlfriend recently, and we just had a regular college guys' weekend, drinking and complaining about women while chasing anyone that would give us the time of day around the bars. We struck out consistently and ended up back at his apartment on the last night, quite drunk and horned up.
He dropped down on his couch and he turned on a porn DVD and we laughed and joked in the dark. After about 10 minutes, we both got quiet and started watching more intently and were obviously getting uncomfortably aroused. My cock was getting hard and I was trying to shift it around, but really I was making the excuse in my head that it was okay to rub myself a bit.
Whenever I could I'd sneak glances at my buddy and I could see that he was doing the same thing while intently looking at the sex on screen. When he put his hand down his shorts and started squeezing and rubbing himself, I was transfixed and just stared. Our legs weren't quite touching, but we were sitting close and when he spread his legs a bit to shift his junk around, our thighs came together and he pulled the head of his dick out of the top of his underwear. I gasped quietly at that point and realized my buddy was staring at me.