After weeks of clear blue skies and hot days, the weather turned on Thursday. The motorcycle has been laid up for weeks (a minor incident months ago snowballing into weeks waiting for parts, and discovering wet clutches have fascinating differences with dry ones). But on cold wet days, not having to deal with rain clothes when visiting the bathhouse is not a disadvantage. In much the same that I thought the number of other men wanting to stay out of the elements would lead to increased attendance.
After doing a bit of reading on the web, the discounted bath house admittance that had surprised me weeks ago was explainable. In the summer, a male only sauna is less interesting than other, generally outdoor, free venues - though definitely not the case for me. Admittedly, while neither a sauna nor a steamroom is particularly attractive when the weather already leans that way, the games which naked strangers can play in the dark steaminess definitely are.
Games which I enjoy playing, no longer ones fantasized about like decades ago. My entire experience has been grounded over 3 seasons at the same place, maybe 20 minutes away from where I live. This local feeling is a large part of what makes it so intriguing, since when opportunity arises, it can be measured against other things to do - and if any particular visit is less than satisfying, it isn't much time spent.
My wife does know of my interest in such things, but till now, only knows about a first time in a gay porn theater - with two hot men on the screen playing with their nipples and hard cocks. How hard the porn made me, and how my hand rubbed my cock, then how I opened my pants, started stroking myself, not caring if anyone saw how I was jacking off to the hot sex, listening to the sounds of sucking in the last rows. Then sitting down, pants still open, hand on my shaft, getting off as they kissed, cock rubbing cock, hands covering nipples, when I felt a mouth go down on me, like the porn on the screen. She knows that it happens between men, but remains very fearful of disease.
Which is one reason there isn't much fear of 'discovery,' since curiosity would explain a first time visit. She has even seen the ads a couple of times over the years, as they occasionally appear in a free monthly advertising what is happening in the region. She also knows that enjoying group sex is one of the things I do plan to do, with or without her. Though generally, this is discussed in reference to my bi friend and her interests - which aren't completely mine, to put it mildly, as any S&M direction tends to leave me uninterested at best, apart from the fun which bondage can increase - teasing someone who can't move, or being teased while unable to move, are equally pleasurable in my experience.
The weather seemed to make finding parking harder, though considering it was Saturday afternoon, this wasn't surprising (with a motorcycle, parking is always conveniently simple). Paying full price was, since weekends didn't require the extra lure of almost 50% off. I hadn't visited since the events of the last story - events weeks old now, considering the delay that writing stories can impose. Privacy is required, in part because of how turned on the remembering and writing makes me.
Entering the locker area, I quickly undressed, and turned to walk in, seeing a couple of fit and tall tanned men showering at the far end as I walked into the main public area. Enticing from a certain perspective, even if it isn't one I really share. Hard cocks, not male bodies per se, are what excite me. This also tends to make most of the bathhouse's decor more amusing than erotic in my eyes; even though individual pieces aren't bad, the accumulation is just too much.
Arriving around 2:15pm, not able to stay away, I sat down at the curved bar, having already tasted the first thrill of entering an openly erotic zone. A couple of other people were sitting around the curved counter, though the place in general did not feel crowded. I drank my beer, which was pretty much served with just a nod on my part. The beer also comes with a good view of a monitor playing porn, which tends to get more interesting as the glass is emptied.
The staff knows me well, at this point - oddly a complaint about this establishment was how the staff also participated in the games being played in various areas. This criticism seemed strange at the time, and still does. The temptations are too great to resist after first enjoying them there, and it is clear that this bathhouse is intimately aware of what its visitors enjoy. Now being enough of a repeat customer to have that repetition become part of a pattern doesn't really bother me. Especially knowing that the people running the bathhouse completely understand what is so seductive about what they offer to a certain community - the one of horny men getting off with each other.
Finishing my beer, I noticed that the bucket of condoms was still behind the bar. This wasn't good - I have no problem asking, but knowing that they are available at all is just the first step. I handed back the lubricant, not needing it - anal sex remains a fantasy of youth - with age and sitting too much, that form of sex seems to be fading away, which doesn't exactly disappoint me. Being very dangerous, after all, and probably as good as cocksucking - the number of men that have wanted me to fuck them in their ass is not that much smaller than the men that have wanted to suck me off.
I went upstairs, finding it empty - fine for taking a deep breath from my favorite little brown bottle, then watching the porn in one of the video booths. Strangely, I still find most gay porn fairly mundane, except for group scenes. Though like with the beer downstairs, as the effects of the Rush spread through me, my interest began to grow, making my cock heavy and hardening after beginning to stroke myself through the towel, the door open.
Still nobody seemed upstairs as I went back down the winding spiral. At the bottom level, there were no towels in the alcoved wall of the steam room, so I took a quick glance at the whirlpool, seeing four men, 2 of whom seemed to be fondling each other's cocks while kissing. Deciding that the whirlpool offered at least an opportunity for my first sex in water with a man, I showered quickly, making sure to soap well. This time, parking had been a problem, and between my earlier running around and the fast walking in the humid warmth, getting clean before going into something like a jacuzzi was expected.
The water was still, and now one of the playing men was covering the other, both bending towards the wall across from me. They were taking up a fair bit of space, and neither were small. I sat near the ladder, equidistant from everyone else, noting the water was at least comfortably warm, especially compared to the local lakes. However, there was nowhere to look but at a man's large, white, not really interesting ass. After a moment, I turned my head a bit to my left, taking in the other two sitting men, who seemed to have much the same reaction - nothing wrong with two men humping, and yet ....