I don't know what changed only that I was happy and willing to explore a side of myself that I knew would always be there!
About five years ago I was going through a very harsh time in my life. Then only 25, I learned something I would always remember and value. I learned that life didn't happen like the reality shows on television claimed it did. There were no rules in civilisation by which people truly lived. The world was always going to be a selfish place, whether I wanted to believe it or not!
Your best friends weren't there for you when you needed them, problems couldn't be solved by being honest and hard-working and trying to do the right thing was something that earned you a lot of enemies.
Without bothering you as to what my problems were, I can at least tell you two things. One, my problems up until that time weren't regarding my sexuality and, Two, they were so impossible to deal with that to this day I still live in their shadow. My life was ruined already by that time and I was helpless to even find a way to begin again.
I sunk into a world of depression where I lost all control over my vices and I was drowning in alcohol and smoking as much weed as could keep me numb. I was "partying" at least four days a week and telling myself everything was going to be fine so long as I simply surrounded myself with people who did most of the same as I was doing all week round.
Not realising that I was doing too much of this, I had groups of friends here, there and everywhere; friends I'd smoke with, friends I'd drink with and friends that did both. My week was comprised of three separate weekends such was the extent of my bingeing.
And somewhere between blowing my brains out on drugs and drinking myself unconscious still linger the hazy memories of leaving the party, making the phone calls and going to meet anonymous men for sex of any kind.
Fragments of memories linger still of getting home just before sunrise, washing the smells off me -- the smell of their breath, their sweat, their come and their piss -- and brushing my teeth and the far back reaches of my tongue until I puked hard enough to purge the thought from my system.
When I had people to see, I didn't want the thought of sucking dick and other things on my mind when I was with them. I felt like a freak and there's no better way of saying it. I felt like I wanted it, like I deserved it and I felt that it was necessary for me to debauch myself if I was ever going to prove I could live with the horrific life left to me.
I didn't believe I was gay then and I don't fully believe I am now. I wouldn't even accept the term bisexual even though my preference changes often. I see myself as just 'sexually complete!'
But maybe if I hadn't gone through that time in my life, I wouldn't feel this way now. Back then, by day I was a raving homophobe, showing my disgust with anything to do with other men, but by night I was willing to do anything so long as I was fucked up enough.
By the next year, I fulfilled a new resolution to clean myself up, become and stay sober and to try to get my life back on track. Only the staying sober proved the successful resolution however and all that did was to cause all my friends to recede into the past. They were pissed off with me for having been the life of the party and then wanting to swap the party for my responsibilities.
They were right... but then they turned out to be pricks, every last one of them!
For the majority of the last four years, I let all those drunken memories fall behind, I guess, in a bid to clear my mind and try to get my life up and running again. The only thing that had changed was that I started regularly chatting to gay and bisexual men on the internet. I never did it in the hope of no-strings sex or relationships but at the same time, I fantasized a lot and found that indeed, men paid me more attention than women and seemed to be able to know how to give me a good mind-fuck when I needed one.
But I continued to have relationships with women and the internet chatting stopped when I was with them. Maybe because I was getting all the sex I needed. But whenever I went back to that old guilty pleasure, I started to realise it went deeper than men being able to figure me out better or knowing what I liked.
In the end, I discovered that not only did I want to explore my sexuality seriously with other men but that after everything I already had done -- with men and women -- the one territory I had yet to discover was not simply fucking someone of the same gender as me or finding new fetishes to explore with women.
I found myself being highly excited by the prospect of making love with a man, getting to know them, learning to trust them, submitting to them and enjoying what people enjoy most when they're in love. I wanted to fall into an experience with a man just like I'd first fallen when I lost my virginity to a woman.