For the avoidance of doubt, the following is a true story that describes the occasion when I lost my anal virginity - I was well into my twenties and the young masseur who took it I guess was about 20 or 21 years old. He may have been older but he did look quite a bit younger than me.
I was chatting online to someone the other day, sharing experiences of losing our virginities. It was obvious, after a little while though, that we were talking about two different things. He was describing the first time he fucked a woman whereas I, as a gay bottom, was describing the first time I had anal sex!
In describing my experiences to him, I skipped the very first time it happened to me as that was not a nice experience and not something that I initiated or at the time wanted. That happened in my teenage years and is something I have always tried to forget about, but unfortunately still comes back to the front of my mind from time to time.
I have never used the term rape but actually, it probably was. Yes, I was curious and allowed it to happen, but it was not with someone I wanted it to happen with. It was more an experiment than any act of lovemaking.
My second experience came quite a few years later in life and was much more enjoyable and definitely very sensual. When someone asks me when and how I lost my virginity, it is always this one that I relate -- blocking the other one to the back of my mind.
It happened in Hanoi in Vietnam while I was there on business. I had some time off one afternoon and had gone sightseeing to wander around the city's old French Quarter. I got hopelessly lost and spent way more time walking in the heat of the afternoon than I had planned. I then came across a spa offering massages - there are dozens in the centre of Hanoi, but this one took my fancy as it seemed to offer massages by male masseurs. I did not have a lot of cash on me, but I walked in and asked to see a menu of what was on offer. From the menu, I reckoned that I could just about afford the cheapest service and still have enough for a small tip (although as I was to discover, the usual 10-15 percent was not how it worked!)
I was sat down on one of those tiny stools all the Vietnamese seem to sit on, in front of a small reception desk in what was a tiny room and offered a glass of water. The room was air-conditioned, which was welcome given the heat outside and the fact that I had been walking for some time.
I chose my massage -- a one-hour Asian massage to cost 1,000,000 dongs and would include a shower both before and after the massage. I was told not to pay the masseur, but to pay at reception on the way out. I was told to leave my shoes in reception and then taken, by the male receptionist, up a set of spiral stairs that were hidden behind a curtain that I hadn't seen before. About halfway up there was a landing with what seemed like a large mirror in front of me. I was instructed to choose my masseur.
I looked on confusingly at first but then a light switch was flicked and there in front of me were around a dozen fit male youths - some sitting around on benches playing cards with others standing chatting. I guessed they were behind a one-way mirror and couldn't see me. They were all dressed exactly the same in tiny nylon sports shorts and white cotton t-shirts and holding a small cardboard sign handwritten with their names. I was again pushed to choose my masseur.
Never having experienced something like this I wasn't in a great hurry to make my choice, much to the frustration of the receptionist. Again, he pushed me in poor English to make my choice. I do recall executing some rationale for my eventual choice rather than just randomly. I was keen for a good strong massage and many of the guys looked quite small, so I ended up choosing the tallest and most masculine looking guy - Binh.
Binh was then ushered out of the goldfish bowl and I was introduced to him. At that point, the receptionist gave me a bit of paper that had the massage service and cost on it and Binh escorted me up the next set of stairs to a lovely room kitted out with what was very like a four-poster bed but with the mattress on the ground. The room smelt nice with incense burning and had nice soft lighting and background music -- although you could still hear the street noise and honking horns from outside.