When I was young, I was involved in a folklore group in Pennsylvania. I was very interested in the culture and as I became more proficient in the music and language, I became one of the featured performers, and was becoming recognized throughout the ethnic community. Nick, a man who was about my parents' age and whose daughter was in our ensemble, did a lot of volunteer work for the group. In addition to his regular job, he hosted an ethnic radio program where he promoted the culture on his weekly show. Nick was not bad looking, had a deep radio voice, a strong handshake and, being a salesman, was well groomed and dressed.
When I entered college at the age of 18, I was with the ensemble as a performer and stayed on as an instructor. With my performance ability and personality, I was considered to be an up and coming leader in that ethnic community. As such, Nick took on the role as my mentor. Despite the age difference, we developed a good friendship. We sometimes talked and joked about things that normally guys who are the same age do, such as women and sex. We became very close and, in time, he asked me to join him on his program. I agreed, and every Sunday, he would pick me up from church and we would go to the radio station for the broadcast. Then he would drop me off at my house before he returned home.
Outside of when we did the radio program, we also spent some time together, discussing my possibilities of assuming a leadership role in the ethnic community. I assumed that with Nick's status and connections he could make that happen. Along with recognition, I could get a pretty good job with the fraternal society and have a long career there. Sometimes we would stop and have a drink at a local restaurant. They didn't card me, although I was obviously underage, because I think they knew Nick and turned a blind eye to it. It was the 70s, and things were different then.
I wasn't one of the cool guys when I was in high school. I wasn't athletic, or a teenage heart-throb. In fact, I was a nerd. None of that changed when I entered college. I didn't date anyone, so I had plenty of time to concentrate on other things. Lack of attention from the opposite sex was pretty frustrating, but I was enjoying Nick's attention and career aspirations for me.
I was a confirmed heterosexual, but I was self-conscious and bashful around girls, so I had a hard time approaching them. I was fearful of rejection, so to avoid getting hurt, I was never direct, but passive, hoping that friendship would blossom into something more.
I had already been introduced to sex by an older woman, but that's a whole other story. At the time I was euphoric and still then fantasized about the experience, but that was over with no prospects of starting up again.
Nick was married and had one child, a daughter, so I figured that he wished he had a son, and that was one of the reasons he took a liking to me. Nick's wife was wonderful, but, wasn't attractive at all. I wondered why a man like him didn't have a good looking wife. So, anyway, I knew why his daughter suffered in the looks department. In our car rides, he would oftentimes steer the conversation toward sex. Nick sensed that I wasn't dating -- and he was right. Sometimes he'd ask me about my love life -- or the lack of it. I thought that maybe he was considering hooking me up with his daughter. She was a little slutty, which would have been fine with me, but she wasn't cute at all and I hoped that that wasn't what Nick was setting me up for.
Well, I found out soon enough. Once, he "confided" in me that he had had a homosexual relationship some time ago, with a guy he met in his sales job. He would go out to eastern Pennsylvania and they would hook up. I was nervous about why he was revealing this to me, but he had piqued my prurient interest, so I didn't stop him. He got into pretty graphic detail about how he would give his homosexual partner blow jobs and that he had both given and received anal sex, and how he loved when he and his "hook up" would spend nights together in a hotel room after he made his sales calls.
Suddenly I realized that he wasn't just revealing a deep dark secret, but that he was coming on to me. He was waiting to see what my reaction was. I was kind of taken aback, but not entirely surprised. The meetings, the talks where he would build up my self-confidence, the drinks, the dinners - he was grooming me. He was setting me up to seduce me. I was really horny and was aching for sex. I masturbated daily, sometimes more than once, and was longing for real sex -- meaning sex with someone else other than my hand. I wasn't sure, but maybe I could enjoy sex with a man, even if it was with an older man.