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.