All are over 18. This is not about romance. It's about overcoming fear.
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As a younger guy, Women didn't seem to be my thing. It was easy to strike out on my own and move into the big city, where being a bit queer didn't matter. Where I lived, it could get your ass kicked or worse. A few of us knew each other for what we were. We were cocksuckers and ass-fuckers. We had to be in the closet for self-protection. That raised a lot of fear and anxiety. Hugging the family, I got in my truck and went down the freeway to LA.
I was nonetheless terrified sometimes by the thought of leather tops, pain, and even rape. The sight of a guy in leather in a magazine could make me instantly hard. I wanted to look away, but I also wanted to look. More muscles were better. I was scared by the thought, however. My fooling around with guys was pretty plain vanilla. Suckee fuckee. Nothing stronger.
In my 23rd year. I had been working construction and was getting a pretty decent build. Lots of vanilla sex with one guy, then another. I knew that in LA, there were bathhouses, parties, and plenty of possibilities. Some of them seemed like fun, others still terrified me. And they also got me hard as stone thinking about them, just on the edges, denying that I might really want something 'hardcore' like an orgy.
It wasn't a month after I arrived, that I was looking in an adult paper and found an ad for just what I wanted and feared. There was a picture of a leatherman, super-buff, looking right in my soul. It was this 'fuck you' sort of look. There was a number to call to get the info. A week passed. Then I called.
It was a recording. There was an admission charge. "No pussies". Friday nights. Call another number for the address. I called it. A guy answered. I asked for the address. This week, he said, then an address in West Hollywood. I hung up. I'm sure my face was flush and I know my heart was pounding. This was taboo. That address is etched permanently in my memory.
Friday, I sweated a lot at work, unable to concentrate. I told myself I should go for some beers with the other guys. Don't get your ass into trouble, said my mother's conscience embedded in my brain. Resist the temptation. You'll thank yourself on Saturday. This part of me argued with the seeming constant hard-on in my work clothes. I was torn but I thought that the vanilla side of me was winning. Somehow that seemed reassuring. The group grope started at 10pm. At nine, I had two beers under my belt, and was joking it up with my co-workers.
Then, at 9:30, I got up to drain the beer and on the way back from the restroom, I said goodnight to the gang. I got in my car and hit the freeway. I can't tell you anything about the journey. I got to the place at 10:30. There were dozens of cars parked nearby. The sign on the front pointed me to the side door. I walked over there, almost shaking. When I got to the door, a bouncer was standing outside. He looked me over. Dressed in a tshirt, tight jeans, construction boots, I had taken a shower after work. A long shower.
"Ten bucks," he said. Two other guys were a few steps behind me. One had on leather pants and a vest. His nipples were tied to a chain, and the chain was being led by the other guy. My stomach did a flop. The door opened and it was smoky inside. Music was going. Loud thumpa thumpa music. It was dark, almost totally save for a mirror ball and some strobes.
I went inside. A guy standing nearby said he had to frisk me. I assumed the position. He patted me down, really well. Then he started to fondle my crank.
"Hey, wait a minute," I told him. He stopped.