Originally Posted by
BigAlNYC
Yeah, I grew up through the '70s in a major midwestern city. Things were quite a bit looser back then than they were through the '80s an '90s, with 18 year old drinking (and younger, since IDs weren't closely checked), easygoing tolerance of marijuana and other party drugs, many adult movie theaters and bookstores, disco and the sexual revolution in full swing, etc. The whole bi thing even became very fashionable for a while, with the rise of glam rock and purportedly bi stars like David Bowie and Elton John, rock stars in lipstick and makeup like Aerosmith, Queen, or the New York Dolls, and the rise of the popularity of things like the Rocky Horror Picture Show. A lot of guys I knew (non-jock category, although some played high school sports like me) experimented with guys, or were at least open to fooling around with and having their cock sucked by a guy. Gay life and gay bars started to become really open (pre-AIDS), cruising sex was available a lot of places, and several gay bathhouses existed and were easy to get into.
I was shy, and kind of a dorky pudgy kid, but open to everything the city had to offer. I think I always knew I was bi. With a significant preference for girls, perhaps, but definitely with an attraction to men too, and a driven curiosity about having sex with them. Because the society had become so open then, and because I knew several "out" gay people, I really never felt much concern over being bi, or enjoying sex with men. I remember fantasizing about gay sex and specific aspects of gay sex, well before I had it. And being so excited over it when I did finally did have that magic day that I sucked a guy off in an adult movie theater, that I went out and had as much of it as I could over the next few years. Later, after I spent more time with girls, got married, and lived through the AIDS terror, I had almost no sex with men for several years, but I never felt that I wasn't bi.
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