Keeping the Bathhouses Busy
Finishing up the 1990's.
It has been a bit since I’ve turned to
writing up my sexual history, but I did want all those pieces about Zane to be published
back-to-back. So here we go...
Sex in the 1990’s for me was pretty much either oral
sex with my partner, Rob, or condomed fucking at the bathhouse. With the jury out of whether oral sex was safe
or not, I perfected my fuck skills, always covered in latex. I hadn’t found bookstores yet. I hated bars.
Bathhouses were perfect—men ass up and ready, with only the occasional
protest of someone wanting to be fucked bare.
The Midwest was blessed with a number of bathhouses. I loved Man’s Country in Chicago—and went
when I could. I kept the Diplomat in
Grand Rapids busy most weekends when Rob was working out of state—which was a
lot.
Probably the next bathhouse I visited was the Unicorn
Club in Chicago. It is now Steamworks. I remember a steep staircase down to the wet
area…and a neon unicorn on the wall. I
liked it and had fun. But I loved the sleaze
factor of Man’s Country’s older building and set up. The Unicorn was trying hard to be a gym with
extras. MC was there for just one
purpose.
I had to travel for work. There was a massive audition in St. Louis I
went to each year for hiring. I pulled
out my Damron Address Book. Well, well…Club
St. Louis was within walking distance from my hotel. I walked over, late night. It was clean and bright and at the time almost
all the play was in the rented rooms. I
walked the circuit and found plenty of men to fuck. But I also found a room tucked away just off
the hall that was a semi dark room. It
had platforms for men to lie on that so the tops could stand and plow ass. I used that room a lot. One night I had two men who were making out
with each other—and both asses were available.
I fucked one and started to change the condom. “You don’t have to, just go back and forth,” the
slightly older one told me. I gasped—but did what he asked. They moaned and held each other as I fucked
the second man and then began a back and forth…
The Club in St. Louis now has a major play area—designed
sometime in the 2000’s. It is great fun. I went yearly for 30 years. I need to get
back.
Indianapolis was only a few hours away. There were two bathhouses there. I started with The Works. In the 1990’s, they had a great wet area, and
rooms. I am sure there was a porn
viewing area, too. I made the circuit of
the rooms with open doors—and always found men to fuck. And with the extended rental hours—I could
actually sleep there when I was spent—and do another fuck in the morning.
The recent new owners have invested in creating wonderful
play areas there.
The Club in Indy was, well, fine. Just like Unicorn/Steamworks vs Man’s Country,
the generic bathhouse of the Club wasn’t as much fun as the Works for me.
Flex in Cleveland was huge. It was the bus station in the 1930’s. I loved playing there. I found it right at the end of this decade. The only downside for me was that it was so
large inside, that you could have a ton of men there—and it would feel like a
small crowd. With all the space, there
were always play areas beyond the private rooms.
By the middle 1990’s, Rob and I were approaching 20
years together. We were still good
friends. Working apart, for over half the year, helped that. We still had so many interests in common, but
he was becoming fairly ambivalent about sex.
Not just with me, but with anyone.
I had matured enough, that I was no longer the blond 20-year-old with a
big dick he had obsessed over. I know he
tried to suck off some of the young, hot company members—but he wasn’t successful
very often, as they all knew we were partnered and I was their boss. Once, I did walk into a rehearsal with him
regaling the company with the facts of just how big my cock actually was as my
501’s didn’t hide much—and everyone wanted to know… (Imagine that happening in today’s world!)
We still had sex.
Though I almost always had to initiate it. He had found Nintendo and spent far too much
time with it—often late into the early hours of the morning.
But there was a bigger problem. Rob had always been a drinker. He was fun and the life of the gathering in
college and then those early years with other drinking actors. Now, it was
becoming a constant habit. He tried to
hide it from me but I could hear the beer being cracked open while he was in
the shower just before noon.
We stayed together.
The time apart worked for us.
And things were about to change on the sexual
front.
In 200l, science told us that the likelihood of
catching HIV through oral sex was miniscule.
I read it. And
again. I couldn’t wait for the next
weekend…