Gay Porn

Gay Porn

The one thing constant in most bathhouses across North America (other than all the easy sex) is that each establishment has a room designated for viewing gay porn during the lull moments at the baths. The typical porn room features a TV with couches or chairs for men to sit on. As I have mentioned in previous stories, the porn room can feature some hot action from time to time, and I am not talking about what is on-screen but what is happening off-screen!

Anything can happen when a bunch of guys sits around watching porn. There are no absolutes as to what will happen on any given night. Sometimes, a sexual encounter develops by happenstance. For instance, you have a couple of guys all watching porn together, and one of the men starts stroking himself. Soon others follow, all jacking off. Soon, a full-fledged orgy begins as a frenzy of oral, rimming, kissing, and sucking begins. I have even witnessed two guys barebacking each other in the porn room right in front of other people. (read Quickies) Other times, there might only be a group jack-off, with everyone stroking themselves but no one touching each other. Just like a jack-off club, the ultimate safe sex! But be warned, some guys do not like an audience and leave if too many eyes watch them.

Then you have the men who arrive at the baths and sit in the porn room their entire stay. There are many different reasons why. Some of these men are married or in denial about their sexuality. They are very fearful of catching something. Some still believe you can get an STI by sitting on a toilet. So watching gay porn is the only way they can fulfill their desires. They can’t watch this type of pornography at home because of a wife, roommate, or girlfriend, so they come to the baths.

Then you have other gay men who like watching porn at the baths to unwind, relax, and escape. Finally, newcomers that are just coming out or new to the bathhouse scene. Many of these guys are scared to cruise other men in the hallways, uncertain about what to do. I mean, no book tells you how to cruise at the baths. No one is going to show you the ropes. It is rare to make a comfortable friend in that environment. The fact is most of us have had our first bathhouse experience alone. So being situated in the porn room allows many of these guys to observe the whole bathhouse culture before taking that first step to participate.

Then you have the guys that are only interested in getting a blowjob. What better place to get blown than in the porn room? Some of these guys are even straight! That happens because their significant other (wife, girlfriend, fiancée) is not into oral sex. So bathhouses become the only place some guys can get a blowjob. These men don’t care who blows them as long as they get blown. All they have to do is sit there with an erection, stroking their cock up and down, and eventually, men will come. I remember one guy who only liked to get blown (he must have been straight). Every week, on the same day, at the same time, he would arrive at the baths. He would plunk himself in the porn room, stroke himself, and over twenty guys would suck him within the next three hours! During that time, he would never say anything. Some blowjobs lasted a minute; others could go on for longer. After three hours, he would shower and leave. He proved so popular and consistent that guys used to be waiting for him in the porn room. Every seven days, like clockwork, it would happen again and again.

The porn room is also for sex when two guys don’t have any place to hook up. If neither party has a room, hookup options are limited, and the porn room is one place to do the deed. Porn TV room sex can last long, as I have seen guys go at it for over an hour. More likely, both men are exhibitionists, and they have no problem letting others watch. Other customers observing the sex might get mixed messages about joining in as a third. You better wait for a clear signal to join the fun. Because if you get the wrong idea, you might get pushed away. Forcefully I might add. But it all depends upon the performers, their audience, and the mood of the evening.

Despite all the sex that can happen in the porn room, that is secondary to its number one use. That is to watch porn. There is so much downtime at the baths; many men watch porn to wait for the next great lay just around the corner (that never seems to appear). In many bathhouses, customers can purchase a room with a TV to watch porn – that way, they can watch in privacy, in-between cruising for that next hookup.

Many places will try and rotate the porn so the same thing is not playing repeatedly. Some bathhouses have over a hundred DVDs, so there is always a variety. But other bathhouses pay no attention to what film is playing. They stick in any DVD they find, not caring if the movie has been re-played four times that day. For instance, the Bathhouse I go to plays the same porn repeatedly. I have seen all of the movies they have played at least three times, some even more! It has now gotten to the point where I can recognize certain actors, remembering some of their other 100 films.

After years of going to the baths, I have gotten entirely bored with gay porn. It is not about seeing the same movie repeatedly that bores me. I need a good story to keep my attention. I will watch an entire film if there is an original story. So I wait for the plot when a movie starts in the porn room. If there is no story, just vignettes of guys having sex, I will leave and find something else to occupy my time. Gratuitous images of guys having anal or oral sex do not interest me. There must be some plot or storyline for me to stay and watch. Sure, watching sex is hot. But if a story is invested in the film, the sex on-screen is more interesting. Using the plot as a background, you know why these two guys are fucking each other passionately. It makes watching the sex even more exciting.

Sometimes I feel like these films drag on and on and on. For instance, if one of the guys is blowing or having anal sex with another guy, I know this scene will last fifteen or twenty minutes. When that happens, I can get up from my chair, go to the bathroom, buy a coffee, make the rounds up and down the hallways, return to the porn room, and not miss anything! The two guys are still sucking and screwing each other while I have done three or four other things! Seeing two guys having sex sometimes looks so mechanical on-screen. Sometimes I try to see if both guys have an erection. In most of the porn I have seen, both guys are not even hard at the same time. Either one or the other is hard, but never both. So those scenes leave me cold since both guys are going through the motions. I am more interested in seeing two guys kissing, feeling each other, and making love. That is what gets me hot and excited.

Now some porn shown at the baths can be disturbing. Water sports, fisting, S+M, and other fetishes are a turn-off for most customers. Whenever those types of scenes appear, the porn lounge is virtually empty. While some guys like it, many find the material gross. Generally speaking, gay men want to watch two guys getting together and making love without pain. But what blows my mind is when I see some guy come to the baths with a take-out meal, plop himself in front of the tube, and eat while watching porn! The same way someone would watch the news eating off a dinner tray. Because some images are disturbing, eating and watching porn do not mix, at least for me. But then again, what works for some, doesn’t work for all.

I sometimes sit there watching, wondering how some of these guys got to this point – a porn star. I wonder if they have a boyfriend, if they are gay, what their one-night stands are like, what their families think, or even the coming out process. These guys were once walking the halls of junior high somewhere in Middle America. Wow, have they come a long way from minor league to starring in porn flicks!

I have never had the opportunity to meet a porn star to ask these questions, but some actors make personal appearances at Bathhouses across North America. The business will book the porn star and advertise his appearance in the gay media. Interested people show up at the appointed time. What a porn star does during these events depends on how comfortable the performer is with the fans. Every adult star is different. Some celebrities will only sign autographs, pose for pictures, and talk to the customers – fully clothed. These performers do not want anyone to touch them for one reason or another.

Conversely, other performers have no problem being in a towel and have fans fawn all over them. They even do a sensual striptease for the audience and mingle with the customers for one-on-one moves. Sometimes you may even have two porn stars appear for a joint appearance, and they simulate movements you see in their films – all in front of an audience! The crowd gets excited, watching the performance as if they were watching a movie. They start stroking themselves under their towels, and quite a few loads get shot. Most assuredly, in their private thoughts, all are having fantastic sex with the stars they are seeing performing live. It is truly an opportunity for the fans to get up close and personal with an adult film star.

But back to the single customer watching the gay porn film at the baths. Most men are stroking themselves but trying to hold off cumming until the porn performers ejaculate on-screen. That is tough because, as I have said before, sometimes, these scenes take 20 minutes before ejaculation takes place on film. To avoid cumming immediately, you must be slow and sensuous while stroking your cock. Then when you see the porn stars on-screen close to cumming, start pounding your cock up and down to time your ejaculation to what you see in the video. It takes practice, but you will get the hang of it.

After ejaculating, most men wipe themselves off, head for the showers, and go home – with the satisfaction of at least getting off. Of course, jerking off in the porn lounge is sometimes the only action some guys get at the baths when nobody wants to create actual porn with them. So in a sense, the porn room is the only option for relieving oneself. Otherwise, many guys would probably be going home even more frustrated. They did not get to jerk off with some hot, naked men. But thanks to a gay porn film, they got the opportunity, even if it was just on TV.