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Being straight and curious. Tell me your experience with having

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Being straight and curious. Tell me your experience with having sex, oral or anything else sexual with another man.
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>>737509698
it's overrated
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we used to watch porn and jerk off together with my best friend when we were between 15-17. I miss those days
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>>737509698
Did the same shit as in the picture with a friend. Was fucking awesome, much better than fapping, never talked about it since though
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>>737509698
I sometimes slut around on grindr as a bottom.

It's fun.
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>>737509698
I once tried to have to have sex with a gay friend of mine, I was curious and he was a pretty cool guy.

Wasent able to get hard, didn't enjoy it and it just felt weird to me.

I was curious, I tried it and it wasent for me. Now I know I'm not gay.
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>Hungry for sex.
>Meet up with anonymous guy of +50yo at his home.
>He is a fat, I don't care.
>Immediately we kiss and tongue-kiss.
>We sit down in his sofa and kiss more.
>I take off my shirt and ask if I can take off my pants.
>Take off pants, cock is rock-hard. He likes it.
>I go on my knees and start sucking on that tiny cock, while making eye-contact.
>Then we go upstairs to his bed.
>We 69, he spanks my ass once in a while.
>He rims and sucks me off.
>After ten minutes, he cums.
>Go down the stairs, kiss more and say goodbye, never see him again.

Was a good day to suck a cock;
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>>737509698
Used to jerk with a load of friends back between the ages of 12-17. Sometimes just with one, or we had a group one once or twice. I miss those days, it was always fun to jerk with a buddy watching porn and what not.
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>>737510742
u got kik?
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>>737509698
me and my friend sucked each other off a few times when around 18-19. was cash, he came a lot
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>>737509698
Blew one of my closest friends, he blew me. Felt good was fun. Found out Im not totally straight, being bi is cool I guess. Would never date a dude though, thats just weird.
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>>737511707
gay 'cause the balls touch.
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>a year ago
>be very depressed from a bad breakup
>bicurious
>desperate for anything and also super horny
>download grindr
>in description say im curious about being a bottom, never done anything
>someone messages me and they happen to be like a block away
>not a top, actually only into sucking
>trade pics, its a clean cut but very chubby spanish kid a year younger than me (24 and 25)
>so horny i agree to invite him over to blow me
>literally shaking from being so nervous..extremely out of character for me to do something like this
>he comes over
>we walk into my room
>"can i see it?"
>im rock hard already. i take off my pants and sit on the edge of the bed
>he gets right on his knees and tells me to relax
>best blowjob ive ever had
>deepthroats the whole thing (im 7 inches)
>tell him im going to cum after about 15 minutes
>he pushes hes face down on my cock
>i cum down his throat
>he leaves, never saw him again
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>be about 15
>glorious limewire days
>me and friend watch a lot of porn together
>spend the night over the weekend
>decide its time to experiment
>ask him about his dick and show him mine
>start stroking each other
>blow each other
>he cums on me and i cum on myself
>super awkward the next day and never talk about it again
over all a pretty good experience...kinda wish we made out but oh well...
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had a kid my age maybe 6 or 7 tell me he was gonna do what he saw his mom doing to his dad so we went behind his house in the shed and he pulled my pants down and started sucking on my soft cock i didn't know what was going on felt good though that was the last of that then a few years later a friend of mine all we would talk about was fucking girls and who's hot to us and more then we found dads porn stash should i go on
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>>737509698
I opened up to my friend dude was ok with it. We were just lying down and I asked if it was alright if I could put my head on his stomach/chest he said no problem. Should have gone for it then and there.

A few days later he said he was fine with me being bisexual but didn't want to ruin our friendship and he was ready to talk about my sexuality if it didn't involve him.

Still think about what could have happened that night
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>>737509698
>Being straight and curious.

So was I once and so I gave it a go with a cool, but little older guy that I was at school with.

The first thing is the kissing is just grotesque, especially after having kissed girls. The whole in your face thing is like grading sandpaper.

Then there is the hair, it's just fucking awful, like fine wire, not like the kind of downy fluff that some women have.

Then there is the fucking smell and this was a clean guy, but the masculine musk was just overpowering.

As for the actual sex itself, sure giving and receiving oral pleasure was great, in fact it was the best bit by far, but the anal sex was not intimate at all. It was like someone trying to stab my in the colon with an poker.

Did not want. Never tried it again.

One thing for sure, it will cure your bi-curiosity once and for all. One way or the other.
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>>737509698
was great, get great head and fuck a nice tight hole
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>>737511959
that sounds like a lovely night
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When I was single for a while, I used to have a bi friend jerk me off and suck me off once in a while. I jerked him off once, wasn't my cup of tea.
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>>737512885
Any advice on how I could ask my straight friend if I could suck him off?
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>>737513479
it probably depends how close you are.
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>>737513615
Very fucking close best friend since we were kids but we don't live in the same place anymore so don't get to meet quite as often
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I honestly think its way more fun to do sexual activities with a guy instead of a woman, legit think i might even get together with the last guy ive been fooling around with. Im bi btw so im not full on homosexual
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>>737513715
idk about you, but me best friend and i have talked about things like "oh if my girl wanted to try pegging, i might try it" and the same about really convincing traps. "i might try it".
Maybe you guys should get drunk one night and see what hed say to something similar but not exactly you sucking him off. Perhaps you ask if hed ever let a random guy do it and joke about "hey a mouths a mouth right?". if he doesnt push away the idea completely you can move to saying "what about if i did it?"
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It's wack you would regret it
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>>737509744
Oh no it isn't.
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>>737511707
All of a sudden I'm in that pic licking the butts.
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>>737514265
Lick this diick
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>>737514401
What dick? What are you talking about? Where am I?
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>>737513479
Show him something to get him sexually aroused, and then suggest it. Doesn't have to be porn, anything. Say it Jokingly at first.
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>>737510091

Are you me?
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>>737514461
This one
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>>737509698
Had been curious pretty much for as long as I could remember. Was super deep in the closet until one night when a gay friend came on to me. Proceeded to get really drunk and suck his dick. Turned into riding him and blowing my load all over his chest before swallowing his. 10/10 wish I had taken the plunge sooner.
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>>737514629
Oh. I would lick it if it was near me. Any man who has the the self-confidence to wear lots of hearts on his boxers deserves to have his dick licked whenever he wants. I have a couple pairs of underwear with hearts on them, but they aren't boxers, if you know what I mean...
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>>737509698
You see, the problem with me is you guys have this overt eccentric sexual degeneracy that's a huge turn on for me.

I quit fapping to porn years ago, once I discovered /b/. I fantasize about you guys to jerk off to now. Thanks for being hot little faggots, guys.
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>>737511440
nope sorry, snapchat tho
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>>737514840
Been wanting an enthusiastic blowjob from another guy. Makes it hard when I live with my gf.
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>>737515166
Why? She works doesn't she? Or...do you have a garage? I could worship your dick in the garage while she takes a bath.
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>>737509698
Use an adult dating site to hook up with near by guy. He was fat with a micropenis and that made me feel like a monster cock next to him. He blew me and I pound his hole. I repeat several times.
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>>737515279
We work the same hours (9-5) and live in an apartment. Wish I owned a house, but I'm a young bay area Asian :/
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>>737515431
I expected a little....less from an AZN. I'm in China right now but in my mind I'm in San Jose nuzzling on your delicious dick. I've never had yellow dick before. I'd like to try it sometime.
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>>737515521
>china
Are you even allowed to be homo there?
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>>737509698
Tried being a bottom and realised I can only be a Top.
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>>737515431
pull your foreskin back
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I've sucked few guys. A friend, a guy I met online and another friend while showing him my girlfriend's pics
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>>737512112
ye
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>>737515521
Hard thinking that you'd want to nuzzle my dick :)

>>737515715
Phimosis like a bitch. Going to a doctor about it, although I haven't had and issues so far. Looks 'weird' but still works fine
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>>737515566
Not officially. But no one really gives a shit. Except the bar waitresses who want to hook up. They kind of do. But they only talk amongst themselves. I've seen a lot of faggotry here but I've never seen anyone arrested for it. They don't show it on TV, though.
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>>737509698
Had a meth binge and decided to check myself for homo. There was a faggot there, he was game so we tried. He sucked my limp dick (couldnt get hard) while i attempted to give his massive dick a blowjob. It was all round horrible.

That was before fapping to traps for a few years, now i'm sure i could get hard enough to fuck a twink. I do not want to be fucked though, and i dont want to suck a dick. Just something feminine around my dick. And i guess my tolerance for femininity is now expanded into twinks.
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My Experience...

>Old friend and I were gettig eperately ready for scout group meeting
>he invites me to dinner out of the blue
>i accept
>at his house the food isn't that good
>hisassthough.exe
>he streches for a beer from the top shelf
>OMG
>i wanna fuck him so bad
>scout meeting is boring
>lasts two hours
>get out w/ him
>go to an isolated place with him
>top of the cliffs by the sea shore
>lie down next to him and start listening to music

The fun part starts HERE

>he cuddles up next to me
>breathes on my neck
>huge erection pops up
>i have to kiss him
>proceed to kiss him on the neck
>then on the lips
>he puts his hand on my junk
>rubbs...

Continue???
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>>737515918
I'd be on my knees looking into your eyes while I worshipped it exactly the way you like it. All I ask for in return would be for you to tell me how much better a cocksucker I am than your girlfriend. And to call me a little bitch and/or whore every now and then.
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>>737516062
If you pic me the mouth that would be receiving my cum, I'd probably drizzle it all over my hand anon. :)
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>>737509698
Yea. I fantazised about being with a guy for years. I finally got the courage up to try it.

Found a dude on craigslist. Went to his house. We stripped and i sucked him off, then he sucked me ans i fucked him in the ass for about two seconds.

After about two seconds he tries to kiss me, and the fact that it was a suse about to kiss me hit me like a ton bricks. I got insta soft and nearly puked. I put clothes on and left. Never done it again. And gay thoughts just disgust me now.

Dont regret trying it, and nothing against gays, its just super not for me.
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>>737516448
Why? do you want to feed it to me with your hand or something? I'd be willing but I wouldn't understand...
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>>737516489
I made the mistake of kissing the first guy I met on CL goodbye on the cheek when I left. I didn't really know or understand the 'gay remorse' some guys feel after they cum. I don't like it but I'm sensitive to it now and try to read their body language and if they want me to leave right after they finish fucking my ass or face I don't take it personal.
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Been wanting to for ages, but only into feminine/androgynous guys.
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>>737516663
You'd be much better than my gf if you swallowed it a straight from the source :)
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>>737516858
I do. I like to take it on my face or on my tongue but I've come to realize guys like to shoot it right down my throat. I don't get to enjoy it as much when they do that but I like that they enjoy it. Honestly, I'd hope you would unload wherever and however you want. I give great blowjobs.
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>>737509976
did the same when I was mid teens except for paid for it to buy league of legends skins and runescape gp. lol
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>>737517096
Yeah, they love it. When I met guys from internet they always forced my head to make me swallow
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>>737517096
Show me a tongue that I can shoot my load on.
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>>737516062
>>737516448
>>737516663
>>737516858
>>737517096

This thread is now way too gay for me.
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>>737516448
Whats sex like with the Phimosis?
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>>737517096
>>737517273
Sorry, forgot pic
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>>737509698
I saw my cousin looking at my cock when i was un the shower

I touched his cock several times when he was sleeping

I sucked his dick 2 times when he was sleeping

I jerked off with him in the room

#nohomo
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>>737517224
I know, right? On one hand it's kind of sexy to be dominated like that, but on the other hand I really want to enjoy the cum.
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>>737517292
It's the same really. I just make sure I'm extra lubricated. I have the right amount of foreskin that it doesn't pull or hurt doing most positions. Doggy style kinda hurts though, since the girl usually has a tighter pussy in that position.
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>>737517273
I would but it's too much of a pain in the ass. But thanks for pictures of your cock. They are making my panties wet. I'm not ungrateful...I'm just a little tipsy and I don't want to camwhore right now even if it is only my tongue.
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>>737517381
also i took this pic when he was sleeping
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>>737517691
No problem anon. I really appreciate the words from earlier. I feel a lot better about my penis.
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>>737517645
I'm curious as to how far back you can take your skin. It looks like it wouldn't go very far at all
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>>737509698
> Be just 18yo, friends too
>>737512050
> Glorious Limewire days indeed!

> A friend invite me play video game at his place
> His parents left for few hours
> His made weird bet on the looser
> Obvious he was curious
> I was not
> Wha has the bigger he said
> Laughing but alright let see what you got
> My cock was 3 time his
> I still remember his face
> I knew he get more curious about it so I invite him to blow me
> Getting even bigger
> He wasn't bad at all at sucking my dick but I needed more
> I asked if He ever try to sit on a dick
> Eyes contact, laughed
> Confessed he did it already several times
> Show his condom box

His parents came back

> Next day he told me that if I still wanna stick my dick in his butt
> I came to his place, No parents
> He open the house door almost naked
> Offer me a drink
> He told sucked my dick for a while while I drank my glass
> He confess last night he shaved his ass and he loved to be slapped
> Go to his bed room
> He played with his ass
> Still sucked my dick, balls, almost spanks my ass
> Condom on
> Doggy style penetration
> He was so about it that he let me stick all my dick in
> Could not slap his butt
> Definitely holed his ass
> Ask me to cum on his face
> I did it twice
> Left the house
> I sodomized him several time after then find a girl friend
> Never seen him again
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>>737517864
One girl tried doing it while giving me a blowjob. It wasn't fun....
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>>737517840
You should. It's nice. I'd love to see more but you don't have to.
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>>737517920
That's what I did too. I invited my friends at home to fuck me while my parents were out. They thought we were studying or playing video games. Some of them used me very well, I loved all of it
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>>737518131
I'll cum for Ya, how about that? Lol
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>>737518368
It would be bittersweet. I want to see it bad but it would also depress me that I can't have your cum for real.
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>>737518087
So how far back does it go? Curious.
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>>737518489
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>be me around 14yo
>mom is not home on new year's eve
>older brother leaves for a party and gives me couple of beers
>i decide to invite my friend over
>we drink and talk
>somehow end up watching porn
>we don't fap jsut watch
>it gets pretty awkward
>he says he has to go to the toilet
>gets up and squeezes between my chair and wall
>fell his boner on my back
>holyshit.jpg
>when he comes back he says he had to go home
>when he leaves i get under shower
>start fapping
>put my fingers in my ass
>while i do it i scream my friend's name
>cum on my face and lick it all
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>>737518942
Wow. You look really tasty. I would totally beg you to feed that to me. You seem really cool anon. I'll bet you're cute too.
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>>737519147
Heh. You're too sweet anon. It came out really hot since I was furiously edging for the past hour.
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>>737519400
an hour of edging? How high did you shoot?

Your gf is crazy for not eating you all the time.
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>>737519614
I actually didn't shoot very hard. And yes my gf is wasting all of my cum
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>>737520029
I don't understand why you allow that to happen. I could teach her a thing or two about enjoying dick and whatever comes out of them.
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Sucking dick is so much better than eating pussy. You can decide to take cum in the mouth or not. With pussy you get the slime, every time. Gross
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>>737521581
No you don't. I've been stealth cummed in so many times. So much I really appreciate when a guy tells me he's going to. The first guy I ever sucked said 'here's something for you.' just like he was offering me stick of gum. I didn't know he was talking about his load until he was almost done.
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>>737521858
You need better cum awareness skills
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>>737509698
>be me
>Be drink at a party
>striking out with the grill
>time to go home
>bum a ride from my best friend in the whole world
>"so you could land a girl tonight huh?"
>"nahhh fuck'em. Jesus I'm fucking horny though"
>"you want a blowjob?"
>My friend has been out to me for 19 years
>I was the only person that knew for three years cuz of that closet
>never once did he ever hit on me or ever show an interest in me
>"Haha what?"
>"seriously, you want a blowjob? I'll get you off and then take off, you don't need to recip."
>"dude..."
>"hey I'm just offering is all"
>awkward silence for the next two minutes until we pull up in my driveway
>"have a good night man, I'll see you monday."
>"..."
>don't know how to say it
>"you want me to come in?"
>"yeah sure"
>best
>blowjob
>ever

I kept trying to force myself closer to the edge to cum and he was all "no, no, just relax, take your time."

He did things with his tongue that made me see stars.

>bust a load and he doesn't even stop
>post orgasm and still sucking on it gently and I'm shaking like a spastic in ecstasy
>he finally stops when I tell him to
>stands up
>"aight, I'll see you monday"
>takes off


I've been calling him like once or twice a week for head ever since.
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>>737522049
Queer blow job is the best blow job
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>>737509698
>straight
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>>737522049
>Be drink at a party
lol sounds like fun
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>>737522021
Really? You mean it's not like porn where the guy announces his orgasm with animalistic grunts? I know that now, but I didn't then.
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>>737522049
Ever return the favour?
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>>737509698
Straight guy here, met up with a guy in my car from tinder last night. Couldn't get hard, I tried sucking his dick, it was one of the most disgusting things I've ever done. 0/10 do not recommend I literally wanted to die after he departed
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>>737524163
Why did you want to die? Embarrassment for not being able to perform for him? Or he couldn't perform for you? I don't understand your story...

Or are youz just trollin' with the sly use of the word 'straight?'
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>>737509698
If you're gonna do it, you really gotta be attracted to the guy.

Don't make the mistake of meeting up with the first dude who's able to meet.

I made that mistake my first hookup and I couldn't cum.
I couldn't cum my second experience either. It was a threesome. I was attracted to one but not the other.
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>>737524482
Both ways embarrassment and I just felt gross. I was curious for a long time but now I can confidently say I'm straight lol
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>>737524581
ha. I understand that. I was curious for a long time too but I can confidently represent the other side. To use a way-overused idiom I took to dick like a fish to water. I never even once got the post-orgasm regret. I love guys before I cum and after I cum too.

Good luck with girls. It means more guys for me.
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>be 12yrs old in 6th grade
>classmate is one of those early puberty boys, >big cock + raging hormones, aggressive and alpha
>intimidates into sucking his cock
>then wants anal, get buttfucked
>after that its all he wants
>do it almost every day after school, all summer
>permasore butthole
>start jr high, he gets gf and no longer interested
>seems like a relief at 1st >
>soon craving to get fucked again
>how to get someone to fuck me?
>5 year dry spell
>felt bad man
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>>737525002
I'm glad you've had pleasant experiences. Whatever floats your boat bud, just wasn't my cup of tea.

Happy hunting
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>>737525170
Can I ask why it felt so 'gross' to you, though? It's ok if you can't explain. If you were to ask me why I like guys so much, I would just say 'because it feels right.'

I'm assuming a cock in your mouth just didn't 'feel right' but there might have been something specific you didn't like about it, and if so I'd like to hear it if you're willing to share.
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>>737525464
I'm not really sure to be quite honest. I just found the whole experience very unpleasant and wanted it to be over pretty much as soon as it started. I had to think about the last girl I had sex with while he was jerking/sucking me and I still couldn't get hard. Then when I was blowing him just the taste and texture and aroma of his groin was just absolutely repulsive to me.

That being said, this is just my personal experience and I wouldn't ever presume to tell someone else what not to enjoy. I'm glad I did it because I've been curious for years and I can finally feel secure that I'm definitely straight. But it was not fun for me.

TL;DR Tried dick, don't like it, sticking with women
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>>737510739
disgusting
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>>737509698
Its fun. I'm currently trying to find an older guy to hook up with. I wanna suck, be sucked, fuck and be fucked.
I want to cross dress too, but I'm not pushing that idea first thing.

>>737510091
I fooled around with a friend too, it felt really wrong, but for some reason I like older men.
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as a "straight" man who messed around.

>blowjobs are better but start off worse
>anal is tighter
>sucking dick is not fun
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>>737527790
It's amazing to me that you and I shared almost the exact same experiences but came out with a completely different opinion on what happened.
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>>737509698
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>>737528571
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>>737528571
I work with a girl just as ugly and fat as her.
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>>737528571
is that a dog dick?
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>found a guy a block away on Grindr
>go over, he buzzes me into his building
>walk in and he just starts kissing me and undressing me
>not into the kissing at all
>leave
>initially glad I left, but then I start to have regrets
>agree to meet up again, but not kissing, just sucking
>flake on him and delete Grindr.

Feels bad man.
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>>737530226
pussy
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>>737530226
I love kissing. I wish I lived where you live. I'd be better boyfriend than you ever were.
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>>737509744
/thread
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>>737530226
hate kissing
love fucking
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>>737509698
>straight
No you're not, faggot.
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it's okay, a way to fight boredom. I'd choose making out with a girl over fucking a guy though.
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I'm aware that Imgur.com will stop allowing adult images since 15th of May. I'm taking actions to backup as much data as possible.
Read more on this topic here - https://archived.moe/talk/thread/1694/


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