I never understood why my eyes would linger in the locker room, why I'd find myself staring at the other guy swimmers as they stripped down, their bodies glistening with water. I told myself it was just comparison, just a competitive thing, but the truth was I was fascinated. The same way I was fascinated with girls on the team or women at the beach, nipples piercing the thin fabric and breasts bouncing around. Ass and clit also fascinated me so I was definitely straight right? My boners raged on the pool deck, always tucking and trying to hide the growing bulge. They seemed to appear at all the wrong times and I’m sure my team noticed. Especially when it was leaking and my suit was still dry. Sometimes I was swimming full sail. The saunas were even worse, a concentrated dose of my hidden desire. In the dim, wood-scented heat, I'd sit with my towel strategically placed, but my gaze would betray me, drawn to the thick, hairy cocks of the older men, how they'd hang heavily between their legs as they sprawled on the benches reading newspapers. A 30yr+ age gap and my barely legal younger body would respond with a confusing warmth, my face flushing with shame. I'd quickly look away, but the image was already burned into my mind, fueling the secret touches I'd give myself later. They were older than my father, is that why I wanted to give myself to their guidance? Either way it left a mark I noticed later in life with desire to please older men and women.
The public showers were my sanctuary and my sin. I'd wait until the room was nearly empty, the steam thick enough to hide my actions, and then I'd touch myself. My hand would wrap around my own cock, still so innocent, and I'd stroke it under the hot spray, my mind replaying the images of all the bodies I'd seen that day, both in the showers and on the sauna benches. These memories were suppressed for years. I forgot what had made my body tremble with pleasure as I brought myself to climax back then. The water washed away the evidence but not the guilt or the gnawing hunger for more. The heat from the sauna seemed to stay in my blood, making my skin feel more sensitive, my touches more urgent. Not until I was 25 did I realize the truth, the curiosity that had been eating me alive for years, a curiosity first sparked in the sweltering heat of the locker room sauna and the frigid pool deck.
Now, looking back, I see it for what it was: bisexuality. I was attracted to both, the soft curves of women and the hard lines of men, but I was too scared, too confused to admit it, even to myself. I wasted so much time pretending, so many opportunities lost to fear and denial. But those memories, those stolen glances in the steam and secret touches in the shower, they're a part of me, a testament to the desire I tried so hard to suppress.