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I was at the San Francisco Eagle beer bust this afternoon on my last Sunday of a three week adventure talking with some new FFriends on the patio. I told them my fisting origin story.

I moved to San Francisco in 1977 when I was 21 years old. A couple of years later I was at the San Francisco Eagle on the patio and met a middle-aged hippie left over from the summer of love. He took me home to his apartment South of Market and asked me to fist him. I barely knew what that meant, but he coached me through it.

I was having a good time, it felt good, and I was enjoying the expressions on his face as my hand went deeper. Then I felt something hard. “What’s that?“ I asked. “Pull it out,“ he replied with the devilish grin. So I reached in further wrapped my fingers around the object and began to pull my hand out of his ass. My hand was now three times bigger and his eyes got three times bigger too. Then — pop! — out came a billiard ball he had up his ass the entire time at the Eagle. I was totally hooked and been a fisting top for nearly 50 years.

My new FFriends at the Eagle today all laughed with recognition at my little story. Then one of them said that he used to go to the notorious Balcony Bar on Market Street back in the day and said the bar had to keep their billiard balls locked up because they kept losing them to patrons who were always stuffing them up their asses.

Picture of the Balcony Bar in 1988 from the Max Kirkenberg Collection at SF State. The awning is missing in this photo, but it said “THE BALCONY” … until someone stole the letter “C” and it became “THE BAL-ONY”.

I love being a gay fister, don’t you?

Today I made a pilgrimage to a site I’ve really wanted to see in person: the house in San Francisco that was once the location of the world famous fisting club from the 1970s/80s, the Catacombs.

The club was hosted in the basement of this old Victorian on 21st Street in Liberty Hill, now a beautifully gentrified neighborhood midway between the Castro and South of Market. The second photo shows the basement entrance on the lower left corner where fisters entered the play space. The club operated from 1975 to 1981 with legendary weekly all night fisting parties hosted by Steve McEachern, who owned the home and the transcription business he operated there. He carefully vetted all who asked to be put on the guest list. I began as a FF top in the late 1970s, and an acquaintance gave me Steve’s phone number. I called and tried to get invited, but either I was too green or didn’t know the right people, because I didn’t make the cut. Steve died of a heart attack during a Catacombs party in 1981 and the club closed. His lover attempted to revive the club in another location some time later, but it was short lived, in part because of the growing AIDS crisis in the early 80s.

Cultural anthropologist Gayle Rubin published the article “The Catacombs: Temple of the Butthole”, documenting the club’s history and her own personal experience as a lesbian at a gay men’s fisting party (they liked her small hands). She also appears in a fascinating short YouTube documentary about the club, including photos and other artifacts.

It was an emotional moment for me to stand in front of this important piece of fisting history today. The site has no historical marker because it is a private home, but it felt important to me to visit the site to honor our pioneering fisting brothers of the past. May their memory be a blessing.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catacombs\_(sex\_club)

The Catacombs: A Temple of the Butthole, in Deviations, Gayle Rubin, 2011 (orig pub in Mark Thompson, ed., Leatherfolk — Radical Sex, People, Politics, and Practice, Boston, Alyson Publications, 1991)
Rubin’s original article about the Catacombs
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1YJ0eyRwo5sw3hnvpiTfVIkhwC0rEhewO/view?usp=drivesdk

The Figa: a herstory of the Catacombs with Gayle Rubin
Wonderful short documentary (with a little weird performance art) where Rubin talks about the history and significance of the Catacombs.
https://youtu.be/6ChSY3INoUE?si=069Lu7z5KDsLfShT

Music from a Bygone Era, Gayle Rubin, Cuir Underground, 1997
Rubin’s article about the music of the Catacombs documenting the playlist.
http://www.black-rose.com/cuiru/archive/3-4/musichist.html

SF Catacombs Soundtrack
Spotify playlist
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3if41AexkzDiM71XDyhDeh

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Golden hour with a golden boy in the city by the Golden Gate!
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Dr Tom McCall (MD) has published an updated version of his very detailed 101-page illustrated medical guide to fisting, “FFun with FFists” (v3.0 April 2026), available at:

https://drtom.ffister.com

Topics:

1. FFoods for FFun
2. Anatomy FFundamentals
3. Prepping, Hygiene, Aftercare and Lube
4. Substances and Chem Play
5. Stretch It!
6. Toys and Other FFun
7. The Occasional Consequences of FFun Times
8. Procedures, Surgeries and Their Impact on FF
9. “Hurts So Good”
10. Other Side Effects of Any Type of Physical
11. Intimacy: Sexually Transmitted Infections
12. Questions and References

This is a very special video for me. ❤️ I reconnected with an old bf from the 1990s. This was the first time I got to fist him. It's a tender session, with a truly orgasmic climax!

This is what fisting bliss means to me.

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This was just three minutes out of a 90 minute session that had this San Francisco boy writhing as assgasm after assgasm washed over his body!

Nothing gives me greater joy than giving anal orgasms!

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There’s nothing I love more than giving boys multiple anal orgasms. I’ve posted a 3 min clip with this boy in San Francisco showing SIX of his assgasms (he had many more during our 90 min sesh 🥵) with details of the techniques I used to get him there. See the vids at my X and bsky socials (all free) via https://linktr.ee/fisting\_bliss. I’m in SF until mid May. DMs open 😈